My pots for Wednesday's salt firing are all wadded and packed into boxes ready for the drive out to Abbotsford tomorrow to load the kiln with Dave Dobie and Herman Venema. Nora Vaillant drove out here today with her mother Judy (who is holidaying in Vancouver from her home in hot Arizona) to leave her pieces for the firing. This will save her one of…
This felt like a productive day. Last night I made the 4 dessert plates I'd promised for the Oven and Kiln Fundraiser next week and today I got them painted with stencilled slip designs. Photos after the glaze firing.. Then I put some handles on 4 jug birds so there's a hope that I can get them and 3 more painted and fired for ArtWalk.…
Here are details of events at the Museum of Anthropology, UBC on Saturday, taken from the current BC Potters Guild newsletter. Thanks Carol. I shall be there for 3pm. Spend a Clay Afternoon at the MOA! By Carol Mayer You are invited to a talk by Walter Keeler at the UBC Museum of Anthropology on Saturday, April 7, at 3 p.m. The talk is free…
We've just returned from 4 exciting days in Seattle attending NCECA, the biggest Ceramics Conference on the Continent. My Medalta friend Brenda Sullivan flew out from Port Hope, Ontario to drive down with us. We heard that some 400 Canadians joined the roughly 6,000 Ceramic artists attending and certainly lots of BC and Alberta folks drove or flew down. It was a such fun to…
For several years the huge ceramics collection at London's Victoria & Albert Museum was not available to the public. I remember a huge, block-long series of rooms each featuring Korean, Italian, English collections - any ceramic tradition you can imagine. At last these galleries are reopened and the display has been entirely reorganized. The museum is free and not-to-be-missed! A month ago I was happy…