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RERAMIC STUDIO 
^JEAGUE Officers of the National League of Min- 
NOTES eral Painters: President, Mrs. L. Vance- 
Phillips, 115 East 23d street, New York; 
Vice-President, Miss Sophie G. Keenan, 5550 Hays street, 
E. E. Pittsburg, Pa. ; Recording Secretary, Mrs. Evelyn D. 
DeWitt, 47 West 16th street, New York ; Recording Secre- 
tary, Miss Myra Boyd, Penn avenue, near Long, Pittsburg, 
East End, Pa.; Assistant Secretary, Mrs. C. B. Doremus, 231 
West avenue, Bridgeport, Conn. ; Treasurer, Miss M. Helen 
E. Montfort, 142 West 125th street, New York. 
As provided by our constitution, the business of the 
League is transacted by the executive and advisory board, 
both of which are elected. When a board member is not 
present at a meeting, a duly accredited proxy may represent 
such member either continually or for occasional meetings, as 
the member represented may elect. This proxy is to be in- 
structed by the member and to return a complete account of 
proceedings at board meeting. 
Delegates assembled at Buffalo last May (as provided by 
the constitution) named the executive. It was by this body 
deemed wise to leave the electing of a board until such time 
as the executive could take the matter up by letter. October 
was thought to be the first month that club members could be 
counted upon to be at home and ready for consideration of 
this subject. Letters have therefore gone forth and the board 
will be formed and names published at an early date. 
LEAGUE MEDALS. 
The committee on education is being formed and it will 
probably be December before a study course can be issued. 
In the meantime we would advise reference to last year's 
course, which contained many good suggestions, including the 
classes of work which are sure to be announced for the year's 
medals. Whatever course of study is advised will be sure to 
bear upon subjects relating to the awarding of the three 
medals — a gold, a silver and a bronze — made after the design 
which this year brought to the designer the gold medal. This 
together with a silver medal awarded for the best design for a 
plate border were the first medals given by the National 
League. Through Mrs. Worth Osgood's untiring efforts this 
system of recognizing meritorious work by the giving of 
medals was arranged. The awards are to be made each year 
upon work exhibited at the annual meeting in May. The 
classes of work to receive the medals to be decided by the 
board, and the classes may vary each year ; for instance, if the 
board elect to give the gold medal to " best conventional de- 
sign adapted to a vase " for any given year, the same board 
could decide the following year to offer the gold medal for an 
entirely different class of work. A system of rotation has been 
suggested. Portraits or studies from life, conventional designs, 
realistic studies, adaptation of ornament to a given subject, 
etc., could in turn be offered the gold medal, the silver medal, 
or the bronze, thus giving highest honor by rotation to differ- 
ent lines of keramic work. Correspondence from individual 
and club members is solicited on this subject, and preferences 
in this way expressed to our corresponding secretary, Miss 
Boyd, are sure to influence the decision of the board. 
SHOW CASES 
is a subject which should interest all clubs. A wise sugges- 
tion has been made by our vice-president, Miss Keenan, that 
the League decide upon the most suitable and effective kind 
of show case for future use both in individual club exhibitions 
and for the annual ones of the League, that each club pay 
for and keep its own. It would be advisable that the League 
officers or a committee order for all, thus securing uniformity 
and cheapness. 
Cases of plate glass set in bog oak or Flemish oak would 
enhance the effect of all colors. Certain sizes could be adopted 
as standard. Each club could order one or more such cases, 
and if their exhibits called for it, a taller case; this second 
size could be known as standard No. 2. Cabinets and minia- 
ture tables for individual members could be similarly de- 
signed, but always carried out in plate glass and black oak. 
The idea is to urge in good time the great advantage of 
uniformity to each exhibitor, as well as to the League in gen- 
eral. Once purchased, the disproportionately heavy rental of 
cases of miscellaneous style and quality would be done away 
with. Each club would have its own cases for local display 
and for exhibitions of the League. When arranging for the 
latter, each club could plan its own arrangements intelligently 
and pay for space merely. 
The ninth annual exhibition of the Mineral Art League 
of Boston will be held the first week in December in the ban- 
quet hall of the Westminster Club. The afternoon of De- 
cember 2d there will be a private view for the press and 
profession, in the evening of the same date an informal recep- 
tion to the patrons of the League and the exhibition will be 
open to the public Tuesday, the 3d, at 10 o'clock; also each 
day and evening of the week, closing Saturday at noon. For 
the first time an admission fee will be charged. All members 
of sister clubs will be cordially welcomed if they will kindly 
ask for any member of the committee, which is made up of 
the officers of the League. 
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JN THE The classes in Design and Practical 
STUDIOS Keramics °P ened at the Art Institute, Chi- 
cago, Oct. 5th. The tuition is very low, and 
students of keramics in and about Chicago ought to take 
advantage of them. The object of these lessons is to acquaint 
the students with fundamental principles, historical resources 
and practical methods in connection with keramic design, so 
that they may independently create new and original designs 
suited to the materials and forms of the ware. The instruc- 
tion in design will include the study of organic ornament, 
geometric and conventionalized, the distribution of areas, the 
effect of repetition and contrast, the artistic use of colors, etc. 
The instruction in keramics will cover processes and materials, 
including the practical application of designs to keramics, the 
use of tools and appliances, the properties of paints, bronzes, 
lustres and gold, the methods of firing, etc. The production 
of artistic pottery will also be undertaken, including the 
processes of designing, shaping, modeling and underglaze 
painting. Each piece will be original in design, shape and 
decoration, and formed entirely by hand with the aid of the 
potter's wheel, without casting or other mechanical process, 
so that it cannot be duplicated. 
Miss Fanny M. Scammell of New York, has moved her 
studio to 152 West 23d street, near Sixth avenue. 
Miss Cora Stratton of Chattanooga, Tenn., is sending out 
an illustrated circular of her studio classes, etc., which testifies 
to her enterprise and success as a teacher. 
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JN THE A fine catalogue of Pyrography material, 
CHOP'S l eatner and wooden goods, has just been re- 
ceived from F. Weber & Co. of Philadelphia. 
Mrs. Pauline MacLean is selling her stock of white china, 
owing to lack of room in her new studio. See advertisement. 
