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Virtual Volunteers

By Linda Lewis

The Crawl

Nov. 18 to 20, 2011

Culture

The 15th Annual Eastside

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Crawl is a FREE 3-day visual arts phen-
omenon. This event involves more than
10,000 people visiting artists in their
studios in the area bounded by Main Street

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to Victoria Drive and from First Avenue

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north to the waterfront of Vancouver.
The Eastside Culture Crawl Society

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provides opportunities for the public

to engage with member artists through

the ongoing creation of events and

programming that support the growth of

east side artists.

Schedule:

Nov. 18: 5 to 10 p.m.

Nov. 19 & 20: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
www.eastsideculturecrawl.com

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€ past few months have seen some
"staff".
Volunteers have been picking up the

changes in the website

slack on pages that haven't been looked at
since medieval times.

Becky McEachern is now doing the
webpages for members. If you have seven
square-shaped images, a bio and _ artist
image and chop mark send along to Becky at
becky.c.mceachern@gmail.com. Check out
her own webpage at http://www.bepotters.
com/Guild/members/becky_mceachern/
becky_mceachern.php

Viv Bodnar has been working diligently on
the Member Websites links and has brought
them up to date. If we have missed anyone or
if you have added a new website please email
her at vivbodnar@shaw.ca

Sharon Grove  (http://www.bepotters.
com/Guild/members/sharon_grove/
sharon_grove.php) has been learning the ins
and outs of the membership database.

Bridget Fairbank (http://www.bcpotters.
com/Guild/members/bridget_fairbank/
bridget_fairbank.php) and

Merritt are working to update the Events and

Shannon

Calls for Entry sections on the website. If you
have an event that is NOT in the newsletter
then contact them at bepginfo@gmail.com.

With all of her new found spare time Linda
Lewis is working on websites for various
artists and art organizations. She is available
for hire at lewis@telus.net. If you are doing
your own and need advice she can do a
consult and help you find resources for what
you want to do.

DVD Revi CW By Patty Osborne

Screen Printing on Clay

Paul Andrew Wandless

Ceramic Arts Daily Video Library

DVD / 1hr 37 min / $49.95 US

In Screen Printing on Clay, Paul Andrew

ceramic artsdally
presents

Fundamentals of

Screen Printing

Wandless starts at the beginning by
on Clay wri Piel Meiteer Wordless

showing us, step-by-step, how to make
a small silkscreen out of a picture frame.
He then goes on to show how to using
drawing fluid and screen block (similar to
wax resist technique) to create images on
the screen. He also creates images using
stencil material and using a product called
PhotoEZ to transfer photographs to the
screen material. The presentation is a little
dry but that’s partly because screen printing
on clay seems to be 90% preparation and

10% screen printing, so having detailed
demos will help those who are keen to try
out these techniques. For the most part Wandless’s instructions are clear and easy to follow,
although he does bring into play something called a halftone screen, the origin of which he
does not divulge, but according to Google, you can buy this stuff at an art supply outlet.
‘The interest level picks up once Wandless uses his screens (plus a squeegee, a stiff rib and
a sponge) to apply thickened underglazes to clay slabs and thickened glazes to bisqueware,
and when he layers two or three images we begin to see, at last, the possibilities that these
techniques could offer. It would have been nice if some of Wandless’s original ceramic work
could have been shown at the end of the presentation (as has been done on other Ceramic
Arts Daily DVDs) to further inspire us, but these can be seen at www.studio3artcompany.
com. An excerpt from this DVD is available at http://ceramicartsdaily.org/bookstore/
screen-printing-on-clay.

Potters Guild of BC Newsletter : November 2011