Rory MacDonald: Mur Veriniseé Vallauris, France, 2002, installed tile forms lead-glazed, earthenware, handbuilt with sprig mold application, individual installation elements 23" h x 11" w x 2.5" d

An assistant professor in the ceramics department at the University of Regina, Rory MacDonald likes to surreptitiously "patch up" missing or crumbling pieces of Regina's walls and curbsides with what he calls public craft. Travelling and studying in France (where he worked at the same studio in Vallauris where Picasso made hundreds of works of ceramic art), he did the same thing with that country's stone walls. "There's a kind of performative element to it," he says. "It's not connected to a studio or a gallery, so people can experience it in the moment." He's interested in the place where ceramic art and ceramic function intersect — in the toilets and bricks of ordinary life. He believes that craft can find a place in the construction of the most ordinary elements of a city's infrastructure. MacDonald's Intervention Works, being installed around Regina into 2004, can be found in outdoor public spaces including