Recently Fredi Rahn contacted me with an interesting request. With 'International Women's Day' in mind she wondered if I'd like to bring some of our collection of pottery to Shadbolt Centre for a special display featuring women in our field. After discussion with the six of us it was decided that the little show would include a piece from each of the invitees and four…
ACT Art Gallery in Maple Ridge is hosting this year's edition of the Fraser Valley Potters Guild annual juried show. This show is another in the series of current ceramic shows timed to coincide with Saturday's Clay Symposium at Shadbolt Centre. Last Saturday, on a nasty rainy afternoon Alan and I drove out there and arrived just in time to hear the opening remarks and congratulate the prize…
Douglas College opened in 1970 with campuses in New Westminster, Richmond and Surrey. That is when my husband Alan was hired to teach Anthropology there, and also when artists Laura Wee Lay Laq (who now carries the ancestral name Lumlamelut) and Marcus Bowcott started taking classes in Ceramics at the Surrey campus under their fondly-remembered mentor Fred Owen. By the following year Alan and I had decided…
The opening of TriCity Potters' show 'A Celebration in Clay' was last Thursday evening, in Port Moody Arts Centre. We are celebrating our first ten years with five pieces from each participating member. There was no theme, we were simply asked to submit our selected best. To give the show some cohesion it was decided that we would also acknowledge the local area's natural…
When I was in Circle Craft Co-op last Wednesday I saw that Friederike Rahn had just finished setting up a display of work by those Shadbolt Centre instructors and staff who have fired their work in the wood and soda kilns there. Last Cone Standing is one of many ceramic shows all around the Lower Mainland which have been organized to coincide with the Shadbolt's…