Satoshi Saito, RCA

Louise Doucet Saito, RCA

 

 

Chronology

 

 

Satoshi Saito, born in Tokyo, Japan, 1935. Bachelor of Arts, Keio University, Tokyo, 1961.

 

Louise Doucet Saito, born in Montréal, Quebec, Canada, 1938. Diploma, School of Art and Design, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, 1960.

 

Doucet & Saito, begin working together at the studio, North Hatley, Quebec.

 

Work with Gaétan Beaudin, potter, to invite Tatsuzo Shimaoka, Mashiko, Japan to lead workshop for Canadian

professional potters in North Hatley. Shimaoka, appreciating Satoshi’s work for him for this project and for his

exhibition in Montreal, invite Louise and Satoshi to work in Japan.

 

Duo exhibition, Canadian Guild of Crafts, Montreal.

 

Research on oriental ceramics in Japan with Tatsuzo Shimaoka, Mashiko, and Seimei & Kyo Tsuji, Tokyo.

Became friends with Shoji Hamada, Shoji Kamoda, Junichi Yano and, Kentaro Nakaya.

 

Complete firing in wood-burning climbing kiln of Tatsuzo Shimaoka, Mashiko, Tochigi, Japan. Solo exhibition, Tochigi

Prefecture Cultural Centre, Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan.

 

Complete firing in wood-burning climbing kiln of Tatsuzo Shimaoka, Mashiko. Solo exhibition, Matsuya Gallery, Ginza,

Tokyo. Trip to Shikoku and Kyushu: Karatsu, Arita and Onta, visiting Taroemon Nakazato, Imaemon Imaizumi,

Sezan Takatori, and Takeshi Nagatake.

 

Return to Canada.

 

Establish themselves in Way’s Mills, Municipality of Barnston West, Quebec.

 

Television program Mains habiles, mains agiles, Radio-Québec, Montreal.

 

Solo exhibitions, Canadian Guild of Crafts, Montreal. Virginia Watt, Director (also 1973, 1975, 1980).

 

Kiln opening exhibition, studio of artists, Ways Mills, Quebec. Held annually until 1979.

 

Television program Des yeux au bout des doigts, Radio-Québec, Montreal.

 

Jury members, National Ceramic Exhibition, Alberta Potters’ Association and Glenbow-Alberta Institute, Calgary, Alberta. Exhibit METIERS D’ART/2 travelling exhibition in Europe, Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris. Solo exhibition, Matsuya Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo.

 

Travel to Nova Scotia to collect Shubenacadie clay. Television program Une manière de vivre, Radio-Canada, Montreal. Duo exhibition with wood craftsman Kennosuke Hayakawa from Gifu, Japan at Meitetsu Gallery, Nagoya, Japan.

 

Create mural Quatre saisons dans l’Estrie for the Quebec Provincial Police building, Sherbrooke, Quebec.

 

Chosen in exhibition Shigaraki: 800 Years of Clay and Fire, Isetan Museum, Tokyo. Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Japan.

 

Saidye Bronfman Award for Excellence in Crafts (This award would later be re-named the Governor General’s Award).

 

Recipient of the Bourse du Québec for senior artists from the Ministry of Culture, Quebec.

 

Artists in Residence, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. Solo Exhibition, FAVA Gallery, Oberlin, Ohio. Solo exhibition, Art Gallery at Harbourfront, Toronto. Exhibit at the 40th Concorso internazonale della Ceramica d’Arte-FAENZA, Faenza, Italy.

 

Solo exhibition at Musée du Sagueny-Lac-Saint-Jean, Chicoutimi, Quebec. Produce sculpture in granite for

Pat and Norman Webster, Oakville, Ontario. Receive Bourse du Québec for senior artists.

 

Create fireplace for the Official Residence of the Governor General of Canada, La Citadelle, Québec City.

Create mural for Imperial Life Assurance Company of Canada, Toronto.

 

Solo exhibition DOUCET-SAITO Concepts in Clay, Koffler Gallery, Toronto. The exhibition was the focus of the Fourth

International Ceramics Symposium of the Institute of Ceramic History held in Toronto.

 

Exterior brick wall mural, St-Jean-Baptiste School, Roxton Falls, Quebec.

 

Sculpture Impression (brass) for Foyer du Sacré-Cœur, Magog, Quebec.

 

Solo exhibition, Ufundi Gallery, Ottawa. Participate in exhibition Restless Legacies: Contemporary Craft Practice in

Canada, Art Festival of the XV Olympic Winter Games, Calgary, Alberta. Exhibition of recent works at artists’ studio,

Way’s Mills. (Studio exhibition repeated in 1988 and 1989.)

 

Research on mural and various materials. Work on project for L’Abbaye de St-Benoit du Lac in cooperation with

Delorme-Morin-Descôteaux Architects, Sherbrooke, Quebec.This partnership did not get the contract.

 

Participate in inaugural exhibition as recipients of the Bronfman Award from 1977-1986 at the Canadian Museum of

Civilization, Hull, Quebec. National travelling exhibition, 1991-1993. Granite sculpture Énergie for Hydro-Québec,

Sherbrooke, Quebec.

 

Solo exhibition Doucet-Saito: rétrospective de 1963 à 1990, Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec. Granite sculpture Dyad for the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space, Tokyo. Granite sculpture Connivence for the Inglis Collection, Port Perry, Ontario. Solo exhibition, Musée Pierre-Boucher, Trois-Rivières, Quebec.

 

Solo exhibition, Contemporary Sculpture Centre, Tokyo.

 

Granite sculpture Stone Wind for Nisshin Oil Mills Ltd, Tokyo. Granite sculpture High and Low Rest Upon Each Other for Daitetsu Kogyo Co., Osaka. Granite sculpture Reflet de Lune for MacLaren Collection, Ogden, Quebec. Granite sculpture Time’s Gift for Mirai Hall, Gifu, Japan.

 

Granite sculpture Arpeggio di Pietra for Sumitomo Rubber Industry Ltd. Kobe, Japan.

 

Granite sculpture Winter Lays the Egg of Spring for Yamae Hisano Echo Building, Fukuoka, Japan.

Doucet & Saito are made members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

 

Participants in the commemorative exhibition Transformation: Bronfman Awards, 1977-1996, Canadian Museum of

Civilization, Hull, Quebec. Travelling exhibition: Montreal Museum Fine Arts, Art Gallery of Ontario, Winnipeg Art Gallery and American Craft Museum, New York.

 

Granite sculpture Alba, a commemorative sculpture for the XVIII Winter Olympic Games, Nagano, Japan.

Granite Sculpture Key to the Sun for Mitsubishi Oil Co., Tokyo.

 

Solo exhibition AGALMATA, Contemporary Sculpture Center, Tokyo. Participants in Kaleidoscope: Exhibition by Quebec Members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Québec City.

 

Granite sculpture Allure for Nichimen Corporation, Osaka, Japan. Granite sculpture Rêverie for Institut de

gériatrie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec.

 

Outdoor sculpture proposal for Kodomo Mirai Center, Minamiminowa, Nagano, Japan. Project cancelled in 2001.

 

Granite sculpture Récolte, Pat and Norman Webster Collection, North Hatley, Quebec.

 

Granite sculpture The Fisherman for private collection, Way’s Mills, Quebec. Granite sculpture Augering Time for Town of Ijima, Nagano, Japan. Work on outdoor sculpture project Songe de la creation for Centre de services ambulatoires du sud de Lanaudière, Lachenaie, Quebec. Project not realized.

 

Granite sculpture Onde CLSC (local public medical clinic) in Valcourt, Quebec. Steel sculpture Bridge Ascending

for Pat and Norman Webster Collection, North Hatley, Quebec.

 

Granite sculpture Haru, Nihonbashi Mitsui Tower, Mitsui Fudosan Co., Tokyo. Granite monument (grave marker), Eastern Townships, Quebec. Granite sculpture MAREBITO exhibited at New Art Centre Sculpture Park & Gallery, Roche Court, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK. In 2009, the piece became part of a private collection in England. Work on project La maison du jardinier for Centre hospitalier Pierre-Boucher, Longueuil, Quebec. Project not realized.

 

Solo exhibition Doucet Saito Sculpture 1989-2006, Canada House, Trafalgar Square, London. Organized by the Canadian High Commission and the Quebec Government Office in London.

 

Work on Objet du levant-Objet du couchant, sculpture project for Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, Pavillon Maisonneuve, Montreal. Work on La belle saison, sculpture project for CSSS de Maskinongé, Maskinongé, Quebec.

Both projects not realized.

 

Sculpture for Hiyoshi Commemorative Hall Project, 150th Anniversary of Keio University, Tokyo.

Commemorative Hall project, cancelled in April 2010.

 

Work on Les Sylphides, sculpture project for Hôpital Charles-Lemoyne Phase 2, Centre intégré de cancérologie, Montreal. Work on Continuum, sculpture project for Hôpital Brome-Missiquoi-Perkins, Cowansville, Quebec.

Both projects were not realized.

 

Work on Au son de la cloche sculpture project for École Plein-Soleil, La Prairie, Quebec. Project not realized.

Doucet & Saito decide not to renew registration for the Quebec government public art program from 2010 onwards.

 

 

Scholarships, symposiums, prizes and awards

 

 

Artisane de l’année (Louise Doucet)

 

Second prize, Concours artistique de la province de Québec (Louise Doucet)

 

Canada Council Scholarship (Louise Doucet)

 

Concours artistique de la province de Québec (Louise Doucet Saito)

 

Marjorie Dunford Award, Canadian Guild of Crafts, Montreal

 

Royal Trust Award, Canadian Guild of Crafts, Montreal

 

Donald Dow Award, Canadian Guild of Crafts, Montreal

 

Saidye Bronfman Award, Canada Council (as of 2007, one of the Governor General’s Awards)

 

Bourse du Québec, Ministry of culture, Quebec

 

Bourse du Québec, Ministry of culture, Quebec

 

The Fourth International Ceramics Symposium, Toronto

 

Members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts

 

Nagano Open-air Sculpture Award for stone sculpture for Alba, 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics

commemorative special installation, Nagano, Japan (Satoshi Saito)

 

The City of Osaka Award for the Best Urban Environmental Amenity for Allure, Osaka (Satoshi Saito)

 

 

Exhibitions

 

 

Solo Exhibitions

 

 

Tochigi Prefecture Cultural Centre, Utsunomiya, Japan

 

Matsuya Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo

 

Canadian Guild of Crafts, Montreal

 

Canadian Guild of Crafts, Montreal

 

Matsuya Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo

 

Canadian Guild of Crafts, Montreal

 

Centre d’Art d’Orford, Magog, Quebec

 

FAVA Gallery, Oberlin, Ohio

 

Art Gallery at Harbourfront, Toronto

 

Musée du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Chicoutimi, Quebec

 

Koffler Gallery, Fourth International Ceramics Symposium (as a focus of the Symposium), Toronto

 

Ufundi Gallery, Ottawa

 

La Galerie d’Art de la Caisse populaire de Sherbrooke-Est, Sherbrooke, Quebec

 

Ufundi Gallery, Ottawa

 

Retrospective exhibition at the Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec

 

Ufundi Gallery, Ottawa. Musée Pierre Boucher, Trois-Rivières, Quebec

 

Contemporary Sculpture Centre, Tokyo

 

Contemporary Sculpture Centre, Tokyo

 

Canada House, organized by the Quebec Government Office in London and Canadian High Commission, London

 

 

Duo Exhibition

 

 

Canadian Guild of Crafts, Montreal

 

Le pavillon de la jeunesse, Expo 67, Montreal

 

Meitetsu Gallery, Nagoya, Japan

 

 

Group Exhibition

 

 

Canadian Ceramics ’63, a national travelling exhibition under the auspices of

The Canadian Guild of Potters, Toronto

 

Canadian Ceramics ’65, a national travelling exhibition under the auspices of

The Canadian Guild of Potters, Toronto

 

Canadian Pavillon, EXPO 67, Montreal

 

Centre culturel canadien, Paris. Travelling exhibition: Bruxelles, Strasbourg and Luxembourg

 

Faces of Canada, Canadian Guild of Crafts, Montreal

 

Les Arts Visuel des Cantons de l’est, Centre culturel, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec

 

ARTISAN’78 :The First Travelling Exhibition of Contemporary Canadian Crafts. Canadian Crafts Council, Ottawa

 

Shigaraki: Eight Hundred Years of Fire and Clay, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Isetan Museum, Tokyo

 

40th CONCORSO  INTERNAZINALE  DELLA  CERAMICA  D’ARTE-FAENZA, Faenza, Italy

 

Universiades ‘83, Edmonton, Alberta

 

Works of Crafts from the Massey Foundation Collection, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Ottawa

 

Restless Legacies: Contemporary Crafts Practice in Canada, the Olympic Art Festival,

XV Olympic Winter Games Organizing Committee, Calgary, Alberta

 

Masters of Crafts, inauguration of the Museum and Bronfman Award’s 10th anniversary exhibition, Canadian Museum

of Civilization, Hull, Quebec

 

TRANSFORMATION: Bronfman Award 1977-1996, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Art Gallery of Ontario, Winnipeg Art Gallery, and American Craft Museum, New York

 

Kaléidoscope, exhibition by Quebec members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Palais Montcalm, Québec City

 

Trajectoires – la céramique au Québec des années 1930 à nos jours, Musée du Québec, Québec City

 

ARTS 2000, Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Stratford, Ontario

 

Artista : Salon du printemps des artistes des Cantons de l’Est, Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke,

Quebec

 

New Art Centre Sculpture Park & Gallery, Rochcourt, Salisbury, UK

 

Kaorugaoka art exhibition, Ina Cultural Centre, Ina, Nagano, Japan

 

 

Catalogue of Exhibition

 

 

Solo

 

 

DOUCET-SAITO, Musée Beaulne, Coaticook, Quebec

 

DOUCET-SAITO: Concepts in Clay, Koffler Gallery, Toronto

 

DOUCET-SAITO : Rétrospective de 1963 à 1990, Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec

 

SATOSHI SAITO SCULPTURE, Contemporary Sculpture Center, Tokyo

 

SATOSHI SAITO-AGALMATA, Contemporary Sculpture Center, Tokyo

 

Doucet Saito Sculptures 1989-2006 (2006), Canada House, London

 

 

Group

 

 

Canadian Ceramics’63, Canadian Guild of Potters, Toronto

 

Canadian Ceramics 65, Canadian Guild  of Potters, Toronto

 

National Ceramics Exhibition Calgary, Alberta Potters Association and Glenbow-Alberta Institute, Calgary, Alberta

 

MÉTIERS D’ARTS/2, Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris

 

FACES OF CANADA, Canadian Guild of Crafts, Montreal

 

LES ARTS VISUELS DES CANTONS DE L’EST, Centre culturel, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec

 

SHIGSRAKI-TEN, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Tokyo

 

ARTISAN’78: The First National Travelling  Exhibition of Contemporary Canadian Crafts,

Canadian Crafts Council, Ottawa

 

40 CONCORSO INTERNAZIONALE DELLA CERANICA D’ARTE-FAENZA, Comune di Faenza, Italy

 

Objets d’arts: oeuvres d’art de la Fondation Massey, National Art Gallery, Ottawa

 

Restless Legacies: Contemporary Craft Practice in Canada, Olympic Arts Festival, Calgary, Alberta

 

TRANSFORMATION: Prix Saidye Bronfman Award 1977-1996, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec

 

KALÉIDOSCOPE (an Exhibition by Quebec members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts), Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Toronto

 

Trajectoires : la céramique au Québec des années 1930 à nos jours, Musée du Québec, Québec City

 

Arts 2000, Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Toronto

 

 

Commissions

 

 

Mural, ceramic, Quatre saisons dans l’estrie, poste de la Sureté du Québec, Sherbrooke, Quebec

 

Design and fabrication of silver medal for Prix Québec, Ministry of Culture, Quebec City

 

Mural, ceramic, untitled, for CLSC (Centre de services commuautaire), La Chaumière, Asbestos, Quebec

 

Stone sculpture for Pat and Norman Webster, Oakville, Ontario

 

Mural, ceramic, slate and pyrite, untitled, for Imperial Life Assurance Company of  Canada, Toronto

 

Fireplace for the Official Residence of the Governor General of Canada, La Citadelle, Québec City

 

Exterior wall, gymnasium, École St-Jean-Baptiste, Roxton Falls, Quebec

 

Mural, ceramic,  untitled, for Camp musical d’Asbestos, Asbestos, Quebec

 

Brass sculpture  Impression for Foyer du Sacré-Coeur, Magog, Quebec

 

Sculpture Bandeau de granit for Maison de Granit, Lac-Drolet, Quebec

 

Ticket Office, Centre d’Art  d’Orford, Magog, Quebec

 

Stone sculpture  Énergie for Hydro-Québec, Sherbrooke, Quebec

 

Stone sculpture  Dyad for Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space, Tokyo

 

Stone sculpture Connivence for private collection, Uxbridge, Ontario

 

Stone sculpture Stone Wind for Nisshin Oil Mills Co. Ltd., Tokyo

 

Stone sculpture High and Low Rest Upon Each Other for Daitetsu Kogyo Co. Ltd., Osaka

 

Stone sculpture Time’s Gift for Gifu Prefecture Mirai Hall, Gifu, Japan

 

Stone sculpture Arpeggio di pietra for Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd, Kobe, Japan

 

Stone sculpture Winter Lays the Egg of Spring for Yamae Hisano Echo Building, Fukuoka, Japan

 

Stone sculpture Alba, 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics commemorative special installation, Nagano, Japan

 

Stone sculpture Key to the Sun for Nisseki Mitsubishi Oil Co., Tokyo

 

Stone sculpture Entre la pierre et l’air for Miyashita Collection, Iijima, Nagano, Japan

 

Stone sculpture Allure for Nichimen Corp., Osaka

 

Stone sculpture Geste for Institut de pharmacologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec

 

Stone sculpture Rêverie for Institut de gériatrie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec

 

Stone sculpture Récolte for private collection, North Hatley, Quebec

 

Stone sculpture The Fisherman for private collection, Way’s Mills, Quebec

 

Stone sculpture Augering Time for Town of Iijima, Nagano, Japan

 

Stone sculpture Onde for CLSC Valcourt, Quebec

 

Steel sculpture Bridge Ascending, private collection, North Hatley, Quebec

 

Stone sculpture Haru for Nihonbashi Mitsui Tower, Tokyo

 

Stone sculpture grave marker, Eastern Townships, Quebec

 

 

Short Listed Projects, not realized (Selected)

 

 

Outdoor sculptures for Centre de services ambulatoires du sud de Lanaudière, Lachenaie, Quebec

 

La maison du jardinier for Centre hospitalier Pierre-Boucher, Longueuil, Quebec

 

Objet du levant-Objet du couchant for Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, Pavillon Maisonneuve, Montreal

 

La belle saison for CSS de Maskinongé,  Maskinongé, Quebec

 

Les Sylphides for Hôpital Charles-Lemoyne Phase 2, Centre Intégré de Cancérologie, Montreal

 

Decision made not to renew registration for the Quebec government public art program from 2010 onwards

 

 

Collections

 

 

Jean A. Chalmers National Collection, Canadian Museum Of Civilization, Hull, Quebec

 

The Massey Foundation Collection, Canadian Museum Of Civilization, Hull, Quebec

 

The Bronfman Collection, Canadian Museum Of Civilization, Hull, Quebec

 

Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec City

 

Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Lavalin Collection, Montreal

 

Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba

 

Montreal Museum Fine Arts, Montreal

 

City of Nagano, commemorative sculpture for the 1998 Nagano Olympic Winter Games, Nagano, Japan

 

Town of Iijima, Iijima, Nagano, Japan

 

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space, Tokyo

 

Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec

 

Nisshin Oil Mills Co. Ltd., Tokyo

 

Musée Beaulne, Coaticook, Quebec

 

The Official Residence of the Governor General, La Citadelle, Québec City

 

Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto

 

Ministry of External Affairs, Ottawa

 

Burlington Cultural Centre, Burlington, Ontario

 

Indusmin Collection, Toronto

 

Groupe La Laurentienne, Montreal

 

Imperial Life Assurance Company Of Canada, Toronto

 

Group Coopers & Lybrand, Montreal

 

Chitose Group, Yamagata, Japan

 

Kitz Corporation, Makuhari, Chiba, Japan

 

 

Miscellaneous

 

 

A) Jury

 

 

National Ceramic Exhibition Calgary, Calgary, Alberta

 

Saidye Bronfman Award

 

Bourse du Québec, Ministère des affaires culturelles du Québec

 

 

B) Teaching

 

 

Audio-visual recording: Ceramic Techniques: Hand-building, Coil, Pinch, and Slab-building, produced by Radio-Québec and Cinéastes Associés, Montreal

 

Centre culturel Ste-Jeanne d’Arc, Sherbrooke, Quebec

 

 

C) Collaborations

 

 

With Gaétan Beaudin, potter: Master Class for Canadian Professional Potters, North Hatley, Quebec

Invited Master Potter: Tatsuzo Shimaoka from Mashiko, Japan

 

With The Banff Center School of Arts: Master Class in Pottery. Satoshi Saito recommended to invite Master Potter Tatsuzo Shimaoka and arranged the invitation. Most of the pieces presented in Tatsuzo Shimaoka’s accompanying exhibition were provided courtesy of Doucet & Saito personal collection.

 

With the Consul General of Japan in Montreal: organized two workshops, one in Montreal and the other in Sherbrooke, to be lead by the visiting Master Potter Kenji Kato of Mino, Japan

 

 

D) Conferences

 

 

Mosaics, Dawson College, Montreal

 

Mosaics, Dawson College, Montreal

 

Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, Quebec

 

Concordia University, Montreal

 

Master Class, Banff Centre School of Fine Arts, Banff, Alberta

 

Artists-in-Residence, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio

 

Contemporary Sculpture, One Way, 21 Seiki Club, Tokyo (In Japanese)

 

Silent Continuum: Three Decades of Working with Clay and Granite in Canada and Japan,

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal

 

A Series Of Artists, Gendai Gallery, Japanese-Canadian Cultural Centre, Toronto

 

48 Years: Traces of an Alumnus Becoming an Artist in Canada, Ryowakai, Keio University, Tokyo (In Japanese)

 

 

 

Bibliography

 

 

Writings by Doucet Saito

 

 

Artisan vol. 3, no. 5, Canadian Crafts Council, 1980: 10.

 

“Nihon no Togei”, Rekishi Techo, (Bessatsu) no. 2, Meicho Shuppan Co., Tokyo, June 1974: 119-120 (Japanese).

 

Comment of the jury, National Ceramics Exhibition, Glenbow-Alberta Institute, Calgary 1976: 7-8.

 

“La céramique, un façon de vivre”, Critères no. 12, May 1975: 21-28.

 

“Doucet-Saito” for Métiers d’Arts/2, Centre culturel canadien, Paris, June 1976: 6.

 

Acceptance speech for the Saidye Bronfman Award, 1980 Artisan year-end issue, October 24: 10.

 

For the catalogue Masters of the Craft, Canadian Museum of Civilization, March 1988.

 

“Way’s Mills kara” (“From Way’s Mills”), Ryowakai-ho no. 2, Ryowakai, Keio University, 1995: 6-7 (Japanese).

 

“Akatoki Alba” for the unveiling of the sculpture Alba in Nagano, June 30, 1997 (Japanese, English translation).

 

For the unveiling of Auguring Time, Iijima, Nagano, 2001 (Japanese).

 

Upon receiving 11th Osaka Metropolitan Environmental Amenity Award for the year 2000, Osaka, 2001 (Japanese, English translation).

 

For the unveiling of the sculpture Haru, Nihonbashi Mitsui Tower, Tokyo, November 2005 (Japanese, English).

 

“Way’s Mills kara nihonbashi e”, Mita Hyoron no. 1105, Keio University, October 2007: 87 (Japanese).

 

For the opening of the exhibition Doucet Saito, Sculpture 1989-2006, Canada House, London (English, French).

 

 

Articles on Doucet Saito (selected)

 

 

De Gramont, Monique. “N’est pas artisans qui veut.” Châtelaine vol. 16, no. 3, March 1973: 35-36.

 

Harris, Marjorie. “Exuberant Art of Canada’s Artisans.” Châtelaine vol. 52, no. 5, May 1979: 458.

 

Inglis, Grace. “The Doucet Saitos of Way’s Mills.” Ontario Potter vol. 7, no. 2, 1982: 19-21.

 

Jones, D.G. “Doucet-Saito: Momentum in Clay.” Artscanada, nos. 228/229, August-September 1979: 36-37.

 

Jones, D.G. “Louise and Satoshi Doucet-Saito.” Ceramic Monthly vol. 30, no. 4, April 1982: 28-31.

 

Jones, D.G. “The Art of Doucet Saito.” Koffler Gallery, exhibition catalogue for Concepts in Clay, October 1985.

 

Jones, D.G. “Doucet-Saito.” Masters of the Crafts, Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1989: 74-81.

 

Jones, D.G. “Becoming Familiar with Stone.” Contemporary Sculpture Center exhibition catalogue, 1998: 10-11.

 

Jones, D.G. “Vital Matter: The Sculpture of Doucet Saito,” DOUCET SAITO Sculpture 1989-2006, exhibition catalogue, Canada House, London, 2006: 9-11.

 

Larue-Langlois, Jacques. “Doucet Saito: la poterie du geste a une âme.” Forces no. 49, 1979: 30-34.

 

Racette, Gilles. “Louise Doucet, la terre comme rythme”, Vie des arts vol. 18, no. 74, 1974.

 

Sakai, Tadaya. “Oinaru Genei, Saito Satoshi san, Kanada kara kita Choukokuka” Mita Hyoron (Keio University) no. 927, July 1991 (Japanese).

 

“Konogoro: Coming Home Exhibition.” Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo, 1992-09-19: 4 (Japanese).

 

“Chokokuka, Saito Satoshi-san.” The Nikka Times, Toronto, vol. 19, no. 20, 1997-05-16: 16-17 (Japanese).

 

“Hito, Saito Satoshi san” Mainichi Shimbun, Tokyo, 1998-02-16: 4 (Japanese).

 

“Saito Satoshi,  sekicho ten.” Kensetsu Tsushin Shimbun, Tokyo, 1998-2-26: 5 (Japanese).

 

“Kono hito ni kiku, Saito Satoshi-san, sekichouka” Nagano Nippo, Suwa, Nagano, Japan, 2000-04-06: 1 (Japanese).

 

 

Reviews

 

 

Bower, Sara. The Star Weekly, Toronto, May 15.

Lemay, Laurent. Le Devoir, Montreal, May 22.

Jasmin, Claude. La Presse, Montreal, May 29.

 

The Shimotsuke Shimbun,Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan, December, 21 (Japanese).

 

Dibble, Louise. The Mainichi (English), Tokyo, April 6.

Inoue, Shozo. Tosetsu, Tokyo, no. 170, May (Japanese).

Shirasaki, Shunji., Mingei Techo, Tokyo, vol. 109, June (Japanese).

 

White, Michael.  The Gazette, Montreal, June 3.

Toupin, Gilles.  La Presse, Montreal, June 3.

 

Toupin, Gilles. La Presse, Montreal, May 19.

 

Nixon, Virginia. The Gazette, Montreal, May 10.

Dumas, Evelyn. Le Jour, Montreal, May 17.

 

Le Figaro, Paris, August 4.

L’Express, Paris, August 15.

Dunoyer, Jean-Marie, Le Monde, Paris, August 21.

Nihon Nogyo Shimbun, Tokyo, November 18 (Japanese).

 

Inoue, Shozo. Tosetsu, Tokyo, no. 286, January (Japanese).

 

Viau, René. La Presse, Montreal, October 10.

 

Brosseau, Cecile. La Presse, Montreal, October 10.

Donnelly. The Sherbrooke Record, Sherbrooke, November 7.

Artisan: Year-end Issue 1980. Canadian Crafts Council, Ottawa.

 

Derome, Gilles. Le Devoir, Montreal, June 21.

Hilf, Stephanie. Chronicle-Telegram,  Ohio, April 12.

Inglis, Grace. The Spectator, Hamilton, Ontario, August 28.

 

Mays, John Bentley. The Globe and Mail, Toronto, October 17.

Donnelly. The Sherbrooke Record, Sherbrooke, November 1.

 

Amyot, Lucie. Fusion, Toronto, vol. 10, no. 2, winter.

Inglis, Grace. Fusion, Toronto, vol. 10, no. 2, winter.

Baele, Nancy. The Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa, June 4.

Marcus, Angela. Art Post, Toronto, vol. 5, no. 1, August.

 

Lussier, Rachel. La Tribune. Sherbrooke, August 22.

Abbott, Louise. The Gazette. Montreal, December 30.

 

Dumont, Jean. Le Devoir, Montreal, November 24.

 

Rosshandler, Leo. Vie des Arts, Montreal, March.

 

 

Other Publications

 

 

Kanzaki, Kuniko. Shiufunotomo (report on the Doucet Saitos in Japan), Tokyo, vol. 51, no. 6, June (Japanese).

 

Art d’église, Belgium, no. 164: 66-71.

Craftsman/L’Artisan, vol. 6, no. 2, 1973: 4-6.

 

Fisette, Serge and Robert Barzel. Potier Quebecois, Leméac, Montreal: 41-50.

 

Lamy, Suzanne. La femme, le Québec et  les arts  plastiques, Statement, Canadian Conference of Arts,

Toronto, May.

 

Simard, Cyril. Artisanat québécois 2, Les Éditions de l’homme, Montreal.

 

Murray, Rona and Walter Dexter. The Art of Earth, Sono Nis Press, Victoria, B.C.

 

Inoue, Shozo. Tosetsu, Tokyo, no. 322, January: 17 (Japanese).

 

Flanders, John. “The Craftsman’s Way” Canadian Expression, University of Toronto Press, Toronto: 40- 41.

Les oeuvres d’art ou la politique du un pour cent, Direction générale des publications gouvernementales, Gouvernement  du Québec: 162-163.

 

Sherrer, Laurel. The Sherbrooke Record, Sherbrooke, September 27.

 

Kurata, Takashi. “Hito, Saito Satoshi-san” Nagano Nippo, Suwa, Nagano, Japan, September 17: 5 (Japanese).

 

Contemporary Studio Ceramics. Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg.

Murakami, Yuko. “Saito Satoshi-san.” Nikka Times, Toronto, vol. 19, no. 20, May 16, (Japanese).

 

Yamaguchi, Masayasu. “Choukokuka, Saito Satoshi-san” Kanada Jiho, Vancouver, January 28: 5 (Japanese).

Nikkei Voice, Toronto, vol. 10, no. 2, February.

 

“Kono hito ni kiku, Saito Satoshi-san” Nagano Nippo, Suwa, Nagano, Japan, 2000-04-06: 1 (Japanese).

 

Nagano Nippo, Suwa, Nagano, Japan, November 14: 11 (Japanese).

Nagano Nippo, Suwa, Nagano, Japan, November 17 “Hachimen kan”: 1 (Japanese).

 

 

Television Programs

 

 

Mains habiles, main agiles, céramique 2. Radio-Québec, Montreal, November 29.

 

Des yeux au bout des doigts. Radio-Québec, Montreal, December.

 

Une manière de vivre, Radio-Canada, Montreal, March 10.