POTTERS GUILD OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

2016 EVENTS

Annual General Meeting: Monday, March 7, 2016
The Annual General Meeting for the Potters Guild of BC will be held at 6:00 PM on Monday, March 7th at the Gallery of BC Ceramics on Granville Island.

Registration takes place at 5:45. Please see the AGM Notice here for the agenda, a proxy form and nomination form for the Board of Directors.

Member's Show: "Atmospheric" Call for Entry Monday, March 3 to 26, 2016
We are pleased to announce a new opportunity to participate in a group exhibition at the Gallery of BC Ceramics. This is open to all individual members of the Potter’s Guild of B.C. This is an exhibition that focuses on atmospheric firings including but not limited to wood, soda, salt, reduction, raku, and saggar. We are hoping to represent all regions of the province with this show so please help us show the vast talent of BC’s ceramic artists by submitting your work

For more details and submission guidelines, please refer the Call for Entry information sheet here.

Artist's Talk: Allan Collier “BC Pottery 1920 – 1950” March 31, 2016
The North–West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce Allan Collier as their featured speaker at a free public lecture Thursday, March 31, at 7:30 pm. The lecture will be held in Room 245, North Building of Emily Carr University of Art + Design at 1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island, Vancouver. All are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Allan Collier is a furniture designer-maker, teacher, collector and curator based in Victoria. He has curated, written about and lent objects from his collection to exhibitions across the country. A major project, The Modern Eye: Craft and Design in Canada, 1940-1980, was exhibited at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria in 2011. Featuring over 40 pieces of furniture, 100 examples of ceramics plus printed fabrics, tapestries, appliances and lighting, this exhibition and catalogue highlighted the range of modernist expression in Canadian craft and design during this time.

Collier’s lecture, “BC Pottery 1920-1950,” discusses his latest research on BC pottery from the 1920s to the late 1940s, contextualizing the work of individuals and commercial potteries such as Royal Ariston, BC Ceramics, Crown Ceramics and Ravine Pottery (New Westminster).

For more on the North-West Ceramics Foundation, please see our website at http://www.nwcf.ca/.