Antechamber Gallery

The Antechamber Gallery is devoted to the celebration of community artistic endeavors.  Displays rotate approximately three times per year.

Currently on display JOY OF CLAY (Beti Tremblay:  A Retrospective)

Beti1Beti Tremblay is a well known in Thunder Bay’s craft community.  She was a charter member of the Thunder Bay Potters Guild, been a part of the multimedia craft group Fire Earth & Fibre, worked with Lakehead Council for the Arts as well as fund-raising for the National Exhibition Centre, Magnus Theatre and Thunder Bay Auditorium.  Beti2Other group involvement include attending and displaying at the annual conferences of the Northwestern Ontario Association of Community Crafts (NOACC) which were held in numerous communities in northwestern Ontario.  As a member of Fire, Earth and Fibre, she participated in juried craft shows in the then National Exhibition Centre, now known as the Thunder Bay Art Gallery.

“You’ve got to give yourself the opportunity to know clay.  Don’t limit yourself – time and volume are essential.  Clay is a demanding master and sometimes a submissive mistress.  It is compelling, challenging, and illusive.  And always it is very hard work”

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