Vincent Massey
Workshop

Vincent shares his life's consum-
ing passion, the art of ceram-
ics, In @ one-day educational
ond informative handbuilding
demonstration workshop.

In this workshop, for all levels of
expertise, he'll introduce
styrofoam as a medium of mak-
ing moulds. Slab building forms
with extruded rims, feet and
handles are the order of the day.
This process is fraught with un-
expected technical problems
and all the secrets are revealed
by the potter from Rainbow

Mountain, Whistter.

Bring a bag lunch. Fee: $56

Sunday, February 23
10:00AM - 4:00PM

To register for
#PYO01-2

Lucas Centre

(north of Capilano Mall)
2132 Hamilton Ave
North Vancouver

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Creative Partnership

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take this on. Each of the other artists had a
13 foot by 2 foot section: Keith worked on
Virual Arts, while Celia did Music, Debra
Dance, Elora Theatre and Literary Arts
and Gillian created The Buildings at Deer
Lake — from the Gallery to the heritage
offices, studios and kiln facilities.

At the end of August Linda and Jay began
laying out each artist's slabs on two sheets
of 4’ by §' gyproc, The gyproc worked very
well to facilitate even drying. The amount
of ime spent transferring the images, cut-
ting, scoring and marking the tile sections,

Keith Rice-Jones working on his section, with the
images from Celia Rice- Jones" seciion an the wail

behind him, Photo: Linda Doherty

Opening November 2, 2002
Photo: Linda Dalerty

Potters Guild of British Columbia Newsletter

staining and slip decorating each piece, far
exceeded anyone's expectations —butthen,
so did the results. The five sections were
fired to cone 10 in three firings in our 60
cubic foot gas kiln, and the trees were put
into two wood/gas'soda, cone 10 firings in
the Ombu kiln, Even though the pieces
were numbered, it was like a giant puzzle
putting the 1200 pieces back together.

By October 15, the pieces were all deliv-
ered to the mall, on time, intact and on
budget - an amazing feat! The installation,
gruiting and sealing opened a whole new
tealm of experience for us (wait for the
memoirs!) which was made worth-
while by watching the reactions of
those who stumble (fad to say it,
John!) epon the work and are-truly
amazed.

The mural was officially opened
by Burnaby Acting Mayor Gary
Begin and Parks Commission
Chair Leslie Roosa on Saturday,
November 2, The mural is located
on the lower floor near the inside
entrance to the new London Drugs
at Lougheed Town Centre, 9855
Austin in Burnaby, beside the new
skytrain station. Definitely worth
a look!

Special thanks must go to
Lougheed Town Centre Manager
Faye (Hickey) Laing, whose vi-
sion, courage and love for the arts made
this project happen, to Linda Doherty and
Jay MacLennan who fiercely protected its
integnity throughout wand to Cultural Pro-
grams Coordinator lan Forsyth for making
it all so easy, And finally, to those six
dedicated and talented artists — Keith,
Celia, Debra, Elora, John and
Gillian who have ‘nsised the bar’
and created a work of ant of which
we can all be proud.

Sharon Reay

January 20013