CALL FOR ENTRIES Deadline: June 15, 1999 Small in Nature July 5-30. First interna- tional open exhibition for mintaturists; open to all artists and crafts people from around the world. Works must be original: size max: 12 inches (length + width) in- cluding frame or mounting; ic. 4"4%4 inches or 4x 8 inches, Works due June 30 ready for installation; include biography and artist statement. All works must be for sile at 25% commission. Submit 5 pieces lo The Peoples Gallery, 133 MacMillan Street, Parksville, EC, V9P 2H5, 250- 248-8185 Deadline: June 21, 1999 Absolute Teapot Show July 3-August 29, Submit 3 slides max and entry fee: $15. Non-functional/functional, handbuilt, any size or material. Mustexhibit imagination, soul, and craftsmanship and be available for sale in the Gallery at 50% commission, Juried. SASE to Parham Gallery 2847 ยง Armacost, LA, CA 90064 Deadline: unknown Coombs Country Arts and Crafts Fair July 16-18. Allan Armstrong 25(-390- 2387 of email: Deadline: July 31, 1999 Gallery of BC Ceramics exhibitions 2000 Submit completed application form, 610 slides of work, a paragraph desembing planned exhibition, resumescv and artist's slatement. Application form available at Gallery, 1359 Cartwright Street, Granville Island or phone 640-669-5645, see page 4 CALL FOR ENTRY for more details. CLAYTERK POTTERY STUDIOS ClayTek Studios is accepting ceramics from talented artists for sale at their new retail space. Lynne at ClayTek Studios, 620 Millbank 604-872-8830. TOO GOOD FOR THE SHARD PILE The Gallery of BC Ceramics are having a sale of seconds Wednesday, June 2. This is part of an ongoing Guild fundraising project. Please donate your seconds, those items that you can't quite throw away, Every two to three months when enough works have been collected, the Gallery of BC Ceramics will have a sale. UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA CERAMICS DEPT CLOSURE Dear Fellow Potters We, the students and friends of the Ceram- ics Division of the Fine Arts Program of the Faculty of Extension, would like to CONVEY OUP CONCCINS Over the recent aim- nouncement to terminate the University of Alberta Ceramics Program [existing for 35 years] and re-allocate the studio space as a computer software facility... Its reputation for excellence in the promo- thon of the ceramic arts is international, exemplified by the worldwide participa- tion of potters in the Fireworks symposia held overthe last six vears....To the broader irtcommunity this studio and its programs have provided a focal point... for the pot- ters of Alberta. [t contains some of the finest facilities for the ceramic arts in Western Canada... It is, in our opinion, highly improper to contemplate, plan, and summanily execute a proposal for the destruction of a program which has for so long served the Univer- sity and the community with such promi- nence, if not distinction.... Sincerely, Students and Friends of the Ceramics Di- vision, April 30, 1999 Enzien Kufeld