CGC NEWS

Our next General Meeting will be held July 14th at 6:30 PM in the hallway leading into Cindercone.

And the next BOARD MEETING will be soon at Linda’s office at 6:30 PM, 125 NW Greeley Ave. Bend

“Wild Fire” Ceramic Showcase - The Boys and Girls Club, downtown Bend, Labor Day weekend, Sept 2-4
Applications have been coming steadily to Susan Adams, our Registrar.

Alan Werkman is waiting for your photos to make the poster and ads for Wild Fire. There is still time if you want to be included. Contact Alan Werkman at itsonlymud@bendcable.com

You should be receiving an info packet in the mail with more details (if you have registered).

EMPTY BOWLS - COCAAN’s goal for this year 11/4 is 1000 bowls and is providing clay for artists. CGC is still hoping to have each member contribute 30 bowls (or more if you can)! If you need clay to make your donated bowls, there is plenty of clay available at Cindercone. You can arrange to pick some up with Helen Bonmarito (541) 317-5953. You can bring your bowls to her or to meetings.

As The Wheel Turns

The place for your news, stories, comments, suggestions, experiences, tips, and successes.

ALAN WERKMAN is back! He is working on the poster for our WildFire. Welcome back Alan, and thanks.
JUSTIN LIVERSIEGE is making glazes now! Congratulations Justin.
RICHARD ROWLAND received the Governor's Arts Award for making a significant contribution to the cultural life in Oregon. Congratulations to Richard.
LINDA HEISSERMAN is starting to throw again at her “almost” studio. Good luck in the new endeavor Linda!

LOCAL CLAY NEWS
Membership in Local Clay is open to any artist/potter creating original works in clay. Dues are $10 per calendar year, and are not prorated. Members receive discounts on workshops, and are eligible to participate in ClayFest and to apply for Art in Education funds.

Meetings for 2005 will be held on January 13th (Pot Luck), March 30th, May 12th, September 14th (Picnic) and November 10th. Meetings (except for Picnic) are held at Georgies Ceramic and Clay Company, 1471 Railroad Boulevard, Eugene. Meetings begin at 6:30PM, and include a business session, refreshments and social break, and mini-workshop. The September meeting is generally a picnic at a member's home. Guests are always welcome.

For more information about Local Clay and its programs, contact us by email
at localclay@clayfest.org, or write Local Clay, POBox 50111, Eugene, OR 97405. An application in Adobe (PDF) format is available by clicking this link : MEMBERSHIP

Just a few words from Don about ClayFest for those of you who have applied for the show.
“As you know, each year we gather images from the show's participants to use for our advertising program. The deadline for submitting images for the poster and postcard is Thursday, June 30th

Participants interested in submitting images for consideration as advertising graphics, please mail GOOD to GREAT quality color or B/W photos, slides, or high-resolution digital images (minimum resolution of 256 dpi) on (1) Mac or PC formatted 3.5" disk, (2) Mac or PC formatted CD, or (3) Mac formatted 100Mb Zip disk to : Frank Gosar - 3200 River Rd., Eugene, OR 97404.

Digital images in jpeg format may be attached to an email message and sent to graphics@clayfest.org (one image per email message). Images for the postcard and poster before June 30th, and for newspaper advertising (B+W or color) no later than July 31st

Hope summer is a glorious experience ... don” www.clayfest.org

OPA NEWS

Thanks Janice Buskirk for including our new WILDFIRE Ceramic Showcase in OPA’s newsletter!

The OPA newsletter can be found as .DOC, .PDF and .HTM files at the OPA website. http://www.oregonpotters.org/potters.html

NCECA IN PORTLAND: The National Council for Education in Ceramic Arts will hold their conference at the Oregon Convention Center, March 8-11, 2006. An OPA/NCECA committee has been formed, there will be many volunteer opportunities there. Our hard-working NCECA liaisons, Ted Vogel and Thomas Orr also will have many opportunities for volunteering. It is really fun to volunteer at NCECA, you get to meet ceramic artists from all over the world.

OPA Showcase did pretty well. The tags totaled $454,217, with $211,406 on Fri, $154,610 on Sat and $88,201 on Sun. 276 artists participated in the show with a booth or a piece in the gallery. Of these, sales broke down as follows:
Booth participants Gallery participants
$0 sales 3 64
$0-899 35 34
$900-1999 49 1
$2000-3999 59 0
$4000-5999 22 0
$6000-7999 5 0
$8000-10,000 2 0
$10,000+ 2 0

Call to Artists:
"Wildfire: A Pottery Showcase" will be Labor Day weekend, Sept 2-4 in the historic Boys & Girls Club building near downtown Bend. It will be a cooperative show, with work shifts and committee work. There are full booths and half booths ($80 and $50 booth fees, respectively, plus 15% commission), a group booth and a gallery ($30 and $15, respectively, both are 25% commission). Application deadline June 15 (CGC may allow late applications if you act fast). For more information, contact Susan Adams (Registrar), Bob Sant (Show Chair, bobsant@thebluesprucegallery.com), or Linda Heisserman (President, linheiss@msn.com). They can email an application.

“Fourth Cheongju International Craft Competition” (Spt30-Oct23), deadline July 1st. Theme “Hide and Reveal”. Korea. For more info email competition@cheongjubiennale.or.kr

"Good Bird/Bad Bird" at Contemporary Crafts. Deadline Aug 1, show Nov 18-Jan 9, open to ceramic, fiber, wood, glass or metal. Theme open to interpretation, but should reference birds. $10 jury fee for 3 slides, $500 awards, jurors Marcia MacDonald, Namita Wiggers & Mary Lou Zeek. PDF application at www.contemporarycrafts.org/bird or send SASE to Good Bird/Bad Bird, CCMG, 3934 SW Corbett Ave, Portland, OR 97239. 503.223.2654.

"Sidney Myer Fund International Ceramics Award," Sept 1 deadline, show March 2006, juried from slides, $15,000 awards, Shepparton Art Gallery, Locked Bag 1000, Shepparton, Victoria 3632, Australia, www.greatershepparton.com.au/artgallery.

"Cup:The Intimate Object" deadline Sept 14, show Nov-Jan, juror Linda Arbuckle, $25 fee for 3 entries, $800 awards, 50% commission, send SASE to Charlie Cummings Clay Studio, 4130 S Clinton St, Ft Wayne IN 46806, www.claylink.com.

"Salt Glaze 2006" deadline Oct 31, show April-June 2006, open to salt glazed ceramics, 3-5 photos or digital images, $13,000 awards, Galerie Handwerk Koblenz, Service et Messe GmbH der Handwerkskammer Koblenz, Rizzastrasse 24-26, Koblenz 56068, Germany, galerie@hwk-koblenz.de.

"In Our Cups" deadline July 8, show Aug-Sept, open to ceramic drinking vessels, juror Ron Meyers, $25 jury fee for 3 slides, send SASE to In Our Cups, Art Dept, SUNY Geneseo, 1 College Cir, Geneseo NY 14454, reinholt@geneseo.edu.

"Functional Earthenware" deadline July 13, show Oct-Nov, juried from slides, $25 fee, purchase awards, send SASE to Charlie Cummings Clay Studio, 4130 S Clinton St, Ft Wayne IN 46806, www.claylink.com.

"Stoke!" an exhibition of wood fired ceramics from OR, WA, MT, ID, WY and NV. Functional, sculptural & conceptual work. Juror Jeanette Rakowski, deadline July 27, $25 jury fee for up to 4 slides, label slides w/ artist name, title, "top", slide #. Attach slide list w/ same information & retail price if applicable & include SASE. 25% commission. Show Sept 13-Oct 15, they are producing a catalogue and are looking for galleries through the Northwest to display this show during the winter. For catalogue purposes please also include quality images of the kiln and perhaps of the artist with kiln. Contact Bill West, College of Southern Idaho Art Department, 315
Falls Ave, Twin Falls ID 83301 (208) 732-6753 bwest@csi.edu

ENTRIES SOUGHT FOR BOOK: Paul Lewing is writing a book China Paint and
Overglazes. If you have suitable images, send original (not duplicate) slides, large format transparencies or high resolution digital images (tiff, 300 dpi, on a CD). Any overglaze techniques: luster, china paint, decal, raised paste, enamel, etc. Vessels, tile or sculpture. Include name, technique, title, materials, dimensions, date. Paul Lewing, 315 Burke Ave N, Seattle WA 98103, 206-547-6591, deadline July 1.

GLAZE COMPETITION: Coyote Clay & Color is looking for work glazed with their Coyote Glazes to feature in their Ceramics Monthly ads as well as their website and fliers. Deadline unknown. Prizes $100-150 or $50 worth of glazes. Go to www.coyoteclay.com and click on "contest", 866-344-2250

Mark your calendars for the BIGGER BETTER 2nd Annual Pottery Olympics.
Saturday. August 6th 2:00-8:00 pm

Hope that we can count on your participation and look forward to working with you. If you have any thoughts, feedback or suggestions just hit reply. We will be scheduling Potters in July for throwing and trimming. Also if there are other potters who are not on the list please let me know.

Holly Hutton - Assistant Director - COCAAN. 541-548-2380, #106
2303 SW First St., Redmond, OR 97756 hollyh@cocaan.org www.cocaan.org

Calling all Potters!

A message from Helen Bonmarito:
“The Pottery Olympics is just a few weeks away. August 6th is the date, and it will run from 10 am to 6 pm. There will be music, food, and stuff for kids, a “Pay to Clay” booth, a sales gallery tent, throwing for Empty Bowls and of course Olympic Events! All proceeds benefit COCAAN’s hunger relief projects, especially the very popular Empty Bowls event in November.

Here’s where you come in…….
You are the backbone of the event. Please come and participate. We’ll need (1.) potters to throw, (2.) potters to help at the Pay to Clay booth, (3.) potters to participate in the Olympic events, (4.) potters to trim bowls the next day, (5.) pottery for the sales booth (100% of sales go to the artist), and (6.) we’ll need wheels to set up outside. Clay will be provided.

I hope you’ll consider your own annual event. It’s fun, and it’s a nice way to get together with other potters.

Please contact Helen Bommarito and let her know how you wish to be a part of it.
Email: hbomm@bendbroadband.com
phone: 541-317-5953
cell: 206-915-3655

Empty Bowls

How is everyone coming along with your donations for Empty Bowls? We still have clay available at Cindercone. It’s Laguna “B Mix” cone 10, and we do have a very limited amount of cone 5 for anyone who needs it. We hope to see 20 finished bowls returned for every 25-lb bag of clay taken. We welcome you to donate as many as you like. It’s a good opportunity to practice up your throwing chops, and maybe try out that new glaze application you’ve been thinking about. And it’s our way of giving back to the community, through COCAAN’s premier hunger relief project.

Any questions? Contact Helen Bonmarito.”

FAIRS

NEW ALL-CLAY SHOW IN BEND: "Wildfire: A Pottery Showcase" will be Labor Day weekend, Sept 2-4 in the historic Boys & Girls Club building near downtown Bend. It will be a cooperative show, with work shifts and committee work. There are full booths and half booths ($80 and $50 booth fees, respectively, plus 15% commission), a group booth and a gallery ($30 and $15, respectively, both are 25% commission). Application
deadline June 15 (CGC may allow late applications if you act fast). For more information, contact Susan Adams (Registrar), Bob Sant (Show Chair, bobsant@thebluesprucegallery.com), or Linda Heisserman (linheiss@msn.com).
They can email an application.

MARY S YOUNG PARK FESTIVAL in West Linn, Aug 20-21, $75 booth fee, juried
from photos, emailed pictures or other arrangement to see work. Contact Sandra Kaufman, 503-697-6982

GARDEN ART SHOW: at Blooms N More in Oregon City, looking for artist with
garden related art for two shows: June 18-19 and Sept 24-25. Vendor fee $25, call Jolene, 503-632-8203

WORKSHOPS-LECTURES-CONFERENCES
Don Sprague will be coming to Bend for a workshop cosponsored by CGC and COCC, on Nov. 5th and 6th. The price is $100.00 for CGC members, $125.00 for non-members. We can include 15 participants. Here is a quote from Don.

Artist’s Statement:
"My interest and education in architecture have strongly influenced the direction I have taken in working with clay. My desire to explore form, both functionally and aesthetically is derived from that background. Throughout my career my primary focus has been form and surface development, and I have tried to incorporate glazes and glazing techniques that enhance those concerns. These concerns were the foundation of my earliest involvement with clay and my effort to understand the complexities of the ceramic process over thirty years ago, and they remain at the heart of my work with clay today. "

Don’s resume includes being Ceramics instructor at Oregon School of Art and Craft, Head Ceramics Instructor there from 1980 t0 1983. Ceramics Monthly has featured him in several of their editions. You can see some of his current work in the Sunbird Gallery in Bend.

If you want to attend his workshop, contact Linda Heisserman at (541) 389-0934. We can accommodate 15 people.

VICTORIA CHRISTEN, JOSH DeWEESE, GAIL NICHOLS
"Soda Masters," September, at Pottery Northwest in Seattle, www.potterynorthwest.org, 206-285-4421

PETER KING: "Architectural Ceramics," Intensive hands on. Aug 1-5, $395,
Clay Art Center in Tacoma, workshops@clayartcenter.net, 800-952-8030

The following workshops are at Oregon College of Art & Craft, 503-297-5544:
KRISTINA MASTHEM: "Low Tech Printing Techniques on Clay," June 27-July 1, $325 ($425 for 1 credit)
BETH CAVENER STICHTER: "The Wilderness Within," Aug 1-5, $450 ($550 for 1 credit) + $65 fee.

Summer workshops at Hummingbird, Southern Oregon:
LESLIE LEE: sculpture. DENNIS MEINERS: handbuilding. JIM KOUDELKA: mold making. RICHEY BELLINGER: glaze basics. www.HummingbirdSouthernOregon.com (541) 899-7045.

Slop Bucket

KILN SHELF BUY: Geil Kilns is importing Chinese made nitride bonded silicon
carbide kiln shelves. There are 5 sizes available, the most useful being 12x24 ($107.30) and 14x28 ($123.20). Depending on the quantities we order we can receive a 15-20%
discount off these prices. Prices do not include shipping and handling. Anyone interested should contact OPA members Charlie Piatt (503-238-0973) or Susan Roden (susanroden@jeffnet.org or 541-459-0772)

CERAMIC PAPER: Pred Materials is making various types of ceramic papers for
industry use. They are designed as separator material for firing glass and powdered metals. There are alumina papers, alumina-carbon paper, and zirconia papers. They are light and durable at high temperatures. They sound interesting (and expensive.) 212-286-0068, www.predmaterials.com.

FREE: Electric Potter's Wheel, homemade, works great. Call Sharon or Jack
503-286-1878

FOR SALE: Skutt Kiln 1227 ZC, 28.13" wide, 27" deep, w/ computer & zone control, fired maybe 20 times altogether, cones 06 and 6. $1,400 Ann, 503-842-4241 (Tillamook), annkelly@oregoncoast.com

FOR SALE: Skutt 1027 electric kiln, 7 cu ft, w/ posts & shelves. Brent wheel, probably model B, lots of pottery books, lots of clay and glazes. $2300 obo for everything. Martha, 503-240-4720 (Portland)

FOR SALE: Skutt 1027 computerized electric kiln, very lightly used, $900. 10 ½ shelves, 5/8" thick, used ten times, $15 each. Pugmill, Australian, 4" barrel, 240 volts, 11.5 amps, call for details, $1500. 2 roll-around ware carts w/ shelves, $75 each.

503-581-4831, Julie or Michael.
FOR SALE: 350 good used soft fire brick. $1.25 each obo. Debbie Dean, 503-238-0551.

FOR SALE: Booth: $350, includes 12 panels of 2'X6'-8" hollow core doors (10 lbs ea) covered w/ black wall-escape fire resistant carpet & shelf brackets w/ 9 black melamine 9" deep shelves. Low volt light bar with 10-50w halogen spots. Two pieces of carpet, 4'6"x10' . My cost was over $500 + two weeks to construct. Makes good 5x10, 10x10 & 5x15 layouts. Poor Health forces me to quit pottery. Sam Sloan (360) 573-7190

VACATION RENTAL: Traveling to southern Oregon? Sweetwater Cottage is located in Applegate, Oregon, 5 ½ hrs south of Portland. Private 160 acre ranch, home and studio of Nancy Y Adams, Clay Artist. Quiet retreat, spectacular views, graze in organic gardens, hike adjoining national forest, visit local art studios and wineries. 2 br house w/ hot tub. $125 per night, 2 night min, 541-846-1777. www.sweetwatercottage.com.

Calendar : Dates to remember

July:

CGC “Wild Fire” Ceramic Showcase booth application due
June 15th: CGC Newsletter deadline
4th of July Weekend: Portland Empty Bowls
July 14th: CGC General Meeting

August:
August 6th: 2nd Annual Pottery Olympics (2-8PM)
August 8th: CGC Board Meeting
August 10th: OPA Newsletter deadline. Newsletter contains Holiday Studio Sale Guide application
August 15th: CGC Newsletter deadline

September:
September 1st: CGC Newsletter deadline
Labor Day weekend, Sept 2-4 CGC “Wild Fire” Ceramic Showcase
September 8th: CGC General Meeting

October:
October 10th: CGC Board Meeting

Mid-month: ClayFest in Eugene (15th and 16th in 2005)
October 10: OPA Newsletter Deadline. Newsletter contains Showcase application
and background information for application, as well as Committee job
listings

October 15th: CGC Newsletter deadline

November:
November 1st: CGC Newsletter deadline

November 4th: COCAAN Empty Bowls in Bend

November 10th: CGC General Meeting

Mid-November: OPA Studio Sale Guides available
November 15: Showcase Booth Applications Due

December:
December 10: OPA Newsletter Deadline.

December 15th: CGC Newsletter Deadline.

Help us develop a calendar to guide us through the year. If you have more info for our calendar, please let us know. www.cascadesclayguild.com or contact the Editor Vania Setti at settiarts@msn.com