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June Featured Artist: Karisa Evdokimoff

‘The featured artist for June 2013 is one of our gallery staff, Karisa
Evdokimoff. Karisa is entering her final year in the ceramics program
at Emily Carr University and her love of ceramics is a part of all aspects
of her life. Speaking about her work, Karisa says:

“T have always had a deep connection, desire and appreciation for
our natural world and for the serenity it provokes within me. Ceramics
allows me to explore volumetric forms and my desires as all the raw
materials I use are found within the earth and then transformed into
something of pure beauty, stillness and serenity. My work explores the
natural world and my desire and interaction with it through ceramics
and the vessel form. The vessel contains, conceals and protects what
is inside and as functional objects they are able to hold living plants,
providing that direct connection to nature and fulfilling our desire
as humans to be around nature and living things, within one’s own
home. The vessel, its surface and the inside act as a counterpart to my
thoughts, experiences and emotions. My choices of what is revealed
from the inside, the size of the vessel opening and absences carved into

the form can create an automatic connection and focal point directly
to the inside, creating a sense of intentional vulnerability. Process
and experimentation play a pivotal role within my work, as 1 work
extremely intuitively embracing error and unexpected occurrences and
utilizing them in a way that is beneficial to my learning, process and
final outcome.”

PGBC newsletter &
summer schedule

Submissions: Do you have equipment
for sale? Are you seeking some? Are you
in a show you'd like to tell us about or
teaching a workshop that needs more
attendees? Have a great new studio tip to
share?

All of us have a story to tell about how
we discovered pottery and became the
creative, inspiring artists that we are. You

can also submit a story about someone

7 = : . & you know.
Di scover ‘This is great marketing practice for letting
people know about you and your artwork.
Art I ravel Newsletter schedule: There will be no
newsletter July 1. The next editions will

2013-15 CERAMICS EXCURSIONS be July 25 (submission deadline July 15)

and Sept. 1 (submission deadline Aug.
20). If you send in your material after the

S ici ly Ye) ro cco B U rm re | scheduled date, the item may have to

Sept. 28-Oct. 16/13 Oct. 28-Nov. 18/13 Jan. 21-Feb. 6/15 wait till the next month's newsletter.

Submissions can be sent to Melany at

o www. denysjames. COM TEL: 1-250-537-4906 editor@bcpotters.com.

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