JULY 2011 |
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Dear {cst_name_cp},
Since I last wrote, your NCECA board has had a responsibility-filled late spring and summer. There are two major exhibitions under development, our Sprit of Ceramics film Linda Arbuckle: Fresh Color on Pottery has been picked up for national streaming to NETA-affiliated stations and the Board has been engaged in a budgeting process that involves challenging debates. Difficult decisions lie ahead as we move closer to approval.
Due in part to well-performing investments, NCECA is able to close out the 2010-11 fiscal year on a positive note. The lower than anticipated conference attendance in 2011 coupled with the resource reductions facing many academic institutions, schools, businesses and individuals demand that the Board be responsible in projecting attendance for the 2012 conference in Seattle. Our Seattle On Sites, Marge Levy and Wally Bivins, along with Programs Director, Steve Hilton led the Board through a process of program selection for the Seattle Conference. The lineup is stellar thanks to the quality submissions from our members and solicitations from the Board. (The Shared Journeys II Symposium should also be very fine!)
If you are not yet sure about whether you will attend the 2012 conference in Seattle, I want to let you know that additional details on the program will be coming soon. This experience in the Pacific Northwest is one you will not want to miss. If your NCECA membership may have lapsed, please consider renewing today. Your active membership plays a key role in shaping the programming, ideas and artwork presented at the annual conference. The payment of dues also provides a source of operating revenue that enables NCECA to continue its work. We are truly a member-driven organization in all of our facets.
Are you an early career, professional artist AND an NCECA Member?
Early registration deadline extended to September 5, 2011 at midnight EST
It's been a busy summer of planning for NCECA Exhibitions Director Linda Ganstrom and Projects Manager, Kate Vorhaus. Together they have been organizing entries for two upcoming exhibitions. Uncommon Ground: Impact and Influence runs at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities from September 15- November 13, 2011 and features 70 works by 39 artists who reside west of the Mississippi River. PUSH PLAY - NCECA's 2012 Invitational exhibition runs at the Belleview Arts Museum from January 19 - June 17, 2012.
Artist In Residence (one year)
SOFA WEST: Santa Fe 2011
NCECA mourns the passing of past advisory committee member, Gerry Eskin Businessman turned artist, Gerald Eskin, passed away earlier this summer. After retiring in 1995 from Information Resources Inc., a company he co-founded in the 1970s, he turned his energies to ceramics and sculpture working with Chuck Hindes at the University of Iowa. Beginning with plates and cups his work ultimately evolved into large-scale pieces inspired by sarcophagus-like burial containers or ossuaries. For a time, Eskin served as a Chairman of NCECA's advisory board. Hindes, said of his friend, 'His real strength was in sculpture." In addition to designing and developing the University of Iowa Art Museum's ceramics collection, Eskin recently presented exhibitions at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa, and SOFA Chicago at Navy Pier. In the catalog for Eskin's 2010 exhibition at the Figge Art Museum, his close friend Jun Kaneko wrote, "In all the things that Gerry Eskin creates, there is a basic sense of humanity," Eskin's work is held in major collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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In This Edition ________________ Call for 2012 ________________ Shared Journeys II: _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________
Thank you to these Members
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