Kiln for Sale

OLYMPIC ELECTRIC KILN FOR SALE. Measures 24.5 inches wide by 32 inches deep.  It does need some elements replaced but works.  Asking $200.00 . Contact via email : coquiteach@gmail.com

General Meeting Feb. 11th 2014

GREETINGS POTTERS GUILD MEMBERS!

POTTERS GUILD GENERAL MEETING TUESDAY FEBRUARY 11^TH 6 PM. ROBERT AND ROSE ESCAMILLA STUDIO 2013 BLANCO ROAD.

Can you believe we are already in the second month of 2014 and now less than a month away to our Empty Bowls Event on March 2^nd ?

 

To remain the effective event Empty Bowls has been the Guild needs volunteers to help make our 14^th year a resounding success. The bowls are in storage awaiting pick-up and delivery. If you can help please contact dneese@satx.rr.com. The food kitchen is staffed and the gallons of soups donated are being totaled up. In our Empty Bowls meeting with SAMM yesterday we outlined areas of critical volunteer help. One big area of need is our volunteer Break room food items. We have not been able to secure break room food donations this year. So as in the past we are asking everyone to bring a pot luck dish of snack food to the break room to share. Coffee and water will be available. Any Potters Guild member who would like to organize the break room please step forward at the meeting.

SAMM has volunteers ready to handle their share of Empty Bowl duties. The Potters Guild will need to fill certain responsibilities of our own as we prepare for the event. Those areas are set up of tables, unpacking the bowls. Set up of the Silent Auction area. Set up of the demo area. Help with the cashier’s booth and packing of bowls. We will certainly need help later in the day making sure the tables are put away, trash is taken out and the whole area that we use is properly taken care of.

All of this information and more will be discussed in depth at the General Meeting next week. Please come and receive your EMPTY BOWLS volunteer name tags (all volunteers must have name tags at the event) and sign up to support your Potters Guild. As in the past the EMPTY BOWLS EVENT has run so smoothly because of the volunteers. Getting it done from 8am and out by 3 pm.

Also representatives from SAMM will be presenting the program for the evening. What EMPTY BOWLS means from SAMM’s perspective of our shared community project to aid the hungry and homeless in San Antonio.  

Tuesday will be the last Potters Guild meeting before Empty Bowls. Come and be counted.

Thanks!

Dale Neese, President SAPG

dneese@satx.rr.com

Bowl-a-thon! Friday and Saturday

Happy New Year Potters Guild Members!

I am looking forward to be getting my hands in clay for the first time this new year at this weekend’s BOWL-A-THON at the Southwest School of Art at 9 am on Friday, tomorrow. Plenty of clay to make bowls on Friday and trim bowls on Saturday. Plenty of good food as I will fire up the grill for some dogs and burgers. We might go a little later in the evening if we need to but we plan to be done by 6 pm both days.

Saturday afternoon kick off lunch, top off your burgers and dogs with some homemade chili provided by Janan Moses. If any of you would like to bring something delicious to add to the meals please do. Remember we will not have access to refrigeration in the studio. Ice chests with soft drinks and water will be available. Please bring your own coffee in the mornings.

*SATURDAY MORNING DISCOVERY FOR CHILDREN WILL BE HELD IN THE CERAMICS STUDIO* until around noon. We will need to make sure the studio is cleaned up Friday evening and all of our bowls and materials are put on carts and stored in the back while this class is in session. You may want to make plans to come a little later on Saturday because parking will be limited.

I want to ask for some volunteers to help keep the studio and bowls in order. Help load, fire and unload the bisque kilns.

 

If you haven’t replied to my earlier email let me know today if you will be there Friday or Saturday to make bowls. I need a head count to purchase our food stuff.  Also reply if you will help process the bowls through the kilns, packing later in the weeks ahead.

See you soon!

Dale Neese, President SAPG