~ POTTERS an COLUMBIA a ClayLines Celebrating Success in our community EXHIBITION, Coquitlam Jan. 5 to 28 When Imagination Meets Clay, by Kwai Sang Wong (Winnie Chen). Teapot & Reliefs. Opening Reception: Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012; 7 to 9 p.m. at the Place des Arts Atrium Gallery, 1120 Brunette Ave., Coquitlam, BC V3K 1G2, 604.664.1636, www.placedesarts.ca CALL FOR ENTRY: 2012 Wearable Art Awards Deadline: Dec, 2 The Port Moody Arts Centre Wearable Art Awards is not a fashion show it is a multi-media performance where the human body becomes a living, breathing, moving canvas. We are looking for more than a “pretty dress.” We are asking you to go deep into your imagination to create a wearable piece of art that challenges what most consider wearable or everyday fashion. More info: http://www.pomoarts.ca/events/wearable-art-awards CALL FOR ARTISTS, Coquitlam DEADLINE: Feb. 3, 2012 Place des Arts is currently accepting proposals for its 2013 gallery exhibitions. Deadline for submissions is Friday, February 3, 2012. Place des Arts welcomes submissions in 2D and 3D media and techniques including fibre arts, pottery, sculpture, painting, photography, prints and drawings. For details see: www.placedesarts.ca or call exhibitions programmer Michelle Chan at 604.664.1636 ext. 32 or mchan@placedesarts.ca. CALL FOR ENTRY, PGBC Members Deadline: Mar. 1, 2012 Exhibition: Up the Garden Path, April 7 to 30, 2012 A juried group show open to all PGBC members, to be hosted by the Gallery of BC Ceramics. The exhibition will showcase vessels and sculptures specifically for use in the garden. We're looking for planters, sculptures, rocks, bird baths, bird houses, bird feeders, lanterns, fountains, frogs, snails - anything that can be used in a garden setting. All work must be for sale. Application forms will be posted on the guild website at www.bepotters.com/Guild/callsforentry_guild.php early next year. Applications must be received by Mar. 1, 2012, and physical work must be delivered to the gallery between Mar. 15 and Mar. 25. Jurying of pieces for the exhibition will take place on Mar. 28, 2012. Please let the Gallery know by the end of January 2012 if you wish to take part in this exhibition. Notices of intention to participate can be emailed to galleryofbcceramics@bcpotters.com. —Gallery of BC Ceramics Exhibitions Committee Submissions for the February 2012 PGBC newsletter Please get your articles and ads in to Melany by Jan. 20 at the latest for the Feb. 1 newsletter. If you submit your material after that date, it may have to wait till next month's newsletter. Sub- missions can be sent to editor@bcpotters.com. Remember, there is no newsletter in January. The first newsletter in 2012 will be published Feb. 1. The Slab Man Cometh Closer! By Keith Rice-Jones Sign-ups for Jim Robison’s workshop at the Shadbolt Centre in Burnaby on March 24 and 25 are well underway, so don't delay! Jim will also be part of the North-West Ceramics Foundation’s Speaker Series, and make a note of this: his free presentation at Emily Carr University will be on the Thursday, March 22 at 7 p.m., not on the Friday as previously advertised. For more info, see www.nwef.ca. Jim, who is actually an American, will talk broadly about his own long-time situation as a potter in Britain as well as the studio pottery scene there, including the remarkable Ismay collection of British studio pottery. He knew Bill Ismay, a Yorkshire librarian who built up one of the world’s biggest and best collections of 20th century ceramics, and. was involved in getting the collection to York Art Gallery (see: www. yorkartgallery.org.uk/Page/ViewCollection. aspx?CollectionId=5). Jim is also a Fellow of the Craft Potters Association in Britain. Jim Robison has an enormous fund of knowledge and his ways of working with slabs will really push your ideas. He is the author of Large Scale Ceramics and more recently, Slab Techniques, both in the A & C Black series. He is also a fixture at the International Aberystwyth Festival in Wales, both organizing and demonstrating, so his workshop will be both informative and entertaining—especially his “slam-dunk” dishes which he literally drops on the floor. Jim works very directly both with the slabs themselves and with the surfaces, using slips, scoring and texturing with a vast range of found tools and materials. Make sure you don’ miss out on either of these opportunities in the new year! A “slam-dunk” pot by Jim Robison. Potters Guild of BC Newsletter - December/January 2011/42 11