open stalls. To quote .. ‘The historic building will be a haven for
artists and would-be artists", and the public will have the opportunity to
buy straight from the source. Upper floors will have studios for teach-
ing and space for exhibitions. A board of Directors has been chosen and
letters sent to interested groups and individuals. Civic organizations
and service clubs will help to support it as a non-profit society.

North on the Island, Comox Valley hopes tc institute a summer school
of arts and crafts patterned on the successful Okanagan center. It is
still in the exploratory stage, but perhaps by the summer of '66,
Courtenay will become another haven of learning for the artist.

On the west coast of the Island, The Alberni Pottery Club are a group
that I expe ct more will be heard from. They have bought all their
equipment from their annual sales over the last seven years. Using
mostly local clay and some semi-stoneware, four of their pieces won
high marks in the C.N.E. The highest were for a West Coast Indian
design in scraffito and a home-made glaze. Although in the beginning
they were largely self-taught, they have now had a demonstration from
Mr. Osborne (Ozzie) and last June had a month long workshop super-
vised by Elizabeth Brackman, a potter from Ghana. They fire the work
of the retarded children and give lessons at the Maquinna School .....
these children dig and prepare their own clay.

Mr, Corswell, their Sec-Treasurer, says that they hardly ever see
the work of other potters, and no one outside the Albernis sees theirs.
This group is a case in point of what a useful thing out-of-town
exhibitions could be, as the F.C, A. suggested over a year ago.

On April 6th the Cowichan Lake Art Group had a show of paintings and
crafts, and the Duncan potters were invited to put in a display of
pottery and sculpture. In May, The Crofton Art Group has their very
popular showing and again the potters will be represented by Mrs
Peggy Hagar, myself and Mrs Witham. There are more painters
than potters in the Cowichan Valley.

There is a boy of 16 at Cowichan Lake who wants to make Ceramics
his career. He is working quite alone, digging his clay and making
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