of this potter's work and his use of color in glazing. Thumb-print decoration gave a mysterious, ancient feeling to Joan Linley's pot; a more regular incised pattern, more conservative too, covered a jar by Margery MacKay which shared the prize for the best stoneware entry. Slab A Winner The other half went to Marilyn Levine for a piece of slab sculpture. The slab was divided by a smoky ridge, which gaped a little at one point, to show in a surreal way that the slab was hollow. Ceramic sculpture was not well represented in the exhibition, though Victor Cicansky's California-Funk style 'Gladstone Bag Abandoned after the Revolution' in which bag and clothes, life-size, seem to have been petrified in clay, is a good example of its kind. Because imagination and experiment are the two things most clearly not there in Ceramics '69 doesn't prove anything about Canadian cera- mics in general. But an open trans-Canada show, with a three-man jury of cautious tastes is perhaps not the best way to find out what is going on. es ee 1, New Purchase Award: The Lilybel Patricia Buckmaster Memorial Purchase Awards. $100 each for one functional and one non-functional entry. Each must be work by a potter who has not previously exhibited in this exhibition. The items purchased will become the property of the University of Calgary permanent art collection and will be on exhibition on that campus. 17.