I've collected the remaining photos from NCECA and made another Picasa/Google album. They are really the pieces that I found interesting, because I have met the artist or I think they're beautiful or amazing, or they'll remind me of display ideas. For instance the TriCity Potters have a Festive Feast dinner table show coming up early in 2013 and the Santa Fe Clay 150-person display…
Here are details of events at the Museum of Anthropology, UBC on Saturday, taken from the current BC Potters Guild newsletter. Thanks Carol. I shall be there for 3pm. Spend a Clay Afternoon at the MOA! By Carol Mayer You are invited to a talk by Walter Keeler at the UBC Museum of Anthropology on Saturday, April 7, at 3 p.m. The talk is free…
We've just returned from 4 exciting days in Seattle attending NCECA, the biggest Ceramics Conference on the Continent. My Medalta friend Brenda Sullivan flew out from Port Hope, Ontario to drive down with us. We heard that some 400 Canadians joined the roughly 6,000 Ceramic artists attending and certainly lots of BC and Alberta folks drove or flew down. It was a such fun to…
Wednesday evening's meeting of the TriCity Potters was held in my studio/basement because the local schools are on Spring Break. We rented some folding chairs and with a screen and our projector we managed well. 25 people attended to hear our guest Glenn Lewis. He spoke about his two years as a Leach apprentice in St Ives and more about the philosophy of pots and…
As I sort the hundreds of photos from our trip Down Under I thought that the visit to the pottery and railway of Barry Brickell would make a nice Picasa/Google Album. It has too many photos to post here in a blog so just click the link and you should see what a fun day we had on the Coromandel Peninsula. It is half a…