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Canadian Clay Symposium
Surfacing: Saturday, March 24, 2007

Registration for the Canadian Clay Symposium has been coming in
steadily over the last month, for the Canadian Clay Symposium:
Surfacing. The early-bird deadline, for the discounted price of $99.64,
ends Jan. 30. The event has consistently sold out—and with a lineup
which includes Magdalene Odundo, Mark Hewitt, Bob Kingsmill,
Kinicht Shigeno, Karen Burk, Diane Creber, Robin Hopper, Sam
Uhlick and Jeannie Mah, this one should be no exception—so call
604.291.6864 to ensure your spot today. For some of the presenters,
this marks their first visit to our fair city—and your first opportunity
to learn from their vast experience.

Remember to mark some other dates on your calendar, as several
of the presenters are offering additional workshops throughout the
Lower Mainland while they are here: Mark Hewitt will present a one-
day Throwing Big And Small workshop at the Shadbolt Centre on
Sunday, March 25, while Diane Creber will do a three-day, hands-on
Crystalline Glaze workshop, also at the Shadbolt, starting on March
26. Refer to the ad in this edition of the newsletter for further details,
or call 604.291.6864. Mark will also do a noon hour slide presentation
at Emily Carr on Friday, March 23 and the Delta Potters Guild hosts

a throwing workshop with Sam Uhlick on the Thursday and Friday To register Call:

prior to the symposium, March 22 and 23. Call Carol Clancey at Shadbolt Centre for the Arts
604.943.5987 for details on that one.
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Registration not only includes your lunch, but this year we have
added pizza and appetizers from 5 to 7p.m., so we can end the event
on a social note. This will be an event you won’t want to miss—

register now!LS Sharon Reay

Presenter Profile:
Mark Hewitt

Enthralled by the richness of surfaces created through wood firing,
Mark Hewitt’s utilitarian work addresses the serendipity of process and
the tactile sensibilities found through wood and atmospheric firing. The
intimacy of the handmade object and the subtle character imbued in
each pot informs both his process and his prose.

Born tn Stoke-on-Trent, England, Mark 1s the son and grandson of
directors of Spode, the fine china manufacturers. As a student at Bristol
University in the early 1970’s, Mark read Bernard Leach’s A Potters
Book, and decided to become a studio potter rather than an industrial
manager. This decision led to a three-year apprenticeship with Michael
Cardew, and later another with Todd Piker in Connecticut, where Mark
met his wife, Carol.

In 1983, they moved to Pittsboro, NC and set up their pottery.

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