CALLS FOR ENTRY Circle Craft 19th Annual Christmas Market Juried Craft Show, at Vancom. ver Trade and Convention Centre, Novernber 11-15, 1992. contact Paul Yard, Producer, at (604) 737-9050, o Oo Oo DON REITZ AT NORTH ISLAND COLLEGE The February 29th weekend was a busy one for many people. In addition te the Ostermann workshop at ECCAD, Sarah Coole gave a demonstration / presentation at the Burnaby Art Centre, and the American ceramic artist Don Reitz was guest of the Comox Valley Potters Club at the newly opened North Island Community College facilities. I was fortunate to get over to Vancouver Island with Jackle White of the Downstairs Potters to take In the two days with the Comox, Courtenay group and Don Reitz. It turned out to be a most amazing session. observing the highly physical and energetic presentation of someone for whom clay has been a life-long fascination ars obsession. It's not everyday thal someone wedges 25 pounds of clay on the concrete floor in front of you and procecdes to persuade the clay om the wheel, whining In Its discontent, into a 24 Inch tall form, which later would be part of an assemblage that stood close to five feet tall. Don strongly suggested very early on that the “No rules, only concepts” philosophy is the one he lives by; that in our repression in “nol doing things’, we suppress what we know, He acknowledged that most of his work has to do with “putting parts together", whether it be clay parts, or clay and coloured slips and engobes used as “painting” parts. His approach and need is to physically discover the spiritual /intellectual “end* of his creative work. Don kept Alan Burgess and other members of the Comox Club ninning to keep him provided with freshly pugged clay; in that first day, he produced the parts of at least eight quite large formes: open platter and slab forms on which he would lay down surface decoration; lidded, thrown vessel forms with pulled handles; jar forms of thrown two-ptece walls; 2 foot Uhbrown pitchers with pulled handles; and the finale, the five foot tea pot, assembled from parts rolled, thrown, cut, panded, squished (literally], and generally handied tn his very unique style. Don lives near Sedona in Arizona on the edge of a large natural wilderness preserve, and in his description of his lifestyle there, which Includes involvement in the firing of an anagama kiln, he seems to be a part of his surrourdings, definitely larger than life. 1 felt that for the majority of us in the audience (close to fifty rapt observers), the exposure to such an energy would not be something we would casily experience again, and | thank Lynne Johnson and her Comox Valley Polters Club friends for giving us the opportunity for that experience. Jan Kicinie The Club is also indebted to Greenbarn Potters Supply for their donation of the clay for both the Don Reitz and the Jim Etzkorn workshops. Thanks, Dave. MINO ‘92 - the 3rd International Ce- Tamics Competition in two categories: ceramics design and ceramic arts. For further information, contact office at 683-9623. May 31 entry deadline. = oa o Page 6 The Vancouver Craft Market is now accepting applications the the 1992 shaw dates aa follows: Novernber 6,7, & 8; November 27, 28, & 29; December 11, 12, & 13, and December 19 and 20. Contact Simone Avram at 65-40 Demorest Dr., Richmond, B.C. V7A4M1., or phone (604) 275-2724. April, 1992