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POTTERS AT WORK: The photo essay

POTTERS AT WORK: This is our first entry in a new feature looking
at the various places where potters work. Working as a potter can
be lonely or social, awkward or easy. Many words may be used to
describe that feeling, but why not just send one well-composed
photo? We welcome your high-resolution, sharply-focused photos
of potters at work, and will include one per month in these pages.

PHOTO BY JAN LOVEWELL: jan. 20, morning. Ron Robb tends the
hearth fire as we begin to warm the wood-fired kiln at Pia Sillem's
home at Earl's Cove on the Sechelt Peninsula. Ron, Pia, Jinny
Whitehead and Jan Lovewell fired for about 55 hours. We used damp
alder wood, which would account for the difficulty maintaining
temperature and the most colourful pieces we've had so far.

Update: BC-in-a-Box 3: The Edge of Here By Amy Gogarty

We are very excited to have confirmed venues and dates from our
partners in Alberta for our travelling members’ exhibition, The Edge
of Here. Our first stop will be at the new Arts building at Red Deer
College, in Red Deer, where our exhibition will be on view for the
month of September. The exhibition will travel to the Cultural Centre
in Medicine Hat for three and one-half weeks in October. We are still
pursuing the possibility of an off-site exhibition in Seattle for NCECA
in March of 2012, and the exhibition will have its final showing
at our Gallery of BC Ceramics on Granville Island. The Alberta
Potters’ Association exhibition, Wide Open, will travel to Comox in
October and will be shown at our Gallery in November. This is a great
opportunity to showcase ceramics produced by our local potters to
audiences in the two provinces. (For some examples of Alberta potters’
work, see article on the next page, 6th Annual Alberta Craft Awards.)

‘The theme, The Edge of Here is open to a wide variety of interpreta-

tions, but the emphasis will be on the meaning of "here"—whether the
natural or urban environment, or psychological and personal states of
being. Work can be functional, decorative, conceptual, sculptural and/
or a combination of approaches. All participants must be members in
good standing of the Potters Guild of BC. This juried exhibition will
be judged from digital images, so please ensure your photographs are
professional. The $25 entry fee will be entirely dedicated to preparing,
shipping, documenting and publicizing the project. Work will travel
in plywood cubes measuring 4 1/2 inches on the inside, so your
work will have to be small enough to fit, well-wrapped, within this
dimension. For more information, please consult the PGBC website
at www.bcpotters.com under “What's on/calls for entry.”

Please let your friends know about the exhibition, and get potting!
We can't wait to see what everyone comes up with and to see all this

great work together for the show.

Potters Guild of BC Newsletter - March 2011

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