(ee) Greenbarn's catalogue is now available online. In an effort to be move enwivonmentally Sea. www.geeenbarn.com Guild Members Far and Wide... By Jinny Whitehead So you think you live a long way from the centre of guild activity? Well, think again. Phyllis Fiendell lives in Whitehorse and joined the guild because she wanted to know about workshops taking place on Vancouver Island, so she could participate when she went to visit her relatives. She hasn't been able to do that yet, but it’s just a matter of time before everything falls into place. In the meantime, she enjoys reading about other potters, events and keeping up with what’s happening in the clay in the west. Phyllis mostly gets her supplies from Greenbarn or Seattle Pottery, now that the exchange rate is closer to par. Her focus has always been to use what she can source locally and she has concentrated on several nearby 9548 192 Street, Surrey, B.C. V4N 3R9 Phone: 604.888.3411 Fax: 604.888.4247 POTTERS SUPPLY LTD. Tuesday-Friday 9-5 FCC barn Closed Long Weekends greenbarm@telus.net natural deposits. Phyllis fires in reduction and oxidation to Cone 9 in a waste oil kiln. Saturday 9-1 Good luck Phyllis, I hope to meet you at an event somewhere. Boo k Revi GW By Patty Osborne Joe Fafard, by Terrence Heath Douglas & McIntyre, 2007 ISBN 978-1-55365221-2 $55.00 (hard cover) Terrence Heath’s Joe Fafard tells of the artist’s journey from a small franco- phone farming community in Saskatch- ewan to his ultimate recognition as one of Canada’s most prominent sculptors. Fafard started his education in a one- room school and did his share of chores around the farm. He went to art school in Winnipeg and at the University of Pennsylvania and eventually went on to the realization of his unique, evocative and accessible art forms. This well-written and absorbing story is enhanced by images of Fafard’s heart-warming clay sculptures of the important people in his life (“Ma mere,” “Mon pére,” “M. le cure”), his bronze sculptures of Diefenbaker and Chretien, and of course, his cows, horses, and copulating wolves. It was disappointing that photos of some of Fafard’s larger works (such as his image of a workhorse that was transferred to a fifty-acre farm by cultivating it with crops that, when seen from the air, would fill in the horse and suggest sky, land and horizon,) were not included, but this is understandable since the book is intended to accompany an exhibition of Fafard’s work that > is traveling across Canada right now. Whether you manage to catch A the exhibition (its not coming to B.C.) or not, you'll want to read this beau- TERS tiful book and look again and again at the images of Fafard’s work. COLUMBIA Michael will primarily work around the extruding and manipulating of clay forms creating work that celebrates and responds to the natural world outside his studio. Michael has taught at both Penland and Arrowmont. His work is in numerous collections including the Mint Museum of Craft and Design, the American Art Museum, the White House Collection and the Smithsonian. Michael Sherrill has designed a line of tools for potters under the name “Mudtools®". Registration Cost: $155 Friends of MISSA : $145 plus GST - includes lunch Potters Guild of BC Newsletter - September 2008 7