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Noted: Two interesting participants in
the 47th Concorso Internationale della
Ceramica d'Arte, in Faenza, Italy, an
exhibition of juried work shown there in
Seplember and October of this year,
were B.C.'s Cheri Sydor and Yuriko
Matsuda, our workshop guest in July,
whe visited us from Japan. Congratula-
tions, Cherl and Yuriko.

Thope some of you were able to find the
time in a busy season to visit the Cana-
dian Craft Museum's “Art That Works’,
an exciting and impressive exhibition of
190 objects made by over 100 of United
States’ top craflspeople from the IS80's.
The show closed in mid-November, but
Lleyd Herman's efforts in assembling
the exhibition were well-timed, in con-
junction with several other events tak-
ing place in town. (If you didn't make it,
a book complementing and document-
ing the exhibition may be viewed at the
Museum on Hornby St, just north of
Georgla downtown.

The UBC Anthropology Museum cel-
ebrated the opening of lis Koerner Wing
by sponsoring a three-day symposium
entitled “The Turning Point” the firat
weekend in November. Guild members
who were lucky enough to attend the
first two days (I had a newsletter to get
out) Were treated to a multi-disciplinary
series of talks and presentations on the
history of ceramics. Saturday morning.
the focus was | suspect somewhat less
intense, bul nevertheless fascinating to
me. Dr. Steven Inglis from Ottawa's

Museum of Civilization jand someone
we hope to have civ) the Guild an evening
of his time in the near future) made a
presentation on early studio potters in
Canada. A good part of his focus was on
Kjeld and Erica Delchmann, the couple
whe worked in New Brunawick In the
30's through to the 50's.

Laura Wee Lay Lag gave an interesting
informal discussion of her work in clay,
and the final presentation was jointly
made by the dynamic trio of Carol Mayer,
the Curator of Ceramicea at the UBC
Anthropology Museum, Tam Irving. ard
Joe Nagel, Curator / Director of the Geo-
logical Museum at UBC. These three
hawe part together a proposal to sturdy
the themes of “technology and artistry",
and we hope to hear more on the sub-
ject. Nagel'’s amazing pholography amd
boundless enthusiasm for “all things
crystalline” gave us a Laste for more!

CABC's “Quo Vadis: 20th Century Craft?"
followed right along in mid-November,
with Patterson Sims, the Curator of
Contemporary Art at the Seattle Art
Museum opening the seasion on Friday
evening. [ think many felt that the sub-
ject Was avoided somehow by Mr. Sims,
(his biases were showing) and |t wasn't
until Saturday morning. with a panel of
speakers including Roberta Kremer, Ann
Rosenberg, Dorls Shadbolt and Jim
Thomsbury, moderated by Graeme
Chalmers, that we got down to It. Doris
Shadbelt's quiet, moving reflections on
the Inherent strengths of craft, with fits

corporal, emotional and historical refer-
ences and qualities, Were a satisfying
conclusion to a busy month of craft /art
examination fer mv.

Hope you also get to see the Koerner
Ceramic Collection poon. It deserves a
good leak, and many rebum vialts te let
it all soak in, In conjunction with “The
Turning Point", a show of contemporary
B.C. ceramics was on display in the
foyer of the Koerner Wing. and | had
hoped that lt would remain over the
Christmas season when more of you
might be able to take a “free Tuesday” to
visit the Museum. Do 50 anyway; a
collection of Martaban ceramics, giant,
hand-built trade pleces from Burma bs
on display in the foyer until the end of
January.

As well, don't forget the HongKong Bank's
Jean Mackay Fahmi collection of Asian
ceramics at the Vancouver Museum,
When planning a tour of Vancouver's

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