The closing of a ceramic dynasty
I got word last week that the Ceramics programme at Central Tech High School in Toronto is closing after over a 50+ year history as one of the leading spawning grounds for potters in this province. We can all thank Dug Ford for the abolition of art, music and libraries in this province. He is our wannabe Donald Trump who is the Conservative leader of our province.
Central Tech had teaching by Robin Hopper, Judi Dyelle, Roger Kerslake and countless other big names. Students include Tim de Rose, Kayo O Young and a long list of gooduns.
It's easy to sit here and say so what can I do? Well, you can protest. I don't normally use my blog as a political statement but this dude has put drinking cheap beer ahead of most of what I believe in- art, music, and books. Trouble is the numb skulls that drink cheap beer don't go to libraries and art galleries.
They do go to music concerts but I doubt it is anywhere where words are part of the program.
Maybe that's not fair. I'm pissed and I'm taking shots.
I am sporting this badge in a very Conservative town. Maybe one person will change- dunno!!
Central Tech had teaching by Robin Hopper, Judi Dyelle, Roger Kerslake and countless other big names. Students include Tim de Rose, Kayo O Young and a long list of gooduns.
It's easy to sit here and say so what can I do? Well, you can protest. I don't normally use my blog as a political statement but this dude has put drinking cheap beer ahead of most of what I believe in- art, music, and books. Trouble is the numb skulls that drink cheap beer don't go to libraries and art galleries.
They do go to music concerts but I doubt it is anywhere where words are part of the program.
Maybe that's not fair. I'm pissed and I'm taking shots.
I am sporting this badge in a very Conservative town. Maybe one person will change- dunno!!
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https://artbysaltiel.blogspot.com/2011/09/school-art.html
https://artbysaltiel.blogspot.com/2011/09/central-technical-school.html
Amazing memories!
but for sure read the beginning entries for the year 2007 to get an idea about how this school operated.
https://selia-second-wind.blogspot.com/
Amazing insights!
Free art school for adults at Central Tech
https://streeter.ca/toronto/news/free-art-school-for-adults-at-central-tech/
A STORIED HISTORY OF ART EDUCATION: THE ART DEPARTMENT AT
CENTRAL TECHNICAL SCHOOL, 1892-2014
By
DUSTIN IAN GARNET
https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/980110/1/Garnet_PhD_F2015.pdf
Central Technical School, 50 years Later
https://artbysaltiel.blogspot.com/2016/08/central-technical-school-50-years-later.html
Toronto public art schools need to check their white privilege
https://nowtoronto.com/lifestyle/education/toronto-public-art-schools-need-to-check-white-privilege
https://canadianart.ca/news/white-privilege-in-arts-education/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/programs/metromorning/white-wealthy-students-arts-schools-toronto-1.4082919
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/04/24/torontos-art-school-students-mostly-white-from-high-income-families-study-finds.html
https://www.utoronto.ca/news/twice-many-white-students-many-wealthy-tdsb-s-arts-schools-u-t-study-finds
Keep in touch with old friends and classmates, let them know what you're up to.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2304932081/
Cults and artists cults
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWtecY97I5I
read the full comments, sounds just like Central Tech art dept., assignments given and no practical instruction given, and art teachers who always seemed to be missing in action.
no wonder they finally pulled the plug on that place, it became a nest of lazy and useless teachers.
New World School of the Arts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_School_of_the_Arts
https://nwsa.mdc.edu/
If the Toronto District School Board can't run the art program, may be they should let another educational institution take over the program and run it, like one of the community colleges?
That's Phart as in Phony Art,
because the quality of art education provided was so low.
Phart rhymes with Fart because this place was a real stinker.
Call to Action: Meaningful & Accessible Art Program at Risk of Being Closed! (by Sarah Hedges)
https://www.innerartscollective.com/blog/call-to-action-meaningful-accessible-art-program-at-risk-of-being-closed-by-sarah-hedges
Technical School in Toronto graduating in 1948.
It was also at Central Tech that she first came
into contact with sculptors and painters, such as Doris McCarthy (1910–2010),
with whom she studied.
https://www.aci-iac.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Art-Canada-Institute_Joyce-Wieland.pdf
Why has the School Board closed down the art programming at this school and moth balled this building?
May be a change is needed at the TDSB, show me where all that money is going?
Susan Collett, The early phase of her artistic life started in that nursery of talent, Central Technical School, in Toronto.
https://susancollett.com/press/
And that's why the Art Centre at Central Tech is such a great success.
Interesting how a downtown inner city school gets its art program gutted, and it's interesting how the Toronto District School Board plotted and schemed behind closed doors to accomplish this. I guess inner city kids don't deserve a good art education or the chance to continue on to college and university. Can't you just smell the discrimination that went along with these decisions.
Amazing how the the decisions and neglect of the Toronto District School Board and the school administration can destroy an art department and art education at a once renowned school art dept.
The Ceramic Dynasty ended at Central Tech some years ago when they started employing teachers with general art education from universities. These teachers knew little or nothing about ceramics, which led to a dramatic decline in the quality of education offered at Central Tech.
With the loss of the full-time ceramics technician, and the worst ceramics teacher ever, this program in now dead.
https://www.sciencealert.com/many-worker-ants-are-actually-lazy-slackers-but-there-s-a-good-reason-for-that
They should have done a study like this at Central Tech to find out why the art teachers there were lazy slackers.
I predict that the results would have been 70% to 80% of the art teachers would have been slackers, and the reason being?
Arts education is being squeezed out, inequitably funded and delivered by underqualified teachers in schools across Ontario.
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/04/03/arts-education-squeezed-out-across-ontario-schools-new-report-says.html
that adult students faced at Central Tech, doesn't it simply smack of discrimination.
Principal:Lisa Edwards
Vice-Principal(s):Albert Cho
Teenat Khan
Michelle Robinson
Superintendent:Mike Gallagher
Trustee:Chris Moise
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2019/02/12/new-evidence-of-the-benefits-of-arts-education/
Where's the art budget to run this building and art program?
Why can't the School Board operate a successful art program at this location with dedicated and qualified teachers with expertise in art education?
What's happening to the Art Program at Central Tech?
Q?
jy
Castro
t.b.
The Inactive Teacher
All art teachers have moments when they may need to be sat at a desk but I do believe that the best teachers and tutors are active and move around the room.
I know that as a tutor I love to see learners’ work developing and can sense when some learners may be hitting a tricky point and need some feedback.
A good teacher will be aware of what learners are doing and will intervene if needed. Many learners won’t ask for help or advice by approaching a tutor. There are mixed views on this topic but my belief is that that classroom is not the place for me to be doing my own artwork. If a teacher is busy doing their own art they can’t be doing the full role as a teacher or tutor in my view.
Note: to my favorite ceramics teacher at Central Tech
The expectations and reality of art education at this school were always at odds.
So they finally managed to put the last nail in the coffin, and bring an end to
art classes at central tech.
Former Student
CG
A Former Student
Please re-start and continue the fight to restore art education at Central Tech, it was a great program and can be a great program again.
Where the schools are in the hands of the robotic left and focused largely on the study of irrelevant disciplines, we are certain to get, as we have, steadily less responsible and reliable media. As objective tests of our secondary school graduates reveal steadily lower standards of achievement, public opinion polling also indicates that a steadily smaller percentage of the public trusts the media.
Conrad Black
Why is it that for decades, education policy makers have relegated art education to the margins, an afterschool "special" activity or out of the picture completely in public school education for generations of citizens?
The idea that visual art is a language that relies on the powers of observation, as powerful and nuanced as poetry and literature and as essential as science, has been lost on all but a few.
https://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/visual-art-education-moma-exec-article-1.2624716?__prclt=7AlDquEf
It’s perhaps the best kept secret in town — a tuition-free art school for adults
For more than 80 years the Toronto District School Board has provided funding so adults could attend the Art Centre at Central Tech school for free.
https://streeter.ca/news/free-art-school-for-adults-at-central-tech/
The Art Centre
https://artbysaltiel.blogspot.com/2016/08/central-technical-school-50-years-later.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/tdsb-art-school-sculpture-jobcut-1.5165653
Tammy Jane Lepp was born in 1977 in Ontario. Tammy works predominately in the mediums of painting and fibre art. She studied fine art at The Art Centre at Central Tech in Toronto.
https://nac.org/nacs-member-of-the-moment-tammy-jane-lepp/
An urban person with an intense love of nature: this seeming contradiction is at the core of Margaret Glew’s work. In her paintings, the urban grid strives, but fails, to contain the fierce energy of organic forms. This tension between the urban and the natural, between the manmade and the organic, between calm contemplation and furious gesture, between the rational and the intuitive, is the driving force behind her work.
first at Camberwell School of Art in London, and later at Central Tech in Toronto, formed the basis of her art education.
https://helloart.com/collections/margaret-glew
https://winnielarsenart.com/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2304932081/
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Central Technical School in Toronto was one of the earliest incubators for ceramics in the 20th century, especially the first six decades.Out of this school were to come not only potters of note to be discussed elsewhere on the site
https://studioceramicscanada.com/central-technical-school/
Through art I express my zeal and curiosity for life.
The scope of my art exploration involves a wide variety of subject matter. Beginning most pieces without an agenda , a composition emerges from my imagination.
Mixed media collage, my favorite medium, incorporates my fascination with colour, shape, texture and pattern - found in the natural and man-made worlds.
Central Tech,Toronto
https://www.dianefineart.ca/
Joel began as a high-realist wildlife artist, when he entered Central Technical School in Toronto on the advice of a guidance counsellor. “Suddenly,” he says, “all my horizons expanded.” Students were drawn from every borough of the city, and Joel met types of people he had not known at school in Etobicoke. They shared his goals. He studied under outstanding teachers like Alex Turner who taught the science of colour. Joel gives credit to Central Tech. for the freedom allowed students to explore their own directions
https://elorafergusartscouncil.ca/masewich-joel-artist/
Pia studied fine art (drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, and photography) at the highly regarded Art Centre of Central Technical School.
https://womensartofcanada.ca/user/piaisra/
Allan Cullen is a disability activist. He is an award wining graduate of the art centre, a three year arts program at Central Tech where he studied Fine Arts. His work documents social issues particularly homelessness and disability. He has had his work shown at numerous galleries over the past decade.
https://tangledarts.org/whats-on/strange-beauty/
Wieland attended Central Technical School in Toronto, where she initially registered in a fashion design course. At this high school she learned the skills that later enabled her to work in the field of commercial design. It was also at Central Tech that she first came into contact with sculptors and painters, such as Doris McCarthy (1910–2010), with whom she studied. McCarthy, who was committed to her art and had an independent spirit and sense of style, became an important role model for Wieland.
https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/joyce-wieland/biography/
His paintings of figures, still life and landscape, as well as his sculpture, carry influences from all genres of art. Painterly style is his forte, and most works are done ‘alla prima’. His work has been shown extensively both in Canada and abroad.
https://centralconnection.ca/centralcwp/masood-omer/
at the Central Technical School. Aged 20 and just out of art studies at Central Tech, Bruno made his debut as a professional artist.
https://odonwagnergallery.com/artist/bruno-bobak/biography/
Studied at Central Tech Arts Centre - Toronto Post Secondary
Class of 1980
https://www.facebook.com/franzi.sekulic.art/
1971-1973 Central Technical School, Toronto. Full–time studies.
https://michaelgerry.ca/
Hi, I'm a full time artist, curator and educator living in Toronto.
In 2005 I graduated from the Adult Art Program at Central Technical School where I won “Outstanding Student” award two years in a row. I was made an honourary staff member for running the Art Alumni Network for the past 7 years.
The Art Centre at Central Technical School
Diploma, 3-Year Post-Secondary Adult Art Program, Toronto, 2002-2005.
http://www.garethbate.com/
Canadian photographer, visual artist and writer
https://www.alexjturner.ca/
Ken Daley ,Ken is an honorary graduate from the Art Centre of Central Technical School
He has exhibited his artwork within Canada, the United States and the Caribbean, and his work can be found in numerous private collections. His work has been featured in children's books, print publications
https://www.kendaleyart.com/
Originally connected through night classes at Central Technical School
https://centralconnection.ca/centralcwp/
https://teichertgallery.ca/collections/doehler-flora
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Nakamura
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._A._C._Panton
Upon graduating from The Art Centre in 2003, Harvey focused on building an oil painting practice and within a few years he began working full time as an artist. He has been painting for two decades and his work has been widely collected across Canada, the United States and beyond. He is inspired by the commonplace and the typically mundane; the everyday objects, spaces and landscapes that surround him. He strives to explore and monumentalize these overlooked and forgotten pockets of Toronto’s urban landscape.
https://www.brianharvey.ca/
Judy is a Toronto-based sculptor. studied at the sculpture department of Central Technical School,Toronto.
The source of her ideas is the natural physical world about her with a strong link to Algonquin Park in northern Ontario.
https://judyraymerivkoff.wordpress.com/
I took a night class with a friend, not quite sure what to expect, and was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the program and the facility.
As of September '07, I am enrolled at the CTS Art Centre in the Adult Program.
https://annexnation.blogspot.com/2008/02/art-centre-at-central-tech.html
2010 – 2014 Central Technical School, TDSB, Adult Art Diploma,
https://catharinagoldnauceramics.ca/
Central Technical School Adult Art Centre, 2013.
I work with a variety of media, primarily drawing and painting. I understand the world and all matter as very interconnected, and my art is about exploring my relationship with the environment and expressing it as I feel it in this contemporary moment.
https://talinekavoukian.wordpress.com/
After careers in international development, the trade union movement, feminist publishing, and finance, Rahna Moreau decided to pursue art. attending a full-time programme at the Art Centre in Toronto’s Central Technical School.
2009 - 2011: Art Centre, Central Technical School, Toronto
https://www.disheswillbebroken.com/
Fine Artist
My primary interest is exploring how colour, form and mark making can be used to abstract the subject and imbue it with deeper meaning.
Visual Art Certificate, 3 Year Adult Art Program, The Art Centre, Central Technical School, Toronto, 2016
https://www.caroldougans.com/
2010 Central Technical School Art Centre, Adult program, Toronto, ON
https://www.nadiagurkova.com/
I attended a high school like the one in the old TV program FAME where I was taught classical basics. Figure drawing with a live, nude model was a daily event. After a few years as a commercial artist I found myself on the path of becoming a fine art painter.
https://artbysaltiel.blogspot.com/
Diploma, Three Year Post-Secondary Program, The Art Centre at Central Technical School, Toronto, 2006
https://www.alyseframpton.com/
1997-98 Central Technical School, Toronto
Mishchenko’s artistic practice is predominantly drawings-based and concerned with built environments.
https://www.paulpetro.com/artists/39-Olia-Mishchenko/CV
Born in 1923 / Died in 2012
He studied at the Central Technical School in Toronto under Carl Schaefer and Elizabeth Wyn Wood (1939-42).
https://www.robertsgallery.net/gallery-artist/bruno-bobak/?r=1#bio
In 1996 she received her diploma from Art Centre of Central Technical School
In 2000, she returned to the Art Centre of Central Technical School as a teacher to instruct drawing, painting and history.
https://www.nomidrory.com/
completed the 3-year adult fine arts programme at the Art Centre, Central Technical School in Toronto in the early 1990’s.
https://waltersfallsartists.ca/jo-ann-sauks/
Three Year Special Arts Course Central Technical School, Toronto
https://www.willkennedy.ca/
He was trained at Central Technical School in Toronto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_MacGregor_(artist)
During his lifetime, his work was shown at major galleries and international exhibitions in North and South America and in Europe.
He was a founding member of Painters Eleven, the name of the group which was based simply on the number of artists that were present the first meeting. This group of artists helped to introduce Canadians to abstract art in the 1950’s.
Town was trained at Central Technical School
https://www.wallacegalleries.com/artists/harold-town/
https://www.landogallery.com/rieger.html
https://karenrieger.com/
Aba Bayefsky, artist, teacher (b at Toronto 7 Apr 1923; d there 5 May 2001). Bayefsky studied at Central Technical School in Toronto from 1937 to 1942.
Throughout his career, Bayefsky was interested in the human figure as the basis of his art
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/aba-bayefsky
Born in Toronto, December 6, 1907 / Died in Toronto, February 10, 1984
Following two years of formal education in art at Central Technical School in Toronto, Wilson began a career as a commercial artist at Brigden’s Ltd., where Charles Comfort and Will Ogilvie had an influence on his first paintings.
https://www.robertsgallery.net/gallery-artist/york-wilson/?r=1#bio
1964-1969 - Central Technical School, Toronto. Graduated from Special Arts
Program: Ceramics, Painting, Drawing, Graphics, Illustration and Sculpture.
http://www.cronklakestudios.com/Tim's%20CV.htm
http://www.cronklakestudios.com/
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