President’s Message Welcome to 2007! I wish you all a year of inspiration and success in your endeavours. The start of a new year is a good time for reflection—a time to look at the art we ate making, think about why we do what we do, and ask ourselves where we are going with it. It’s time to try new glazes or try new forms, sign up for workshops, or look for new outlets. It’s the same for the Guild. It’s a time to assess our activities and see how we can expand our horizons, reach new audiences and strengthen our community. Please contact me with any ideas or thoughts you may have of how our organization can do more for us as a community. Don’t forget that the Guild 1s what we, the members, make it. ie Jinny Whitehead Call for Entries 2007 Contemporary Craft in BC: Excellence Within Diversity The Crafts Association of BC and the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre invite B.C. craft artists/makers to participate in a juried exhibition, Craft Year 2007, to celebrate excellence 1n Canadian craft. The exhibit will be held at the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre, Vancouver in September 2007. The application form 1s available on the CABC website at www. cabc.net. Click on the Craft Year 2007 project button or go directly to the link at www. cabe.net/news /craftyear2007 /craftyear2007. htm THE DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES IS MARCH 15. Selected works will showcase the diversity of B.C. Contemporary craft makers in their range of mediums, traditions and cultures while making statements about the past, present and future of fine craft in this province and country. The exhibition will encourage, recognize and support craftspeople by engaging public awareness and appreciation of fine craft in a landmark venue, the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Society, that attracts a large, attentive audience locally and internationally. Other unique components of this exhibition include: public programming - a speakers’ series, demonstrations and workshops; a community additive project encouraging public participation; and an invitation to galleries, museums, colleges, universities and arts centres throughout the province to host fine craft projects throughout the year. A catalogue will be produced for the exhibit. Por further information contact Yvonne or Calvin at 604-687-6511, or craft2007@cabe.net Li eee We Want Your Chops In 1998 Linda Doherty collected many of your chops, signatures, and marks, for the Made of Clay book. This is going to become an ongoing project. The Guild should make sure that they have on file all the marks its members have used during their making careers. Collectors and galleries struggle with ceramic recognition all the time. We often get curators sending us photos of signatures asking if we know who the potter was. This is what we will need: ° Facsimiles of your signatures, marks, or chops. * Your date of birth, and where you were born. ¢ Whether you are self-taught, or whom you apprenticed with, or where you went to school. * Where your studio/s have been located. ° If you know the dates when you used particular marks please include that information. * Anytime you change your marks, be sure to send in your new signature. * Your email and your phone number. When you come to the clay symposium, come by the Guild table. Please bring your chops. We will have paper and pens, stamp pads, plasticine, etc and we will record any and all of the marks you put on your work. Anyone not coming to the symposium, just mail your marks to the Guild, mark the envelope: Chops and Marks. Even if you have your marks in the Made of Clay book, please send in the requested information with your signature. We will be starting a file at the Guild office. Debra Sloan POTTERS GUILD ot BRITISH COLUMBIA