| The Potters Guild of B.C.
|| NEWSLETTER

ts published 10 times a year as a
service to the Membership. Sub-
missions are welcome, ard should
be in the Guild office by the last
Friday of the month. Material may
be edited for publication.

Managing Editor: Jan Kidnie.

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The Potters Guild of B.C.
membership is $26.75-indtvi-
duals, $42.80-groups, January to
December {including GST). See
application form elaewhere in this
issue.

Potters Guild 1992 Board of
Directors: Rosemary Amon. Sarah
Coote, Linda Doherty, Tam Irving.
Kerstl Krug. Carol Mayer, June
MacDonald, Nathan Rafla,
Friederike Rahn, Elsa Schamis,
Ron Vallis, Anita Wong.

Staff: Jan Kidnie. Guild Office
Administrator, Coralleé Trlance,
Manager, and Lea Price, Assistant,
Gallery of 8.C.Ceramics.

Apologies for the omission in the
Seplember tssue of the deadline for
| the next Gallery jurying. It is October
15th. For details, contact the Gallery
or the Guild office.

GUILD NEWS UPDATE

Tam Irving in “Notes from the Chair" in
the September Newsletter brought you
up to date on recent Guild activity,
including the creation of the Ceramic
Foundation of B.C. and application for
charitable status.

Acontinuing decline from previous years
in Gallery revenues, and the probability
of the Guild facing a second year with an
overall loss, has resulted with the Board
and its Gallery, Marketing, and Finance
Committees meeting several times this
past month. Thelr purpose has been Lo
review options, and to develop a plan to
improve the bettorn line on the financial
statement come December 31st, It is
crucial te the Gallery's survival over the
Winter months that there are sufficient
funds available to keep it functioning.
This past year the Guild has used funds
from previous years’ profits to sustain
its operation, but the reserves are
running dangerously low.

These meetings resulted with several
immediate plans of action. At the Gallery,
Coralle’s leave of absence for personal
reasons until December wil] mean some
savings In wages. Further cults in staffing
costs Were agreed to be unreasonable
and impractical at this me. However,
volunteer assistance in the Gallery will
be boosted. At paint of writing. Tam has
arranged for volunteers to assist for
three or four hours daily through the
month of October, and it would be
encouraging if the assistance could be

NOTES FROM THE INTERIOR

continued through to Christmas.
Contact Tam al 687-2345 in the BCCAD
Ceramic Dept. if you have a few spare
hours to donate: [t's a good way to meet
the Gallery customers.

Adiscount coupon will also be mailed to
regular Gallery customers for a one-
Ume use when purchasing work, in an
attempt to improve sales over the next
three months. Further marketing and
advertising strategies will also be
pursued.

For the Gulld Itaelf, planned
expenditures will be reduced by the
elimination of one issue of the Newsletter
this fall and the cutting back on
administrative costs. The next and last
issue for this year will be matled in late
November or early December. An anual
membership let is usually mailed in
November; this year tt will be by request
only upon the payment of 1993
membership dues. Fees remain the same
for 1993 [see renewal form on page 7}.
and are due by January Ist, 1993.

In the meantime, your Board of Directara
is working hard to ensure that the Guild
will still be around for the celebration in
1995 of the Guild's 40th birthday, and
the Gallery's 10th anniversary. It's
something to look forward to, and we
hope you will be able te particlpate!

Jan Kidnic«,
Administrator and Newsletter Editor

In reply to our invitation to a meeting on October 16th of group members, we
received a letter from Wendy Girard, President of the Prince George Potter’ Guild.
Wendy writes that the availability of videos helps to make organizations such as
theirs feel a part of the BC clay community. She also suggests that we consider
producing and renting slides of exhibitions that rarely are on view outside the

Yanowiver area.

The Prince George Potters’ Guild had a show this summer, their first juried
exhibitton in ten years and thelr second in the Prince George Art Gallery. “Choosing
Clay" was on display last fajl. This year the Prince George group produced a mural
to be installed in the Univeralty of Northern B.C.. now under construction. There
was also sad news of the death of Caroline Kason, recipient of a Canada Council

grant te study local materials.

Thank you, Wendy. We were very glad to hear from you, and we expect and hope

other groups will follow your example.

Elsa Schama and June McDonald,
Members, Board of Directors

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