Contents

Project Empty Bowl wu. 1
Vice-President’s Report 0.0.0.0... 2
“Hold Your Shards” .....cceeee 2
Gallery of BC Ceramics News .. 3
Made Of Clay w..cececseeeeee 3
Michael Osborne .....eeeeeeeees 4
‘Thrown: Influences and Intentions

of West Coast Ceramics ...... 4

Gary Merkel - diverci” TEA” ..... 5

Book Review - Lettering on

Ceramics ......eecesssesecenenteeeees 6
PGBC Gallery 2004 Exhibition
Schedule .....cccecceceseeereees 6

500 Cups Submission Call ...... 7
Maureen Wright Scholarship .... 7

Alberta College Of Art And Design
Residency ..ccicceceeeeees 8

Potter Wins Turner Prize .......... 8

Clay Symposium: Re-inventing the

Wheel .occccccscesecsseereees
Ichizo Yamashita Workshop ...... 9

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Symposium Pot Luck wc 9
Editor’s note ..cccceeeeeeeenees 10
AAS wiececectetscessetteessenteessenseaes ll
Potters Guild Information ...... 12

Gallery of BC Ceramics Hours 12

Potters Guild of British Columbia Newsletter

Vice-President’s Report

I’ve been covering for Keith for the last month while he’s been away enjoying the
warm breezes and waters of Australia.

I am very pleased to welcome the new editor of be potters. Dennis Vance, re-
cently retired instructor at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, has agreed to
take on the task of producing our newsletter. We are very lucky to have such a
talented person on board, and I am sure he will bring with him some new ideas
for the publication.

The newsletter is our most important tool for communicating to the member-
ship. Throughout this issue you will see that there are lots of clay happenings in
the Lower Mainland over the next few months. In January and February, the
Surrey Art Gallery presents Hot Clay, featuring the works of sixteen West Coast
artists, talks by four artists, a family clay day and clay camp. In February and
March, the Belkin Gallery at UBC presents Thrown — Influences and Inten-
tions of West Coast Ceramics, influences of the studio movement of Bernard
Leach and Shoji Hamada. In March, the Shadbolt Centre hosts the Canadian
Clay Symposium with a slate of national and international presenters - after
which I hope to meet many of you at the evening Pot-Luck hosted by the Guild.

Dennis can help you get the word out about opportunities and clay events taking
place in your region.

Jinny Whitehead.

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“Hold Your Shards”

The Lougheed Town Centre is once again letting us hold our “Too
Good for the Shard Pile Sale” in the Mall. The sale will be held in
April 2004, so we will start collecting donated pots now. All the funds
will go towards paying down the Potters Guild debt. Thanks to the
generosity of our membership and free venue we sold $5000.00 worth
of pots at the last sale. For information on delivery locations contact:

Jinny at vwhitehead@shaw.ca
or:

Linda at lindadoh@telus.net
or

pots may be dropped off at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, 6450
Deer Lake Ave. Burnaby, Sunday to Wednesday, 10am to 4pm. Ask

for Jay or Linda in Ceramics. When dropping off pots please leave

your name and address with the pots so we know who to thank. If you

would like to volunteer to help set up and sell please call Linda at 604-

420-0415. We had a lot of fun last time. The response was overwhelm-
ing. Linda Doherty

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February 2004