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NEWSLETTER

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October 2005 Volume 41 No. 9

The Comox Valley Potter's Club

The Comox Valley Potters’ Club has had a very busy year. Our club is 70 members strong and
is very active at North Island College where we rent the studio space for one day a week. Here
we have access to the kilns, studio space, a meeting place and a venue for workshops.

Highlights for the year include many mini workshops put on by our own members, glaze tests
and firings. Keith Rice-Jones was our outside workshop presenter for last fall. This past spring,
many members attended the great workshops sponsored by the Arrowsmith Potters. The club
had a show of members work at the Muir Gallery in Courtenay. It was the celebration of the
50th anniversary of the B.C.Potter’s Guild and our own existence of 40 years plus.

This past spring, our club donated a mural to the new Comox Valley Airport Terminal. This
mural was designed by Ev Johnson and it was put together as a mosaic over a period of six
months by club members using pot shards. The design consists of four panels each being two
feet by four feet. The theme is the four seasons in the Comox Valley. The mural is now dis-
played in the center of the arrivals baggage area at the terminal. The next time you fly into the
valley, this mural will greet you.

Some of our club members have been active in the Potters Guild celebrations. Many are in the
B.C. in a Box show. We are also represented in the Transformations Show and Creations in the
Palm in Mino, Japan.

| Eenl m We are looking forward to a very active potting year.

Workshops, Christmas Sales in Campbell River and
Courtenay in November. The B.C. in a Box Show in
January 2006. The next time you're on the island, drop
into the Potter’s Place in Courtenay. This is a co-op retail
space run by some 20 members of our club, representing
35 potters from the north island. If you are here on a
Wednesday, come out to North Island College, visit our
members and check out the facilities. North Island
College Fine Arts Department is now affiliated with
Emily Carr and is now offering a degree programme.

Joe Stefiuk

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a Ev Johnson with mural
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Celebrating 50 Years: 1955 - 2005