Mary Fox Legacy Project

The Mary Fox Legacy Project

The Mary Fox Legacy Project is an initiative created to share Mary’s knowledge, experience, and discoveries with the next generation of potters, providing opportunities for emerging artists to develop their skills and acquire the tools they need to pursue a career in the ceramic arts.

For decades, Mary has worked as a professional ceramic artist, continually exploring and expanding her practice. She has developed her own distinctive approaches to firing and glaze development and has created an extensive body of functional pottery. Alongside her functional work, she has explored sculpture and decorative ceramics, and continues to experiment with new materials, techniques, forms, and approaches to making.  In recent years, Mary has placed an increasing emphasis on sharing what she has learned. Through her writing, including two books about her practice and craft, and through the creation of the Legacy Project, she has begun creating opportunities to pass her knowledge and experience on to other potters.

At its heart, the Legacy Project is about mentorship: creating opportunities for emerging ceramic artists to learn, experiment, develop their own voices, and build on the knowledge that has come before them. The project is unfolding in three phases:

Phase 1 — Apprenticeship | 2022–2025:

Phase 3 — Artist in Residence (Future Program):
As part of the Mary Fox Legacy Project’s long-term vision, an Artist in Residence program will be established following Mary’s passing. The program will provide an established studio potter with the opportunity to step away from the day-to-day demands of making a living and dedicate time to creative exploration, experimentation, and the development of their practice.

The two-year residency will provide access to a fully equipped studio, including a creation room, pottery wheels, pug mill, electric and gas kilns, and a gallery space where the resident’s work can be exhibited and offered for sale to the public. The program is intended to give an experienced potter the time, space, and support to pursue areas of their practice that may otherwise remain unexplored due to the demands of running a working studio.

BUILDING A LEGACY FOR THE FUTURE

The Mary Fox Legacy Project has also established an Endowment Fund through the Vancouver Foundation and the Craft Council of British Columbia to provide long-term financial support for the Project.

The principal of the Endowment Fund will remain invested, while the income generated will help support opportunities for emerging ceramic artists and the future operation of the studio. Donations to the Endowment Fund are eligible for a charitable tax receipt.

ESTATE PLANNING
You may also wish to consider including a gift to the Mary Fox Legacy Project Society in your estate plans. A gift of a percentage of your estate can help support emerging ceramic artists and carry Mary’s legacy forward for generations to come.

If you would like to explore leaving a legacy gift or making a donation to the Endowment Fund, learn more and donate here.

For donations of $10,000 or more, please contact the Vancouver Foundation at 604-688-2204 and let them know you are interested in supporting the Mary Fox Legacy Project.

THANK YOU FOR HELPING THE POTTERS OF TOMORROW
Your support provides emerging ceramic artists with the opportunity, space, and resources they need to develop their skills and creative practice. Thank you for helping make these opportunities possible.