Carly Slade

Carly Slade is a Canadian Ceramic Artist who grew up in “big sky” Alberta. Her work is influenced by her blue-collar roots and plagued by a concern for the precarious nature of the working class. Using a mix of materials, Slade creates dioramas of real places in an unreal perspective. She received her MFA from San Jose State University and her BFA from the Alberta University of the Arts.

Slade has taught at Universities all across Canada and the USA including the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and Arizona State University in Phoenix. Slade is currently an Assistant Professor in Ceramics at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, NS, Canada. Slade has received several awards including being selected as an Emerging Artist as well as receiving the Helene Zucker Seeman Emerging Artist Award from the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA). She has received two grants from the Elizabeth Greenshield Foundation and was awarded “Best in Show” for her piece in the show Fahrenheit 2024 at the American Museum of Ceramic Arts in Pomona, CA. Slade has participated in several residencies at The Archie Bray Foundation, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Medalta International Artists in Residence. Slade has presented at symposiums, conferences and workshops around the world including NCECA in Sacramento, CA, USA, Chula Clay & Culture International Ceramic Symposium, in Bangkok, Thailand and The New Clay Conference in Ottawa, ON, Canada. Her work has been shown in many group and solo shows internationally . Slade’s work can be found in the collections of Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok, Thailand), Archie Bray Foundations for the Ceramic Arts (Helena, MT, USA), Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Overland Park, KS, USA), The Clay Studio (Philadelphia, PA, USA). Most importantly Slade was the 2019 winner of “Best in Show” for Companion Gallery’s best-est yearly show: Last Call IV.