September is Membership Month - Renew today!

Potters Guild of BC membership provides the opportunity to
establish and maintain bonds with people who make ceramics thrive in
B.C. It keeps you up to date with events and opportunities of interest
to all clay artisans. Membership provides the following benefits and
opportunities:

Marketing and Sales
* Jury your work into the Gallery of BC Ceramics
* Participate in open and juried public shows such as BC in a Box.

* Apply for a solo or group exhibition in the Gallery of BC
Ceramics.

* Sell mugs on the mug wall and tiles on the tile wall at the Gallery
of BC Ceramics.

* Display and sell your work as a Featured Artist for one month at the
Gallery of BC Ceramics.

* Create your own webpage on the Guild website.
* List your website on the Guild website Links page.
* Post classified ads free of charge in the newsletter.

* Have your ‘chop’ or signature catalogued for identification.

Networking

* Create a webpage with photos and description of you, your business

or your work.
* Links to your website from the Guild Links page.

* Listing in a Directory of all members, afhliates and organizations.

* Notices and invitations to openings and events.

* Active participation in the ceramics community and the opportunity
to meet and work with fellow artists.

Education
* A newsletter published and distributed 10 times annually to all
members filled with informative articles on topics of interest,
interviews, calls for entry, workshops, classes, college programs,

book reviews and more.
* Email broadcasts with notices of upcoming events.
* Access to the PGBC reference library located at the Gallery.
¢ Additional Member Benefits
* 10% off purchases at the Gallery of BC Ceramics

« Advance notice and registration for workshops with local and

international ceramic artists.

* Discount to Northwest Ceramic Foundation workshops, seminars
and events.

* Participation in the international Bed and Breakfast Studio Potters
Network.

Or go to this address: www. bcpotters.com/Guild/membership.php

Thrown: Panel DISCUSSION 440 coca

The North-West

Ceramics

Foundation Tam Irving, one of the artists featured in the

is very pleased to present a special panel
discussion on the recently published book
Thrown: British Columbia's Apprentices of
Bernard Leach and their Contemporaries.
Thrown was reviewed by long-time PGBC
member Keith Rice-Jones in the August
Potters Guild of British Columbia Newsletter.
The panel will feature a slide presentation
and discussion with Director/Curator of
the Belkin and co-curator of Thrown, Scott
Watson; Emily Carr University instructor
and well-known ceramist Paul Mathieu and

Potters Guild of BC Newsletter - September 2011

exhibition and the book. This is an excellent
opportunity to learn more about the talented
artists who contributed so significantly to
the history of ceramics in British Columbia.
For more information, please see the website
of the North-West Ceramics Foundation at
www.nwcf.ca.

‘The panel will take place on Friday, Sept. 9
at 7:30 p.m. in Room 245, North Building of
Emily Carr University of Art + Design (1399
Johnston Street, Granville Island, Vancouver).

All are welcome and encouraged to attend.

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