How I Saved Woodstock

chip today

I got out of the Navy in 1962 and found myself hanging out in the Folk Scene In Toronto.

I was friends with Ken Danby who owned the New Gate of Cleve coffee house. and I then ended up in charge of the Food Concessions at the second Mariposa folk Festival in Orillia. I was staying at a motel as we set up the week before, and in the next room was the coolest guy I had ever met. he was from New York and did the lighting. We had a few beers together everyday. Chip had little round blue sunglasses and a young hippie wife with a baby and he knew everybody and was just cool. So the day befor the show he is looking real sad and I ask why. he says he is leaving. he broke his most important light and it cost $150.00 and he didn't have enough to pay for it. I asked if he could get it in Orillia he said yes. So we went and bought it and I charged to the Festival. So the show went on and saved his business. That cool guy was Chip Monck one of the principle founders of the Woodstock Festival. So that is how I saved Woodstock (lol)

Mickey Handy

Mickey Arthur Handy 
Mickey was a good friend. he was jazz drummer in New York for a while and he knew everybody and knew more about Jazz than anybody I ever met.


In 1967 he had a huge piece in The Art display in Nathan Phillips Square. It was a huge ball with a giant slit representing you know what. In the Star there was a photo of the mayor William Dennison with his head inside. hilarious
Brief Biography

1933	Born New York, New York.
1959	B.F.A. New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, New York.
1960	M.F.A. Alfred University. Came to Canada.
1960-66	Head, Ceramic Department, Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Ontario.
1971-76	Assistant Professor, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.

Exhibition History

1965	"New Sculpture"; Isaacs Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
1977	"Retrospective"; McLaughlin Art Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario.
1980	Drawing Show; A.C.T. Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
1981	Arthur Handy Installation; Mercer-Union Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
1985	"Arthur Handy Ceramic Sculpture 1962-65, and 1985"; Macdonald-Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario.
1997	"FIRE+EARTH: Contemporary Canadian Ceramics"; Burlington Art Centre, Burlington, Ontario.
1998	"FIRE+EARTH: Contemporary Canadian Ceramics"; Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan. "Arthur Handy: Recent Work"; Burlington Art Centre.
2000	"FIRE+EARTH: Contemporary Canadian Ceramics"; Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
2001	"FIRE+EARTH: Contemporary Canadian Ceramics"; The Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan.
2002	"FIRE+EARTH: Contemporary Canadian Ceramics"; Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Publications
"Clay: Medium-Based Practices." Dalhousie Art Gallery. Guelph, Ontario, Essays, Robert Fulford and Barrie Hale.
"Arthur Handy Ceramic Sculpture 1962-65 and 1985," Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario.
"Arthur Handy Retrospective," London Art Gallery, Essay, Robert Fulford.
"Arthur Handy's New Sculpture," Arts Canada, Barrie Hale, Spring 1972.