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Mary Ann Steggles
Born1949 (age 74–75)
Norman, Oklahoma
Known forart historian, curator, artist

Mary Ann Steggles (born 1949) is a Canadian art historian, curator, and artist. She is the author of books, essays and articles on British colonial monuments as well as twentieth and twenty-first century Canadian ceramics. Steggles is an honorary member of the German Potters Association, Kalkspatz, a Commonwealth Fellow and a Shastri-Indo Canadian Institute Scholar.

Education and employment[edit]

Born in Norman, Oklahoma, Steggles graduated from St. Mary's High School in Oklahoma City in 1966. She went to the University of Oklahoma in Norman as well as Oklahoma State University in Stillwater before immigrating to Canada in 1969.

Steggles studied art history at the University of Manitoba receiving her BFA First class honours in 1987. She studied with the authority on Hinduism, Dr. Klaus Klostermaier for her Interdisciplinary MA Degree (1990, University of Manitoba). During her studies with Klostermaier she received a Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute Fellowship to conduct research in India (1988).

Steggles received a Commonwealth Scholarship (1990–92) to study with Dr. Alison Yarrington, an authority on British public monuments at the University of Leicester.[1][2] She received her Ph.D. in 1993.[3] In 1992, Steggles taught at Bishop's University in Lennoxville, Quebec. From 1993 to 1999 she was Associate Professor of Art in the Faculty of Arts, Acadia University. Besides teaching she also acted as departmental chair for three years.

In 1999, Steggles transferred to the School of Art at the University of Manitoba. She served as Associate Director from 2006 to 2008 and again from 2011 to the present. In 2006 she received the Olive Beatrice Stanton Award for Teaching Excellence.[4]

Publications[edit]

Steggles is an international expert on the history of British monuments exported to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Steggles was the first to catalogue all of the statues exported to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia in her search to discover what happened to these remnants of colonial rule post-Independence.

Her books include Statues of the Raj (2000),[5][6][7][8] British Sculpture in India: New Views and Old Memories (2011 with Richard Barnes),[9][10][11][12][13] The Traditional and Religious Arts of Asia (2014 with Cristofre Martin)[14] and MUD, Hands, fire (2015).[15]

Steggles has contributed numerous chapters in publications on colonial monuments including Christopher London's, Architecture in Victorian and Edwardian India (1994),[16][17] Pauline Rohatgi and Pherozah Godrej's Bombay to Mumbai: Changing Perspectives (2007).[18]

Steggles has authored articles on the political nature of colonial monuments in Marg, History Today,[19][20][21] The Sculpture Journal,[22] and The New Zealand Asian Studies Journal. She has contributed entries for The Revised Guinness History of British Sculptors 1660-1851, The Encyclopedia of Sculpture[23] and The Dictionary of National Biography. She continues to lecture internationally on the politics of British colonial statues.[24][25][26][27]

Wider interests[edit]

Steggles was a founding member of the Manitoba Crafts Council. She participated as an artist in the Manitoba Arts Council's Artist in the Schools Program from 1977 to 1989. Steggles owned Maple Grove Pottery in Graysville, Manitoba until 1985.

Steggles is also a writer and curator of contemporary Canadian ceramics.[28][29] Her writing on contemporary Canadian ceramics has appeared in The Studio Potter,[30] Ceramics: Art and Perception,[31] Ceramics: Technical,[32][33][34][35] The Log Book,[36] Ornamentum,[37] Neue Keramik: The International Journal of Ceramics, and Topferblatt.

Steggles has presented talks at international wood firing conferences on the history of Canadian wood firing including NCECA,[38][39] the First European Woodfiring Conference at Brollin, Germany in 2010[40] and at the Second European Woodfiring Conference at the International Ceramic Research Centre, Guldargaard, Skaelskor, Denmark in 2014.[41][42] She was the curator for MUD, Hands, fire. Wheel Thrown. The Legacy of Canadian Studio Pottery for the University of Manitoba's School of Art Gallery in 2015.[43][44][45][46][47][48][49]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "CSC Alumni from Canada, Commonwealth Scholars" (PDF). Retrieved 7 March 2016.
  2. ^ "CSFP Profiles" (PDF). Retrieved 7 March 2016.
  3. ^ "The Empire Aggrandized: A Study in Commemorative Portrait Statuary Exported From Britain to Her Colonies in South Asia, 1800 to 1939". ResearchGate. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  4. ^ "University of Manitoba - Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning - Olive Beatrice Stanton Award for Excellence in Teaching". intranet.umanitoba.ca. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  5. ^ Steggles, Mary Ann; Asia, British Association for Cemeteries in South (1 October 2000). Statues of the Raj. BACSA. ISBN 9780907799740.
  6. ^ "'The Viceroys are Disappearing from the Roundabouts in Delhi: The Fall and Rise of British Symbols of Power in Post-Colonial India". www.academia.edu. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  7. ^ "Queen Victoria Memorial, Cawnpore, India, by Sir Thomas Brock". www.victorianweb.org. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  8. ^ "Body Doubles: Sculpture in Britain, 1877-1905". www.academia.edu. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  9. ^ "Frontier Publishing, Latest Book, British Sculpture in India ~ New Views and Old Memories". www.frontierpublishing.co.uk. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  10. ^ Steggles, Mary Ann; Barnes, Richard (12 December 2011). British Sculpture in India: New Views and Old Memories. Frontier Publishing Ltd. ISBN 9781872914411.
  11. ^ "[Review of] Mary Ann Steggles and Richard Barnes' "British Sculpture in India: New Views and Old Memories" (2011)". www.victorianweb.org. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  12. ^ "The Burlington Magazine, November 2012". Enfilade. 16 November 2012. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  13. ^ Heathorn, Professor Stephen (28 May 2013). Haig and Kitchener in Twentieth-Century Britain: Remembrance, Representation and Appropriation. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN 9781409466093.
  14. ^ "All Products | Persimmon Press Canada". www.persimmonpress.ca. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  15. ^ Morrison, Barry (8 October 2015). "MUD, Hands, fire Exhibition at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg". Studio Ceramics Canada. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  16. ^ "Ruling trends, all the raj". Times Higher Education (THE). 13 January 1995. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  17. ^ "Marg. Architecture in Victorian and Edwardian India". www.marg-art.org. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  18. ^ Rohatgi, Pauline; Godrej, Pheroza; Mehrotra, Rahul (1 January 1997). Bombay to Mumbai: Changing Perspectives. Marg Publications. ISBN 9788185026374.
  19. ^ "Mary Ann Steggles | History Today". www.historytoday.com. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  20. ^ ""Set in Stone Victoria's Monuments in India" by Steggles, Mary Ann - History Today, Vol. 51, Issue 2, February 2001". Archived from the original on 8 March 2016. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  21. ^ "RootsWeb: INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-L SET IN STONE VICTORIA'S MONUMENTS IN INDIA". archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  22. ^ "The Sculpture Journal, Vol. 21, No. 2, 2012, 2012 - A Peer-Reviewed Publication". Archived from the original on 8 March 2016. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  23. ^ "Contributors". cw.routledge.com. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  24. ^ "North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) :: Seventh Series, Volume X, Number 2, Fall 2000". www.nacbs.org. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  25. ^ "CAA 2008 96th Annual Conference Dallas-Ft Worth February 20-23 2008" (PDF). CAA Conference Program. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
  26. ^ Nineteenth Century Studies Association (7 March 2016). "Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century".
  27. ^ "Association of Asian Studies Conference Events" (PDF). 2011. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
  28. ^ "Is potting for the past? Where is the next generation of potters? Where have all the potters gone? | Manitoba Craft Council". manitobacraft.ca. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  29. ^ Manitoba Craft Council (30 October 2015), Mary Ann Steggles talk, retrieved 8 March 2016
  30. ^ "Vol 44 No 1 Winter 2016". Issuu. 3 March 2016. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  31. ^ "Ceramics: Art and Perception - Ceramics: Art and Perception Issue #99". Issuu. 5 March 2015. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  32. ^ Steggles, Mary (June 2015). "Reversing the trend a celebration of the slow life [online]". Ceramics Technical (40): 22–27. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
  33. ^ "Ceramics - Technical". www.researchgate.net. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  34. ^ "- Ceramics TECHNICAL, issue #37". ceramicart.isecuresites.com. Retrieved 8 March 2016.[permanent dead link]
  35. ^ "TECH Back Issues - Ceramics TECHNICAL, issue #40". ceramicart.isecuresites.com. Retrieved 8 March 2016.[permanent dead link]
  36. ^ "The Log Book". www.thelogbook.net. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  37. ^ "the dancing ash | Ornamentum". ornamentum.ca. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  38. ^ "2014 NCECA Conference | NCECA :: National Council On Education For The Ceramic Arts". nceca.net. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  39. ^ "NCECA 2014: Lisa Hammond, Mark Hewitt, Mary Ann Steggles, Tony Clennell - Art & Photos". Docslide.us. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  40. ^ "First European Woodfire Conference". www.woodfire.net. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  41. ^ Mouritzen, Priscilla. "2nd European Wood Fire Conference 28th - 31st August 2014". europeanwoodfireconference.blogspot.ca. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  42. ^ "MÜRITZKERAMIK - Ceramic Studio Gallery". www.mueritzkeramik.de. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  43. ^ "Google". www.google.ca. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  44. ^ "History made by hand". The Manitoban. 18 November 2015. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  45. ^ "Form, function, fire". www.winnipegfreepress.com. 29 October 2015. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  46. ^ Lizard, Visual. "School of Art Gallery: Mud, Hands, Fire, Wheel Thrown - The Legacy of Canadian Studio Pottery | Calendar of Events | Creative Manitoba". www.creativemanitoba.ca. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  47. ^ "Studio Pottery Canada | Studio Ceramics Canada". studioceramicscanada.com. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  48. ^ "Must-Sees This Week: October 1 to 7, 2015 - Canadian Art". Canadian Art. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  49. ^ Amos, Robert (20 December 2015). "Art Books Worth Putting Under the Tree". Times Colonist. Retrieved 7 March 2016.

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