"TriCity Potters have been preparing for our group soda firing at Shadbolt Centre for the Arts for a few months. Last Wednesday twenty potters brought our pots to the Vault kiln for liner glaze, flashing slips and wadding. Some members helped to load the kiln the next day and learn about spraying soda into the kiln at its hottest on the third day. We had…
Fourteen years ago, in October of 2010, five members of TriCity Potters spent an amazing two weeks in JingdeZhen, the famous porcelain-production city in China. Last Wednesday these intrepid potters, Grace Siu, Carlene Akester, Kay Bonathan, Hannah Chan and Eliza Wang, presented their experience there to us and then spoke a little about how the residency has influenced their own work. Kay introduced the five,…
Are you intimidated by colourful underglazes? Some Tricity Potters are happy to make pots in classes and then glaze them but worry about using underglazes. With that in mind we arranged a fun game of cooperation for last Wednesday's meeting. Members were asked to bring along a bone dry or bisque-fired pot, any underglazes they have and a brush or two. We had lots of…
TriCity Potters invited Pat Schendel to be our guest for last week's January meeting. We had an excellent turn-out for Pat's interesting talk about her work with Crystalline glazes. Some of Pat's fans came all the way from Richmond for her presentation. I think folks were very happy to get together again after the holidays. Fearful snow caused the closing of the Arts Centre, and…
The presenter for last Wednesday's meeting of TriCity Potters was North Burnaby ceramic artist Amy Chang. We were thrilled to see and hold her extraordinary ceramic creations once again. I first came across her work at Deer Lake Art Gallery in 2018, and she had another solo show at Port Moody Arts Centre in 2019. https://www.gillianmcmillan.com/blog/2018/04/03/industrial-revolution-amy-li-chuan-chang/ This is the poster TCP member Emily Cheung designed…