Thank you for your donations to Project Empty Bowl

Another successful Project Empty Bowl has come and gone. This year BC pouers
contributed their best work yet. We had donations shipped from Powell River, Vancou-
ver Island and collected at a number of guilds. Potters too numerous to name contributed
wonderful soup bowls, but a few potters went above and beyond the call of duty: Rie
Suzuki, Anthea of The Mad Potter, and Chery! Stapleton all collected dozens of bowls
from dozens of sources, A special thank you goes to David Lloyd who pledged and
delivered 100 of his own bowls.

At the end of the evening we had about 50 bow!s left over. These were sold for $15.00
a piece and all proceeds went into the fundraiser total, This year, a post-9/11 year, the
purse strings were a litthe tight, The art market, amongst many other more important
things, has cemainly suffered from September's fallout and this art event was ao
exception. We did, however, raise $23,000.00, Given that each meal the Loving
Spoonful provides is done at a cost of $5.00, we still raised enough to provide 4600
nutritious meals to housebound individuals - a worthwhile accomplishment indeed.

Rachelle Chinnery

Project Empty Bowl —A Big Thank You

A Loving Spoonful thanks all the wonderful members of the British Columbia Potters*
Guild who participated in Project Empty Bowl. Quite simply, without the generosity
demonstrated by well over a hundred members of the clay community we could not have
held my favourite fundraising event. I find tt mspiring to think of the transformation of
talent, clay and flame into thousands of nourishing meals for the men, women and 26
children living with AIDS who receive support from A Loving Spoonful.

The exhibition of work at the Canadian Craft & Design Museum presented the
opportunity to view the work of several of BC's finest artisans, A further display at Holt
Renfrew of donated bowls highlighted work from the Gallery of BC Ceramics and raised
awareness of both PEB 2002 and the BCPG. The lively crowd at the gala evening feasted
from a plethora of beautiful bowls, and bid on items in the live and silent auctions. Over
$23,000 has been raised to date,

As one ofthe coordinators, | have to say that the evening passed ina bit of a blur, slowing
into remarkable clarity only when | pushed my Visa towards meltdown as [ bid on a
couple of bowls that [ would have promised my first-born for. But Rumplestiltskin did
not appear, and some other fortunate soul will have the joy of living with those
remarkable works.

Rachelle Chinnery, one of the Guild’s treasures, did reveal a hitherto hidden talent. Her
lovely hand-knitted socks with floral embroidenes were one of the hottest items at the
Silent Auction tables, A fierce bidding war broke out, cooled only by Rachelle's
agreement to make another pair for the disappointed party. And thts with her beautiful,
shell-like bowl in the Live Auction and dozens of small, carved bowls gifted to patrons
as they walked in. A true Renaissance woman!

On amore serious note, the clients of A Loving Spoonful would like to say “Thank You"
to cach potter who helped in the battle for health. Each meal we deliver is tangible proof
that they have not been forgotten or abandoned, but are cared for and loved. One of our
clients wrote, “You have made my life so much more livable and lovable, which | know
comes from the Heart. Bless you and all the wonderful angels that participate in your
vision and mission.” May the kiln gods be kind and we'll see you at Project Empty Bow!
2004,

Karen Cogs

Karen has been a mensber and volunteer wath the Potters Gruild for over o decade, and has prewecusly served
on the Aud and as editorof the Potters Guald of BC newsletter. She comenily works for A Loving Spoonful,

Z Potters Guild of Botish Columbia Newsletter

Art in the Garden
North Shore Gardens
May 25-26 12:00-5:00PM

Maggi Kneecr, Barbara Toohey, Boo
Byrom, Clive Tucker and Jan Smart are all
in the two day art and garden tour on the
North Shore, featuring gardens, artists and
musicians, a Maggi’s garden and studio,

Lats of interesting potiery and demvonstra-
ionsof wheel throwing and handburlding.
4125 Fairway Place, North Wancouver or
call 604-929-3206 for more info.

Table of Contents

Laura and Bruce Nyeste !
Project Empty Bow) thank you 2
Artin the Garden 2
Made of Clay 3
Annual General Meeting a
Gallery News 3
New email addresses 3
Techno Tip 4
Gordon Hutchens workshops 4
Gallery Exhibitions 5
Diversity in Clay wrap up 6
Clary Mlian's talk at Symposium 7
Fired Up! 8
Western Ceramic Experience §
Exhibition and Symposium

at the Gardiner Museum a

Book Review 4g

Steven Hill workshop io
Workshop in Greek Islands Lo
ClaySpace workshops Lt
Travel to Turkey and Mexico = 11
For Sale 12
Wanted 12
Important Contacts IZ

June Newsletter Deadline
Wednesday May §

Send to Guild office, see page 12,
or email editor:
cbopottersnewsletter @ bepotters.com>

May 2002