GUILD WORKSHOPS AND SOCIAL EVENTS FEBRUARY Bruce Cochrane Lecture and Workshop Don't miss this exciting workshop, We have a few spaces left! Slide Lecture: Friday February |Gart 19:00 Emily Carr Instinste of Art and Design Rm 328, Granville Island. $5 at the door Workshop: Saturday, Feb. 17/Sunday, Feb18, 10:00-16:00, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts/Studio Theatre, 6450 Deer Lake Avenue in Deer Lake Park, Burnaby We were all disappointed when Bruce Cochrane was unable to be at the Clay Symposium last March, but now we have something to look forward to, Brace will be coming to Vancouver this February for atwoday workshop and demonstration it the Shadbolt Centre, preceded by a slide presentation on the Friday evening at Emily Car Institute of Art and Design. Bruce teaches at Sheridan College in Ontario and is renowned for his expressive and com- plex utilitarian forms made in earthenware or porcelain, wheel thrown, altered and assembled, He will be throwing a vaniety of his complex forms on Saturday and showing slides of his work. On Sunday he will be assembling his forms and showing work of other Ontario potters. Ceramic Art & Perception recently published a great article on Bruce. Fee: After January (5: $80.25 ($64.20 for students), Fees include GST. No refunds after January 15. Please register at the Shadbolt Centre by mail of in person, Make cheques payable to the City of Burnaby and clearly mark on the cheque “Bruce Cochrane workshop.” Mail to Shadbolt Centre, 6450 Deer Lake Avenue, Burnaby, VSG 233. Information: 604.291 6864 Made of Clay Working Committee Potluck dinner Thursday February 8 18:00 We had a lively meeting at Maggi's in January and welcome anyone interested in working on the Spring Made of Clay show to a potluck dinner. Maggi’s place: 4125 Fairway Place, North Vancouver, If you are coming, please call 604.929.3206 or MARCH How do they do that? Salt firing and making forms Wednesday March 14, 19.30 appropriate for salt firing at Parkgate Community Centre, Pottery Hands on workshop Studio, 3625 Banff Court, North Vancou- with Micki Schloessingk. ver, just off the Mount Seymour Parkway by the Parkgate Shopping Centre. This month we will be featuring lids and feet, continuing from our January theme of knobs and handles. Electric kiln ash glazing and throwing workshop with Carol-Ann Michaelson from the Glen Williams Mill Creative Arts Studio, Ontario, Sunday April § 10:00 - 17:00 al Parkgate Community Centre, Pottery Studio, North Vancouver Carol-Ann works with cone 8 ash glazes in an electric kiln and dispels the myth that good ash glazes can only be found on gas or wood-fired work. She is a graduate of Sheridan College, and makes forms both functional and playful, (thrown and altered, slabbed and manipulated. She makes a living from her work, using commercial porcelain with blended sprayed on glazes using a variety of ashes from selected trees to everyday fireplace ash. For more information, read the article on Making pots at Glen Williams Mill in whe winter no.115 issue of Contact magazine. Cost: $35 to Guild members and students, $40 for non-members. Registration: send cheque made out to Potters Guild of BC; clearly mark enve- lope “Carol-Ann Michaelson workshop’. Tuesday June 12 to Friday June 15 dinly from 10:00 to 17:00 at Capilano College, Pottery studio Micki is an internationally renowned Brit- ish potter, working in South Wales. She makes salt wood-fired tableware, shown in gallenes throughout the world. She describes her work a3 pots with soul and has perfected her forms for wood and salt firing. She enjoys the limits that making tableware and functional ware imposes, and works with a few slips, keeping deco- ration to. 4 minimum. Her criteria are pots that work, feel easy in the hands, are strong in form and lively, quiet when holding food yet bold enough to be enjoyed for themselves. More of her work can be en- joyed on her website: mickisaliglaze.co.uk The four day course will start with glazing and salt finng bisque pots made from a cone 10 light clay. Each student will have approximately 2 cu ft. of kiln space. Fol- lowing days will be spent in discussion of forms suitable for salt fire, side showing and making of thrown or handbuilt pots. On day four, the kiln will be unpacked and pots examined and discussed, Space limited to 10 students; carly regis- tration recommended. Send cheque for $265 made out to the Potters Guild of BC, marked “Micki Schloessingk workshop’. MORE INFORMATION For more information about the events listed: contact Maggi Kneer 604.929.3206 or Jim Stamper 604.450.4602. Only for the Bruce Cochrane workshop, contact the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts for more info on his workshop, 604. 291.6864, REGISTRATION In all events, space is limited. Please phone to reserve. Write cheques for workshops, except the Bruce Cochrane, tothe Potters Guild of BC and mail or deliver to the Guild Office above the Gallery of BC Ceramics on Granville Island. Please clearly mark both the cheque and envelope with the name of the workshop. Potters Guild of British Columbia February 2141