The NorthWest Ceramic Foundation is once again holding a Gala Fundraising Dinner. It’s on Friday May 15th and will be held at the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club. Some of us have volunteered to make dessert plates which attendees at the banquet will take home after the event. This particular fundraiser has taken place several times now and is always a great evening to mingle with fellow potters, admire and trade plates and consider placing bids on Silent Auction donations.

Admittedly it is a chance to acquire work by clay artists whose work would otherwise be unaffordable but we all understand that it’s all in a good cause. NWCF administers the Maureen Wright Scholarship funds and organizes a regular series of free public lectures by leading ceramic scholars and practitioners.

Here is the salty jugbird that I am donating. It was fired in Herman Venema’s salt kiln last year.

I consider it an honour to be invited to donate a piece, and to be included in a smart catalogue with people whose work I have long admired. Open the pdf below to see the catalogue and read more information about the Foundation and their Gala Dinner. I’m planning to attend as a special treat to myself. If you live out my way I’d love to have someone to drive in to Kitsilano with me, and enjoy the evening.

2015 Oven and Kiln Catalogue 4_12

My plate donations this time will be the new squarish plates my visiting artist ‘Raiders’ have been painting. But instead of using underglazes as they do I prefer to decorate my red earthenware plates when they are leather hard, and I paint with my colourful slips. It’s been fun to experiment with various stencil ideas. Now I need to get them and a group of jugbirds all dry, terra sigged, bisqued, glazed and fired again in the next few days.