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Cheryl Stapleton, Vancouver, Poppy Vase, soda-fired stoneware, 14 x 14 x 14 cm.

Cheryl Stapleton is an artist, educator and pottery studio technician and manager based in Vancouver. She holds a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (1999). She has managed the Roundhouse Pottery Studio since 1999, and the studio at West Point Grey since 2002. She has taught ceramics classes to both children and adults since 1996 at Kwantlen University, the Surrey Arts Centre, the Vancouver School Board, the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, the Museum of Anthropology, and at both the Roundhouse and West Point Grey Community Centres. Cheryl maintains her own studio in the Mergatroid Building located within the parameters of the Eastside Culture Crawl. In 2005 and 2006, she participated in the Terra Cotta Residency in Santiago du Cuba, Cuba and has attended many NCECA conferences including Minneapolis, MN, Kansas City, MO, Portland, OR and Phoenix, AZ. She has also attended wood firing conferences in Cedar Rapids, IA, Flagstaff, AZ and Helena, MT. Cheryl volunteers with the Fraser Valley Potters Guild Association and the Canadian Clay Symposium, and she has been a member of the NWCF Board since 2008.

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