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Fall 2007 Programs at the Shadbolt

Registration for Fall 2007
programs begins July 16. Pick up
a Leisure Guide or Artswave at
any Burnaby Parks & Recreation
location or call 604-291-6864,
or visit www.shadboltcentre.com.
Instruction is provided for all skill
levels, including the following
programs:

Big, Bold, Beautiful Lidded Jars
(16 years and up) NEW!
Fee $166.72, 9 sesssions

W (Jay MacLennan}, 10am-1pm,
starts Sept. 26. Barcode #146187

Wood/Soda Firing Workshop
(18 years and up}
Fee $196.10, 4 sessions

Th/F/Sa/W (Linda Doherty & Jay
MacLennan), times vary, starts

Sept. 13. Barcode #146607

Clay Modelling Without Armatures
(18 years and up}
Fee $188.98, 9 sessions

M (Debra Sloan}, 7-10pm, starts
Sept. 17. Barcode #146191

Soda Firing Workshop (18 years and up)
Fee $99.64, 3 sessions

Th/F/M (Linda Doherty & Jay
MacLennan), times vary, starts

Oct. 25. Barcode #146606

Chinese Brush Strokes for Beginners
(16 years and up) NEW!
Fee $127.54, 9 sessions

T (Nancy Chen}, 10am-12pm,
starts Sept. 25. Barcode #146192

Register now by calling 604-291-6864

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Marie-Clare von Hausmann:
Vancouver Ceramics Pioneer

Marte-Claire von Hausmann, the owner and manager
of the “Earthen Things”, an early 1970’s ceramic gallery
and school in Steveston, was born in Belgtum before
World War I. Perhaps it was the influence of her father’s
art collection that encouraged a life long pursuit of
learning about the arts, starting with her studies at the
Liege University in Belgtum, and later in Rome. In 1930,
Marte-Claire went to Egypt where she married and had
three children. There, she worked with silk screening and
designing fabrics. In the aftermath of the Suez Canal
crisis, after 30 years 1n a country she loved, she returned
to Belgtum. Then in 1963, at the age of 53, Marie-Claire
and her family immigrated to Canada. She was ready to
start a new phase in her life.

Shortly after she arrived in Vancouver, Marie-Claire
watched the process of a pot being made from a mold,
and was intrigued by an art form about which she
knew nothing. She started by taking classes from Byron
Johnstad in the old Burnaby Arts Centre during the last
half of the 1960s. Fellow students, Marjorie Johnson and
Kay Dodd, became life long friends. Later, she would say
that she had finally found her true passion in making
pottery. “In Canada I discovered that pottery was my
love, and clay my thing... [ and have] struggled joyfully
ever since” she is quoted as saying in the catalogue of
the “Retrospect, ceramics 80” exhibition in celebration
of the 25th anniversary of the Potters Guild of British
Columbia. Marie-Claire, as a member of the guild,
exhibited three pieces 1n that show.

In 1972, Marte-Claire moved to Richmond. She did
not have enough space to store all the pots she had made,
so she opened a small store, “The Earthen Things”, a
pottery shop/gallery in a heritage building nearby in the
fishing village of Steveston. Shortly after, she expanded
the space to include a studio. It became an extremely
active place. Pots were exhibited and sold
in the gallery. In the studio, there were
classes. The instructors were Margaret
McClelland, Jeanne Lewis, Marjorie
Johnson, and Sherle Lowes.

Between 1973 and 1975, Marte-Claire

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