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Read more about the article Concrete Marrow: Mickey Vescera

'Chickadee'

Concrete Marrow: Mickey Vescera

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…

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August 29th, 2022

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TriCity Potters: Gerda Krause

Last Friday members of TriCity Potters gathered for our monthly meeting in the Appleyard Room at PoMoArts (Port Moody Arts Centre). It was chaired this month by executive member Owen Lee. We briefly discussed future activities and speakers, and invited members to think about a title or theme for our scheduled members' show in PoMoArts Gallery next February. Our presenter for this evening was executive…

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April 27th, 2022

Gillian's work / local pottery shows / pottery / pottery studio visits / Vancouver Art

Contemporary BC Clay

This was the day to make a final delivery of pots to Circle Craft to top up my stock there before Christmas. I had a drop-off appointment for 2.30pm. We woke to two inches of wet snow and I don't relish driving in that, but it was melting and I risked it. It was sleeting when I stopped off at the Western Front to deliver…

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December 15th, 2021

local pottery shows / pottery

fortheloveofmudd

Tyler Fritz' Instagram handle is 'fortheloveofmudd' and, while following his posts, I discovered that he seems to have an enormous selection of historic pots. It turns out that his main interest is the finding and marketing of all things Mid-Century Modern and along with his research on those paintings, prints and furnishings he has come across lots of secondary market ceramics from that period. Thomas…

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October 30th, 2021

Read more about the article New Direction in Ceramics. Tam Irving

Rectangle Study

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New Direction in Ceramics. Tam Irving

Tam Irving's latest solo show opened at VisualSpace Gallery in Vancouver last Saturday. The only Art Show opening I attended last year was Tam's show in the same venue so I was interested to see what he has been working on since then. It turns out that Tam has abandoned, probably permanently, wheel-throwing in favour of hand-built slab work for 2D images. There are…

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September 3rd, 2021

Gillian McMillan combines a true love for birds, a fine eye for colour, hands which have learnt to mould clay, and a free-flying imagination ready to form a bird into a jug, or a jug into a bird. Either way, the combination of bird form and jug shape is without pretence.