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

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