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Our first webpage was put on-line July 20th 2005. This document was last modified on March 7, 2009 |
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The Burnaby Potters' Guild had it's beginnings in the classes at the (then) Burnaby Arts Centre. Simon Brafman, supported by Lloyd Berry (Director, Burnaby Art Centre) offered advanced students further instruction in pottery techniques. Ten of these students formed the Burnaby Potters' Guild in 1977. In the early years,
Guild members helped out with Arts Centre programs including teaching,
demonstrations, and glaze making. The Guild has participated in many efforts
to raise awareness of ceramic arts in Over the years the
Guild has made major and minor donations to the Burnaby Arts Centre ($1200.00
in 1985 to help build a gas kiln, $22,000.00 worth of equipment in 1995/6),
the Burnaby Arts Council, and Artist's Helping Artists. The Guild has
sponsored many educational workshops over the years at the Arts Centre, and
helped in sponsoring the first Clay Symposium in The Guild continues
to rent space and equipment from the Shadbolt
Centre for the Arts in As well as promoting ceramic arts in the community, part of the purpose of the Guild is to assist members who wish to learn enough to open their own studios. A number of Guild members have gone on to open their own studios including Linda Doherty, Joanne Copp, Irene Tolmulty, and Herb Mathew. Last year (2009) the Guild provided bowls for the Empty Bowls Project. Here are some pictures of our first kiln load. In the pictures are: Karla Kasnovsky, Joe Ito, Gloria Stephens, John Winkler. |
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