Port Moody Arts Centre (PoMoArts) has a unique opportunity for emerging ceramic artists. A recent graduate from a clay programme is given a small studio in the clay department with use of materials and kilns for a full year, with a month-long solo show at the end of that time. In return the artist-in-residence is asked to supervise some clay drop-in times, share their techniques…
On Friday afternoon I had a chance to wander through the three galleries at PoMoArts and to take a better look at the shows. Several others were looking too, including a man who is taking classes at the Clay Warehouse in Port Coquitlam, had attended the opening the night before and was enthusiastically showing all the work to a friend. I encouraged them to join…
On Thursday evening three shows opened at PoMoArts, including TriCity Potters' first group show since our last one was closed down in March of 2020. Today's blog shows some of the artists in our current show 'CERAMICS IN FLUX', and a little on the two other shows. TCP board member Kay Bonathon thanked gallery manager Janice Cotter for her splendid work organising and displaying all…
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…