GALLERY REPORT

Thanks to Gallery Artists who continue to support us through this difficult financial year, We are not out of financial difficulty yet, We have asked you to accept a 50-50% Split in commissions and realize that this is hoteasy. However, without your cooperation itis obvious that it would be diffecule for ws lo remain in business.

An important part of our mandate is to provide the public, including other gallery and shop owners, in Vancouver as well as across the country, with the opportunity to view the best B.C. has to offer in ceramics. By showing them what we consider to be the best, we help to create new markets for Gallery artists, By providing the venue to display evolving work, we also enhance the public's awareness of what any one artist is presently doing, We also acknowledge that the Gallery shows only a small percentage of what is being produced bere in British Columbia. We will continue to work hardin increase sales as well as public awareness of the quality product that is available to them,

Just a reminder about the Christmas feature, subtitled “Coffee Cups and Java Jugs”. 11 is open to Guild members who wish to participate and Lencourage people who are not selling in the Gallery to contact me, The basic theme is “Coffee” and the usual images come to mind; however, I think it would be fun to play with the concept of “Coffee”, It is wide open, Work should be here no juter than November 12th, with show set up on Nov. (Sth,

“Progressions” by Graeme Allemeersch is the feature for the month of October and runs until the 25th. In this show, Graeme has created vies reminiscent of Rousseau paintings. with floral vases peering out over the top of lush jungle toliage; carved pedestals on top of which vases perch, and carved platters and lidded serving bowls, There is lots to delight the eye in this show.

Coralie 669-3645, 10:30 to $:30, Monday to Friday

SHOWS AND EXHIBITIONS

Connie Glover and Brent Gloeckler have a sale and exhibition of their recent work at the White Rock Community Arts Council's Gallery, 15125 Russell Ave., to October | 9th.

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Four ceramic artists, Gail Carney, Nathan Rafla, Takako Suzuki and Kathryn Youngs, all involved with Burnaby Art Centre over the years, present “Ceramics as Art” at the Burnaby Art Gallery from October Ist to 29th.

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The recent work of Kinichi Shigeno will be featured at Cirele Craft on Granville Island in November, with the opening on Nowember 4th, first Thursday,

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John Ramsay, 1065 Cambie St., Thursday, October 7th, from 5 to 3 prn,

If you're heading across the border, don't miss the Bellevue Art Muscum’s “The Legacy of the Archie Bray Foundation”, until the end of October. The Archie Bray ceramic centre in Helena, Montana, has been functioning since the “SOs, and an amazing range and number of workers in clay have spent periods of time there. This retraspective presents the work of 32 individuals, among them Peter Voulkos, Betty Woodman, Akio Takamorj, Clary Illian, Warren MacKenzie, David Shaner, Ken Ferguson, Rudy Autio, and Robert Sperry. Inconjunction with 1993 celebration of the Year of American Craft, there have been other impressive shows of ceramic work in the Seatie area; from Pottery Northwest, to the William Traver Gallery. The Bellevue show is the main one to carry on to the end of October, and alone, sll worth the trip!

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To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the Canadian Society for Asian Arts, in partnership with the Vancouver Museum, 1s mounting an exhibition entitled “Clay and Cloth; Celebrations of Life and Death in Borneo”, at the Museum on Chestnut $1, Vancouver, from October Sth to January ard. Jean Fahrni, curator for the show, writes, “Ceramics and textiles were central to all ceremonies connected to the celebrations of life in Borneo: fertility rites, birth, head-taking, harvest, a form of bride- price, fines for adultery, and in payment of debits. Ceremonial ceramics in Bomeo since 1000 A_D_ have been increasingly of a type know as ‘foreign’. They are the dragon storage jars carried on sailing vessels as food and water containers, as wellas Chinese, Vietnamese and Thai stoneware and porcelain ‘trade wares” .”

In the exhibit, which includes a full-scale, Bornco-ty pe longhouse, some fine large jars and good examples of Chinese celadons, whitewares. blue and white porcelains as well as hand-woven textiles produced by indigenous peoples in Sarawak, Sabah and Kalimantan will be on display. Special group tours can be arranged by phoning Jean Fahrni at 224-6200.

October, 1993

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