| The Potters Guild of B.C. || NEWSLETTER

ts published 10 times a year as a service to the Membership. Sub- missions are welcome, ard should be in the Guild office by the last Friday of the month. Material may be edited for publication.

Managing Editor: Jan Kidnie.

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Potters Guild 1992 Board of Directors: Rosemary Amon. Sarah Coote, Linda Doherty, Tam Irving. Kerstl Krug. Carol Mayer, June MacDonald, Nathan Rafla, Friederike Rahn, Elsa Schamis, Ron Vallis, Anita Wong.

Staff: Jan Kidnie. Guild Office Administrator, Coralleé Trlance, Manager, and Lea Price, Assistant, Gallery of 8.C.Ceramics.

Apologies for the omission in the Seplember tssue of the deadline for | the next Gallery jurying. It is October 15th. For details, contact the Gallery or the Guild office.

GUILD NEWS UPDATE

Tam Irving in “Notes from the Chair" in the September Newsletter brought you up to date on recent Guild activity, including the creation of the Ceramic Foundation of B.C. and application for charitable status.

Acontinuing decline from previous years in Gallery revenues, and the probability of the Guild facing a second year with an overall loss, has resulted with the Board and its Gallery, Marketing, and Finance Committees meeting several times this past month. Thelr purpose has been Lo review options, and to develop a plan to improve the bettorn line on the financial statement come December 31st, It is crucial te the Gallery's survival over the Winter months that there are sufficient funds available to keep it functioning. This past year the Guild has used funds from previous years’ profits to sustain its operation, but the reserves are running dangerously low.

These meetings resulted with several immediate plans of action. At the Gallery, Coralle’s leave of absence for personal reasons until December wil] mean some savings In wages. Further cults in staffing costs Were agreed to be unreasonable and impractical at this me. However, volunteer assistance in the Gallery will be boosted. At paint of writing. Tam has arranged for volunteers to assist for three or four hours daily through the month of October, and it would be encouraging if the assistance could be

NOTES FROM THE INTERIOR

continued through to Christmas. Contact Tam al 687-2345 in the BCCAD Ceramic Dept. if you have a few spare hours to donate: [t's a good way to meet the Gallery customers.

Adiscount coupon will also be mailed to regular Gallery customers for a one- Ume use when purchasing work, in an attempt to improve sales over the next three months. Further marketing and advertising strategies will also be pursued.

For the Gulld Itaelf, planned expenditures will be reduced by the elimination of one issue of the Newsletter this fall and the cutting back on administrative costs. The next and last issue for this year will be matled in late November or early December. An anual membership let is usually mailed in November; this year tt will be by request only upon the payment of 1993 membership dues. Fees remain the same for 1993 [see renewal form on page 7}. and are due by January Ist, 1993.

In the meantime, your Board of Directara is working hard to ensure that the Guild will still be around for the celebration in 1995 of the Guild's 40th birthday, and the Gallery's 10th anniversary. It's something to look forward to, and we hope you will be able te particlpate!

Jan Kidnic«, Administrator and Newsletter Editor

In reply to our invitation to a meeting on October 16th of group members, we received a letter from Wendy Girard, President of the Prince George Potter’ Guild. Wendy writes that the availability of videos helps to make organizations such as theirs feel a part of the BC clay community. She also suggests that we consider producing and renting slides of exhibitions that rarely are on view outside the

Yanowiver area.

The Prince George Potters’ Guild had a show this summer, their first juried exhibitton in ten years and thelr second in the Prince George Art Gallery. “Choosing Clay" was on display last fajl. This year the Prince George group produced a mural to be installed in the Univeralty of Northern B.C.. now under construction. There was also sad news of the death of Caroline Kason, recipient of a Canada Council

grant te study local materials.

Thank you, Wendy. We were very glad to hear from you, and we expect and hope

other groups will follow your example.

Elsa Schama and June McDonald, Members, Board of Directors

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