MADE OF CLAY
the eighth annual Spring show

May 4 - 6 at Performance Works, Granville Island

The next Made of Clay will be held, as in
past years, Mm the Performance Works on
Granville Island, This is a wonderful site
that has served us well. This wall be the
eighth consecutive Spring show at this
location. OF course, we continue to look
for new ideas to enhance quality and to
increase allendance. Following a meeting
at Maggi Kneer’s home on January 3, a
publicity committee will be established to
increase our exposure to the public; this is
welcome news Indeed, and should hope-
fully provide me with a much needed
respite! By the ime you receive this news-
letter, a financial plan will have been pre-
sented for approval by the Board wt its
meeting on January 11.

The 2001 show will run from Friday, May
4 through to Sunday, May 6. "This was the
date suggested by the majority of respond-
ents lo.qur questionnaire al the 2000) Spring
show, This year will feature even greater
selection in the availability of rental spaces,
We are reducing the number of 1 x 10
booths to only 7, and will feature | 1 free-
standing islands (3' x 4°), and 7 freestand-
ing duplexes (10'x 5‘). Booths will rent for
3450, islands for $173 and duplexes for
$300, Participants may rent one half of a

duplex for $1); they wall be encouraged
to work with their fellow partner in the
remaining half to develop a cohesive dis-
play. We will not be using the # high
drapery dividers as in previous shows: this
change is by popular demand. As evi-
denced in our just concluded Christmas
show, the absence of the rigid grid system
creates a spaciousness that is both friendly
and inviting; in other words, there are no
hard to see spaces!

We hope that once again we will have our
Raku demonstrations and sale acthe Ceean
Place site on the Island, and will use this as
an opportunity to promote the show. We
will also request permission to move our
throwing demonstrations from the Per-
formance Works site to a more prominent
Jocation either within the market itself or
immediately adjacent.

An application form is included in this
newsletier and should be completed as
soon as possible. Space will be assigned
on Monday, February 19 onan as received
basis with the earliest date mark receiving
priority of allocation. Please include your
chegue(s) in the correct amount payable
to: Potters Guild of British Columisia, 1359

JEREMY HATCH
Industrial Facility

Cartwright Street, Vancouver, BC V6H
3R7. Ifyou require more information please
phone me at G4. 921677.

Only a brief ward on our latest show,
Made of Clay at Christmas, at the Round-
house near downtown Vancouver, | found
the Exhibition Hall to be a very exciting
venue. It was well lil, spacious, and easily
accessible within the complex, Under-
ground parking was available both on site,
and inseveral neighbouring buildings. The
majorty of respondents to our question-
naire were favourably impressed. Attend-
ance, although still not as great as we
would like, increased by more than 1%
from the previous show. | think that with
additional focus on promotion, this 1 ca-
pable of being a premier arts event in
Vancouver, The demonstrations by Mrs.
Yukawa of the Sogetsu School of Ikebana
were very popular and added an important
highlight! [, for one, certainly hope that is
repeated at our next Christmas show.
Ron Feicht Show Chair

604.92 | .6677

Laok for the application form in this newslet-
fer, Please reply ASAP for the Sect focarion,

See patiack dinienprovation meeting page G,

Opening Friday February 2, 18:00 - 20:00. Continues to February 27

Gallery of BC Ceramics

Jeremy Hatch Industrial tegpor 2000, porcelain wheel thrown, brome
glaze, cone 62h 1900, w 15.0.0 25.0cm. Photo: Ying Yuch Chuang

Relies HWE

[recently arrived home after an inspiring and rigorous semester
#5 aspecial student at the Nova Scotia College of Ant and Design
in Halifax. While there, |] focused on developing two seemingly
disparate bodies of work to bring back to Vancouver. In January
I displayed several large plates in Marrew, a two person show
with Mike Haller, at Dyname Art Gallery, Vancouver. This series
combines everyday ceramic forms with the anonymous imper-
fections of the urban landscape in an attempt to-explore the notion
of failure, My goal was to monumentalize the common dinner
Plate, remove it from the domestic sphere and situate it within the
gallery context, Embedded in the surface of these plates are
negitive impressions of cracks that | cast from the city streets. I
see broken windows and fissures in the sidewalks as the unseen
and accepted imperfections of everyday public life. By making
the emply space within these cracks tangible, hidden secrets are
exhumed and put back on public display.

mene cee Jeremy Hatch on apposite page