COLUMBIA Gallery of BC Ceramics www.bcpotters.com Brenda Beaudoin, Gallery Manager galleryofbcceramics@bcpotters.com 604.669.3606 || Hours 10 a.m.to 5 p.m. |_| Gallery Assistants Anne Moore Amanda Sittrop Jessica Gilmore-Groome staft@bcpotters.com |_| Gallery Committee Maggi Kneer Sheila Morissette Pia Sillem Jinny Whitehead Celia Rice-Jones |_| The Gallery of BC Ceramics is a gallery by potters for potters. The Gallery coordinates and curates nine exhibitions a year (artists must apply to be juried, 2009 deadline is Sept. 17), showcases one featured artist monthly—usually an emerging artist—and sells the work of over 100 artists in the retail shop. To download and print a Gallery Jury Application, click here. For information on Gallery Policy, click here. 2008 Featured Artists ‘The featured artist spot provides an opportunity for one ceramic artist/PGBC member to have a small display of non-juried ceramics for sale at the gallery for the period of one month (one time only.) Artist must comply with and sign the Gallery Policy before they can be listed as a featured artist. Sign up for 2008 is complete. The featured artists for this year are: ¢ September: Dawn Vachon * October: Jackie Frioud * November: Gabrielle Burke 2008 Gallery Exhibitions Exhibition Openings/Artists Receptions are on Saturdays from 1 to 3 p.m., the first day of the exhibition. Refreshments served. September Group Show of Kootenay Artists Sept. 6 to 29 KSA Out There: Samantha Dickie, Robin Dupont, Maggie Finlayson, Garry Graham, Katharine Hofmann, Lise Kuhr, Sarah Lawless, David Lawson, Pamela Nagley-Stevenson, Donna Partridge, Tanis Saxby September is membership | renewal month | Annual dues for all members: are now payable in September. : ‘This change will make budgeting much easier : for the guild, so please ensure that your pay- : ment is made before the end of September. This issue of the newsletter contains articles : about membership. Please share this edition : with friends and colleagues who are not yet : members. Forward it by email or print off a : copy for your local community centre pottery : studio; teachers, print off a copy for your : students. There are many benefits to being a : member of the Potters Guild of BC—please : help spread the word! : Remember to renew your membership this month! Potters Guild of BC Newsletter - September 2008 October Second Annual Vancouver Collects Oct. 4 to 27 November Meg Ida Nov. 1 to 24 New works Gallery News As the deadline for 2009 exhibition pro- : posals fast approaches on Sept. 17, we eagerly await the creativity, innovation and public interest to be revealed in the submissions. Coinciding with the PGBC membership : drive, the September exhibition is a wonderful : collaboration of eleven Kootenay members > entitled KSA Out There. —Brenda Beaudoin : Recent work by Lise Kuhr, KSA Out There.