Gail Dapogny on wed 29 sep 99
I'm going to be spending a few days mostly in the Vancouver area, but also
brief stops in Olympia and Seattle.
What galleries, especially with clay stuff, are in the Vancouver area; also
are there any other things worth looking at including studios. Is Robin
Hopper's studio open to visits and is he around? And if so, where is it
exactly?
Any and all information will be welcome including good places to eat for
people who like interesting and ethnic food. We'll have a rented car.
Thanks in advance.
--Gail
Gail Dapogny
1154 Olden Road
Ann Arbor, MI 48103-3005
(734) 665-9816
gdapogny@umich.edu
Norma Castillo on thu 30 sep 99
Hi Gail,
In Vancouver itself is the BC Potter's Guild Gallery on Granville Island
(www.margaretdesign.com/pguild/ -- info not current but address and #s
there). Great Japanese food in the area. In Whistler (a
nearby resort) is Vincent Massey's studio and gallery (wonderful gas fired
functional and decorative stuff). Robin Hopper's 'Chosin pottery and huge
garden is 4283 Metchosin Road (250-474-2676) close to Victoria on Vancouver
Island, one hour 45 min great ferry ride through the islands from the
mainland. Walter Dexter's studio is nearby. Some good galleries and eateries
in Victoria also.
Fantastic sunny weather here at the moment.
Norma Lake Castillo
Victoria, B.C.
Mo and Les Beardsley on thu 30 sep 99
Gail Dapogny wrote:
>
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> I'm going to be spending a few days mostly in the Vancouver area, but also
> brief stops in Olympia and Seattle.
> What galleries, especially with clay stuff, are in the Vancouver area; also
> are there any other things worth looking at including studios. Is Robin
> Hopper's studio open to visits and is he around? And if so, where is it
> exactly?
> Any and all information will be welcome including good places to eat for
> people who like interesting and ethnic food. We'll have a rented car.
> Thanks in advance.
> --Gail
>
> Gail Dapogny
> 1154 Olden Road
> Ann Arbor, MI 48103-3005
> (734) 665-9816
> gdapogny@umich.edu
Hi Gail
In Vancouver there is the B.C. Potters Guild on Granville Island. Also
there is the studio of Bob Kingsmill and Don Hutchenson on Granville
Island plus the craft museum. The Guild will direct you to many fine
studio's in the Vancouver Area including one called Mudslingers.
Robin Hopper's studio is on Vancouver
Island just north of Victoria in Metchosen...Known as Chosen Pottery.
Up or north on the Island is the Tozan kilns in Nanaimo. Phone us at
250-245-4867 and we would be glad to give you a tour. This is the home
of a four chamber noborigama and an anagama operated by the Tozan
Cultural Society. Wood fired of course.
Further north on Van. Island is Denman Island. The studio of Gordon
Hutchens and Richard Lonsdale are there and they are both very fine
potters.
Regards
Maureen Beardsley.
gari whelon on fri 1 oct 99
Hi Gail
In addition to the other suggestions you got,
check the graft house across the street from the guild gallery on Granville
Island (1390 Cartwright Street Vancouver) and also the show at the Craft
Museum that was mentioned a few weeks back.
You should also go to NIWA Gallery at #120-1 East Cordova Street, they
specialize in wood, soda, and salt fired pottery as well as smoked and raku
works. Its on the edge of Gastown.
food...hmm lots of choices, Thai, Various Chinese, Vietnamese, Indian,
Cambodian, Japanese, Afghan, African etc, etc, name your choice. E-mail me
privately if you want specific recommendations, I usually include a
favourite restaurant or 2 in my trips over from the Island. You should also
pick up a copy of the Georgia Straight when you get here, it will fill you
in on whats on and it ha a good restaurant section with coupon deals.
Enjoy your trip
If we can be of more help out here let us know.
Gari Whelon
Nanaimo B.C.
u>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>I'm going to be spending a few days mostly in the Vancouver area, but also
>brief stops in Olympia and Seattle.
>What galleries, especially with clay stuff, are in the Vancouver area; also
>are there any other things worth looking at including studios. Is Robin
>Hopper's studio open to visits and is he around? And if so, where is it
>exactly?
>Any and all information will be welcome including good places to eat for
>people who like interesting and ethnic food. We'll have a rented car.
>Thanks in advance.
>--Gail
>
>Gail Dapogny
>1154 Olden Road
>Ann Arbor, MI 48103-3005
>(734) 665-9816
>gdapogny@umich.edu
>
>
David Cowdrill on fri 1 oct 99
Two galleries in Seattle we thought were exceptional: Thesaurus Fine Art
Gallery on Occidental South (old Chinese pottery) and the Northwest Gallery
of Woodworking, both in Pioneer Square, near each other. The Wild Ginger is
an excellent restaurant; you need reservations; moderate prices at lunch.
Highly recommended!
Favorite gallery in Vancouver: Niwa, in Gastown, which is small but has
exceptionally fine wood-fired and raku pottery. (Gastown otherwise tacky.)
Enjoyed Granville Island, the Museum of Anthropology, the excellent food
at good prices thanks to the exchange rate, the Sun Yat Sen Classical
Chinese Garden.
David Cowdrill in Great Falls, Virginia
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