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Interview with, John Chalke, for Dreamers and Doers.
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Talk to us about the history of clay work in Alberta… A: Commonly Luke Lindoe was the pioneer. The man was also a painter and a prairie person – a man of the land. He was responsible for discovering most of the deposits of clay that we use today. Without him there wouldn’t be any art school up on the hill – with a ceramic dept – there would never have been a UofC art dept. Clay would be unknown in Edmonton – dreamt of but not realized. Luke went around – up hill down dale – days weeks months. He told me once he would never take water with him but would drink gallons when he got back to the truck. He had an old Mercedes, 25 years old, that he would drive up and down. He literally led me to deposits and he said, for example – all around here the land is completely fractured there are hardly any good deposits of clay here but I know down in Medicine Hat the brick and tile industry really needs red clay. They are going to run out of it in 2 or 3 years and they don’t know that – I’ve looked at their stock piles. He led me up there and he showed me an amazing place with a view – huge rich red gleaming uncovered deposits of clay that would make a potter just dream.
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