Local artist Jacqui Beckett selling sunflower pottery plates
All proceeds will go toward helping local Ukrainian families
March 29, 2023, 10:14 am
Kara Kinna
Moosomin artist Jacqui Beckett has created 100 hand-made pottery plates to sell with all proceeds from the plates going toward helping local Ukrainian families get settled.
Each plate is five inches across, and features a blue glaze with a sunflower in the middle. The blue represents the Ukrainian flag and the sunflower represents Ukraine’s national flower.
“The idea came to me after we had that special supper to meet the Ukrainian families in town at the Legion (on December 8),” says Beckett. “I thought what can I do and how can I help out with my art or pottery. And the idea came to me that maybe I’ll make some little plates and sell them. And then the idea came to me of the sunflower, and the blue color for the flag.
“After Christmas I started making them. It’s been a two-month process to get 100 plates made.
“I originally was just going to make spoon rests and my daughter said why don’t you make little plates and they can just choose what they want to use it for. You have more ways for using a little plate like that. So I chose the sunflower because it’s their national flower and the blue because of the blue in their flag—it just represents their country.”
Beckett is selling the plates for $20 each, and says the 100 plates that she made are a limited edition, as she will not be making any more.
Why did she choose Ukraine as her cause?
“I have Ukrainian heritage. And just meeting the families that night and listening to their stories just really touched me and I really wanted to help them in some small way that I could,” she says. “All these small ways really add up.
“I’m very proud of our community and the way people have stepped forward in all kinds of ways to help out the new people coming to our town. I just wanted to help out in the little way I could.”
The plates are available by contacting Jacqui Beckett at 306-434-7090 or jacquimbeckett@gmail.com. The plates are also available at World-Spectator office at 714 Main Street in Moosomin.
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