NEWS RELEASE DATE: April 8, 2007 FOR USE: Now CONTACT: Steve Quakenbush

STUDENTS, ARTISTS ANNOUNCE MAY 7 CERAMIC & SCULPTURE SALE AT GCCC

The work of nine or more Southwest Kansas artists will be available May 7 at the spring art sale of the Garden City Community College Potters Guild.

The annual pre-Mother's Day event will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the lobby of the Pauline Joyce Fine Arts Building on the GCCC campus, featuring hundreds of ceramic and sculptural pieces created in college art courses.

The guild, made up of students enrolled in courses taught by Art Instructor Brian McCallum, stages an art sale each May and December, offering abstract, representational and utilitarian works.

McCallum said prices would range from $5 to $50 for most pieces, offering the opportunity for people to find affordable gifts for graduation, Mother's Day or other occasions. There will be faculty pieces in addition to those created by students.

Some of the potters involved are students who have taken up the art form in recent years, and others are established area artists.

The group includes Julie Sauzameda, Cimarron; Judy Scott, Lakin; Kate Dibbern, York, Neb.; Chad Mitchell, Albuquerque, NM; and a number from Garden City, including Dick Erskin, Bill Crymble, Jim Mathews, Chandra Knowles and Jack Simpson.

Ceramics and paintings by Dibbern are also on display through April 27 in the walk-though gallery at GCCC’s Beth Tedrow Student Center.

“These potters range from seasoned professionals to less experienced students, and their work will be for sale at very reasonable prices,” McCallum said.

While the students can't accept credit cards at the sale, they're able to take either cash or checks; and will have bags and packing materials on hand.

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