Artists for Kids
Clay Artist-in-Residence Amelia Butcher
February 2025

This winter grade 7 students will have the privilege of working with Amelia Butcher. They will respond to the current exhibition Playhouse. The tiles illustrate the natural world and the varying types of views we have of the world around us.

Amelia Butcher Biography

Amelia Butcher is a visual artist based in British Columbia with a sculptural and drawing practice centered in clay.
She graduated from Emily Carr University in 2013 and is a founding member of the Dusty Babes Collective. From 2015-2021 she lived and worked out of their communal studio, built by the late great Don Hutchinson, in Surrey, BC.
She has exhibited widely and instructs classes and workshops in ceramics, sculpture and comic-making for all ages. She is a board member of the BC Potters Guild and currently works out of a studio in Vancouver, the unceded, ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

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