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Master potters Michael Car dew of England and Ladi Kwa liz of Nigeria will demonstrate craft in a program at Id College Friday, be ing at 1:30 p.m. * potters visit to this ntry, which has been de scrribed as ‘‘an experiment in international understanding craftsmen,”’ is spon sored at the national level by American Crafts Council and internationally by the World Crafts Council. The Dallas Craft Guild, in cooperation with Eastfield Col , has arranged for Dallas be included in the current . The potters are accompa nied by C. Kofi Athey, head of the Pottery Museum at Jos, Nigeria, who serves as transla tor Ladi Kwali. Her tours have introduced Kwali and her pottery to England and Germany, where her work was highly ac claimed. An article on her pot tery appeared In the Hill issue of “Craft Horizons,” and one on Cardew and his champion ship of Nigerian pottery was carried in the February issue of the magazine. Cardew, a potter in the great English tradition, for several years headed the Pottery Training Center operated by the British Ministry of Indus t and Trade at Abuja, an There he discovered the siege work of Ladi Kwa li, a native potter who as a lit tle girl had learned the tradi nn craft of building pots by The program at Eastfield will begin with a slide-2 -illustrated lecture on Nigerian pottery . Cardew, who is the author of “Pioneer Pottery,’ a recently published book on this subject. The high point of the pro gram will be at 3:30 p.m. when Ladi Kwali will hand build and decorate a large water jar, using the traditional methods of her native village. At 7 p.m., following a break for dinner, Cardew will demon strate on the potter’s wheel. The program is open to the public. Registration fee of $5 includes the lecture and both demonstrations. Reservations accompanied by check payable to the Dallas Craft Guild, should go to Mrs. Jack Allen, 735 Nottingham Drive. Call Mrs. Allen at 231-1038 for more information. The Dallas Craft Guild is a non-profit association of crafts men and patrons of the crafts MRS. GEORGE JORDAN, left, Life Membership chairman and Mrs. Jim Adams, outgoing president of Canyon Creek elementary PTA, present a life membership to W.R. Young, principal, at the final PTA meeting of the school year.
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Richardson Daily News
Richardson, Texas, US
Thu, May 25, 1972
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