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.

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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.

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