By Derek Cornet

Pottery guild could soon form in La Ronge

May 9, 2018 | 5:00 PM

La Ronge’s Bob Polischuk believes there’s enough interest in the tri-community to start a pottery guild.

If the La Ronge Arts Council receives a grant it applied for in the coming months, he’s hopeful the board will consider providing funds to cover start up costs for the club. As a member of the council, Polischuk said the board has been successful at obtaining grants during the last couple of years, which have funded lessons in a variety of artistic mediums.

“As a guild, it would be a bunch of people getting together wanting to do pottery,” he said. “Right now we never have any problem filling the classes we offer. There’s a handful of girls doing quite well and some have been doing good work.”

For the last four years, Polischuk has been teaching pottery classes at Churchill Community High School on a seasonal basis. Since 2016, he’s offered five-week spring and fall sessions and he said the latest classes ended in March. Polischuk had a lot of interest to hold more classes in April, he said, but noted an injury cancelled those plans.

Polischuk began creating pottery eight years ago after he attended classes on the subject at the high school. He said retired art teacher Chris Lee was instructing it back then, adding it was frustrating at first but he soon figured out the techniques. Throughout the years, Polischuk taught himself how to do most of the pottery by researching it on the Internet and he now has a small studio where he works at home.

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“Any of the arts are very important to a community,” he said. “There’s a lot of people out there who do things you never see.”

derek.cornet@jpbg.ca

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