Group show announcement - Nature of Vessels

Group show March 18-31 is open to all Ruby’s community. Please email Hideo and Ryan at the following address ryang77@ymail.com no later than Saturday March 14 if you are interested.
The show’s theme is vessels that hold flowers or plants. A vessel can be a vase, cup, bowl, bottle, teapot, etc. Ideas for flower arrangements include but not limited to cut flowers, potted plants, branches or any dried botanical.
Opening is Sunday March 22 from 2-4, please sign up for the potluck in bathroom starting Thursday March 12th.
Please leave one piece on the downstairs table between Monday March 16-Wednesday March 18. On a piece of paper include name, title of piece, and price. Work is for sale with sellers permit only and include arrangement so adjust price accordingly and is also sold at the time of purchase.
Please plan to have your plant arrangement in place by Saturday March 21.
Looking forward to a fantastic show!
Hideo and Ryan

Workshop - Forwarded from Rhonda

Gay Smith will be leading a pottery workshop series at La Meridiana in Tuscany, Italy, from May 17-23 &/or May 24-30. Choose to attend for one or two weeks. Accommodation, many gorgeous Italian meals, tours to Florence and surrounding area, and tuition, materials, and firing are included in the very reasonable cost of 900 euros for one week or 1600 for 2 weeks. (The euro is currently a little over a dollar, less than it's been for some time). Non- potting spouses, family and friends are welcome at 70% the cost. To sign up, or for more information, contact: La Meridiana

Contact: La Meridiana – Loc. Bagnano, 135, 50052 Certaldo (Firenze) Italy info@lameridiana.fi.it www.lameridiana.fi.it
Cost is 900 euros for one week, or 1600 euros for two weeks. Spouses and friends welcome; their fee will be 70 % of the student cost and entitles one to everything listed except what pertains to the workshop and ceramic activities. Tel./FAX: +39 0571 660084

RUBY’S LONG RANGE PLANNING SURVEY

Ruby’s must plan for the future and the Long Range Planning Task Force has developed a SURVEY which will help determine the direction that Ruby’s will take in the future. While there will be several surveys to gain information on a variety of plans for Ruby’s future, this SURVEY addresses the issue of SPACE. There may be attractive solutions to the ever-present demand for more space. But first we need to know how individual members of the Ruby’s community feel about the need for additional space and the means by which more space might be acquired.The SURVEY has been placed in all the individual lockers and mail boxes. In addition, there is a folder of surveys for those who frequently use the Studio but are not paying members—students and drop-ins and wait-list persons. We urge everyone to encourage these people to pick up a SURVEY, complete it and return it to the “suggestion box” in the kitchen area.Please take the few minutes to complete the SURVEY and return it by March 31, 20009. The results of the SURVEY will be shared with everyone. And these results will serve as the foundation for decisions on how Ruby’s should proceed in the future.If you have questions, please contact any of the members of the Task Force: Kent, Terrie, Marcia, Charles, Pat and Nina.THANKS FOR COMPLETING THE SURVEY!!!

Ruby's unofficial blog spot

Hi everyone, This is Ruby's unofficial blog spot. The idea to make a blog for Ruby's came up yesterday by a few people at the studio and I volunteered to set it up. Since it hasn't been approved at a meeting yet this is still not officially a Ruby's Clay Studio blog. Once it is, it will be. I started this before bringing it to a meeting because I'm motivated to do it now and might not be in a month. If there is too much opposition I will take it down.

Since blogs are still relatively new to me I'm still learning how to manage them. At the present I believe I can directly add postings and anyone can make comments. I would like to figure out a way that anyone can directly add postings. I think it is possible to have up to 100 people approved to add postings so that should work just fine. Once it is approved at a meeting I will figure out how to do that and anyone who wants to add a posting will be able to do so.

For now if you have anything you need posted just email it to me and I'll post it. Anyone will be able to comment on it.

Once approved I will fill out the profile section and ask Clark to put a link to the blog on the web site.

This blog will be great for sharing ideas. It can be helpful for different meeting proposals, for discussions on studio policies, potential new glazes or even if someone wants to get a group together to purchase some materials in bulk this would be a way to get the word out.

I believe there is an option for you all to choose if you would like an email sent to you every time a posting/comment is made to the site. That would be up to you. I'm not quite sure how that works yet but would not be something you were required to do.

I'm very excited about this but at the same time apprehensive. I thought it would be a nice thing to set this up for the studio but there usually is someone who is outraged or offended by anything anyone does (I don't mean a specific person, it's different all the time. Sometimes it's me) so if you are that person with this blog please don't worry. This will be brought before a meeting and all will be resolved. You can even leave me a nasty comment right now on this blog in the comment section below!

For now, please send me any info you want posted here. I think this is going to be fun.
Bloggingly yours, Harry