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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

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