After all the excitement of the Clay Symposium at Shadbolt Centre last month I’ve found that things have been quiet in the ceramics community lately. I’ll post photos of what I’ve been up to later. But I did go to the BC Potters Guild AGM on Monday March 20th at the Gallery of BC Ceramics and was happy to meet Ying-Yueh’s friend Juliane Shibata who teaches at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. Juliane seemed to enjoy my new earthenware yunomis and purchased one to show her students!
After the AGM we all trundled over to Emily Carr U for what may be my last visit to that campus, for a presentation by Paul Mathieu, Janet de Boos and Yanze Jiang. Here is the description of the event:
Monday, March 20 at 7:30 pm
Can’t make it to NCECA this year? Here’s an opportunity to hear one of the presentations that will be given at NCECA in Portland in this week:
PANEL: ANOTHER CHINA Moderator: Paul Mathieu Panelists: Janet DeBoos from Australia and Yanze Jiang from China. The significant results of various interactions with experimental industrial design in bone china in Chinese factories. Participants will present on the impact the residencies had on their work. The panel will propose possibilities for future developments in these exciting contexts.
FREE ADMISSION
Monday, March 20, 7:30 pm
Room 245 in the North Building of Emily Carr University of Art + Design
1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island, Vancouver
As usual my taking photos of projected slides was silly, but I was impressed with the direction their work takes when in the context of porcelain manufacturing facilities in China. I enjoyed seeing how Janet de Boos explored using Australian floral imagery on her work. Here are just a few random photos..
To see good images of Paul’s current research, especially his extraordinary plates, go to http://ceramicsresearch.ca/web/
Afterwards Juliane told me that she’d decided on a different yunomi to take home to Minnesota. I have since made a square plate based on that particular random geometric design, and I plan to do that with each one.
Emily Carr University will open in its new Northern Way campus in September. I wonder how Granville Island will seem without Art School students down there?
