Urve Manuel is a Canadian glass artist, based in Newfoundland and Labrador. During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, she created around 1,000 sun catchers to raise funds for Ukrainians; she ultimately collected about $46,000.
Early life and education
editManuel has Estonian heritage through her grandfather.[1] She attended university in Toronto before moving to Newfoundland and Labrador in around 2003.[2] She was a firefighter and a sea kayak guide,[3] and became a glass artist after becoming self-taught in around 2004 after attending glass work classes in the evening.[4] She attended the United States for graduate classes in art.[2]
Career
editHer glass work was exhibited in Toronto's One of a Kind Christmas show in 2013.[2] She moved to Rocky Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador, in 2015, where she founded a glass shop.[5] As of 2022, she continues to work there.[6]
One of her pieces is a recreation of an ice-fishing shack, which is made out of several panels of stained glass.[5] The piece—which depicts the northern lights and the animals of Canada, including polar bears and fish—was inspired by her childhood; she, her siblings, and her grandfather would often go ice-fishing together.[5] It took several months to create, and was first displayed in 2022.[5] In response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, which led to a large number of refugees fleeing Ukraine, she began creating sun catchers to fund-raise for charities in Ukraine.[7] She said her family's personal history of fleeing Estonia during Soviet occupation was similar to Ukrainians fleeing their own country.[8] She initially planned to create 25 sun catchers a day, but a rise in demand led her to create more.[6] In May 2022, after about two months of working on the fund-raising project, she sold about 1,000, and raised about $46,000 for various nonprofits.[6]
References
editCitations
edit- ^ Vohra 2021.
- ^ a b c Tensuda 2013.
- ^ Little 2015.
- ^ Writers at Woody Point 2022.
- ^ a b c d Crocker 2022.
- ^ a b c CBC 2022.
- ^ CBC 2022; Roberts 2022.
- ^ Roberts 2022.
Bibliography
edit- Crocker, Diane (28 January 2022). "Gros Morne area artist's stained glass ice fishing shack 'flows together' in a combination of beauty and function". Salt Wire. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
- Little, Dave (29 July 2015). "A sampling of northeast country art". Cabin Life. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
- Roberts, Darrell (29 March 2022). "From the symphony to the nightclub, here's how people in N.L. are supporting Ukraine". CBC. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
- Tensuda, Kaire (6 December 2013). "Klaasikunstnik Urve Manuel tuli Newfoundlandist Torontosse oma loomingut tutvustama" [Glass artist Urve Manuel came from Newfoundland to Toronto to present her work]. Eesti Elu (in Estonian). Retrieved 11 May 2022.
- Vohra, Ameeta (13 December 2021). "The softer side of glass". East Coast Living. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
- "Urve Manuel". Writers at Woody Point. 2022. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
- "With a little help from some friends, artist sells 1,000 suncatchers for Ukraine relief". CBC. 23 May 2022. Retrieved 9 June 2022.