President’s Message I’ve been so busy this last month that it 1s hard to focus on the next, but there is one subject that has been on my mind a lot. There are a few members who year after year continue to allocate some of their busy schedule to benefit the guild. These are the people who think the guild is worth putting out for. These are people like Don Jung, who has spent so much time setting up and maintaining the web, sending out e-broadcasts, chairing the communications committee, serving on the board. Debra Sloan has been sorting and cataloguing archival material and the hundreds of photos we have collected, interviewing and recording information about the guild and significant ceramists in B.C.. These are just two of a core of volunteers who help make the guild what it is today. Now ts the time for new people to step up to the plate and help lead us into tomorrow. Every time Don sends out an e-broadcast there is a request for volunteers. There hasn’t been much response. In particular, we really need someone to take over maintaining the membership database; and we really need someone to look after distributing a few hard copies of the newsletter. We really, really do need this help. Please contact Don for the newsletter, Matthew for membership or myself for anything else. A few hours a month can go a long way to further the goals of the ouild.@ Jinny Whitehead Mobile Structures: Dialogues Between Ceramics and Architecture in Canadian Art Mobile Structures explores the connections between ceramic practice and the ideas of architecture. There are large-scale ceramic installations and sculptures by artists from across Canada. The artists provide intriguing examples of how ceramics responds to architectural ideas and how architecture might respond in return. Visitors will see works as diverse as a kiln designed to create ceramic graffiti on brick walls, a life-sized cherry tree complete with a tree-fort made with white porcelain, paper thin archways, and a mural made of water-jet cut ceramic sheet. Showing now at the Surrey Art Gallery, this visual dialogue was organized by the MacKenzie Art Gallery with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Saskatchewan Arts Board and the City of Regina Arts Commission, Mobi Structures continues to Dec. 16. Artists represented: Ruth Chambers, Neil Forrest, Jeremy Hatch, Rory MacDonald, Jeannie Mah, Alwyn O’Brien, Gilbert Poissant, Christian Bernard Singer, and Linda Sormin. The Surrey Art Gallery is pleased to include a work from its collection by Vancouver artist Bull Rennie. Gallery Update Fall is here! October through mid- November 1s the ideal time to drop off Holiday inventory...this staff time for database entry and creating enticing displays for the mad rush of Holiday shoppers. Please do not leave it to December, as we cannot sell your ceramics if they are back-logged waiting to be entered into inventory. Sandra Dolph’s exhibition. She will be showcasing a new presentation of her very distinctive style. Her two-dimensional, coastline-inspired sculptural ceramics are framed and hung allows Please come see just as easily as paintings. Brenda Beaudoin y POTTERS GUILD «BRITISH SF ——EE EEE C3)