from: Fos Eldridge, Kamloops North, B.C.

Editor,

I thought that we in Kamloops should send in to you
information on an exceedingly successful exhibition we had last
week-end. It was sponsored and set up by members of the
Kamloops Arts and Crafts Club.

The enclosed flyer was sent to interested people The
response was just wonderful and nearly every piece of pottery
had a "sold" sticker the first night.

The Club will be planning another show in the Spring and
hope to draw from a number of potters and painters.

Yours sincerely ... Ros. Eldridge

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from: David L.M. Lar:bert, Vancouver, B.C.

The craft workshop as it has been used in Canada for the
last generation has now reached a stage of very little return for
the immense effort, time, and money expended upon it.

Py 'workshop' is meant the one, two, or three day
demonstration lecture by an artist-potter-craftsman imported
from some other area to show how he makes a teapot or a
handle and to allow his brain to be picked.

What has happened to workshops is that the learners-in-
the-field attend and learn quite a lot, but the very people who
should be there are not. These are the people who have been
attending such workshcps for twenty or more years, have developed
their own styles and ideas and do not want to, as they say, ‘waste
time'. There are many reasons given when they are questioned
about this. They are too busy, they already know all that is to be
done, they do not know the person giving the workshop, or -- they
do know the person, Upon being questioned further they state that
as far as they are concerned it is a waste of time, and money, and
thought. In other words, they have got past it.

A demonstration brainpicking workshop put on by one of the
great pottery masters would draw them out!