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Blue Ridge Potters Guild, Incorporated
March, 2004 Newsletter
The object of this guild shall be to share
knowledge
and appreciation of ceramics.
Officers:
President, Meredith Poole: poolepot@earthlink.net
540-772-1669
Vice president: Paul Proffit, paulspottery@aol.com 540/819-1827
Secretary Linda Jernigan, granjern03@cox.net 540-774-4286
Treasurer, Carol Rosenberg: Mortrose50@cs.com 540-774-5297
Committee chairs 2004:
Finance: Bob Campbell, 540-989-5349
Membership: Paul Proffit, paulspottery@aol.com 540/819-1827
Nominating chair Brenda Goad: potterybybrenda@aol.com 540-344-6361
Program: Rich Moon, moon@roanoke.edu,540-989-5349
Publicity/Newsletter chair Ann Hess: annhess@swva.net 540-382-8235
Show/Sales chair Martha Legg: legg360@cox.net 540-342-0893
Blue Ridge Potters Program: "Second Biennale
World Ceramic Exposition", April 17, 2 pm at the Roanoke County Library on
Electric Road Ann Hess will share photos of the Second Biennale
World Ceramic Exposition as well as of Korean potters who opened their
studio to her visit October of last year. The first exhibition was held in
2001. The exposition has sites in three Korean cities with historic pottery
traditions which continue to present day with literally hundreds of potters
in the compact area. Ann will share a few of the pieces she was able to
bring back. Korean pottery served as the link between the tradition started
in China and through conquest into Japan. The rich simple beauty of Korean
ceramics will entrance you. Additionally, the exposition featured the best
of contemporary ceramics throughout the world with an exhibit of winners of
the international competition. Come be inspired.
Cave Spring High School News, Offers and Requests
Cave Spring High School (CSHS) Silent Auction:
To help support the arts program at Cave Spring High School, members are
asked to contribute one of your best pots for the auction held on May 8.
Please carefully pack and label your piece with minimum bid information. It
can be brought to our meeting on April 17, to the Brambleton Center
designated for Paul Proffit to collect, or to the Mud Puddle Pottery on
Starkey Road. We would like to get an idea of who will contribute to this
now. Please call or email Martha Legg (342-0893, legg360@cox.net) as soon as
possible it will save trying to contact you.
We ask all our members to consider helping with this project. If you were
able to benefit from our association with Cave Spring by selling at our
successful show, you have an extra incentive to participate. If you plan to
apply for the 2004 show, you also will have a special interest. the school
and the art teachers were a tremendous help in making the show a success.
Pots should have a minimum bid.
The auction will be held before and during intermission of the production of
Annie Get Your Gun (automatic large audience). Please send a digital
images by email to Anne Pfeiffer, apfeiffer@rcs.k12.va.us. of any donated
pots to put on flyers and posters by early April.
Blue Ridge Potters Invited to Join CSHS for Raku Fire
Jim Gorman will be doing a Raku workshop/firing at CSHS on Saturday, May
1st. Members are welcome to participate. Please contact Anne Pfeiffer,
apfeiffer@rcs.k12.va.us.
He can fire up to 100 pieces and CSHS students are estimated to have about
60 pieces, so there is room for a few more participants. There will be a per
pot charge for non students. Register with Anne and she will provide you
with additional details. Join these delightful young people and share the
joy of raku.
2004 Show Report:
Show dates for 2004 are October 8, 9 and 10 at Cave Spring High School.
This is the 5th year for the Blue Ridge Potters Show. Help make this a
sensational anniversary. Share your ideas and volunteer by contacting
Martha Legg, show chair, at 540-342-0893, legg360@cox.net or at: 3602
Ridgewood Ln, Roanoke, VA 24014
Prepare for success: Share any photos of your pottery with Brenda
Goad, 2309 Maiden Ln, Roanoke, VA, 24015, potterybybrenda@aol.com,
540-344-6361 for future advertising use. Make now any items that you will be
featuring at the show. We will again ask members for pots to consider for
photographing and inclusion in the 2004 show brochure.
Do you any have fairly recent series of photographs of yourself creating a
typical piece in your work area? If not, Meredith Poole is interested in
visiting various members this year and taking such sequences to see about
creating some posters to mount on the walls or stands at the October show.
I think these can be educational, give customers something to look at while
waiting in line, increase interest and appreciation of the pottery customers
buy, and also provide a place for communicating information about the pieces
(food-safe, temperature shock-sensitive, etc.). If any member would like to
advise, inform, or help share the responsibility of this project, contact
Meredith Poole. (poolepot@earthlink.net 540-772-1669)
Guild Business Updates
Update: Blue Ridge Potter Guild, Incorporated: Process is
proceeding to secure the 501-c-3 tax status form the IRS. This status will
allow us to receive donations which will be tax deductible. It gives us
entry into the non-profit arts community and other benefits.
For those few who have not renewed: The new calendar year runs
January 1 to December 31. Renewing members are credited with half dues,
because we were on a fiscal year that was July 1 through June 30. For 2004,
renewing members will pay $10. New members joining any time during 2004
will pay $20. All of us will have to renew since with the incorporation
this is a new organization. Make the check payable to "Blue Ridge Potters
Guild" and mail with the membership application to Carol Rosenberg,
Treasurer 3466 Windsor Rd. Roanoke, VA 24018. Thanks to those who have
renewed.
Thanks to Linda Duncan: Board member and trusty past show treasurer,
Linda Duncan is taking a break to focus care for her mother. Richard Moon
is taking leadership as co-chair of the committee. We all wish her and her
mother well and will miss her quiet wisdom on the board. Thanks Linda for
you extensive contributions to the Guild! We look forward to improved
health for your mother and your return to active participation on the board.
Please Help Your Guild: If you did not indicate on your
membership application the committee or job you could help with, Please, do
so by contacting the chair. Nominating committee is limited to those
appointed, but the other committees can use your help. Sharing the load
does not leave any one of us over burdened. Do your part!
Program Committee: Co chairs: Rich Moon and Linda Duncan, members: Lyn
Jordan,
Claire Barton, Cindy Patterson, Cyndy Hubbell, Nancy Keenan, Linda
Jernigan
Show/Sales Committee: Martha Legg, chair, members: Lucy Farrell,Yolanda
Eddy
Finance Committee: Bob Campbell, chair, members: Carol Rosenberg
Publicity/Newsletter: Ann Hess, chair, members:
Membership Committee: Paul Proffit, chair, members: Gail Speidell. Bill
Speidell
Nominating Committee: Brenda Goad, chair, Nancy Lewis, Yolanda Eaddy
Board Meeting Notes and Notice:
Secretary notes from January 31, 2004 board meeting: Twenty-four potters
have paid their dues this year to date. All committee chairs have been voted
on and approved.
Planning of the BRPG Show/Sale this fall has begun. An application fee
structure was agreed which would open the show to the public at a charge
greater than for members. (As a non-profit we are required to open
participation in all events to the public, but can charge a premium and can
give preference to members to participate.) A deadline of July 1, 2004 was
set for this application fee. A $10.00 late fee will be charged after July
1st.
Cave Spring High students are having an auction on May 8th to benefit their
arts program. Anyone who wishes to donate some of their pottery for this
student fund raiser must turn in their pieces by April 17th at the board
meeting or to Paul Proffit at the Roanoke County Rec.Center Studio.
The Korean Workshop details were discussed. A fee structure was agreed to
which would open the workshop to the public at a charge greater than for
members..
The guild is looking into setting up a web site.
The next board meeting will be on April 17th, after the program at the
Roanoke County library. Contact Meredith Poole, poolepot@earthlink.net
540-772-1669, if you have any agenda items.
BRPG Workshops:
Techniques in Korean Handbuilding and Decorating September 11
and 12 with Arthur and Mary Park. Rich Moon will host the event in his
studio in downtown Roanoke. Mr. Park has studied with internationally
recognized potters in Japan and Korea. The Parks are conducting a workshop
in Seagrove at the NC Pottery Museum later in the month. Costs are $95 for
guild members and $115 for non-members and include supplies. Reserve a
place now, as enrollment is limited. Send your check with a note to Carol
Rosenberg. A flyer is being drafted and will be sent later.
Mini-workshop with Priscilla Perkins
Sumi brush glaze workshop with Priscilla Palmer, Co-owner of Emerson
Creek Pottery.
at the Rich Moon Pottery Center, 309 Campbell Ave., Downtown Roanoke
Saturday, May 1, 2-5 pm. $20 for members, $25 for non-members. Enrollment
limited to twelve (12) Bring a couple of bisqued pots with smooth
surfaces. We will be learning a cone six glazing technique of creating
on-glaze designs, using sumi brush painting techniques. Priscilla has done
this workshop before at the pottery center, and we learned a great deal.
Rich will fire your glazed pieces from the workshop.
Call Rich Moon Pottery at 345-1900 to sign up.
Other Workshops: Note the April issue of Ceramics Monthly. There is
an annual list of summer opportunities throughout the United States and
internationally.
Arrowmont in Gatlinburg is sponsoring the fourth symposium and exhibition:
Utilitarian Clay IV: Celebrate the Object September 15-18. Ann Hess has
attended two of these. It is a wonderful experience, but it fills the first
day they open registration.
Ann Hess Recognized as Artist of the Month
The News Messenger, local newspaper serving Montgomery County and
Radford, recognized member, Ann Hess in the Leisure section on February 28,
2004. She recounted how she got into pottery through her son, Jonathan and
his first contact with clay in a public school class. Some simple
techniques were shared and a plug for the Blue Ridge Potters also included.
Sales opportunities: ( These are listed as
a courtesy, none have an endorsement from your board.)
Explore Park is interested in starting a craft village at
the Park. Also, there will be other opportunities to sell your art and
crafts at events held at Explore Park through out this season. If you are
interested, please call or email the Executive Director Ms. Deborah H. Pitts
at (540) 427-1800 ext 323 Email: dpitts@explorepark.org.
Deadline March 15,
Sedalia Center,1108 Sedalia School Road, Big Island VA
24526, 434-299-5080/fax: 434-299-6463 $40/site booth fee, Saturday April
24 11-5.
Claytor Lake State Park Festival, Dublin, VA, June 5
and 6 Contact: Judy Ison, Fine Arts Center for the New River Valley, P. O.
Box 309 Pulaski, VA, 24301, 540-980-7363, facnrv@adelphia.net $125 booth
fee.
Old Town Warrenton Spring Festival, Saturday May
15, 9-4, booth fee $100, $120 if application received after 3/15, Contact:
Old Town Warrenton Spring Festival, P. O. Box 127, Warrenton VA 20188,
540-347-4414
early Deadline March 12, Montpelier Wine Festival, P. O. Box 146,
Orange VA, 22940, Contact Barbara Bannar, 540-672-5216, occc@ns.gemlink.com
Booth fee $150 ($135 if in by 3/12)
Deadline April 1,Early registration Bridge Day Celebration-"The
British Invasion", Saturday, August 21, 10-7, $35, early fee, $50 until
July 1, in Bisset Park, Radford, VA, sponsored by Radford Chamber of
Commerce,27 West Main St., Radford VA, 24141, 540-639-2202/fax:
540-639-2228, execdir@radfordchamber.com
Looking for pottery equipment or supplies?
Member, Mickey Surratt, 575 West Wind Rd., Fincastle, VA 24090,
540-473-3076 buys and sells used equipment.
Member Rich Moon, 309 Campbell Avenue, Roanoke, VA 24016
(moon@roanoke.edu)540-354-2529 is a local distributor for Campbell's Ceramic
Supply. He now carries Standard and Campbell's clay, as well as tools and
glaze chemicals on site at catalog prices.
Rich also is looking for potters who want to sell their work in his gallery
space on commission basis. Contact him for further information.
Editor's Notes:
Please send news of recognitions and awards as well as information you want
to share to Ann Hess, newsletter editor, at: annhess@swva.net, 540-382-8235,
70 Crescent Drive, Christiansburg, VA 24073. Newsletter will be formally
sent quarterly. Additional information will be shared in a timely fashion.
Newsletters will be mailed or emailed at the member's preference. If you
want this transmitted to you in a form different than that you received it,
please notify me.
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Ann Hess
70 Crescent Drive NW
Christiansburg, Virginia 24073
Phone: 540-382-8235
email: annhess@swva.net