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Sculpture / Objects
SCULPTURE / OBJECTS
MOUNTAINSCAPE VESSELS
mountainscape-vessels
POTTERY
Pottery
Projects
PROJECTS
COMMUNITY TABLE WORKSHOP
Community Workshop & Exhibition
2022-23, Part of the City of Vancouver Artist In Residence Program
The Community Table project centered connections amongst family, friends and cultures through storytelling, food and clay. A two-part workshop was hosted at the West Point Grey Community Centre Aberthau Pottery Studios. Community members were invited to come as a family and make a ceramic sculpture that embodied a meaningful family food story.
A GAIWAN FOR MY FATHER
Garland Magazine - G30 Taste Makers
March 2023 Issue
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"Mia Riley revisits her father’s tea cabinet and resolved to use her ceramic skills to make him special traditional tea cups."
A SPOONFUL OF NOURISHMENT
Ceramic Spoon Making Workshop
Summer of 2020, A Chinese Diaspora Sharing Circle Event (Edmonton, AB)
Is it a project? Probably not. Was it a fun time? Yes!I spend the afternoon with some lovely folks learning and sharing stories about traditional Chinese ceramics spoons. Then I led the group in making their own spoons from clay.
BUBBLE TEA SISTERS
Colonial Imports Vol. 1 - Tender Pearl Zone
2020, Art + Interview collaboration between Mia Riley and Sara Ly
Featured in the first issue of Colonial Imports created and published by Yolkless Press. Piece is a record of the transcript and sketches created during a conversation between the artists over bubble tea. Topics discuss relate to sisterhood, culture, Chinatowns and bubble tea.
MANY THINGS AT ONCE
Exhibition curated by Mia Riley
2019, Alberta Craft Council Edmonton
Featuring six emerging Canadian ceramic artists Mabel Tan, Logan Kenler, Shaun Mallonga, Queenie (Xun) Xu, Lux Habrich and Mia Riley
ANIMAL
SHAPED VESSELS
How to Be Original When Our Ancestors Had All The Good Ideas?
2020, Essay in Clay Etc. Zine
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2018, project under Kathy King at the Harvard Ceramics Program
Included research & creation of educational replicas of ancient animal shaped drinking vessels and creation of two contemporary artworks for exhibition (Raise a Glass: A Contemporary Response to Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World) coinciding with the Harvard Art Museum's Exhibition: Animal-shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings
KILN RAISING
Residency at the Banff Centre
2016
Residency with facilitators Dan Murphy and Robin Dupont & 14 artists. Built and fired train kiln on Banff Centre kiln site as well as coordinated pop-up exhibition in the Project Space titled "Coffee 'til Dusk, Whisky 'til Dawn"
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