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Book Revi CW By Patty Osborne

Slab Techniques

Ceramics Handbook

By Jim Robison and lan Marsh
The American Ceramics Society
ISBN 978-1408110072

6x 9/112 pages / $26.95 US

Slab
Techniques

‘The vigorous forms and textures in the
pieces that are featured in Slab Techniques
by Jim Robison and Ian Marsh will make

potters everywhere want to jump off
their wheels (if they're on them) and start handbuilding. From a
honey twirler to a meat tenderizer, from stamps to thumbprints,
the tools for creating texture are all around us and the compelling
surfaces that result from pressing things into or carving things
out of clay invite us to see and feel the world differently. Add
to that the voluptuous wave-like forms or strong straight lines
(or both) that are features of these pieces, plus the colour that is
applied at various stages in their creation, and you've got a lot of
inspiration in a little book. The accompanying text is wordy and
often obscures the steps it is trying to describe, but the photos and
captions will tell readers almost everything they need to know to
begin experimenting with their own slab creations. However, this
is not a book for beginner potters: most of the pieces described
are sculptural rather than functional and some require elaborate
systems to support the slabs during construction. e

CALL FOR ENTRY, NCECA members
Deadline: Sept. 1

Don't miss the Potters Council's third juried exhibition, The
Chromatic Edge, to be held in conjunction with NCECA 2012 in
Seattle, Washington, March 28 to 30, 2012. If you're not a member,
now is the time to join so you can submit an entry to this highly
acclaimed show!

The 2012 Potters Council member exhibition in Seattle addresses
not the outer limits of our work, but some of the edges that can occur
within it. In ceramics, form is often seen as paramount, and the visual
surface may often become subordinate. However, no form can excel
without surface, and colour is one of its most evident properties. The
edges and contacts between colours, and between surface and clay
—can re-compose a work of art, and change our perception of the
most humble of pieces. Colour can generate emotion, create meaning
single-handedly, or change what we think we understand. Colour gives
the edge to ceramists that use it well.

In this exhibition, Potters Council proposes to showcase work that
uses colour in thoughtful, subtle, bold or innovative ways. We are
challenging YOU to examine and explore the use of colour in your
work. The exhibition will be visually dramatic, thought-provoking,
and bring colour in from the periphery of our endeavour right to the
center,

For more info and to apply: http://ceramicartsdaily.org/potters-
council-members/2012-potters-council-juried-show/

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Deadline: Sept. 15

Lark Ceramics is publishing an

CALL FOR
ENTRIES

500 PRINTS
ON CLAY

exciting new ceramics book in
our “500” series, and we would
like you to submit images for
consideration. Paul Andrew
Wandless, author of Jmage
Transfer on Clay, will jury 500
Prints on Clay, a 420-page,

full color survey book. This
international collection will be
beautifully presented and widely

distributed throughout — the
world in Spring 2013.
We welcome outstanding

ceramic works that feature image
transfer techniques. Ceramic pieces may be created with any type of
clay and employ techniques including: screening, monoprinting,
stenciling, stamping, relief printing, lithography, kiln prints, decals
and any combination of these or variations.

Artists whose work is selected for inclusion will receive full
acknowledgment in the book, a complimentary copy, and discounts
on the future purchase of books. Artists retain copyright to their work.
Lark accepts high-quality digital images. No entry fee is required.

Submissions must be postmarked by Sept. 15, 2011. For entry form
see: http://www.larkcrafts.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/500-
Prints-on-Clay-entry-form4. pdf.

Contact Paul Andrew Wandless for submission questions and please
share this with anyone who prints on clay.

CALL FOR ARTISTS, Coquitlam
Deadline: Oct. 16

Place des Arts, a multi-disciplinary arts centre in Maillardville
Coquitlam, is seeking new artists for its Christmas Boutique 2011.

Deadline for registration is Oct. 16, 2011 and the Boutique will
run from Nov. 7 to Dec. 16. Sale items do not necessarily need to be
Christmas themed, but can be gifts that hold year-round appeal. All
works are for sale; artists set own prices, and Place des Arts retains
30% of the retail price. Artists must submit five work samples to be
juried, with a $10 application fee. The drop off dates for jurying of
new artist works are Saturday, Oct. 15 and Sunday, Oct. 16. Artists
will be notified of entry status by Friday, Oct. 20.

For registration forms and artists identification cards, see www.
placedesarts.ca. For more info, contact gift shop coordinator, Lidia

Kosznik, at 604.664.1636 ext.0 or Ikosznik@placedesarts.ca.

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