Reviews Continued- "FUNCTIONAL POTTERY"/Robin Hopper.

Robin Hopper writes: "Throughout man's pottery-making history he has
developed a huge repertoire of shapes and surfaces to fill his many needs.

This book is mainly concerned with those needs and of the development of the
shapes and details which were made to fill them."

With a skill for analysis and painstaking and intelligent compilation,
Hopper has put together hundreds of photographs and drawings with hundreds of
details in every aspects of the craft of pottery - its history, aesthetics,
mechanics. The Table of Contents immediately indicates the inclusive
scope. But he does not simply make a catalogue. Each part opens with an essay
that is a point of view, a stimulant for one's own thought, and a guide for
study.
EUNCTIONAL POTTERY" is an excellent companion to any and every “how to"
book; it is a text book in the best sense for every student, beginning or:
advanced, who wants to be aware of the "why" in the pot he is making or

looking at.
Anne Tolmie

Administrator's Report

I am pleased to inform you that the first proposal) prepared under
my direction for the Guild has received financial support from the
Canada Council.

The Jean A. Chalmers Fund for the Crafts has granted $3,240.00
for the symposium section of a 2 part grant proposal entitled "SPEAKING
IN CLAY, SPEAKING OF CLAY".

"SPEAKING IN CLAY, SPEAKING OF CLAY", is both a symposium and
a exhibition dealing with contemporary ceramics and criticism. The
Chalmers will help defray the cost of the conference. The exhibition part
of the proposal is still under deliberations of a Visual Arts Jury at
the Canada Council. We are fortunate to have confirmed Mr. Williard
Holmes of the Emily Carr College of Art and Design as curator of the
show.

What follows is an abbreviation of the proposal that was sent to the
Canada Council]. I am hoping that those interested will soon form themselves
into a committee to take on some of the responsibilities for the project.

"SPEAKING IN CLAY, SPEAKING OF CLAY" will be conducted over a 12 day
period beginning the evening of April &th continuing to the evening of
April 19th. The show will be free to the public and be held at Robson
Square. The conference will take place both at Robson 5q. and at Emily
Carr. The exhibition will coincide with a two day conference on contemporary
arts and criticism. The conference intention is to create circumstances
that will inspire in the minds of ceramists and critics alike a questioning
as to the boundaries of art and ceramics; arts interface with ceramics as
a particular medium, with a particular history and its corresponding position
in the Western Art World. The conference is thus about imagination, the
imagination that becomes coalesced into ideology and designated the significance
of ceramics (and al] media linked to the utilitarian crafts) on the lower
rung of the “art ladder", yet allows a closer intimacy with these sorts of
works and human life...

"SPEAKING IN CLAY, SPEAKING OF CLAY", will be a critical contribution
beyond the ususal and obsolete crafts vs. arts debate attempting to
raise the level of discourse to one of the relationship between our
changing ideas of culture and its dessimination and “everyday” and its
objects of attention and use.

Please contact me at the Guild office for further information.
Oliver Hockenhull,