~ POTTERS an COLUMBIA a ClayLines Celebrating Success in our community CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS, Coquitlam Deadline: Mar. 3 Place des Arts has extended the deadline for artists to submit proposals for the centre's 2014 gallery exhibitions. The extended deadline for submissions is Sunday, March 3. We welcome submissions in 2D and 3D media and techniques including fibre arts, pottery, sculpture, painting, photography, prints and drawings; we are not able to accommodate multimedia work at this time. The centre distributes exhibition invitation cards for display at over 20 arts and community centres in the Lower Mainland, and its galleries and gift shop are featured in guides such as Van Dop, Galleries West and Preview. A full promotional campaign is devoted to each exhibition series. For full details and to download an exhibition proposal package, visit www. placedesarts.ca or contact exhibitions programmer Michelle Chan at 604.664.1636 ext. 32 or mchan@placedesarts.ca CALL FOR ENTRY, Lower Mainland Deadline: Mar. 13 TriCity Potters group are holding their first truly juried show in the Blackberry Gallery at Port Moody Arts Centre. We are planning to show ceramic work which has been made specifically for serving a Fantastic Feast. Your entry can be anything that might be used to enhance said feast whether it's serving dishes, drinking vessels or decorative pieces for the dining room. And you might like to decide who or what is doing the feasting! You may enter up to three pieces, some of which can be sets. The entry fee for this show is $10 and you must be a paid-up member of TriCity Potters. Bring your work to our March meeting, Wednesday, March 13 at Port Moody Senior Secondary School, 7 p.m. Fredi Rahn will be the juror but will not be giving a critique of the work. The show will open on Thursday, March 21, 2013 and be up until April 21. The theme ties in with elementum: Form, Function, Feast, the Canadian Clay Ceramic Symposium at Shadbolt Centre, on March 23, 2013. For more information go to www.tricitypotters.ca or phone Gillian McMillan 604.937.7696. Unclassifieds FOR SALE: skure 1227 kiln $1900; 20" Brent Slab Roller $850; North Star Extruder $195 plus dies; 6" barrel Extruder, 2 steel tube dies, smaller North Star $390; Shimpo professional Master wheel with table & separate foot pedal $690; insulated silver jacket, head mask & gloves for Raku $150; 100lb propane tank & Tiger torch $125; bats. Keith Rice-Jones, 604.522.8803, keith@wildricestudio. com (It's not me! I don't have time to retire...) FOR SALE: Two SKUTT 1231 PK, single phase kilns, with Enviro-Vent and accessories $2800 each. Two VENCO 3 and 3 1/2 " de-airing pug mills, $ 2500 and $ 3 000. North Star slab-roller, 30" with 6' feet work table. Wagon wheel $ 1200. claretpottery@telus. net or Micheline @ 604.731.7702 in Vancouver. The exhibitions, calls for entry and special events included in ClayLines are just some of the items listed on the guild website. Website listings are updated regularly, so check back often here: www.bcpotters.com and click on "What's On". Call For Entry 0 Phato courtesy of the Maple Ridge Lapidary Club“ e Artists and artisans living in the Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows area, who create original works are invited to participate in the [5th Annual Maple Ridge, Pitt Meadows Art Studio Tour. The tour is May 4th and 5th from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Our self-guided tour of local studios offers a unique opportunity for the public to visit artists in their studios, gain insight into their creative process and work environment and provides the chance to purchase works of Art directly from the artist. Deadline for submissions is March Ist 2013 For further information contact: Kerry McLaren (kerrymclaren@shaw.ca) wwwaartstudiotourca EXHIBITIONS, Surrey Art Gallery Jan. 19 to Mar. 24, 2013 The future is already here: Alex McLeod and Brendan Tang: Using Asian and Western historical styles, science fiction, popular culture, and new technologies, Tang and McLeod blend ceramics, photography, and projected video to create mesmerizing fantasy worlds that probe the boundaries between the real and the virtual. Guest curated by Rachel Lafo. Ornamentalism: Clint Neufeld and Dirk Staschke: Everyday forms —from furniture and fruit to car engines and confections—are transformed into poignant allegories of desire, labour, and leisure by these two virtuoso ceramic sculptors. Beyond the Vessels Edge: Ceramics from the Permanent Collection: The functional gives way to the sculptural in this collection of ceramics by artists John Chalke, Tam Irving, Ian Johnston, Sally Michener, Alwyn O’Brien, Linda Stanbridge, and Diana Lynn Thompson. Admission to exhibitions is by donation. Gallery hours: Tuesday to Thursday: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Friday: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday: Noon to 5 p.m. Closed Mondays and holidays. Surrey Art Gallery: 13750 — 88 Avenue, 604- 501-5566, artgallery@surrey.ca - www.surrey.ca/arts Potters Guild of BC Newsletter - February 2013 12