"If they or their friends in other media would like to get in
touch with us about working on a wholesale and/or consign-
ment basis, we'd be delighted.

So that you can see where their wares would be displayed,
I'm enclosing a posteard of our building. We hope you'll be
able to visit us some day,
Sincerely,
Joyce White "

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Letter to the Editor of 'Craft Horizons'

"Sirs: With reference to Donald McKinley's review of the
'24th Ceramic National’ (November/December 1966), this
member of the Canadian Guild of Potters was thunderstruck
(as Don suspected) to sce where our purchase prize had gone.
Some time ago, Warren Mackenzie observed similarities
between an object titled 'Big Pile’ and ‘found objects' in his
pasture - he may recognize this pile.
In this review, Donald McKinley holds up a mirror in a way
that a working potter could not. We potters of North America
have become so engrossed in producing vital, imaginative,
enduring objects to win the ‘artist status' that the term
'craftsman' has become derogatory. Much print is devoted
to the justification of non-pots, anti-potters, experimentalists,
and the like, JI exhort experimentation in private, but not
the visual vomit that is erupting on the public. The '24th
Ceramic National! lacked one thing - a medal of honor by
Abraham Whatshisname.
GORDON BARNES, President,
Canadian Guild of Potters
Regional Juror, 24th Ceramic National,
Torcnto, Ontario, Canada.
FLASH! Congratulations to David Lambert who has been awarded a
Canada Council Grant to further his study of pre-Columbian Art.

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