LaReneM on sun 4 jan 98
HI all,
Can someone please send me some information on how to join the Michigan
Potters Guild? I know it exists but I can't find any information at the
library for this group.
For those of you who belong, do you also belong to the Michigan Guild of
Artists and Artisans? Is there much to gain from joining this group as well?
Thanks in advance,
Kathy McCormick
Midland, Michgian
Frank Hartlieb on tue 6 jan 98
Betty Lurie of Farmington Hills MI was president of MPA last I heard. I
belonged to the group for a number of years and highly reccomend it as a
source of clay interaction, etc. Sorry I don't have her address, but you
can probably find her through telephone info 1-284-5551212.
frank
hart9535@uidaho.edu
KLeSueur on tue 6 jan 98
In a message dated 1/5/98 2:28:52 AM, you wrote:
<Can someone please send me some information on how to join the Michigan
Potters Guild? I know it exists but I can't find any information at the
library for this group.
For those of you who belong, do you also belong to the Michigan Guild of
Artists and Artisans? Is there much to gain from joining this group as well?
Thanks in advance,
Kathy McCormick
Midland, Michgian
>>
I'm not sure a group exists called the Michigan Potter's Guild. You're
probably thingking of the Michigan Potter's Association. Call Rovin Ceramics
in Taylor, MI and I'm sure they can point you to them.
As for the Michigan Guild of A and A, I can speak from long personal
experience. I belonged to this organization for over 20 years. Did the Ann
Arbor Summer Art fair for over 20 years with it. I sat on the Board, chaired
the Board and various committees. The only valuable program the Guild has is
the summer art fair. The other two fairs are loosers of the first degree, poor
attendance poor sales. In spite of heroic efforts by a number of people, other
programs of broad interest to the membership have never amounted to anything.
The summer art fair is the most grueling, unpleasant art fair to do. It is
like no other. You can do everything right and still run afoul of the rules.
There is a meanness to this event that is not like anything found anywhere
else in the country. And this, a fair supposedly run by the artists
themselves.
There was a time when I actively solicited membership to the Guild. Not only
would I advise against joining it, but I, myself, have dropped my membership.
I see nothing going on to convince me that the Guild will ever become anything
of real value.
Kathi LeSueur, sad in Ann Arbor at what the Guild could have been
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