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This year's lectures include:</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#666666;letter-spacing:.4pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:1.5pt;line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#666666;letter-spacing:.4pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:1.5pt;line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#666666;letter-spacing:.4pt'>May 2nd </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#666666;letter-spacing:.4pt'><a href="http://www.newleafeditions.com/" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:#0F90BA'>Peter Braun</span></a></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#666666;letter-spacing:.4pt'>, Master Print Maker</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#666666;letter-spacing:.4pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:1.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#666666;letter-spacing:.4pt'>The first artist in the 2016 Art of Craft Lecture series is printmaker Peter Braune. Peter will discuss his work, his creations and the underpinning of his work - that print media is a proletariat art form, created to make text and imagery available to more than one person, which is why they make multiples.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#666666;letter-spacing:.4pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:1.5pt;line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#666666;letter-spacing:.4pt'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#666666;letter-spacing:.4pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#666666;letter-spacing:.4pt'>May 9th </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#666666;letter-spacing:.4pt'><a href="http://www.debrasloan.com/" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:#0F90BA'>Debra Sloan</span></a>, </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#666666;letter-spacing:.4pt'>Master Ceramist, <br> 2015 Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award & <br> 2015 Hilde Gerson Award winner</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#666666;letter-spacing:.4pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#666666;letter-spacing:.4pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#666666;letter-spacing:.4pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#666666;letter-spacing:.4pt'> May 16th <a href="http://www.janekidd.net/?pageid=02" target="_blank"><span style='color:#0F90BA'>Jane Kidd</span></a>, Fibre Artist, 2016 Canada Council<br> of the Arts Saide Bronfman Award winner </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#666666;letter-spacing:.4pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#666666;letter-spacing:.4pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Admission is free – reserve your seat <a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/art-of-craft-lecture-series-registration-23441945490">here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#2E74B5'>raine mckay<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#2E74B5'>executive director<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#2E74B5'>craft council of bc<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#2E74B5'>1386 cartwright street<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#2E74B5'>granville island, vancouver, bc<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#2E74B5'>v6h 3r8<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#2E74B5'>604.687.6511<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><a href="http://www.craftcouncilbc.ca/">craftcouncilbc.ca</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>