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Married couple Eva and Milan Lapka, were born in the Czech Republic, in 1944 and 1942, respectively. They immigrated to Montreal, Quebec in 1968, five years after having received their diploma in Ceramics, Sculpture and Design from the College of Arts and Crafts in Brno, Czech Republic.

Eva produced the form of the figures, while Milan fired and glazed the works. Most of their ceramics consisted of an exploration of the human figure. They produced both large installations, such as In Infinitum (1990), which combined abstract human forms with painted architectural and landscape backgrounds; and smaller works, such as Ancestral Hero (1989). During an exhibition that they held in the Czech Republic in 1992, they initiated a cross-cultural exchange between Czech and Canadian artists, known as Exchange (1993, 1996), and Interchange (1995, 1997).

Eva served as a Professor of Ceramic Perfecting at the Institut de métier d’art and the Commission de formation professional in Montreal from 1988 to 1995, and has been teaching ceramics at the Montreal Visual Arts Center since 1991, where she is the Head of the Ceramics Department since 1999. Milan also taught Ceramic Perfecting at the Institut des métiers d’art and at the Commission from 1988 to 1993, and at the Visual Arts Center, where he taught art to children with learning disabilities. Milan Lapka passed away in 1999. Recently in 2012, Eva became a member of the Royal Academy of Artists.