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Call for Entries

The annual Filberg Festival
takes place in the Comox Valley
on Vancouver Island.

July 30 through
August 2, 2010

This event attracts SERIOUS
shoppers (some wholesale and
gallery buyers too) looking
for quality, handmade
Canadian art and craft.

Filberg Heritage Lodge & Park
61 Filberg Road, Comox, BC

Booth fee reductions
available for students!

Make 2070 your year
to promote your work to an
educated and discerning
clientele.

Deadline for delivery of Jury
entries is February 21.
See our website for details.

www.filbergfestival.com

For more information
phone 250-334-9242 or email:

info@filbergfestival.com

Paul Mathieu’s History of Ceramics:
lt’s Fresh and It’s Free

By Phyllis Schwartz

as shards, and as often in the refuse pile and in

dumps than in tombs, ceramics is at the same
Paul Mathieu, Governor General’s Award.

Winner in Fine Arts (2007) and Ceramics
Instructor at Emily Carr University has

time almost indestructible.” Most histories
end chapters with intense critical discussion,

but this history is flooded with these rich

recently written, and made publicly accessible, provocative analytical moments.

the Art of the Future: 14 essays on ceramics. This pany) has never been afraid of con troversy,

e-publication is an overview of the history of and in fact invites it into his conversations.

ceramics through a contemporary lens. This book gives us plenty of controversy. His

The chapter titles give the reader a sense ending gives us much to consider as we trim

of what is to come: essays on esthetics and pots, wait at a trafhic light or just stare into the

applied expressions of these esthetics in distance: “This practice of breaking ceramic

containers, architecture and embodiment. objects can be experienced throughout history,
‘The last chapter, Death: The Fragmentation of

and even today. Are we now experiencing the
Time; The Past, the Present and the Future, Paul

death of ceramics too?”

Mathieu observes, “If ceramics is fragile (like You can read The Art of the Future online at

life itself) and can be broken easily, and most _paulmathieu.ca/theartofthefuture

historical objects are found in fragments and

Chop Marks & Signatures

Send in your chops and have them available through the guild. For the form, click on the
link here: www.bepotters.com/forms/chop_marks_form.doc

You can email it back to Debra Sloan at sloanyip@shaw.ca as an attachment. Or print
and mail your sheet[s] to Potters Guild of BC , 1359 Cartwright Street, Granville Island,
Vancouver, B.C. VGH 3R7 attention: chops.

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