COLUMBIA ClayLines Celebrating Success in our community Attention all Ceramists By Debra Sloan Bring Your Chops and Marks to the Canadian Clay Symposium March 13! We are still collecting chop marks and signatures. In fact we have a new volunteer, Rezwan Vaghari, who is working every second Sunday at the Guild. We hope to have a registry of BC Potters in the next year. Click on Chop Mark Registry to see whose marks we already have. Bring your marks, or a pot with a good mark on it, to photograph, to the Symposium. Go to the PGBC desk and someone will help you. Here’s who we have in the Chop Mark Registry as of January 2010: Jen Berkner Suzy Birstein Vivian Bodnar Bill Boyd Meg Buckley Betty Burroughs Jennifer Clark Elizabeth Claridge Rachelle Chinnery Rachel Coward Innes Demuynck Lisa Dickey Virginia D. Dunseith Laurie Embree Heather Farrell Mary Fox Mathew Freed Jackie Frioud Esther Galac Cindy Gibson Deb Greenfield Evelyn Gremo Heather Hannaford Jeanette Harris Claire Hirtle Don Hutchinson Shirley Inouye Lynne Johnson Don Jung Janet Kidnie Maggi Kneer Sara Kolkea Danny Kostyshin Sarah Lawless Keith Lehman Lesley Lloyd Marilyn Magrid Jeanie Mah Glenys Marshall-Innan Allen Martin Michael Massia Paul Mathieu Martha Meimetis Shiela McDonald Gillian Mcmillan Santo Mignosa Elke Mihic Ashley Morrow Dona Nabata Jan Nattrass Heather Northam Laura ad Bruce Nyeste Janet Olney Lasey Patty Osborne Maria Palotas Donna Partridge Jean Pederson Ellis Linda Phillips Shirley Phillips Leon Popik Ruth Porter Al Riedeier Keith Rice-Jones Celia Rice-Jones Al Scott Ann Semple Charlotte Schaufelbuhl Sue Schellenberg Karin Schieber Marlies Scholtke Phyllis Schwartz Debra Sloan Jenny Smack Suzanne Starr Jocelyn Steedman Pamela Nagley Stevenson Gundra Stewart Melinda J. Straight Olga Turok Clive Tucker Nancy Wall Lucille Webster Jinny Whitehead Dianne Wilson Jane Wolters Lynne Woodruff Linda Word Sara Zindler Potters Guild of BC Newsletter - February 2010 OBITUARY Margaret Campbell Sloan 1918 — 2010 Many potters, collectors and _ gallery managers knew my mother, as she had been involved in B.C. ceramics for a long time. Mom loved pottery. She had a natural eye for the beautiful and the animate, always selecting pieces with heart. Her first contact with clay was in 1958 when she took sculpture classes with Santo Mignosa at the UBC Ceramic Hut. After that class she used to dig up local clay for us to play with....stuff that had to be held together with toothpicks. Mom was a faithful volunteer at the "new" Vancouver Museum being established in the 60s, going in daily to promote and collate a sustaining membership. She would see Jean Fahrni there, working on her exhibitions, The Potters House and Talking Jars. During those years mom frequented the old Vancouver Art Gallery shop, which was stocked by Grace Cameron [mother of Gail Rogers - first Executive Director of CABC], and Molly Carter’s shop on 10th Ave., where Leach pottery could be found. From 1973-1979, my mother and I took over and managed Peg’s Place Pottery School, though neither of us possessed any substantial ceramic knowledge. During those years Mom would visit Hiro Urakami at the House of Ceramics, and together they would compare favourite pieces in each exhibit. She collected pieces from many of our B.C. potters and continued to encourage craftspeople, visit shops and galleries until 2006, when she became too frail to make the journey. In 2005 she contributed to the publication of our TransFormations catalogue. Beautiful and curious hand-made things continued to sustain and please mom right up to the time of her death. She died, aged 91, with her family by her, January 13, 2010. —Debra Sloan