MAY 2017 Volume 65, Issue 5 In This Issue President's Message - bill geisinger CUSTOMER MAILING LISTS Our 25th Clay and Glass ACGA Corporate Sponsor festival preparations are in full swing. The festival Joerling Workshop committee is working with Giant Creative and Kathy Palo Alto Clay and Glass Bentaieb to make it our Festival best yet. Please plan to attend ACGA's festival Silver Anniversary Party party Saturday, July 8 beginning at the close of Stack by bill 2016 Clay Carnval the day. Member News At the last board meeting there were two decisions made that affect CGAF ACGA members. You can look forward to seeing some change in the website and our newsletter. Minutes The website has already been changed it's easier to FIND MEMBERS. CALIFORNIA CLAY There is a complete list of ALL ACGA's MEMBERS including contact COMPETITION information. Plus the ACTIVE MEMBERS profiles have been consolidated to include members who have submitted images and EXHIBITIONS specifically when the large background image is loaded. If you need assistance please give Whitney or me a call or send us an email. CERF+ Have a look at the website members pages and see how they have OPPORTUNITIES changed at this URL: http://www.acga.net/members/ Website. Our monthly newsletter is changing to an all-digital format on July 1, FORUM 2017. Members will be able to get the news online and be able to read on your phone, pad, computer, or print and read on paper. It will be your ACGA Networking choice how you want to catch up with ACGA activities and our member news! SUBMISSIONS Details will be coming soon. Thank you! bill [email protected] 1 of 22 ACGA CALENDAR CUSTOMER MAILING LISTS May 10: Next Board Meeting: Wed, 7:00-8:45 PM at the SF Hello! Presidio Public Library, 3150 Sacramento St., San Francisco. With the Palo Alto Clay and Glass Festival preparations underway, we all need to be thinking about our customer mailing lists and encouraging June 13 - August 19: Glass people to attend the show. Currents: Richmond Art Center, Would you like to save yourself a little time and money ? Did you know July 8 - 9, 2017: Palo Alto Clay that you can submit your customer mailing lists (both snail mail Glass addresses and email addresses) to ACGA ? We send out the Palo Alto Clay and Glass postcards for you. We have a very large database so July 8 - Anniversary Party - we pay much less postage per postcard than you do. In addition, PACG - 5:30 having as many names as possible in one database reduces duplicate mailings to the same customer. 2017 Board of Directors Your list is used to promote (1) the Clay and Glass Festival through the postcard mailing and email flyers. 2) An email flyer sent out in the Fall Gerry Arrington, Bonita Cohn, to alert our customers about member holiday open studios. If you have Julia Feld, Bill Geisinger, Lee questions or need clarification, just email me. You can submit your lists Middleman, Forrest Lesch- by email to me at [email protected]. We can also accept Middelton, Kathy Pallie, Jan paper copies if that is easier for you. Schachter, Whitney Smith, Fred Yokel, Jo Killen, Kala Stein, Siobhan Thanks! ~ Cheryl Wolff Reilly Hughes, Miki Rutter, Scott Jennings, Wesley Wright, Vivien Hart, and April Zilber ACGA Corporate Sponsors 2017 ACGA Officers Please support our Sponsors President: Bill Geisinger and Lee Middleman Vice Pres: Siobhan Reilly Hughes AFTOSA - 510/233-0334 East Bay Clay - 510/233-1800 Treasurer: April Zilber 1776 Wright Ave. 200 S.First St. Secretary: Jo Killen Richmond, CA 94804 Richmond, CA 94804 Black Bean Ceramic Art Center Higher Fire, Inc. COMMITTEE CHAIRS Will Johnson & Ruben Reyes 408.295.5765 561 Emory St. 499 S. Market St. San Jose CA 95110 San Jose CA 95113 Directory - Julia Feld (408) 642-6757 408.295.5765 Exhibitions - Jan Schachter Historian - Cuong Ta Chinese Clay Art Corp. Leslie's Ceramics and Crafts Int'l Ambassador - Barbara Brown 408/343-3919 510/524.7363 Jurying - Julia Feld 1518 S. De Anza Blvd. 1776 Wright Ave. Membership - Vivien Hart San Jose, CA 95129 Richmond, CA 94804 Newsletter - Bonita Cohn Web Master - Whitney Smith ClayPeople Ruby's Clay Studio & Gallery 623 South 32nd Street 415/558-9819 Membership Changes Richmond CA 94804 552A Noe St. (800) 236-1492 (toll free) San Francisco 94114 (510) 236-1492 Please send all address Sonoma Community Center ClayPlanet Sonoma Ceramics changes to: (408) 295-3352 276 E. Napa Street Vivien Hart 1775 Russell Ave. Sonoma, CA 95476 Santa Clara, CA 95054 (707) 938-4626 [email protected] Creative Ceramics & Glass 707/545-6528 - 5240 Aero Dr., Santa Rosa 95403 2 of 22 Palo Alto Clay and Glass Festival Update 25th Annual ACGA Palo Alto Clay and Glass Festival July 8 & 9 - Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA We will be highlighting our 25 year members at this year's event. We do have a few artist/exhibitor spaces left so sign up now! Go to www.jotform.com , Palo Alto Clay and Glass Festival Application 2017 or email [email protected] Non-Profit and Sponsor applications are also still being accepted, so please reach out to [email protected] or your ACGA leadership. If you would like to volunteer to help on-site during the festival please contact Sammarye at [email protected]. Let her know your skills, interests and talents and we will put you to work. Myra Kretowicz Johnson - Giant Creative Services, Inc. Senior Events Specialist - (408) 396 - 6358 3 of 22 Silver Anniversary Party for the Palo Alto Festival Saturday, July 8, 5:30pm We have started to plan the Silver Anniversary party at this year's Palo Alto Clay & Glass Festival. Yes, it is our Twenty Fifth year at PA! For those of you participating in the festival, we want you to know that this will be a special festival and a great Saturday night party. For members who are not selling at the festival, we want you to know about the party and come join in. All members are welcome. It will start about 5:30 pm, Saturday, July 8, shortly after the Festival closes to the public. We will have updates & more details in future newsletters. Put the party on your calendar and plan to come. ~ The PAC&G festival team Many ACGA exhibiting members are presenting at this year's Clay Carnival. 4 of 22 Member News Inge Roberts checked in, "It has been a while since our paths crossed (our island in the Puget Sound is not part of the usual ACGA stomping grounds)..." She is in this show at MUSEO Gallery in May 2017: "ON VIEW NOW: Beauty and Paradox - 10 Northwest Artists explore contemporary issues through beautifully crafted paintings, sculpture, mixed media, and ceramic works designed to express deeper paradoxical meaning. Each artist employs her unique artistic expression: ironic, whimsical, even outraged to create interest and engagement. Collaboration between Museo Gallery and Nancy Loorem Adams. NWDC members Nancy Loorem Adams, Dona Anderson, Danielle Bodine, Jill Nordfors Clark, Natalie Olsen. Patricia Resseguie, and Inge Roberts will be exhibiting their artwork along with Maxine Martell, Jane Richlovsky, and Sande Wascher-James. Please join the artists for the opening reception Saturday, May 6, 5-7pm. The show runs through May 29, 2017. MUSEO, Langley, WA 98260" - [email protected]. Tel: 360.221.7737 - http://www.museo.cc Paula Ross is having a sale at her studio, Saturday May 13, 2017. Open: 11am to 3pm 20% & more off all pottery. (left) 1934 Santa Clara St. Richmond Ca 94804 www.paularosspottery.com Mother's Day is May 14! Linda S Fitz Gibbon will be All That Glitters exhibiting a body of trompe l'oeil ceramic sculptures (right) in the exhibition Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, along with silk paintings by Shirley Hazlett at ARTHOUSE Gallery. The show runs May 13 - June 4. Receptions are 2nd Saturday May 13, 4-9 pm and 1st Friday June 2, 6-9 pm. ARTHOUSE is located at 1021 R Street, Sacramento, 95811. Gallery hours are M through Sat, 10 am - 6 pm and Sun., 11 am - 4 pm. www.arthouseonr.com Lee Middleman replied to a meet-up invitation from Bill Geisinger: "Enjoy, sorry to miss it. Now firing a new wood kiln in Yixing " (right) Berkeley Art Center hosted a celebration of 50 years of Japanese American sister city friendship. One of 8 artists, B Stevens Strauss presented her newest raku sculptures, as well as large scale ikebana. Jan Schachter's 2017 SPRING OPEN STUDIO & SALE, is Sat. & Sun., May 20-21, 10 am - 5 pm. Friends: Peng-Peng Wang is back - with jewelry! Nina Else: Ceramic Sculpture; Peggy Forman: Drawings on Clay & Paper; Jan Schachter: Functional Pottery with More New Glazes. 190 Golden Hills Drive, Portola Valley CA 94028. DIRECTIONS: Exit I280 at Alpine Road. Go west 1 mile. Turn right on Westridge Dr. Drive 2 miles. Turn left on Golden Hills Drive to #190. 650.851.3754 - 5 of 22 James Aarons' new ceramic paintings are on view at Roscoe Gallery, 473 25th Street, Oakland, CA www.roscoeceramicgallery.com May 5-27, 2017 2 receptions Friday, May 5th Thursday, May 18th right: James Aarons clay: jamesaarons.com yoga: mymoveability.com CGAF - Clay and Glass Arts Foundation May 2017 Newsletter March and April were again banner months for CGAF's student scholarship program. We awarded four scholarships to the annual California Conference on the Ceramic Arts (CCACA) at Davis. The recipients are: Dkaterina (Kate) Zhdanova - De Anza College Beth Gaydos, Sierra College, Grass Valley Mitra Mostafi, De Anza College Andrew Masak, De Anza College We look forward to sharing their pictures at the conference in coming months.