Published twice a year, Ornamentum is the only magazine devoted to exploring the large spectrum of decorative arts, material culture and design in Canada. From furniture and furnishings, ceramics, glass, metalwork, graphics, and textiles through to aspects of architecture, industrial, interior and landscape design, the decorative arts encompass craft and the aesthetics of the everyday.

Within this expansive umbrella, Ornamentum provides a forum for discussion of the creative context and talent through which the decorative arts are born, and critically addresses the aesthetics and meanings of objects in terms of historic precedent, tradition and innovation.

Written for a broad readership and extensively illustrated, Ornamentum celebrates material culture in all its forms and expressions.

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Top Image: How Are You (detail), by Marian Bantjes. Ballpoint pen/digital, March 2006. Find out more at: ornamentum.ca

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“Ornamentum celebrates material culture in all its forms and expressions”

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Spring/Sumer 2025 (Newsstand until November)

Ornamentum  Editorial Advisory Committee

Dr. Sarah Alford, Assistant Professor, Liberal Studies, University of Arts (Alberta) Chair

Maegen Black, Associate Dean - New Brunswick College of Craft & Design (New Brunswick)

Julia Brucculieri, Writer, Online Editor - Ornamentum.ca (Ontario)

Dr. Keith Bresnahan, Associate Professor - OCAD University (Ontario)

Janet Carlile, Independent appraiser (Ontario)

Dr. Janna Eggebeen, Editor - Ornamentum (Ontario)

Peter Flannery, Curator - The Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery (Ontario)  

Michele Hardy, Curator, Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary (Calgary)

Janna Hiemstra, Executive Director - Craft Ontario (Ontario)

Dr. Julia Krueger, Registrar - SK Arts (Saskatchewan)

Guislaine Lemay, Curator, Material Culture - McCord Museum (Quebec)

John Leroux, Manager, of Collections & Exhibitions - Beaverbrook Art Gallery (New Brunswick)

Steven McNeal, Chief Curator & Director of Exhibitions, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (British Columbia)

José Niaison, Director at Large, Canadian Crafts Federation and Board member, Craft Ontario (Ontario)

Dr. Laura Sanchini, Curator, Craft, Design & Popular Culture - Canadian Museum of History (Ontario)