C L ayLi ni es Submissions for the October newsletter Please get your articles and ads in to Melany by September 20 at Celebrating Success in our community the latest for the October 1 newsletter. Ifyou submit your material after that date, it may have to wait till next month's newsletter. Submissions can be sent to editor@bcpotters.com. Thank you for your help! GALLERY OF BC CERAMICS Canadian Clay Symposium Presenter Profile: The Gallery of BC Ceramics has a busy month in September, and wed like » to enlist your support. Please submit your entries for: Kath ryn Fi nnerty The Gallery of BC Ceramics is requesting submissions for the annual exhibition jury, to be held on October 15, 2009. Details can be i * found on www.bcpotters.com/Gallery/forms/2009_Gallery_Jury_ —— Application.pdf. Exhibition applications are open to all Potters’ Guild members, not only those currently represented in the gallery. 7 Black-White 100 Exhibition = ‘The show begins on September 7, so immediate registration is required. Please apply via www.bcpotters.com/Gallery/forms/2009_BW100. Swan Basket, by pdf Gillian McMillan. Born and raised in Toronto, Kathryn Finnerty’s ceramic career has taken her many places, from Halifaxto Baton Rouge, Manitoba Gi bsons Public Art Gal lery to Alaska. The last eight years have seen Exhibi tion her settle in rural Oregon, where she works as a studio potter. Her work draws its inspiration You're invited to meet clay artists Michael Allegretti & Elaine from diverse sources: nineteenth century Futterman at an exhibition of superbly hand-crafted classic stoneware English pottery, the sprigged surfaces of salt- and eleven opportunities to save on superbly delicious foods...** fired porcelain and stoneware, and ornamental architectural majolica of the 1870s. Gala Reception: 6 - 8 p.m., Friday, September 11 ; . “[My move from urban to rural] has Meet the Artists Reception: 2 - 4 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 12 expanded my perspective and presented me 287 Gower Point Road or Molly's Lane, Gibsons Landing, B.C. with the opportunity to discover a natural 604.886.0531 - gpag@dccnet.com - www.gibsonspublicartgallery.ca world outside of my previous experience. **When you visit the Gallery, don't leave without your "Come From my studio windows I witness a pastoral to Dinner" Sponsor Coupons for great $-Saving & dining-out landscape particular to the Northwest--lush experiences. and green, wet and moist. There are quail living in our hedgerow, starlings nesting in the eave of our barn, hawks that soar over our pasture and owls that hoot from the woods U n cl ass ifi eds at dusk. All of this nourishes me daily and I have found it impossible to resist the tug to HELP NEEDED: I am looking for a FOR SALE: Gas kiln. 20 cu.ft. firing draw on this abundance for inspiration in my volunteer to do some clerical work in the chamber, downdraft sprung arch kiln that creative process.” Guild office on Granville Island. Some was designed and built by an engineer. It has Kathryn’s work explores a range of domestic phoning, some computer work; 6-8 hours a very heavy duty metal frame, pyrometer, wares from teapots to flower containers to per month. If you can lend a hand, please burners, regulators and pipes. Blueprints condiment sets, with intricately thrown contact Jinny Whitehead at vwhitehead@ and photos taken before and during taking it and hand-built forms, incised and low relief shaw.ca. apart. Some chimney bricks. Call 604-483- cas : surface treatment and rich juicy glazes. 4806 or email rareearth@armourtech.com, The Canadian Clay S ‘um Aestheti KNOW WHERE +o safely dispose of @ MANAGAN CIGY OVP OST DESTCTCS takes place March 13, 2010. For more details on lead - and unwanted glaze chemicals? Please events see www.canadianclaysymposium.ca. call 604-483-4806 or email rareearth@ POTTERS 2*mourtech.com. ) old commercial glazes some containing COLUMBIA Potters Guild of BC Newsletter - September 2009 13