Some time ago TriCity Potters board member Owen Lee suggested that we plan an expedition to the Sunshine Coast to take part in their annual ART CRAWL. He even invited us to stay at his family's Gibsons cabin if we chose to stay for a couple of days. Members were enthusiastic but in the end it was a small group of us who travelled around…
Here are some more photos of work by members of Fraser Valley Potters Guild. Their juried show opened at Coquitlam's Place des Arts last Friday. To see more about the opening please click on the previous blog. I took too many photos for one blog! Cheryl Stapleton & Amy Gogarty Ailsa Brown & Suzanne Basnett Kay Bonathon Heather Northam + more I'm sorry I didn't…
Fraser Valley Potters' latest show opened at Coquitlam's Place des Arts on Friday night. The juror for this show, ECUAD ceramics professor Jen Woodin, gave the members a critique of their submissions at an August meeting and she attended the opening to present prizes and certificates to her selection of prize-winners and 'honorable mentions'. Visitors to the evening's events were first welcomed by Place des…
Pauline Doyle was one of the first to take pottery classes and join drop-in sessions in the clay department of the newly opened Port Moody Arts Centre, now PoMoArts. Before long she became a popular teacher of the children's clay classes and for three years she was the artist-in-residence. Her main interest now is to make whimsical animal sculptures in her Spring street, Port Moody…
The three ceramic shows at PoMoArts close on September 4th. so you have a week to check them out. Mickey Vescera has been the most recent Ceramics artist-in-residence in the Arts Centre's clay department and this is their concluding show. https://pomoarts.ca/exhibitions/concrete-marrow Mickey graduated from Emily Carr University's ceramics programme a year ago so this will have been a wonderful opportunity for them to research and…