TriCity Potters meet on the third Wednesday of each month at Port Moody Senior Secondary School in Room 214. Do join us!

This month’s presenter is Don Hutchinson, retired Langara College ceramics instructor and potter extraordinaire!

November 17,  2010   7pm

“A potter for over 35 years, Hutchinson works out of Kingsmill

Pottery on Granville Island, and his own studio, White Rabbit Pottery,

in White Rock. He learned the medium at the Vancouver School of

Art from his mentors, world-acclaimed potters Robert Weghsteen,

Heinz Laffin and Wayne Ngan.

For more than a quarter of a century Hutchinson has shared his

ceramics knowledge with hundreds of people at Vancouver’s Langara

College. Some of these students have gone on to pursue ceramics

careers in Seoul and New York.”

“When Hutchinson retired from teaching a few years ago his

colleague, Vancouver designer Gerald Formosa, remarked: “This man

has never done a day’s work in this place; everything was pure loving

and play.” He describes Hutchinson as a “sometimes biblical Adam

who is all mud and water — pure clay who knows that all the

complexity of life is in the simplicity of a bowl viewed from many

angles.”*

*(M. WHITNEY PIAGGIO wrote this for the Langara College magazine. Taken from the Langara college website)