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Sam Knopp, Irma, AB, Blue Grid Drip Teapot, 20.5 cm l x 15.5 cm w x 20 cm h.

With interests in mid-century design, pop-culture and craftsmanship, Sam Knopp creates functional ceramics that are playful, minimal, and richly tactile. Excited by the materiality and process of ceramics, she researches and develops her own clay-bodies and glazes. Putting them together in unexpected combinations, she explores relationships of surface to form, manufactured to handmade, and function to sculpture. A graduate from Emily Carr University of Art and Design (BFA 2013), she was the recipient of the Circle Craft Graduation Award and the BMO First Art Award for BC. Returning home to the prairies, she set up a full-time studio in the village of Irma where she lives and works. For more on her work, please see her website at www.samknopp.com.

This work will close with Section B at 7:30pm