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Gallery of BC Ceramics

www.galleryofbcceramics.com

Representing the best of BC Ceramics Gallery Manager Sharon Cohen galleryofbcceramics@bcpotters.com

604.669.3606 |

Hours

10 a.m.to 6 p.m. | Gallery Assistants Carita Ho, Karen Lew, Linda Lewis, Kate Metten, Dave Carlin Roxanne Gagnon, Sasha Krieger, Gala Vlasic staff@bcpotters.com | Gallery Volunteers Maggi Kneer, Sheila Morissette, Elizabeth Claridge, Jinny Whitehead, Celia Rice-Jones |

The Gallery of BC Ceramics is

a Zallery by potters for potters.

i The Gallery coordinates and curates

several exhibitions a year.

@ Every month we showcase an artist, usually someone just starting

his or her career.

& We also sell the work of more than 100 artists in the retail shop. Artists must apply to be juried; there are three deadlines annually. To download and print a Gallery Jury Application, click here. For information on Gallery

Policy, click here.

2011 Featured Artists

‘The Featured Artist slot affords a non-juried artist the opportunity to sell work in the gallery

for a month-long period. All Guild members are eligible to apply, and may show work other

than the mugs and tiles to which non-juried potters are usually restricted. Please apply (include

images of your work) directly to the gallery manager at galleryofbcceramics@bcpotters.com.

‘The following artists will be featured beginning on the 15th of the month listed:

¢ February: Shannon Merritt * March: Trezlie Brooks

¢ April: Kelly Austin

* May: Ann Rusch

* June: Molly Magid

My lady (2011), 12" x 10". Cone 6 stoneware, hand built, press molded and draped.

October's featured artist Rona Hatherall: I was a nurse and loved my work. I liked pottery but did not know a darn thing about it. Every course offered would conflict with

* July: Laurie Embree

* August: Don Jung

* September: Danny Kostyshin * October: Rona Hatherall

my shifts. So I had to wait until I retired. ‘Then, one Christmas, my daughter gave me a class at West Point Grey from Maureen Wright just for fun, and I was hooked. I took several consecutive classes for two years. I realised it would be easier to become an airline pilot. I plugged on, taking classes at Shadbolt with Fredi Rahn and Darrel Hancock. Still...the light would not come on.

So now I play with clay and it tells me what to do. Sometimes I] make things everybody likes. I try. I really enjoyed handbuilding because it was not so structured but that often meant dinner was late because I was “creating”. I have had a lot of fun.

I would never consider myself a potter; I just enjoy playing with clay. I still attend workshops but nothing stays in my head so I just do my own thing. Every year I say this will be my last pottery year and the next year rolls around and I buy another box of clay just for a little while longer.

2011 Gallery Exhibitions

MAY: Spottery

A non-juried members’ show featuring work with a dot or spot motif. On till May 29.

JUNE: First Serve

Emily Carr graduates, Kelly Austin, Darcy Greiner, Emma Walter and others begin their conversation with the ceramic community in Vancouver and the art world in general.

JULY: Celebrate the Bowl

A non-juried members’ show featuring bowls in support of Project Empty Bowl.

SEPTEMBER:

Classic Forms Revisited

Works by Mary Fox. A new interpretation of classic vase and amphora forms that have inspired Mary's ceramics.

NOVEMBER: Wide Open

A juried show of small works by members of the Alberta Potters Association, this exhibition

is one-half of an exchange with the Potters

Guild of BC.

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