Maggi Kneer's show "Around the World in 80 Plates" opened on Thursday May 2nd at the Gallery of BC Ceramics. Maggi loves to travel and has visited 60 countries. For this show she has hand-built eighty plates and has applied decals made from her collection of photographs. One could spend a long while with Maggi hearing all the stories that accompany the images. For her they…
Later in the day last Monday I drove in to Vancouver, mainly to help make up numbers for a quorum for Circle Craft's AGM. First I stopped at the Gallery of BC Ceramics to leave some new pieces for them. They now have four more small salt-fired jugbirds from last December's firing and a couple of earthenware plates. Manager Laura phoned me the next day…
Last Wednesday Fredi Rahn spoke to our group, showing us her hand-building technique and some slides of her work. Fredi studied Ceramics at Sheridan College (Ontario) and Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and since 1990 has taught at Emily Carr University and Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. While we tried to figure out projector, laptop computer and memory…
350 people attended Elementum: Form, Function and Feast, the 6th Triennial Canadian Clay Ceramic Symposium, held at Shadbolt Centre for the Arts on Saturday. With 13 presenters there was something for everybody, whether beginner or professional, wheel thrower, hand builder, sculptor, teacher, curator or writer. To be honest I saw it as a chance to catch up with potters I've met in over 40 years…
To celebrate forty years of promoting and celebrating Fine Crafts in BC, Circle Craft Co-op invited longtime members who work in clay to be part of a special show. I remember visiting their Christmas Craft Fair when it was held at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre (the Cultch), meeting some artists who are still members and enjoying my first taste of carrot cake! I have…