COLUMBIA

President’s Message

Welcome to 2010. I wish everyone a year of inspiration and success
in your enterprises.

After the pressures of year-end sales and holidays, January isa good
time to take a good critical look at last years’ work and try some new
ideas that have been percolating. So I hope, like me, you are feeling
creative, because this year’s member's exhibit Blue and Beyond invites
artists to develop a new work, drawing their inspiration from the
colour blue. Did you notice, that I didn’t say the work actually has

Olympians and visitors will be flooding Granville Island in
February and we expect them to visit our beautiful gallery. Because of
the close proximity to Place de la Francophonie, we are particularly
looking for people who speak French or any other 3 See

Sharon's Call for Volunteers (below) for more details,
—Jinny Whitehead

PS: Don't wait to sign up for the Canadian Clay Symposium! See

to be blue? Let your imagination run free, and have fun...

Ga | le ry N @wWS By Sharon Cohen

Well, the end of another year, my first one
at the gallery, hopefully the first of many. It’s
been a pretty steep learning curve, but also an
interesting and wonderful adventure. The year
had some challenges and many successes, and
hopefully 2010 will bring a lot more success.

We've started the year with a facelift—a new
coat of paint, new shelves, and new lights. A
huge thank you goes out to The Dream Team
(Keith Rice-Jones and gallery committee
members Jinny Whitehead, Sheila Morissette,
Pia Sillem, Maggi Kneer and Celia Rice-
Jones) for really going above and beyond the
call of duty in terms of painting, scrubbing,
drilling, carrying, patching, lifting, installing,
shopping. You get the picture! With the
gallery closed on Mondays in January, we had
two full days to paint, scrub and install new
shelves. It was actually two full days and four
full nights. Sheila was here till 2 a.m. doing
her thing. Thanks, Sheila! It was all totally
worth it. The gallery looks wonderful, it has
a much more contemporary feel. We also got
tid of our old glass cube shelving units, so we
look sleek and fabulous now! (I wish I could
say the same of myself. I'm not so sleek and
fabulous after all the Christmas indulgences

found their way to my waistline!)

In addition to celebrating our new look,
were celebrating our top sellers for 2009. All
the sales totals for 2009 have been compiled,
and here are our Top Ten:

¢ Darrel Hancock
* Karel Peeters

* Penny Birnam

* Heather Dahl

* Junichi Tanaka

* Bruce Nyeste

* Mary Fox

* Geoff Searle

* Peng Hsiao-Chen
* Wayne Ngan

Td also like to give out a special honourable
mention to Kay Austen who came in at
number 17 (out of 64). For a brand new artist
whose work we've carried for less than a year
(since May,) that’s a phenomenal achievement.
Well done, Kay!

Granville Island is about to descend into
Olympic mayhem. Let's hope that the
Olympic fans love ceramics and shop up a

storm!

CALL FOR GALLERY VOLUNTEERS

FEB. 4 TO MAR. 3, 2010

With the upcoming Olympic Games,
30,000 people are expected on Granville
Island every day, and I] hope most of them
will visit our gallery. We'll need extra
help—potters who can greet and welcome
our visitors, answer questions on ceramics,
wrap purchases and keep an eye on things
from a security point of view. If you could
spare a few hours, please contact the gallery

and let us know your availability. Weekends
in particular are crucial, but assistance at
any time would be valuable. The times can
be totally flexible. Please bear in mind that
parking on Granville Island will be difficult
if not impossible. Transit is recommended.
Please contact Sharon at 604-669-3606 (or
email galleryofbcceramics@bcpotters.com)
if you can help out at all. Thank you!

Potters Guild of BC Newsletter - February 2010

Page 10 for more details on presenters and registration.

Calling all PGBC
Members
By Janis Britland

Blue and Beyond

June 5 - 30, 2010

Photographic submission deadline:
Friday, April 2, 2010

All BC Guild members are invited to
develop and submit new work inspired by the
exhibition theme: Blue and Beyond.

This exhibition theme aims to stimulate and
provoke a sense of fresh expressiveness and to
lay out new avenues of creative practice and
experimentation. This theme is not intended
to restrict creativity as artists are not being
asked to produce artwork that is solely blue
in colour. The show will aim to showcase
high quality ceramic craftsmanship and will
highlight one-off, unique pieces inspired by
the symbolism of the colour blue, including
its many complex moods and contradictory
meanings.

We invite BC Guild members to transcend
their own blue horizons and join in an exciting
expedition into Blue and Beyond

Entry requirements:

* $10 jury fee
¢ A maximum of two submissions per artist

‘The application form, submission require-
ments, supportive information and exhibi-
tion timetable are available here:
www. bepotters.com/Gallery/artistforms.

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