Fourteen years ago, in October of 2010, five members of TriCity Potters spent an amazing two weeks in JingdeZhen, the famous porcelain-production city in China. Last Wednesday these intrepid potters, Grace Siu, Carlene Akester, Kay Bonathan, Hannah Chan and Eliza Wang, presented their experience there to us and then spoke a little about how the residency has influenced their own work. Kay introduced the five,…
Jennifer Woodin is uniquely qualified, not only to teach ceramics, but to encourage her students to understand futuristic technology related to clay. Her first degree, from California State U in Chico, is in engineering and for several years she worked in the field of mechanical and civil engineering. When in Chico, Jen took some pottery classes and eventually decided to change careers and get an…
TriCity Potters invited Pat Schendel to be our guest for last week's January meeting. We had an excellent turn-out for Pat's interesting talk about her work with Crystalline glazes. Some of Pat's fans came all the way from Richmond for her presentation. I think folks were very happy to get together again after the holidays. Fearful snow caused the closing of the Arts Centre, and…
The guest speaker for TriCity Potters' November meeting was Vancouver Ceramist Mitra Mahmoodi. We were treated to a delightful and well-planned presentation, with a biographical slide show, followed by a demonstration of her process. Mitra had brought along several finished pieces as well as leather-hard forms to show how she makes each one. Mitra Mahmoodi is a full-time ceramic artist based in Vancouver, whose work…
CSDA/CCAD (Canadian Society for Decorative Arts/Cercle canadien des arts décoratifs) is a national organization that promotes decorative art and design through one-of-a-kind events, special guest talks, and via their award-winning magazine, Ornamentum. https://www.ornamentum.ca The society hosted a conference in Vancouver this weekend. Attendees were taken to museums, galleries and ECUAD and on Friday evening the general public was also invited to a free talk sponsored…