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Opening Reception for NESTCRAFT – Featuring the Ceramics of Mara Silver

May 15, 2025 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Join us on Thursday May 15th from 5 to 7pm at the Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery for the opening reception of Mara Silver’s Nestcraft.

Curated by Bird Friendly Kitchener founders Marcel O’Gorman and Jennifer Clary-Lemon of Critical Media Lab (CML), the exhibition features study skins of swallows from the Royal Ontario Museum, barn timbers from the Waterloo Region, and a time-lapse video of human/swallow nestcraft. This project continues the CML’s commitment to research-creation about more-than-human infrastructure for species at risk.

Mara Slver creates barn swallows nest from clay in her home
SHELBURNE FALLS, MASSACHUSETTS – March 05, 2024: Mara Silver, a field ornithologist who works with Cliff and Barn Swallow colonies in her home state of Massachusetts, hand builds nests for the birds in her living room. In Western Massachusetts, Mara Silver began hand molding clay nests and installing them for cliff and barn swallows when she discovered nests were not adhering to buildings and human structures as they used to. Silver supplies nests and monitors the 2 last remaining colonies of Cliff Swallows in her region of New England – Photo by Amy Toensing

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  • Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery
  • 25 Caroline St N
    Waterloo, ON Canada     + Google Map