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Sarah graduated from Kootenay School of the Arts
(KSA) in 2006 and is a 2008 BC Creative Achievement
Award winner. She has her own studio practice and is
presently selling her work from her home gallery in
Kaslo, B.C.

KSA offers a 2-year diploma in Art Craft & Design with
a Major in Clay. The program focuses on hands-on
training with an emphasis on studio practice and is
transferable.

APPLY NOW for 1st year or direct entry into 2nd year.
Applications accepted for September or January entry.

Selkirk [@] College

Boo k Revi @W By Patty Osborne

Container Gardening Through
the Seasons

By Jim Keeling

Published by Kylie Cathie Limited
(www.klyecathie.com)

ISBN 978-1-85626-7 11-3

176 pages / $29.99

The
Through the Seasons might lead the

container

title Container Gardening
casual observer to think that this is
a gardening book, but the variety
of big, small, funky, traditional, modern, glazed and unglazed pots
inside (along with descriptions of how they are made) is what will
make a potter's heart beat faster. Jim Keeling, co-owner, with his wife
Dominique, of Whichford Pottery (www.whichfordpottery.com)
in Warwickshire, England has written a book that describes both the
plants that grow in their extensive garden and greenhouse and the pots
(all made on the premises) in which they are planted. Amid photos
and descriptions of asplenium scolopendrium and hedera helix are
sections on digging and preparing clay, decorating pots, the evolution
of the potters wheel, decorating with slip and scrafhito, throwing large
pots in sections and throwing huge pots using a team of two people,
facing each other across the revolving wheelhead. The book is filled
with colour photos of the Whichford Pottery gardens throughout the
seasons and of pots both in progress and in the garden (where they are
filled with luscious plantings.) My one complaint is that the plants
described in the text do not always correspond to the plants in the
adjacent photos, which makes it difficult for a rookie gardener like
me to visualize what the writer is describing, but I had no difficulty
understanding the descriptions of pot-making, even when not every
step was photographed. Not only is this an inspiring book but it would
be a rich resource for students who can ignore the pretty flowers and
just look at the myriad of pots for ideas about shape, surface texture
and decoration. Now I don’t know what to do first: stock up on plants
at the garden shop or push aside my boxes of porcelain to make room

for some low-fire clay and start making flowerpots.

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BNWCF
North-West
Ceramics
Foundation

NWCF Speakers Series

Mark your calendars for October 20, for

the next NWCF Speakers Series lecture by
Julie York. She is an Assistant Professor of
Visual Arts and Material Practice at Emily
Carr University, where she teaches in the
ceramics department. She began her studies with David Lloyd at
Kwantlen College and graduated from Emily Carr. She received

her master's degree from New York State College of Ceramics at
Alfred and subsequently held fellowships and residencies at the Clay
Studio in Philadelphia and at the International Ceramic Research
Centre, Guldagergaard, in Skaelskor, Denmark. In 2007, she was
awarded the prestigious Pew Fellowship. York works with slip-cast
porcelain, submerging the forms in baths of mineral oil or encasing
them in boxes reminiscent of commercial display. She will discuss the
trajectory of her career and her work combining clay with fabrication
and industrial materials. Her talk will be held on Wed., Oct. 20, at

View, 2006, porcelain, glass, plastic, H13cm x W28em x D10cm. Cast
found objects abstracted through the manipulation of the form and
also through the glass lens. As the viewer moves so does the image
of the object, causing one to see in another way.

7 p.m., at Emily Carr University, 1399 Johnson Street, Granville
Island, in room 245 in the North Building. The lecture is free and

open to all. We look forward to seeing you there!

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