As I walked over the hill on St Andrews Lane, towards the Arts Centre, I faced fierce dark clouds and an impending shower but there, over downtown Port Moody was a rainbow. It seemed to add to the celebrations taking place in the gallery. When I arrived there was a large crowd of Art patrons, this time mainly local Koreans. The Korean Cultural Heritage Society…
'Summer of Ceramics' is the title of one of the shows that opened at Port Moody Arts Centre on Thursday. Members of the 'Clay for You' pottery club and their teacher Clay Jung Hong Kim were showing Korean-style pottery in their 12th Annual Exhibition. Korean ceramic master Clay Jung Hong Kim arrived in BC in 2001. Since…
It's now almost two weeks since I went over to Burnaby Art Gallery on a Thursday evening for the opening of Joe Fafard's latest show here in the Lower Mainland. I'm always curious to see what this well-known Canadian sculptor from Saskatchewan has been up to. From his humorous and loving clay sculptures of prairie folk, to portraits of famous artists and later to the…
Port Moody Arts Centre's current Ceramic Artist-in-Residence Ray Tse has now completed his year here. Along with supervising the Tuesday Open Studio clay drop-in sessions and teaching pottery classes he has been using his studio in the Arts Centre to make impressive sculptures for his final show. Last January we invited Ray to speak to TriCity Potters and at that time…
On Thursday April 29th there was a very grand event at Port Moody Arts Centre. South Korean-born artist Kwi Am Choi was an active member of the local art community for several years. He opened a little gallery/framing shop in Old Port Moody and showed his 3D paintings at the Arts Centre. He had a small kiln in his gallery where he melted glass to incorporate in…