Bees WORKSHOPS#H £8 Eg
SADASHI INUZUKA BIG POTS: xo swear:

September 24 and 25th 1994 Phone the Guild Office for late registration: 683-9623
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Please register me for the Ruth Duckworth slide lecture Oct. [4th.and workshop Oct. 15th.
at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, 1399 Johnston $t., Vancouver, Granville Island.

(A billeting program with local members will be organized for those wishing overnight

accommodation. Please call the Guild office if you need a place to stay.)

I enclose a cheque/money order payable to: The Potter's Guild of B.C.,
1359 Cartwright St., Vancouver, B.C, V6H 3R7

* Slide lecture only October 14th 8 PM $5 LJ
* Workshop Including lecture Oct 14th, 8 PM and Oct.15th 10 AM - 4PM
* Individual/Group member 340
* For full-time student member $30
* For Non-Guild Member $450
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At the end of six months of intensive discussions, running
of numbers, and rethinking of every step, we arrived
inanimously al a solution, though one we knew would be
controversial. We knew members would be worried, but
would eventually come to agree wilh our conclusrons, at
least when we could show some results. We hoped we
could heal the wounds of staff being excluding from our
deliberations, Members and staff have a right to criticize
us. But we simply didn’t know how else to do it, and sill
manage candid discussions that allowed us to explore all
options, and to protect the privacy of specific staff.

[ leave you with three thoughts. First, | grew to be very
proud of the board members who hung in through diffecule
months to talk about matters that were uncomfortable, risky,
and often challenged their view of how things should be.
We began with a motley bunch of well-meaning, bul
sOMeuMes nave, individuals, and wound up with an eflective
growp of informed participants, Organizational change is
something that most of us never have io deal with, but we

September 1994

did it with maturity, compassion, and intelligence. ‘Tams
gentle leadership was extraordinary. While I feel painful
twinges when we are criticized for the way we went about
all this, lam also grateful for his bravery im speaking out on
behalf of colleagues and issues.

Second, I am confident that all of us will soon find that the
Powers Guild of B.C. has a new lease on life, and that within
the year we can look back and say it's working. We have
found talented and committed people to fill the new positions,
despite our measly salanes and the risks they also must share.
We are now staffed with a full-time executive director and
gallery manager, and, hopefully, the Guild"s too-often
overlooked, but critically needed and appreciated, part-time
stall members.

And third, let's keep the conversation going. The Leners te

the Editor section of your newsleuer is being reinstated.
Let's fill it!

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