Grild News

Summer on Granville land, one of the
nicese places to visit in the city. The great
weather has made it pretty her in che
Gallery and Guild offices, but it has helped
us be very busy, too!

The summer began with che successful
opening of Off the Wall! at the Canadian
Craft Museum. Almose all che exhibiting
artists were in accendance, in addition to
che very supgertive curnout of other Guild
members. Many thanks to Baco Ohama for
jurying the show, and to the CCM for their
assistance and cooperation. It is hoped
thac the Guild will be able to mount this
kind of jucied show at a venue such as the
CCM en a bi-annual basis. A limited
number of catalogues were produced for Off
the Wall!, participating artists will be sent a
copy and the remainders will be available
for purchase ($5.50 each) at the CCM and
at the Gallery of BC Ceramics.

Almost immediarely after chis opening was
the Canada Day celebrations here on
Granville Island. On behalf of the Guild, |
would very much like to thank the
following members who participated in the
Craft Alley demonstracion area: Debra
Sloan, Laura van der Linde, Darrel
Hancock, Keith and Celia Rice-Jones,
Pacrick Taddy and Georgina Brandon (who
buile clay castles wich the kids!) and, of
course, Linda Doherty for collecting the
clay ta make it all possible! This July Ist
was the best Canada Day event ever
planned by CMHC (Granville Island) and
the Craft Alley was the most successful

part.

The Guild has hired Dorothy Springer as
our new, permanent bookkeeper. She is an
experienced accountant and is familiar
wich many software packages, including the
system we will be installing in the Gallery.
We hope to use for the Guild accounting
software as well, as we otherwise have to
bear the cose of purchasing yet ancther

package.

Laura Agpiainen has spear-headed the
Boards’ production of a reference book of
BC porters. Ifyou didn’t receive your
information package please contact us and
we can pop one in the mail for you.
Remember, your $100 deposit must be
received by September 30 to be included

in che book!

With regard to the Guild's finances, | om
happy to repore chat che $10,000 loan we
took our at the end of lase year, was fully
paid back in early August. The new
format of the Newslecter will cost slightly
more than budgeted for on a monthly
basis. We plan to offsec this with
increased advertising revenue. Por
information regarding advertising,
including our new business card sized ad,
please call either Karen Opas or myself.ac
669-5645,

Gallery News

Ower the summer months, the exhibic
space has hosted three very difference
shows. First was Patrick Taddy’s A Matter
of Scale, and Other Things, a collection of
flasks ranging from quite amall (personal
and inmate) © amazingly large (all
presence and public), which actracted the
attention of the Claridge Collection
(congratulations Pat!}, Following this
was Simon Ho's Nature and Feelings, a
wonderful installation of organic shapes
and intuitive responses to the power of
nature, Simon created a very peaceful
space amongst his work and we look
forward to showing his work in the
Gallery on a regular basis. Currencly in
the Gallery is Shameless Behavicner, a
humorous collection of figurative
sculpture by Elaine Brewer-White. This
work explores the concept of decency
and how society reacts to behavior which
falls outside or our standards. Elaine's
show will continue into Seprember, after
which we hope to mount a short show of
Karen Opas'a cat; persona & space,
surreal and histeric images that play wich
the amount of space a cat can occupy in
our minds (images on clay slabs, using the
majolica process),

The Gallery heartily welcomes back
Langley artist Geoff Searle, who does
impeceable saggar and raku work,
Winlaw's Pamela Nagley-Stevenson
whose functional porcelain piéces are
inspired by her mountainous
environment and the abstract world of
myths and dreams, and North
Vancouver's Ron Tribe who dropped off
some work on his way co a show in Japan.
Their work made a positive contribution

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te our outstanding sales ever the last
months. While July's sales were similar to
last year's, the coral was 6 % higher than
targeted, Our year-to-date total is 6%
liigher than the same period last year.

‘The new point-of-sale system referred to
earlier is a cooperative venture beoween
us, che CCM Shop and Crafthouse. This
will greatly simplify ous month end
Manoeuvres and save accounting costs.
This will standardize the inventory sheets
between all the galleries. Artists currently
selling in che Gallery will receive detailed
information in September.

On a personal note, I have had an
extraordinarily busy summer with che
added flurry of planning for my wedding,
which makes place on September the
fifteench (Jane has registered her pattern at
the Gallery. Editor), With the added
stress of nummy flu in July, my schedule
for completing the sewing of my wedding
dress gor quite out of whack, but thanks
to Pac Taddy and Karen Opas, who were
elves in a previous life (actually, chey
filled in at the Gallery one long
weekend), I was able to get it all done in
time.

There are three separate calls for
submissions of work to the Gallery
coming up very soon. the first is for the
jury selection commitree (deadline
October 15). In November, we will geca -
head start on holiday shopping with a
display of Christmas ee ornaments -this
is open to all members, Please have work
into the Gallery by October 28th. The
theme show for December will be
candleholders (title pending -if you've got
one, submit it) A local candlemaker will
supply candles and offer them for sale too.
This show is also open to all members, the
deadline for work to arrive is November
25ch. If you have any questions, please
give me a call.

Well, what] had hoged to be a quiet
summer Corned into a very busy one when
the activities of the Gallery were
combined with all che planning and
developing of ideas for the Guild
members. Hope you are sick of the sun
and spending time at the beach, and are
Taring to get back to work in the scucdio in
preparation fer the coming months.

Jane Matthews