GENERAL MANAGER'S REPORT The new year has indeed begun with lots of planning sessions for spnng and sum- merevents. The Guild office is truly busy, Gallery Sales We have not completed all the year end data but the December sales in the Gallery resulted in the best December on record! Sales were up 22% over both our target total and last year’s actual figure! This has only filled the financial shortfalls created by the very slow summer months, Overall the year's sales figures came very close to our target, Many, many thanks to all the artists who kept their stock levels up dur- ing this busy time, and also big thanks to the three musketeers (aka Gallery Assist- ants) Anes Chung, Carole Henshall and Vivian Hui, and also to our floater Gallery assistant Maryam Exfani. Everyone worked long hours over the holiday season; we sincerely thank you. Annual General Meeting With the new year comes the planning for the Annual General Mecting. This year's meeting will again be held on the Friday night of the spring Made of Clay pottery exhibition and sale. The date ts Friday May 5. New Projects for 2000 Atthe end of last year, the Vancouver Arts Stabilization Team and Arts Partners in Organizational Development gave the Potters Guild of BC a grant for a needs assessment, This is probably a three to five-month process; once jt is completed the Board of Directors will have a much more focused definition of what we do, how we do it and for whom, Once this phase is completed, the Guild will have access fo many other grants for project funding in the future. Another initiative that is still in its forma- live slage is the Opportunity lo work with arisiar.com, anew website focused purely onart to promote and sell members’ work. Anstar.com includes art services and ref- erence information, as well as a powerful e-commerce system for online sales of art www.bepotters.com New web site for the Guild. Have your own page with photo and wmnte-up. Call 874.8518 or e-mail rachelle@smarttcom for more details! DATES AT A GLANCE February 2-March 5 Rachelle Chinnery exhibition, Gallery of BC Ceramics February 4 Clay 2000 opening, Fraser Valley Potters Guild, White Rock February 9 Submission deadline for March newsletter February 27 Darrel Hancock workshop, Lucas Centre North Vancouver March 2 Project Empty Bowl March 10-Apnl 2 Canadian Clay Presents exhibition, Gallery of BC Ceramics March 23-24 Jeff Oestreich workshop, ECIAD March 25 Canaan Clay Symposium March 31 Jumpstart Scholarship deadline PGBC Education and Scholarship Fund deadline Gallery of BC Cenumics jury deadline Apnil 7 Last day for All About Blue exhibition, Vancouver Museum Apnl & Opening Lynne Johnson exhibition, 14:00 - 16:00 April 8-May 1d Lynne Johnson exhibition, Gallery of BC Ceramics Apnl 15 Tovan Fundraising Dinner May 2 Lottery for Pottery, Performance Works May 3 PGBC Annual General Mecting May 5-7 Made of Clay, Performance Works works, This isa pilot project forartstar.com to work with an organization such as ours. They wish to maintain direct contact on their site with the real world, as opposed to the virtual world. More importantly it is a simplified process for them to deal with ome organization rather than many indi- viduals. There are still many details to be worked out but essentially the Guild ts looking for interested potters to work on this. There is no cost for the service al- though artstar.com will take a commission on sales. Please contact Jane Matthews at the Guild office if you want to pursue this further. The Guild will also be putting the book, Made of Clay: Ceramics of Brit- ish Columbia in their online bookstore. Jane Matthevs TABLE OF CONTENTS Rachelle Chinnery General Manager Project Empty Bowl Comer Chair Made of Clay Scholarships Canadian Clay Sympsoium Tazan Pundrising Dinner Jeff Oestreich Workshop Gallery Jury Deadline Lottery for Pottery All About Blue Exhibition Jean Fahrni Techno Tip Workshops 10 Classified 12 Special Inserts Sw he Crd AAAKD HW ea w Canadian Clay Symposium Brochure Gallery of BC Ceramics Made of Clay Application —=