INTRODUCTION

    Member, International Academy of Ceramics.

    Art Lecturer (ceramics), Etna Manly Visual and Performance Arts College.

    Norma Rodney Harrack, potter, artist, lecturer, a graduate of the Jamaica School of Art and the University of the West Indies in Heritage Studies, is recognized as one of the outstanding leading potters of Jamaica.

    AS a potter, she has been the recipient of several awards: She was awarded a gold medal in the Jamaica Festival of Arts in 1974 and again in 1981. The Prime Minister's Certificate of Recognition in 1988. In 1993, she was awarded the Silver Musgrave Medal by the Institute of Jamaica for her outstanding contribution in the field of pottery and ceramics. In 2002 she was the recipient of the Aaron Matalon Award National Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica.

    Norma Rodney Harrack has exhibited in numerous galleries locally and participated in severaI overseas exhibitions. In 1993, her work was exhibited in the World Triennial of Small Ceramics in Zagreb, Croatia. In the same year, her work was accepted in the juried exhibition at the Faenza International Art Competition, Italy, where all three entries were selected among the 163 pieces accepted from the 2181 entries. In 1999, her works were exhibited in “Traditions in the Sun”, a solo exhibition at the Burlington Art Center, Ontario, Canada. She has also exhibited in Cairo-Egypt, Frechen-Germany and Athens-Greece.

    Her own work was featured on a special issue of Jamaican postage stamps in 1993.