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KERAMIC STUDIO 
competition is the life of trade. As creators, we have not felt 
the need of organization. The creative side of our art is 
individualistic, but the creative is only one side. We must 
market our products or eventually cease to create. This 
certainly calls for co-operation on business principles. The 
Clubs and Societies already in existence would seem to be the 
nucleus for the larger organization. Each Club should strive 
to enlarge its membership and its educational advantages. 
Dues would have to be increased to cover the federation dues, 
local advertizing and subscription to our Art Magazine which 
should be considered the official organ of such league or feder- 
ation — for without such an organ no league could exist. This 
is about the only way that a magazine with a necessarily 
limited subscription can subsist and is a perfectly legitimate 
and logical way of securing to the workers the necessary 
publicity, intercommunication and inspiration. One of the 
lessons which artists have yet to learn is that we must spend 
money in order to earn money. We are too conservative in 
this respect. An annual National Exhibition and conference 
would enable us to discuss and exchange business methods — 
as well as artistic ideas. The situation is acute and must be 
recognized and dealt with if we would avoid gradual dissolu- 
tion. With a federation of Clubs and Societies each pledged 
to enlarge its membership and its scope — to establish sound 
business principles and to provide for an official magazine — 
Keramic Art should not only weather the present crisis but 
would be in position to dictate to local factories and dealers 
and compete with European trade after the war. 
It is not a question of American ability, we have the talent 
and the experience — what we need if we would make Ameri- 
can Keramic Art the power it should be is business organiza 
tion in place of the individual scramble of the past and present- 
KATHRYN E. CHERRY - Page Editor 
Marina Building, St. Louis, Mo. 
ENAMELS ON SEDJI 
The dark colors in Cadet Blue. The leaves are Aqua- 
marine. The flower is Sedji and the white berries are Jas- 
mine. 
ENAMELS ON SEDJI— KATHRYN E. CHERRY 
