Clay Lines Celebrating Success in Our Community JOHN CHALKE Reception: Apr 14, 2-4pm | harbinzer gallery Celebrating 20 Years... T-F: 10:30 - 6; Sat: 10:30 - 5 22 Dupont St E, ON 519-747-4644 White Tongues, Red Earth, clay www. h a rbi ngerg al le ry.com Rachelle Chinnery: 2007 BC Creative Achievement Award Recipient B.C. potter, Rachelle Chinnery has been selected as one of five recipients of the 2007 B.C. Creative Achievement Awards. The recipients of the awards will be recognized at a ceremony held June 4, 2007, at The Studios at Shaw Tower in Vancouver. Each recipient will receive $5,000 and be granted the use of the British Columbia Creative Achievement Award seal to signify their creative excellence. The 2007 Travelling Showcase will be on display during the ceremony. The recipients were selected by an independent fury chaired by board member Dr. Robert Belton, dean of Creative and Critical Studies at UBC Okanagan. The jury was comprised of Sam Carter, artist, craft and design educator, and associate professor at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design; Allan Collier of Victoria, design curator and historian; Ron Kong, manager of Circle Craft Co-operative Shop and Gallery and former curator, Canadian Craft Museum; and Coleen Nemtin of West Vancouver, who has served on many art gallery and advisory boards in both Vancouver and Seattle, and has helped raise more than $1 million for Vancouver’s Contemporary Art Gallery. @ Dt ee C0) L\) | rhe BNWCF North-West Ceramics Foundation From the Oven and Kiln: Last Chance! Join us Wednesday May 16 for a fabulous three-course meal at the Dockside Restaurant at the Granville Island Hotel. Once again dessert will be served on a plate, which will be yours to take home, hand made by one of a number of B.C. potters. Also featured will be a silent auction with over fifty items including pieces by some of western Canada’s best known ceramic artists including among others; Tam Irving, Paul Mathieu, Cathi Jefferson, Jeannie Mah, Sam Kwan, John Reeve and Wayne Ngan. The proceeds from this fundraiser support the NWCF speaker series, the Maureen Wrght Scholarship fund, the Canadian Clay Symposium and other educational initiatives in the ceramic arts. Tickets are $75 per person and are available at the Gallery of BC Ceramics or from Ron Vallis 604 325-0609.@ Unclassitieds Studio Closing Sale: Equipment and Materials Call: 250-478-4146 Glaze Chemicals: in need of new home by late May (moving out of country). Contact Martha: 604 795-4385 y POTTERS GUILD «BRITISH