the clues is, 25 you have most carefully pointed out, the lack of correct leg material. This, of course, does throw some doubt on the present validity of the statue and whom it might truly represent.

You seem to have fallen into the identity trap yourself in la- beling the statue as a likeness of one Josiah Wedgwood, and indeed that is what | believe the statue is presently ljabeled as, Why such a blunder of misidentity ever took place is anyone's guess. As mere humans these errors float among us.

The statue is, in fact, as fair a likeness as one is going to get of a lesser known potter, one Enoch Quill, a humble slip trailer who lived about fifty years before Mr. Wedg- wood and eventually died in poverty. Why this potter was so revered was not actually so much the quality of his arti- sanship. He was said, by all those thal heard him, to be able to faithfully imitate with his mouth all the varied sounds of an entire small pottery factory in production. You will note that the slip trailer, once visible in his nght hand, is no longer there. It was, apparently, removed by the focal council in the 1920's on objections that it looked like an object “of sinister intent."

| have pointed this fact out on several occasions to the Stoke-on Trent municipal council and indeed to the City Fathers themselves and suggested that they change the de- scription presently on the statue's base. However, upto this date they do not appear to be moved or particularly inter- ested by evidence of this historical blunder.

| would like to thank your newsletter for helping to readdress this issue of ceramic misidentity by pointing this error out.

-John LeCraie, Caigary-

GALLERY NEWS

Jay Maclennan's show, “Revisions,” opened with much success on March 11. Many thanks to Jay's family and friends who provided the delicious nibbfies.

Opening April Sth (2:30 - 4:30 pm) is "Antlers in clay* by Georgina Brandon, our departing Studio 5 potter. The in- spiration for these clay vessels came from 4 canoe trip Georgina took in the Northwest Territories where she sketched the bold and vibrant shapes found in the land- scape. Her sketches evolved into these pots, a combina- tion of slip cast, wheel thrown and handbuilt vessels fired in a reducing atmosphere to cone 10. Georgina’s show will continue until April 30th.

Although the Sponsorship for the Flower Pot Contest has been withdrawn, there will still be an opportunity for those potters who have invested time and money developing a design to show their work in the Gallery during the month of May. “Planters Paradise" will run from May 1 - 28. Please contact me at the Gallery if you are interested.

On March 21st, Linda Doherty and | attended our first Business After Business Trade Show sponsored by the Vancouver Board of Trade and held at the Pan Pacific Hotel. As members of the Vancouver Board of Trade, the Guild and Gallery have a tremendous opportunity to pro- mote ourselves to a different public. Our display attracted a lot of attention; we had organized a tabletop slide show of work in the Gallery in addition to three pieces on dis- play; we handed out newsletters, Potters Guild brochures, Made in Clay brochures and recent press releases; and, a photograph of the booth was taken for the Vancouver Board of Trade's monthly newsletter! Overall, we felt thal this was a positive experience for the Gallery and Guild but that we should participate every three or four months in order to gain the most benefit. In fact, Jan Kroeger and myself will be attending a networking breakfast within the next month to further promote the Potters Guild and Gallery.

The Gallery welcomes Julia Maika to our part-time sales team. Julia is in third year at Emily Carr, majoring in ce- ramics, and replaces Deborah Tibbel who sadly finished at the beginning of March.

Jane Matthews

GUILD NEWS

The guild audit is being completed this month by the ac- counting firm of Carlyle and Sheppard. The completed audit will be mailed to all members of record in early April in plenty of time for consideration at the Annual General Meeting.

Apologies are due to Carol Mayer whose name did not ap- pear on the list of Board candidates last month. (She didn't get her biographical info to me before the newsletter went out.) Carol is again standing for election.

Complete biographical info and ballots for this year's elec- tions will be forwarded to members of record along with the audit materials.

The board has now reviewed the materials submitted in this year’s Studio 5 competition and selected Tessa Wind! of Monireal as the winner.

We have now completed negotiations with the Bumaby Arts Centre to begin formally co-sponsoring pottery work- shops with this organization, The first of these will be the Yukio Yamamoto workshop in June. We are also consid- ering a number of other persons and targeting to offer six jointly sponsored workshops during each year.

Our first mini-trade Show presentation to the Vancouver Board of Trade went very well and is covered in more depth in the Gallery column. Thanks to all the artists who submitted slides.

Jan Kroeger