6. Exhibitors are asked to have one of the items marked as ‘Exhibition
Piece’. This item will be more critically juried than the rest of the
show and, if chosen, will go into a special exhibition area. This piece
must also be for sale.

7. Galleries or shops are allowed to enter only one person's work.

Don Hutchinson
(Entry form for Hycroft on last page)

WILLIAMS LAKE POTTERY WORKSHOP

Under the auspices of the B.C. Potters' Guild, a ten day workshop was
held at Williams Lake during August.

Arrangements for the workshop were very capably handled by Mrs
Anna Roberts and the enthusiastic group of potters in Williams Lake.
A cottage near the lakeshore was made available and some ten
assorted wheels were assembled.

Reg Dixon and Jack Wells conducted the first five days of the workshop,
assisted by Ellen Chamberlin. Sessions were held afternoons and
evenings and between fifteen and twenty persons were always present.
Emphasis during the first sess.on was on wheel work, simple glaze
making and testing of over twenty different local clays, Discussion

was very free and inevitably questions such as construction of an
adequate wheel and a small kiln were dealt with from the practical view.

Reg had brought with him a small electric test kiln, and Jack had a
propane gas burner to which the outdoor kiln was modified and very
successfully fired. Cone 4 was the temperature chosen and most of
the local red clays softened but china clays from Quesnel and a fire-
clay from 100 Mile House are available for the development of a
satisfactory body. Some of the red clays with 10-20", colemanite
gave interesting slip glazes,

The emphasis, however, was not on results, but rather, that by
understanding simple procedural methods and using available materials,
an individual or group can themselves develop their own glazes and
bodies.

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