Summary of Achievements
- Planning, directing and managing numerous designated projects for colleges and associations.
- Ensured that all objectives were accomplished within outlined priorities for projects and classes.
- Preparing, organizing and executing workshops, classes and events for colleges and associations.
- Analyzed results of project operations to discover/create ways to utilize resources
- Coordinating the successful simultaneous development of several projects
- Delegating responsibilities to volunteers, designing time-lines and schedules
- Preparing monthly project status reports for boards, colleges and associations.
Education & Professional Membership
Georgian College of Applied Arts and Technology (Barrie, Ontario)
– Material Arts – Ceramics and Glass Diploma – 2nd year scholarship
– Alumni Award for Academic Achievement and Contribution to Student Life
H.B. Beal S.S. (London, Ontario)
– Bealart Program, 1982-84
– BealArt Purchase Prize Award
Sir Frederick Banting S.S. (London, Ontario)
– Honors Graduation Diploma
London Potters Guild (London, Ontario)
– Director of Artistic Programming – current
– President – 2 terms, Past President – 2 terms
– Artisian London Representative for LPG
– Workshop Chair – 2 terms
Sarnia – Lambton Pottery Guild member (Sarnia, Ontario)
Lawrence House Centre for the Arts Member (Sarnia, Ontario)
FUSION – The Ontario Clay and Glass Assn. (Toronto, Ontario)
– Past President – 1 term
– President – 2 terms
– Vice President, Director of Education and Programming – Organized the • Annual Conference and Winter Workshop from 2012 -2021
– Conference Committee Co-Chair 1997 – FUSION – The Ontario Clay and Glass Assn.
Craft Ontario – Professional Membership
– Member “Artist of the Month” – October 2007
Employment History
Instructor in beginner, intermediate, and advanced pottery techniques and functional design, including glaze technology and mould making. Conducted workshops in Raku, Throwing, Mould Making, Production and Industrial Techniques, Decorative Techniques, Functional Design, and Display and Sales.
Classes & Workshops
SARNIA
Lambton College – Professor of Ceramics
LONDON
The London Association for Disabled Adults, Hutton House – designed molds/block and case, produced and finished several lines of slip cast stoneware.
Fanshawe Continuing Education
University of Western Ontario Artifex Studio
London Potters Guild – studio technicians
Stratford Clay Supply – manufactured and repaired electric kilns
CHATHAM
St. Clair College and Thames Cultural Centre – summer week long intensive workshop in Raku and Alternative Surfaces
WATERLOO
John Bergen Studios – produced slip cast ware
Dundee Pottery – numerous classes on slip decoration, printing on clay, raku, etc.
CHATHAM, SARNIA, BRAMPTON, SIMCOE, AURORA, PETERBOUROUGH, OTTAWA, BAI D’URFE, Q.C., LONDON and HAMILTON, Metchosin International Summer School for the Arts – presentations and workshops on slip decoration, slip transfers, and printing on clay.
Business Owner
Operator of Chris Snedden Pottery Studio. Forty year ongoing history of producing original, functional, decorative pottery and sculpture. Pottery has been sold as retail, wholesale, consignment, and commission through gift shops, galleries, exhibitions and at studio.
Owner/Operator of The Bright Side – Pottery and Bonsai. Making, and demonstrating the use of, planters specifically designed for Bonsai.
Shows and Exhibitions
AYLMER
Pinecroft Pottery – “60th Anniversary Pottery Fair,” 2008-2009
WOODSTOCK
Woodstock Public Art Gallery – “Unearthed,” 2008 – 2009 2008 Best of Show
LONDON
London Potters Guild’s Spring and Fall Shows, 1989-2014
St. Paul’s Cathedral – “Artfocus” – 4 Painters and a Potter, 2005-2008
The London Artist’s Studio Tour – 2006-2014
Christmas Show – The Art Exchange
“The Enchanted Art Show” – Elsie Perrin Williams Estate, 2004-2007
“Solid Fire” – London Potters Guild Biennial Exhibition, The Arts Project (2004 Honorable Mention)
London Potters Guild Biennial Exhibition – St. Thomas Public Art Gallery (1999 Best Non-functional)
London Potters Guild Biennial Exhibition, “The Spirit Within”, 1999
Home County Folk Festival
Hamilton Festival “Pottery Sale”
Studio Shows – Chris Snedden Pottery, 1995 – 2011
“Everything Old is New Again” – London Potters Guild Biennial Exhibition (2014 Best in Show)
TORONTO
Ontario Crafts Council Biennial 2013
Fusion Fireworks 2011 (Ontario Crafts Council Design Award)
Arta Gallery, Distillery District – “Original Vision” , 2007-2008
Fusion’s Pottery and Glass Sale – CBC Buildings, CNIB, Wychwood Barns 2007-2022
Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Signatures Art and Craft Sale
CHATHAM
Artspace – “Process = Product,” “Crowfest”
Thames Art Gallery – “Powerplay”
Media Acknowledgements
YouTube: Here you will find a link to my YouTube Channel with both Pottery and Bonsai videos.
The Potters Cast
Episode 26:
Click the link below to hear Episode 26 on The Potters Cast
http://thepotterscast.com/Episode26/
Rogers Cable
“Inside the Venue” – one of several feature interviews about the work of the London Potters Guild and the London Clay Art Centre. 2013
Print Media
London Free Press
– August 22nd, 2008
– April 10, 2007
– January 28, 2002
– June 8, 1998
– June 3, 1995
Artscape magazine
– Issue 2, March 2006
Lifestyle magazine
– July/August 2006