JANET MACPHERSON earned her Bachelor degree in philosophy from York University, and studied ceramics at Sheridan College. She holds an MFA with a focus on ceramics from The Ohio State University. Janet has been the recipient of research and project grants from The Canada Council for the Arts, was nominated for the RBC Emerging Artist People’s Choice Award in 2012, and was the 2013 Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics. Janet was an artist-in-residence at Harbourfront Centre from 2011 to 2014 and recently completed an international residency at Zentrum fur Keramik in Berlin, Germany. She has shown her work extensively in Canada and the United States. Janet lives and works in Toronto.