COLUMBIA Gallery of BC Ceramics www.bcpotters.com Brenda Beaudoin, Gallery Manager galleryofbcceramics@bcpotters.com 604.669.3606 || Hours 10 a.m.to 5 p.m. |_| Gallery Assistants Anne Moore Amanda Sittrop Jessica Gilmore-Groome staft@bcpotters.com |_| Gallery Committee Maggi Kneer Sheila Morissette Pia Sillem Jinny Whitehead Celia Rice-Jones |_| The Gallery of BC Ceramics is a gallery by potters for potters. The Gallery coordinates and curates nine exhibitions a year. Artists must apply to be juried, the deadline is September each year. We also showcase one featured artist monthly—usually an emerging artist—and sell the work of more than 100 artists in the retail shop. To download and print a Gallery Jury Application, click here. For information on Gallery Policy, click here. 2008 Featured Artists ‘The featured artist spot provides an opportunity for one ceramic artist/PGBC member to have a small display of non-juried ceramics for sale at the gallery for the period of one month, one time only. Artists must comply with and sign the Gallery Policy before they can be listed as a featured artist. The last featured artist for 2008 is: ¢ November: Gabrielle Burke 2009 PGBC Featured Monthly Artist How and who is eligible to become a PGBC Gallery Featured Artist? ¢ You must be an individual PGBC member and your membership dues must be paid or the gallery cannot accept your submission. ¢ A featured artist can be a recent graduate, an emerging, and/or established potter. This is an opportunity for a PGBC member to display non-juried ceramics that meet our quality standards and are suitable to this venue. It is also an opportunity to introduce your work to our gallery patrons, develop a new market, or create and display a new line of your work. All individual PGBC members are welcome to submit a completed form for the 2009 PGBC Monthly Featured Artist. Deadline for submissions is noon Nov. 17, 2008. Submissions will be drawn at random. All selected featured artists will be contacted via email by Nov. 21, 2008. Gallery staff will include further details on timelines and procedures. Please mail and /or email (staff@bcpotters. com) this completed form. The form can be dowloaded here. 2009 Gallery Exhibitions Exhibition Openings/Artists Receptions are on Saturdays from 1 to 3 p.m., the first day of the exhibition. Refreshments served. April FingerPlay April 4 to 13 2nd Annual Student Exhibition April 18 to 27 May Vincent Massey May 2 to 25 Artist Reception May 2, 1-3p.m. June Darrel Hancock June 6 to 29 Artist Reception June 6, 1-3 p.m. July Heather Dahl July 4 to 27 Artist Reception July 4, 1-3 p.m. Potters Guild of BC Newsletter - November 2008 August Karel Peters August 1 to September 7 Artist Reception August 1, 1-3 p.m. September PGBC Members Show: The Black White 100 September 12 to 29 October 3rd Annual Vancouver Collects - TBA October 3 to 26 Exhibition Opening: October 3, 1-3 p.m. November Kathryn O’Regan i November 7 to 30 : Artist Reception November 7, 1-3 p.m.