INSURANCE FOR POTTERS

The Guild Executive has, for some time now, given
its support to the principle of making an insurance
package available to the Guild membership, It has
taken time to find a program that has been shown
to work for potters, or other craftspeople, but with
the assistance and continued interest of Nathan
Rafla ard others, it appears one has been found.

The Alberta Potters Association has made a volun-
tary package avallable to their membership, and
our Executive has agreed to do the same here in
B.C. for our membership. The group plan is to be
administered by Mutual of Omaha Insurance Co.
through their Vancouver claims office, and any
Guild member may pick and choose which, if any,
of the options they are interested in. The particular
advantage of this program is that it has been
designed with the particular needs of the potter in
mind.

You will shortly receive a letter with further infor-
mation on the insurance package avallable to you.

The Summer ‘88 issue of Contact has a compre-
hensive article on the Alberta Potters’ Association's
plan.

THE ‘I GET AROUND’ COLUMN

Finally made it down to the Whatcom County
Museum, 121 Prospect St., tn Bellingham recently.
I'd heard good things, but wasn't prepared for the
awesome scale of Robert Sperny's work, The exhibi-
tion is on ‘til November 20th, and it's a wonderful
show.

The froup show, “Shattered Self: new Figurative
Ceramics”, featuring the sculpture of Ann Gardner,
Howard Kottler, Anne Perrigo, Debra Sherwood, and
Patt! Warashina, was also a very impressive, if
cramped, exhibition of the west coast artists’ work,
and surprisingly, the only west coast venue for the
exhibition, and has now gone.

The Museum is worth keeping an eye on, and a NW
Int'l Art Competition, this year featuring Fine
Arts, -drawing specifically, will open November 10,
until Jan, 6, 1989. The Museum (206-675-6981)
will have information on next year's craft competi-
tion, and B.C. artists are invited, along with their
Oregon, Washington, and Idaho counterparts ta
take part.

Janet Kidnie

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AWARDS

In 1977, the feneral idea of a scholarship fund was
approved by the executive of the Guild, and over
the next two years a programme was instituted that
provided for two awards of $50 to be given at
colleges chosen by the Guild to students nominated
by their teachers, One award, for a second year
student, was named In honour of Olea Davis, the
founding president of the Potters Guild: and the
other, for a first year student, was named in honour
of David Lambert, “in recognition for his long,
committed and often anonymous assistance given
to school and college ceramic programumnes”. There
was also to be an Olea Davis Special Award of
$100, to be given at the Guild's Annual Exhibition
“to a member of the Guild......combining the pro-
duction of quality ceramics with the energetic
promotion of the Guild's interests, both through
education and community support”.

In 1979, sixteen awards were presented at eight
colleges, and the Special Award given to Jeanne
Sarich. The number of awards was maintained for
afew years, but tn later years declined. In 1985,
the Olea Davis Special Award was presented to
Georgina Hughes.

The recent recipients of the Olea Davis and David
Lambert Incentive Awards were, in 1987, Sandi
Bojm and Sandra Crotty at Langara: Margaret
Glavina and Phillip Robbins at Emily Carr: Sheila
Serack and Jack Ploesser at Capilano, and Hanne
Andersen and Eileen Tomalty at Kwantlen.

Inl988, Stephen Hanson and Debra Delinsky were
winners at Langara, and Nancy Lyon and Marga-
retta Warme at Capilano,

In 1987, another vehicle for encouragement in the
ceramic arts was instituted with the Artist-in-
Residence programme. Nathan Rafla, as a potter
beginning to establish his work in the market place,
has been the first resident. In the latest issue of
CABC Newsletter, Nathan has written an article
describing his experiences and thoughts on the
state of arts development in this province as a
whole. We'll attempt to reprint all or some of the
article tn December's issue.

Anne Tolmie,
Secretary