Some time ago Port Moody Arts Centre's Kelly Doyle approached me to ask if TriCity Potters would be interested in undertaking another 'challenge' for a good cause. Spoiler alert.. we have been asked to make pendants for inclusion in a 'goody bag' for attendees at the Arts Centre's upcoming fundraiser,'Ladies Night Out' in August. We've already agreed to make flower pots for Amnesty International's Fall…
Last Wednesday we held our last TriCity Potters' meeting of the season. We've been the local group for clay artists for eight years now. To celebrate, as we usually do in June, we shared a special cake! Some members brought along a piece of pottery, either one of their own that they're particularly happy with or a piece that they have collected. These little show-and-tell…
On Wednesday May 20th Robert Shiozaki and Anyuta Gusakova were co-presenters at the monthly meeting of TriCity Potters. We met Robert when he and Kathryn O'Regan collaborated for a show in Port Moody Arts Centre not long ago. It was a preview show for a larger one held at Amelia Douglas Gallery, Douglas College, New Westminster. Since then Robert has joined us at our meetings…
Clay artist Ying-Yueh Chuang was our guest at last Wednesday's meeting of TriCity Potters. She gave us a power point presentation that showed us her progress as a student and now professional artist. The photos covered her early experiments with assembling and glazing press-moulded forms and where these ideas have taken her in almost two decades since. Ying-Yueh came to BC from Taiwan…
There was a good turn-out of members for TriCity Potters' meeting last night. After having lots of people come to hear Brendan Tang last month I asked that we be given a bigger room in future. Sandra Niven has arranged for us to meet in the downstairs room of the new/old addition, with the adjacent concrete-floored lower atrium room available if we need it. So…