Guild News,

| would like to begin this month's article
with a huge thank you to che people and
organizations involved in making Takeshi
Yasuda's visit to British Columbia such a
success! Although we spent a few nervous
hours wondering when Takeshi accually did
artive and where he stayed thar fiese night
(he arrived a day earlier chan we had
expected), everything worked out fine in
the end, and the lecture, workshop and
exhibit in the Gallery were all very well
teceived, Many thanks to the folks at
Shadbolt Centre for organizing and
providing for che workshop; to ECLAD for
hosting the Friday night lecture; and, to
Fraser Valley Potters’ Guild for providing
the refreshments throughout the workshop.
All four organizations (including PGBC)
worked hard to pull the workshop weekend
together, and thanks to che wonderful
enrollment, we all even made a small profit!
Please see the article by Darrel Hancock
elsewhere in this newsletter for a recap of
the workshop.

The workshop committee is sell in the very
early stages of planning for our next
workshop, buc che dates for John Leach
have been confirmed as May 23 - 25, 1997!
Please watch future newsletters for more
information.

Catalogue registrations are continuing 1
grow. A new registracion form, with the
updated information that appeared in last
month's newsletter, is now available. Please
call the Guild if you are needing one of the
new forms, All registranes will be receiving
more detailed information (including the
timeframe for when we need
information/submissions from you) by
separace mail soon.

Ac our last board meeting, the 97 ad hee
norunations committee was formed. The
AGM is only 6 months away, so now is the
time to start chinking about whether you are
interested in joining the Pooters’ Guild
board of directors. Again, more information
will be coming in future mewslecters; in the
meantime, if any member is interested in
being on the nominations committee (with
Lor 2 current board members), please ler
me know.

Deborah Tibbel and myself recently
attended a reception hosted by the

Canada Council at che Orpheum
downtown, Suffice it co say, there was
nor any new informacion given, other
than to announce the CD-Rom version of
the Art Bank, which was to be launched
at the Vancouver Public Library the
following day. Mayor Philip Owen
proclaimed that day as Canada Council
Day in Vancouver, as part of the month of
October being ‘arts month’, Bravo!
Vancouver certainly did mar hawe much
impact here on Granville Island, but the
inaugural year of this evenc will hopefully
set the stage for a larger and more
pervasive presence next year, The more
we can show the public jusc how much
the arts impact their everyday life (and
improve the quality of their daily
existance) the stronger the arcs will be for
all of us in the furure.

Gallery News

After a slower than usual Seprember (sales
were down, 15% from the year before but
we were still ahead 2% in cumulative sales
for the year over the same period last
year), October has tured our co be a
record month. The monthly total was up
a whopping 23% over last pear, bringing
up our cumulative cotal by 3.3%. Gillian
McMillan and Takeshi Yasuda both had
very successful exhibits during October,
There is a strong possibility chat both
Gillian’s exhibit and Takeshi's workshop
will be feacured in upcoming issues of
Contact...

The Gallery locks forward to che
November exhibit, Feasts, for which
Rosemary Amon, Jay MacLennan and
Celia Rice-Jones have creared domestic
vessels scaled for the occasions when the
clans gather, Feasts will run uncil

December Ist, to be followed by Clay

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You Can Hold A Candle To, a theme
exhibic open to al] members of the Potrers’
Guild (see below) for the monch of
December. Ernest Watkins from Cobble
Hill is the Gallery's feature artist for
November. Drop by to see some of his
recent Tozan-fired pieces, in addition to
his large stoneware vessels (ideal for use in
the kitchen) and more delicate porcelain
bowls and vases,

The Gallery exhibit schedule for 1997 will
be published next month, but mark it on
your calendars now that a display of
selected work by the Tozan Sociery will be
exhibited in March. We will be
requesting Tozan Seciety members to
submit slides of their work and will select
the pieces for the show from these.

The Gallery Jury Committee convened
again in October, and we are very pleased
to welcome Dek Taylor from Nanaimo
and Susanne Ashmore from Wasa inco che
Gallery. Be sure to drop by the Gallery to
see Deb's intricately carved, beautiful slab
built vessels, presented in groups of the
same form of various sites. Her designs
are inspired by patterns from history, bur
are abstracted and repeated on the
organic forms. Susanne works in
porcelain and creates delicacely thrown
functional pieces. Susanne recently
received an honourable mention at the
4th International Ceramics Competition
in Mino, Japan, and was selected for
exhibition in the 1991 Fletcher Challenge.
Her work will be received for display
towards the end of November.

I'm very happy to have such fine additions
ta the representation in the Gallery,

Jane Matthews

Gallery of BC Ceramics - Call for submissions

November ~ hanging clay ornaments for the tree or window the front window will be
festively festooned with ornaments and lights - this is open to all members of the Potters’
Guild co being cheir work into the Gallery. The display will continue through December.

December - Clay You Can Hold A Candle To - A selection of candlesticks
and candleholders created out of clay by members of the Potters’ Guild of BC for the

Thursday, Dee. 3 (6 - 8pm)

holiday season (natural beeswax candles will also be available for sale), Opening reception |

All members are invited to submit work for these shows/sales.