Vol* XII. No. I 
SYRACUSE, NEW YORK 
May 1910 
HIS month we show the beginnings 
of the club work of the Portland, 
Oregon, Club. The Secretary, 
Mary D. Maginnis, writes: "We 
are making a fight for original 
work and find your magazine a 
great help in our trouble. We all 
enjoy and appreciate the Keramic 
Studio and hope to see it succeed 
far beyond expectations. The Or- 
egon Keramic Club is six years old with eighteen members, 
ten of whom are working members. Every December we 
hold an exhibition and sale and this year's was the most 
successful of all, with more visitors and press notices than 
heretofore." 
We congratulate the Club on so good a start and feel 
sure that another year will see a great stride in advance 
after they have had a course with Mrs. Kathryn E. Cherry, 
instructor in china decoration and ceramic design for the 
American Woman's League, as we understand they are 
expecting to take up the work with her. They have made 
an excellent selection, as we know of no one so capable of 
giving the best of instruction by correspondence. 
We are in receipt of the announcement of Mr. Marshal 
T. Fry's summer class at Southampton, L. I. The sur- 
roundings are ideal for art study and Mr. Fry most inspir- 
ing as a teacher. The field covered in the classes is a wide 
one, including drawing and painting, designing, illustrating, 
ceramics, both overglaze and pottery building. 
We have come to the conclusion that almost every 
ceramist in California received a gold medal and grand prize 
at the Oregon exposition. First we received notice that a 
lady was the recipient. That brought a protest from the 
whole San Francisco Ceramic Club. We corrected the 
statement, upon which we received a protest from the Los 
Angeles Club and a manufacturer, who claimed his firm was 
the "one and only." We are not going to take back any- 
thing more but apologize to everybody for not doing in the 
first place what we are doing now — writing to the "authori- 
ties that be" in Oregon, and we will publish the reply and 
wash our hands of all responsibility. In the meanwhile we 
are convinced from what we have seen of the work of the 
California ceramic contingent that they all deserved a prize. 
Once more we count thejpassing years. This is our 
eleventh anniversary. Will you join us in wishing that the 
next eleven years will show as much progress in ceramic art 
as those we have passed and that Keramic Studio may then 
be still leading the onward march. 
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Spring is again with us. Will not our students and 
designers turn their attention this year to the ^Delphinium 
or Perennial Larkspur. It has such wonderful decorative 
possibilities. And then there is the Aconitum or Monk's 
Hood, Penstemon, Salpiglossis. Do try these and send us 
some studies. 
LEAGUE NOTES 
If the National League of Mineral Painters disbands at 
the triennial meeting May tenth it will not be for lack of 
funds but because of loss of interest in it by the Ceramic 
Clubs who were responsible for its organization and whose 
officers were at that time alive to the advantages of such an 
organization for their members. 
The work of the League for the past six years has been 
done by officers elected from members of the Chicago 
Ceramic Art Association. These officers have been forced 
by the work ofthe League to neglect the work of the local 
Club, and while the result has been great improvement in 
ceramic decoration throughout the country it has inter- 
fered with the growth of the Chicago Club by depriving it 
of so much of the work of many of its best designers, con- 
sequently the feeling in Chicago is strong against continuing 
the League, unless some club in another city will undertake 
the work for a while. No Ceramic Club in any other city 
has as yet responded to the appeal embodied in the resolu- 
tions adopted at the annual meeting last May. 
The formation of many Art Craft Societies in the larger 
cities which give the china decorator opportunities for ex- 
hibiting with other craftsmen has had its influence in lessen- 
ing the interest of Ceramic Clubs in the Annual Exhibition 
of the League and they have as a result become too small 
and unimportant to be representative of League work. 
The increased interest in the Study Course each year 
has practically made of the League a correspondence school, 
which entails an enormous amount of work upon the officers. 
Through this study course the League has given for the past 
six years to every member desiring them six criticisms on 
their designs by one of the best designers in the country 
absolutely free. So great an opportunity for ceramic 
decorators will probably never be equalled. This has only 
been made possible for the League to do by the kindness 
of the Editors of Keramic Studio in giving space each month 
to be devoted to the interests of the League and through 
the efforts of the different officers of the League Avho have 
given freely of their time and efforts for the work. 
It has been the custom of these officers in the past to 
mail to previous members of the League, as far as their 
addresses could be traced, all communications regarding the 
work of the League. This has been done with the hope of 
reviving their interest in the League and not because they 
were still considered members. Only those members whose 
dues are paid for the fiscal year ending with the triennial 
meeting can be considered members in good standing and 
are the only ones entitled to a share in the division of the 
funds to be made if the League disbands. Such members 
should send to the Treasurer of the League, Miss Minnie C. 
Childs, 4742 Evans Ave., Chicago, any changes that have 
been made in their address during the year. 
All clubs who owe the League for the travelling exhibi- 
tion or for dues of their members are hereby requested to 
send same to the Treasurer at once. 
The triennial meeting will be held in Trustees Room at 
the Art Institute, Chicago, May 10th at ten o'clock. 
Mary S. Farrington. 
710 Barry Ave., Chicago. President X. L. M. P. 
