The project
& the researchers
Image 1/1 uncredited portrait of Rosalie Namer in the teaching studio, MacDonald College, Montreal, circa 1965.
Despite Namer’s contribution to Canadian ceramics culture, she is largely absent from national craft history. She appears in Gail Crawford’s 2005 book, Studio Ceramics in Canada, and in Serge Fisette’s 1974 Potiers Québécois (Les Arts du Québec). But otherwise, she has almost no presence in publications or on the Internet.
Musée Rosalie Namer seeks to remedy Namer’s invisibility in the public record through a programme of activity in which artistic practice and art historiography intertwine, unfolding through three overlapping streams of activity: (1) the creation of artistic activations of Namer’s pottery from public and private collections; (2) the design of participatory actions that facilitate public contact with Namer’s pottery; and (3) the design of this website, which aims to share information about Namer’s life, oeuvre, and contribution to Canadian ceramics culture while documenting our artistic actions with her pottery.
August Klintberg
August Klintberg is an artist who works in the field of art history, and curates exhibitions. He is an Associate Professor at the Alberta University of the Arts. He earned his Ph.D. in Art History at Concordia University in 2013, where he was also an Assistant Professor, LTA. In 2010 he conducted Ph.D. research at Oxford University, St Peter's College, with the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and his doctoral dissertation was nominated for the 2013 Governor-General's Gold Medal. He completed his M.A. at Concordia University (2008), his B.F.A. at the Alberta College of Art & Design (2001), and was an exchange student at the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design (1999–2000).
Public and private collections across Canada and in the United States - including the National Gallery of Canada, the Edmonton Arts Council, and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts - have acquired his work. His work has recently been shown at the Latitude 53 (Edmonton), Foreman Art Gallery (Sherbrooke), Dunlop Art Gallery (Regina), the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (Halifax), the Art Gallery of Alberta (Edmonton), and the Illingworth Kerr Gallery (Calgary). Other exhibitions featuring his work have taken place at Locust Projects (Miami), the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), AXENÉ07 (Gatineau), the Banff Centre, Centre des arts actuels Skol (Montreal), The Harbourfront Centre (Toronto), and Eastern Edge (St. John's), the Alberta Biennal 2017, and at Fruitmarket Gallery (Scotland). He was shortlisted for the 2013 Sobey Art Award.
Benny Nemer
Benny Nemer is a multidisciplinary artist, diarist, and researcher based in Paris. His artistic work mediates emotional encounters with musical, botanical, art historical, and queer cultural material, encouraging deep listening and empathic viewing. His work has exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions at the Tiroler Kunstpavillon (Innsbruck), Dazibao Centre de Photographies Actuelles (Montreal), and the Staatsbibliothek (Stuttgart); and numerous group exhibitions including the Frankfurter Kunstverein (Frankfurt), The Power Plant Gallery of Contemporary Art (Toronto), Kunsthallen Nikolaj (Copenhagen), the Schwules Museum (Berlin), and MUCEM (Marseille). His sound and video work is part of the permanent collections of the Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna), The Polin Museum for the History of Polish Jews (Warsaw), Thielska Galleriet (Stockholm), and The National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa).
Nemer completed a practice-led PhD at the Edinburgh College of Art in 2019, where he was part of Cruising the 70s: Unearthing Pre-HIV/AIDS Queer Sexual Cultures, a three-year research project led by art historians, cultural anthropologists, and artists. He is a postdoctoral researcher at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten in Ghent, Belgium. Nemer is Rosalie Namer’s grandchild.
Jeanne Blackburn
Jeanne Blackburn (she/her) is an emerging art scholar and researcher based in Berlin. She holds a Master’s degree in Art History from Concordia University (Tiohtiá:ke, Montreal, 2022). Her current research explores the intersections of environmental studies, feminism, phenomenology, and new media. She is interested in how aspects of immersion, embodiment, and participation can evoke transformative and decolonial approaches to knowledge and meaning-making in museums and art institutions.
Musée Rosalie Namer seeks to remedy Namer’s invisibility in the public record through a programme of activity in which artistic practice and art historiography intertwine, unfolding through three overlapping streams of activity: (1) the creation of artistic activations of Namer’s pottery from public and private collections; (2) the design of participatory actions that facilitate public contact with Namer’s pottery; and (3) the design of this website, which aims to share information about Namer’s life, oeuvre, and contribution to Canadian ceramics culture while documenting our artistic actions with her pottery.
August Klintberg
Public and private collections across Canada and in the United States - including the National Gallery of Canada, the Edmonton Arts Council, and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts - have acquired his work. His work has recently been shown at the Latitude 53 (Edmonton), Foreman Art Gallery (Sherbrooke), Dunlop Art Gallery (Regina), the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (Halifax), the Art Gallery of Alberta (Edmonton), and the Illingworth Kerr Gallery (Calgary). Other exhibitions featuring his work have taken place at Locust Projects (Miami), the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), AXENÉ07 (Gatineau), the Banff Centre, Centre des arts actuels Skol (Montreal), The Harbourfront Centre (Toronto), and Eastern Edge (St. John's), the Alberta Biennal 2017, and at Fruitmarket Gallery (Scotland). He was shortlisted for the 2013 Sobey Art Award.
Benny Nemer
Benny Nemer is a multidisciplinary artist, diarist, and researcher based in Paris. His artistic work mediates emotional encounters with musical, botanical, art historical, and queer cultural material, encouraging deep listening and empathic viewing. His work has exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions at the Tiroler Kunstpavillon (Innsbruck), Dazibao Centre de Photographies Actuelles (Montreal), and the Staatsbibliothek (Stuttgart); and numerous group exhibitions including the Frankfurter Kunstverein (Frankfurt), The Power Plant Gallery of Contemporary Art (Toronto), Kunsthallen Nikolaj (Copenhagen), the Schwules Museum (Berlin), and MUCEM (Marseille). His sound and video work is part of the permanent collections of the Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna), The Polin Museum for the History of Polish Jews (Warsaw), Thielska Galleriet (Stockholm), and The National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa).Nemer completed a practice-led PhD at the Edinburgh College of Art in 2019, where he was part of Cruising the 70s: Unearthing Pre-HIV/AIDS Queer Sexual Cultures, a three-year research project led by art historians, cultural anthropologists, and artists. He is a postdoctoral researcher at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten in Ghent, Belgium. Nemer is Rosalie Namer’s grandchild.
Jeanne Blackburn
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