CALL FOR ENTRY Deadline: March 22 Crafthouse Gallery Hoch about Muchnes: a Mad Tea Party a group exhibit of contemporary crafts May 4 - 30 2000

While madness is called for, humour, whimsy, and wild imagination are de nguer! We invite members from all craft mediums to put on a fresh thinking cap, and create all things related to teatime. Work should tickle the imaginaten and turn the gallery into wonderland.

Criftspeople working inany craltmedium may submit up to 3 pieces. Please include aciv, resume or biography, artist's state- ment, and process statement, Forinforma- lion, contact Eric Montgomery 604.258.9010, All must be members of the Crafts Assocation of BC, Membership inquiries: Calvin Taplay &4.687.6511, Submit works to Crafthouse Gallery Com- mites, 1386 Cartwnght Street, Granville Island, Vancouver, BC, V5H 3RS, tel, S04.687.6511.

Deadline March 30

Port Moody Arts Centre

Artspring 2000 juried clay exhibition for the Port Moody Festival of the Aris. April 30. Theme is spring. Deliver works March 30 18:00-2 1:00o0r March 31 12:00- 1700, Fee $10. 604.991.2008

Deadline: March 31 2000 Gallery of BC Ceramics, Jury Submis- sions. See opposite page lor details.

Deadline May 15 Vermont Clay Studio

I Seream, You Scream: an exhibition of ice cream dishes August 2-31. Wild or wacky, fun or functional, it must scream ice cream and be made of clay. Send 1-3 slides labelled with list giving complete description, resume and artist's statement, completed entry form, fee $10 and retum envelope. Besten- try; one year supply af ice cream. 802-244-1126 or <intoi- vermontclaystudic.cone> Route 100 2802 Witerbury- Stowe Rd. Waterbury Center VT 03677

JILL WATERFALL Saggar fired earthenware

March 2000

OUT OF PROVINCE

Seattle Art Museum, Seattle March 4-5

Internatonal Poreelain Symposium held in. conjunction with the exhibition: Poree- lain Stories: from China to Europe. Central to the symposium are questions aboul parcelain’s place in different cul- tures, its status as a desirable commaxdity and its artistic form. 206.903.5293 or fax 206.654.3135 Or email <porcelain@ seattleartmuseum.org>

Archie Bray Foundation, Helena MIT www archicbray.org Fifty Years Celebration Workshops

Glenn Grishkolf Brushes with a Flare; the art of creating custom handmade brushes Apnl 15-16; Paul Lewing Glaze Chemistry May 6, Sanam Emami and Friederike Rahn Layering: pattern, glaze, fire May 15-20; Robert Harrison and Tré Arenz Corunon Ground: large-scale site work ceramic sculpture June 19-30; Robert Archambeau Pots and the Wood Klin September 14-17; Takita Koichi The New Mfinge’ Seplember 30. Registmition Begins February |. Archie Bray Founda- tion for the Ceramic Aris, 2915 Country ClubAve Helena MT 50602 406,443 3500 or fax 406.445.0934 ofr email <archiebray @archiebray.ore>

EXHIBITIONS

March 3-11

Emily Carr Institute of Art And De- sign's Annual Student Ceramic Exhibit

Featuring works by students from the University of Wester Washington as part of a intemational collaboration between ECIAD and UWW. Comeourse Gallery ECIAD, 139° Johnston Sireet, Granville Island, Vaneouver BC. 604. Bee S00

April 8-24

Jill Waterfall, Saggar fired earthenware and watercolours by Trevor Cole, Genoa Bay Gal- lery, Genoa Bay Marina, Duncan, Vaneouver Is- land. Daaly 12:00-18;00; 250. 7-46, 53505

Potters Guild of Botish Columbia

AROUND THE PROVINCE

Cariboo

Weekend workshop with Gillian MeMillan, Apa | and 2. Gillian demon- sitales on the wheel showing various meth- ods of making handles, a Wheel thrown form for plates and decorating earthen- ware tiles with coloured slips, sgraffito. Fee is $65 for the weekend, To sign up phone Joan Beck at 250.392.5573, For information about Gillian, see her website www. bopotters.com/ page lf. him]

Parksville, Arrowsmith Potters Guild www. island. neu apg

Agrawsmilh comlinwes to grow in mumbers and activities. The Staton Gallery is now open. Cathi Jefferson guve a slide presen- tation of her tnp t pottery studios in Wales, England and Scotland. ln February Darrell Hancock gave a workshop on throwing and decorating. Linda Phillips leads a le workshop in March.

Nanaimo, Tozan Dragon Feast

$100 and second ticket $75

April 15 Bowen Park Auditorium

17:00 View Japanese dinner sets

18:00 Selection of your set to keep 19:00 Beast begins

Evening includes minimum six piece Japa- nese dinnerware gift, seven course Japa- nese style dinner, pnvate slock collectors bottle of Dragon Feast 2000 wine, silent auction, door prizes and entertainment,

Victoria, Jeff Oestreich workshop April 15-16 10:00-16:00

Combination of throwing, altering by faceting, stretching. darting orculting and rejoining; assembling forms, decorating and discussions of the surface achieved in salt (soda) firing. Metchosin International Summer School of the Arts 250.391.2420 or fax 250.391.2412 or email <missa @ pearson-college.uwe.cu>

Surrey, Fraser Valley Potters Guild March 9 Allison Feargrieve is guest speaker. The Guild meets the second Thurs- day of every month at Ceramics Dept, Kwantlen University College, 126666 72 Ave, Surmey, 604.558.2661

Ganges Salt Spring Island

March 20 - 23 Glenys Marshall-Inman, Surface Design workshop

Drawing design elements, progressing to clay tiles and 3D applications. Merle Box, Salt Spring Posters Guild 250,537. 1808

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