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	<title>Heidi McKenzie</title>
	<link>http://heidimckenzie.ca</link>
	<description>Ceramic Artist</description>
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		<title>Group Crit &#8211; hitting hard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I had my group crit &#8211; only half the class was in attendance.  I received a lot of constructive criticism &#8211; some of the comments that really hit hard included one person&#8217;s belief that I wasn&#8217;t fulfilling my role as an artist to render the experience due to too much randomness and not enough [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://heidimckenzie.ca/group-crit-hitting-hard/</link>
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		<title>Pushing the Envelope &#8211; a wooly affair</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tony Clennell sent me a link to Heidi Kreitchet, one of his former grad buddies from Utah State.  I had been thinking of taking the work to a more guttural place.  This is my first attempt for the salt kiln.  I plan on pushing it further for the wood firings.  Soul can be a wooly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://heidimckenzie.ca/pushing-the-envelope-a-wooly-affair/</link>
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		<title>Lesson in non-attachment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had made three cone 6 sculptures on the racks &#8211; and had spent over a week ruminating on how I wanted to finish them.  I had tested a number of glazes and decided upon a metallic series &#8211; a decision that was cemented when I saw Greg Payce&#8217;s series of three vases in a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://heidimckenzie.ca/lesson-in-non-attachment/</link>
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		<title>Payce Crit &#8211; focussing vision</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greg Payce from ACADU came to Sheridan today and gave a few of us 20 minutes of his critique.  What struck me was how quickly Greg tuned into my wavelength &#8211; probing me with questions that I needed to know the answers to, like &#8220;why that type of shape&#8221;? and encouraging me to challenge the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://heidimckenzie.ca/payce-crit-focussing-vision/</link>
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		<title>Go Big or Go Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Linda Sormin did a brief crit with me two weeks ago she said that she had a feeling that I wasn&#8217;t finished with the agate-ware like that of the piece I completed at Metchosin that is up in the gallery at Sheridan at the moment.  She was right.  I started playing &#8211; first with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://heidimckenzie.ca/go-big-or-go-home/</link>
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		<title>Interior Design Show &#8211; Maru Makes the Cut</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Proud to trumpet the fact that a couple of my maru (circle) sculptures were selected by the heads of the Crafts &#38; Design departments to accompany the OUTSTANDING work of the Furniture studio students&#8217; Sheridan display booth at this year&#8217;s Interior Design Show at the Metro Convention Centre.  For info and tickets check out IDS2012.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://heidimckenzie.ca/interior-design-show-maru-makes-the-cut/</link>
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		<title>Ayumi Horie &#8211; Crit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ayumi Horie spent two days at Sheridan this week.  I got to hang with her at the Gardiner and the ROM &#8211; we spent some time trying to find a pre-Columbian pot that she&#8217;d seen 15 years ago that she wanted to revisit, and headed for the bat cave.  I learned a lot about &#8220;being&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://heidimckenzie.ca/ayumi-horie-crit/</link>
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		<title>Miss October 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I submitted my images to the National Potters&#8217; Council at the last minute and was selected as October on the Member&#8217;s Sculpture Calendar!  Check it out here ]]></description>
		<link>http://heidimckenzie.ca/miss-october-2012/</link>
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		<title>Crit feedback and first reflections&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well &#8211; almost unanimous &#8211; hate the room temperature paint.  OK &#8211; but not giving up &#8211; might try feathering, might try less obvious colours.  People don&#8217;t like pink &#8211; lots of associations and baggage.  The dry ash piece was the most successful for people  - largely as it achieved a &#8220;lift off&#8221; and ascension [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://heidimckenzie.ca/crit-feedback-and-first-reflections/</link>
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		<title>Dichotomy of Tension</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since I saw Karen Haris&#8217; dry ash frame come out of the kiln, I&#8217;ve known I wanted to try it for my sculpture.  On Thursday I painstakingly brush painted my piece on the structure on which it was bisqued &#8211; Gord suggested kiln wash in layers under where it was touching (better to put [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://heidimckenzie.ca/dichotomy-of-tension/</link>
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