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''Display of Alice Hagen's pottery'' (no date)
1950

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Early recognition of Alice Hagen as a potter

In 1944, the "Canadian Geographical Journal" published an article on pottery in Canada. Its author, Ruth Home, claimed:

"Pottery in Nova Scotia means Alice Hagen. There are no professional potters in the province but the Department of Education has since 1938 sponsored a summer course for the training of teachers under Mrs. A. Hagen. The course covers a period of three four-week summer courses and leads to a diploma. Mrs. Hagen works in close co-operation with the Nova Scotia College of Art. Local clays are used entirely for the bodies, good clay being found all along the Annapolis Valley from Shubenacadie to Antigonish. The glazes have, until recently, been imported from England, but in 1941-42 they made their own translucent and opaque white." (1)
(1) Ruth M. Home, "Pottery in Canada", Canadian Geographical Journal (February 1944) : 75.