Feather Rat, Janet Macpherson

Janet Macpherson studied ceramics at Sheridan College, and earned her MFA at The Ohio State University. Janet has exhibited her work extensively in Canada and the United States, and was the 2013 recipient of the Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics.

Janet was included in the exhibition and publication, The Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World, curated by Elizabeth Morrison, The J.Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA. Her solo exhibition titled “Janet Macpherson: A Canadian Bestiary” was a response to Canada’s Sesquicentennial and was commissioned and presented by the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art in Toronto.

Janet has been an artist-in-residence in the Craft and Design studios at Harbourfront Centre, and at the Zentrum für Keramik in Berlin Germany. Janet lives and works in Hamilton.