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Made In Clay ‘98

For the fifth year of this sale, Made in Clay
will be ance again held at che Performance
Works building on Granville [sland on che
weekend of May Ist - 3rd, 1998. The public
awareness of this annual sale event has
really been gaining tnomentcum over che Last
four years, and it was felt it would be

side for 2 years, and then on each year the
back will be printed with che important
details of where, when, ete. Please indicare
on the applicarion form how many
invitations you will need. The hours of che
sale will again be 10 am- 6 pm for each of
Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Fifty (or so) Years Ago

With chree exceptions most of the working
potters have studied in the Vancouver
School of Art or under the Victoria Board
of Education. In the former, pottery is
taught as part of the general four years
course as an elective craft of six hours a
week...and is ome of the dominane crafts in
the Diploma Design Course. The

connection berween graduate and school is

still mentioned because, of the six kilns

detrimental to change the vere ar chis
poing. The organizing committee for this
year will again be John Cloutier, Darrel
Hancock and Jane Matthews.

Approximately thirty 10° x 10° booths are
available, and the fee will remain the same
as last year at $450 per booth (maximum 2
people per booth excepe for guilds),
Participants will be responsible for their own
sales and wrapping. A central
Visa/Mastercard/Debit machine will be
available for participancs whe do not have
their own credic card setup; the fee of 3%
will again be applied to all transaceions to
cover the cost of staffing, telephone lines
and machine rental. This year will be the
first year that Made in Clay will use full
colour posteards for the inviracions -we are
planning co have enough printed on one
Indian and the pioneer.

» Address:

Name:

In February of 1944 the Canadian
Geographic Journal published an artecle by
Ruth M. Home. The article was a survey of
pottery in Canada, from coast to coast.

The following excerpres discuss a few BC
potters that [am unfamiliar with. [f you
have any information on them of their
work, would you please send word to the
Guild, so we can include them in the history
section of our upcoming book.

"The art of the Pacific Coast Indian has
impressed itself on che poteery from British
Columbia. From the early work of Emily
Carr, more famous perhaps, for her
paintings than her pottery, to the more
recent work of Marjorie Robertson or Doris
Lecog, there has been a definite attempt to
carry on the traditions and spiric of che

Please return by December 1/97. A $100 non-refundable deposit should be included with the application, and 2 post-
« dated cheques ($200 January 15, 1998 and $150 February 15, 1998)

available in the province, five are owned by

the schools,

Axel Ebring, “the pottery man of Vernon" is
perhaps the most colourful personality. He
is Swedish by birth and is descended from a
long line of potters. Locared first a¢ Salmon
River, he later moved ta Vernon. He
throws all his wares, using nacurally
occurring materials and firing at a
temperature high enough to mature a silica
glaze. The finished pots are in soft shades of
blue-creys and cars.

There are also photographs of work by BC
elay workers M. Grute, Marion McCrea,
Gertrude Weir, Molly Carter, Mrs.
Burchect and Grace W. Melvin, Once
again, we would like to know a bir about
them for the book. Editor,

Made of Clay ‘98 Application Form

Postal Code:

7 Telephone: Fax:

. We enclose:

« -cheque # for $700 dated December 1, 1997
‘ -cheque # for $200 dated January 15, 1998
, “cheque # for $150 dated February 15, 1998

: ‘we can volunteer for one of the following:

mailout_

add jabs

tabulating customer survey

° set up clean up— publicity
* demonstrations (please detail):

musicvideos party billeting
‘ collecting purchaser's prizes (fram participants)

Number of Post cards needed for publicity: