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…
Last Thursday was the Opening Reception for two shows at Port Moody Arts Centre. Maggie White is a well-known Port Moody painter and a member of the Federation of Canadian Artists. For a long time she specialized in water-colours. I remember the opening of a show of hers at Coquitlam's Place des Arts in the late eighties, mainly because one needed to get there early…
One of the first speakers invited to a TriCity Potters meeting, some five years ago, was Vin Arora. At that time he had just been hired to take over teaching and tech duties at Place des Arts from retiring June MacDonald. He was a recent Emily Carr grad at the time. We were so impressed with his enthusiasm for a recent highly influential trip to…
On Thursday evening June MacDonald and I drove over to Place des Arts in Coquitlam for the opening of Fraser Valley potter Kwai Sang Wong's show: 'When Imagination Meets Clay'. Winnie started pottery lessons with June at Place des Arts several years ago so was pleased to have the show of her recent work on display there. Her main interest is to explore the idea…