PRE & POST CONFERENCE EVENTS
NCECA 2010 44th Annual Conference - Philadelphia, PA
A pre-conference event must take place prior to Wednesday, March 31, 2010 and a post-conference event beginning any time/day after Saturday, April 3, 2010, 2:00p.m.
If you are planning a pre or post conference event, email complete information to: jeff@theclaystudio.org
Pre-Conference
The Clay Studio Presents:
Elements of Function with Randy J Johnston and Jan McKeachie Johnston
Monday/Tuesday, March 29th & 30th / 10 am – 4 pm
$150 The Clay Studio Members
$160 Non-Members
This ceramic workshop is a rare opportunity to spend uninterrupted time with two leading ceramic artists, Randy Johnston and Jan McKeachie Johnston. In this workshop, Randy and Jan will be making pottery within traditional concepts. They will focus on the exchange of ideas involved in making pots related to function. Demonstrations will cover the use of the wheel and the construction of forms by altering pieces and by using slabs and paper patterns. This will be an exciting workshop with several discussions about the work in progress. Slides of historical and contemporary work in ceramics along with the work of the artists will be shown.
After four years of study with Warren MacKenzie, Randy established and has maintained a studio in River Falls Wisconsin since 1972. He has an MFA from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Randy apprenticed with living national treasure Tatsuzo Shimaoka of Mashiko, Japan in 1975. He was awarded visual arts Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1979 and 1991. Jan has worked as a studio potter for more than thirty years. Her work also grows out of a strong tradition of functional ceramics from England and Japan (Leach/Hamada). Randy and Jan have been guest artists at numerous colleges and art schools in the US, South America and Europe. Their work has been included in scores of exhibitions and has been featured in Studio Potter, Ceramics Monthly and Ceramics Art and Perception. Jan and Randy continue to serve as role models for many aspiring artists working in clay.
The Clay Studio
137-139 North Second Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
www.theclaystudio.org
Making Pots / Up Close in the Studio
with Neil Patterson & Sandi Pierantozzi
Saturday/Sunday March 27th & 28th, 2010 / 10 am- 4 pm
Cost: $150
Join Sandi and Neil in this two-day workshop at their studio in Philadelphia.
Learn two approaches to making pots in the intimate setting of their studio.
This workshop will focus on the incorporation of texture in both hand built and wheel thrown pots. Traditional forms such as bowls, cups, jars, teapots and vases will
be demonstrated. Slab construction will be presented parallel to wheel thrown work, exposing participants to a wide range of techniques. Limited to 24 participants.
March 27 & 28, 10:00-4:00 each day. Neighborhood Potters, 2034 Fairmount Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, 215-236-1617. For more information visit www.sandiandneil.com. Pre-registration required.
Pouring Pots / Up Close in the Studio
with Neil Patterson & Sandi Pierantozzi
Monday/Tuesday March 29th & 30th, 2010 / 10:00am-4:00pm
Cost: $150
Join Sandi and Neil in this two-day workshop at their studio in Philadelphia.
Learn two approaches to making pouring pots in the intimate setting of their studio.
Neil will demonstrate wheel throwing, altering and assembling and Sandi will show how to make various pouring pots using soft slabs of clay. Teapots, pitchers, creamers, and other small pots that pour will be covered. Emphasis will be put on how to make a pot that is comfortable to hold while full, and that pours well. Limited to 24 participants.
March 29 & 30, 10:00-4:00 each day. Neighborhood Potters, 2034 Fairmount Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, 215-236-1617. For more information visit www.sandiandneil.com. Pre-registration required.
Studio Open House
with Kathie Regan Dalzell, and
Claire Shenk Rodgers
Tuesday, March 30th from noon to 6PM
919 S. 7th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147, 610-308-8695
L-Claire Shenk Rodgers, R- Kathie Regan Dalzell
Moravian Pottery and Tile Works
3-Day Intensive Tile/Mosaic Workshop
March 23 – March 25, 2010
This three day workshop covers all the basic processes used by the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works to produce decorative tile, mosaics, quarry tile, and plaster molds, in addition to basic glazing, sagger loading, tile setting and grouting. We will also tour Fonthill and the Tile Works and see a lecture/slide show on historic and contemporary tile installations. Limited enrollment and individualized instruction by the staff of the MPTW allows each student to have a hands on experience with many of the above processes. Class size is limited to 8 students. The workshop cost is $230.
Registration for all workshops begins September 1st, 2009.
Full payment required at registration. Click here to download a registration form.
Refunds and Cancellations:
Except for a $25 registration fee, all fees are refundable if notice of cancellation is given at least two weeks prior to the start of the workshop. Less than two weeks notice will receive a refund of 50%. No refunds will be given if a student withdraws after a workshop begins. The Moravian Pottery & Tile Works reserves the right to cancel a workshop due to low enrollment or emergency. If a cancellation should occur, students will be notified and will have the option of taking another class or receiving a full refund.
For further information, contact Adam Zayas at 215.345.6722 x25.
South Jersey Shore Clay Tour
March 29, 30 & 31st, 2010
The South Jersey Shore Clay Tour is a self guided tour which includes ten venues. Rowan University's Westby Hall Gallery will play host to an exhibition. The tour also includes three stops in Millville, NJ : Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, The Clay College and Wheaton Arts. Additional venues include the Atlantic Cape May Community College in Mays Landing, The Noyes Museum in Oceanville and then the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey in Pomona. Finally, Long Beach Island has three venues: SwellColors Art Gallery, m.t.burton gallery and the Long Beach Island Foundation for the Arts and Sciences.
Studio Open House
with Kathie Regan Dalzell, and
Claire Shenk Rodgers
919 S. 7th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147, 610-308-8695
Tuesday, March 30th from noon to 6PM
Download a complete listing of the tour at: South Jersey Shore Clay Tour [PDF, 197K]. For further information, contact Tour organizer Matt Burton, matt@mtburton.com, or 609-494-0006.
Pre-NCECA Woodfiring Weekend
with Bruce Dehnert at the South Jersey Wood Fire Kiln
Sponsored by Perkins Center for the Arts &
Appel Farm Arts & Music Center
March 27 - March 28, 2010, Kiln Opening March 31, 2010
Cost: $225./$210. Perkins Members
Make the 2010 Philadelphia NCECA extra-special by participating in what has become a preconference tradition of woodfiring. This workshop will offer participants the opportunity to glaze, load, and fire the Perkins Center /Apple Farm’s noborigama-style kiln with its large wood /directional chamber and two large catenary chambers. The kiln is thirty minutes from Philadelphia in the picturesque farmland of Salem County in southern New Jersey.
This workshop will be led by Bruce Dehnert, Head of Ceramics at Peters Valley Craft Center. Preparing for the firing, his thoughts are, “We will approach the firing with an enthusiasm for deep reduction colors and a 24hour+ firing cycle. As the back chamber of this beautiful kiln is a salt chamber, participants will have the opportunity to experience salt firing as well. Enrollment will be limited so as to avail participants more individual attention and exchange, ample quantity of work getting into the kiln, and a more memorable experience for this Pre-NCECA happening!
Participants will be invited to bring 20 – 30 pieces for the loading. All work must be bisque fired before arriving, and must be constructed from either stoneware or porcelain capable of reaching cone 10 or higher. So get in gear and join us for a fiery time, then soak in the sights, sounds, and dynamism that promises to be the Philadelphia NCECA.
For more information contact Diane Felcyn @ 856.235.6488, x 306, or Katie Popelak, x 314 or www.perkinscenter.org. Pre-registration required.
Raku and Alternative Decoration and Firing:
A One-Day Workshop with Steven Branfman
and Eduardo Lazo
GoggleWorks Center for the Arts, Reading, PA
March 28, 11 am to 5 pm.
Limited to 40 participants, the cost is $45 per person/ $25 for students.
Image: L-Eduardo Lazo, R- Steve Branfman
Get ready for a power-packed day with Steven Branfman and Eduardo Lazo. Steven and Eduardo will demonstrate their vessel forming methods and their personal styles of surface decoration using a variety of glaze and non-glaze techniques and practices. Eduardo will show his specialized “upside down” throwing technique where forms are created in an inverted fashion. He will also combine handbuilding and throwing methods. Steven will demonstrate a variety of forms and throwing techniques such as throwing off the hump, altering shapes, surface design and manipulation, addition of dry materials to clay surfaces, inlaying colored glass, narrow neck bottle forms, expanding forms from the inside, coil and throw, large forms and platters. Both artists will show their trimming and finishing techniques.
Branfman will also demonstrate the choice, combinations, application and use of a variey of glazes including raku glaze, stoneware glaze, commerical low fire glaze, underglazes, overglazes, slips, washes, dry mixtures and multiple firing all in the context of low fire raku firing and post firing methods. Lazo will discuss and demonstrate selected ferric chloride techniques. Both artists will explain and demonstrate the creative uses of kiln control including temperature and atmosphere management, recognizing proper glaze melt and post-firing methods.
Steven Branfman and Eduardo Lazo have been close friends for many years and have learned much from each other. They share much in the way of aesthetic sensibilities, yet their individual technical approaches are very different. Despite the differences, their artistic styles compliment each other, and their close friendship and working relationship will excite and inspire you. Bring your questions and don’t forget your cameras and notebooks!
To register, please call the GoggleWorks at 610-374-4600. Please mention the course number, VA1001 when registering. A current student ID number is required to receive the student rate. Cost: $45 per person/ $25 for students. Pre-registration required. GoggleWorks Center for the Arts 201 Washington St., Reading, PA 19601, 610.374.4600, www.goggleworks.org.
Frank Giorgini Workshop
The Community Arts Center of Wallingford,
The Potters Guild of Wallingford, and L and L kilns are enthusiastically sponsoring
a Pre- NCECA Workshop with tile guru Frank Giorgini.
March 29 - March 30, 2010, 10 am to 4 pm
Cost: $150./$125. CAC Members
Frank Giorgini is one of the foremost designers and fabricators of handmade tiles in the country. His best selling book, Handmade Tiles, has become the bible of the handmade tile movement. . Frank designed and fabricated tile murals and artwork for the renovation of the Whitehall Street Subway Station, NYC and the Utica Avenue Subway Station, NYC. He also designed a 45ft. x7ft. mural for the Downtown Flushing Pedestrian Project, NYC, which is now completed and awaiting installation. Frank Giorgini’s artwork is in art galleries and in private and public collections across this country and abroad and in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, NY.
Giorgini is considered the designer of the modern udu drum, an all clay musical instrument of West African origins. His drums are used by the worlds leading percussionists. The process of hand building the udu drum is documented in his new DVD “The Art of the Udu Drum”.
Giorgini taught Architectural Tile Design courses at Parsons School of Design, NY for 15 years. He has held tile making and udu drum workshops around the USA and abroad including at NCECA, Rochester, NY, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA, Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI, Parson’s School of Design at Altos de Chavon, Dominican Republic and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
In this two day workshop Frank will demonstrate several of the tile making techniques presented in his book Handmade Tiles, Lark 1994, including making a model, pouring a plaster mold, pressing out a tile, shellac resist and glaze application. He will also present a slide show documenting the process of creating the NYC Public Art Projects. Frank will demonstrate making an all clay udu drum and each participant can, hands on, make a small udu drum.
Also, as part of this workshop, L and L kilns will be providing information, and a short demonstration on kiln firing with L and L kilns. Come with questions for the experts about electric firing.
The conference will take place at: The Bea Dallet Ceramic Studio, The Community Arts Center of Wallingford, 414 Plush Mill Road, Wallinford, PA.
For more information call 610-566-1713 or register online at www.communityartscenter.org. Pre-registration required.
The Ceramic Shop Presents
Steven Hill: Electric vs. Gas Firing:
What's all the fuss about reduction, anyway?
March 29 - March 30, April 1, 2010
Cost: $255.
The Ceramic Shop is proud to announce a three-day, hands-on workshop with Steven Hill. This workshop is designed to help you get the most out of YOUR glazes, applied on YOUR pots and fired in YOUR kiln- be it gas or electric. Master potter, Steven Hill, will demonstrate the basic techniques of applying glaze by spraying, and discuss more advanced theories of layering and blending glazes. Testing both mid-range and high-temperature glazes will be included to help you create a unique look all your own. Steven will also discuss firing schedules and programming for your kiln and how they affect the surface of your glazes.
What To Bring: Since this is a participatory workshop, you should bring 4-6 small to medium sized bisque fired pieces ready to glaze and fire during the workshop. Pieces are fired to cone 8 so make sure to use a cone 6 to 10 white stoneware or porcelain clay body. If you're unsure, it's safer to use a clay rated to cone 10. Contact us and we'll be happy to recommend the best clay body for your work.
What's Included: Glazes and equipment for the workshop are provided by The Ceramic Shop. Morning refreshments and a boxed lunch will be provided on Monday and Tuesday. In addition, all participants are invited to join us Tuesday night for the NCECA vendor dinner party.
The workshop will take place at: The Ceramic Shop, 3245 Amber St (1st Floor), Philadelphia, PA 19134
For more information including workshop schedule call 215-427-9665 or visit www.theceramicshop.com. Pre-registration required.
A Useable Feast at Noble American Cookery
Curated by Lyla Kaplan
March 30, 2010 / 7 PM
Cost: $85.
A USEABLE FEAST is a unique exhibit in which functional pottery is put to use in a restaurant, creating an active environment where the common experience of eating and drinking becomes a celebration of the interdependence among pottery, food, cooking, and people. Noble American Cookery, a restaurant in a renovated carriage house near Rittenhouse Square, will host a Preview Hour with Signature Cocktails at 7 pm with a “Family Style” Dinner featuring seasonal, local foods. All pottery will be for sale. Participating artists: Jim Dugan, Mel Griffin, Ayumi Horie, Gwendolyn Yoppolo. http://www.downtoearthexhibit.org/nceca2010.html
Reservations are required: www.noblecookery.com. Cost is $85.00 per person. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Buy Fresh Buy Local (BFBL) Chapter Network program which educates consumers about the importance of farming and locally grown food, www.foodroutes.org. Noble American Cookery, 2025 Samson Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19103, 215-568-7000.
Pre-NCECA Wood/Salt Firing Workshop with Jack Troy
at the Cheltenham Art Center, Cheltenham, PA.
March 28 – March 29, 2010 with kiln unloading Saturday, April 3
Cost: $300 Cheltenham Members, $325 Non-members.
Approximately one dozen participants will be firing the 100 cubic foot tube-catenary arch kiln for approximately 30-36 hours. The firebox area produces some natural-ash effects and the catenary will be salted. This kiln has been fired successfully for years and has produced some fine results. Slips and glazes will be provided, and the wood will have been dried and split.
We will meet at the kiln Sunday morning, March 28th, for glazing and decorating. Loading will begin later that day, and the kiln will be candled overnight, and fired through Monday. Unloading will take place Saturday afternoon.
The workshop is open to anyone interested in learning about the process of woodfiring, regardless of experience, and will feature slides, demonstrations, and discussions of woodfiring aesthetics and processes. Participants should bring bisque-fired stoneware and porcelain clays known to perform well in such kilns, such as Highwater Phoenix Stoneware and Standard Porcelain #437. Each person will have approximately 10 cubic feet of space, or an area. No plates, platters, or wide bowls, please, and please limit the height of work to 18".
Cheltenham Art Center, 439 Ashbourne Road, Cheltenham, PA, 19102, 215-379-4660. For more information email eucation@cheltenham.org, www.cheltenhamarts.org. Pre-registration required.
Making Through Living - Living Through Making: Studio Pottery in 2010
Montgomery County Community College, Blue Bell, PA
March 29 - March 30, 2010
Cost: $62.50 to $135.
Ron Meyers, Ellen Shankin, Christa Assad and Andy Brayman: Simultaneous demonstrations. Mary Barringer: Keynote address. Julia Galloway, Ayumi Horie, Alleghany Meadows, Michael Connelly, Andy Brayman and Steve Lee: Panel discussions.
This 2-day pre-conference event will focus on current issues in utilitarian pottery. Demonstrations will happen simultaneously, with 4 outstanding potters working side by side, discussing their work, process and philosophy. Demonstrators will also give slide lectures about their work. There will be a keynote address by Mary Barringer, the editor of Studio Potter Magazine, a panel discussion about living through making, and a panel discussion on sustainability in Ceramics. The conference will also feature the Artstream Nomadic Gallery.
Located just 15 miles from downtown Philadelphia, this inaugural conference at Montgomery County Community College will focus on contemporary issues in utilitarian pottery, including sustainability, creativity, content, form, marketing, idea generating and social outreach. For complete information including fee schedule visit: http://www.mc3.edu/campusLife/artsCulture/ceramicsconference/
Pre-registration required.
Montgomery County Community College, 340 DeKalb Pike, Blue Bell, PA, 19422,
215-641-6300. Contact: Michael Connelly at mconnelly@mc3.edu
Mosaic Workshop with Isaiah Zagar,
founder Philadelphia Magic Gardens
Monday/Tuesday March 29th & 30th, 2010 /9 am-4 pm each day
Cost: Early registration: $200 plus $20 materials fee; after March 12, 2010, $250 plus $20 material fee.
Isaiah Zagar is an award-winning mosaic mural artist whose work can be found on over 100 public walls throughout the city of Philadelphia and around the world. Born in Philadelphia and raised in Brooklyn, Zagar received his B.F.A. in Painting and Graphics at the Pratt Institute of Art in New York City. When he was 19 years old, Zagar discovered the folk art installations of Clarence Schmidt in Woodstock, New York. Influenced by Schmidt, Picasso, Jean Debuffet, Curt Schwitters, Antonio Gaudi, Simon Rodia and Joseph Ferdinand Cheval, he was inspired to include the concepts of untrained artists as manifestations of fine art.
During the workshop, Isaiah will share the techniques he has developed specific to his process.
Henry Chapman Mercer lecture,
by Vance Kohler
Tuesday, March 30, 2010, 6:30 pm
Cost:$7.00 Students and PMG Members, $10 Adults
Philadelphia Magic Gardens, 1020 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19147, 215-733-0390. To register call PMG at 215.733.0390 or sign up online at www.philadelphiamagicgardens.org. Pre-registration required.
Jun Kaneko Lecture
Sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania and The Clay Studio
Tuesday, March 30, 5:30 pm
Cost: Free. Ticket needed for entry and will be available at the door at 4:30, the day of the lecture, Tuesday, March 30.
The lecture hall holds 437 seats. Seating is on a first come-first serve basis.
Jun Kaneko is an internationally recognized sculptor who was born in Nagoya Japan in 1942. He was educated in the United State at the Chouniard Art Institute and Berkeley and Claremont Graduate Schools. Kaneko is perhaps best know for his ongoing series of large scale ceramic sculptures, that Kaneko has titled dangos (Japanese for rounded form). Most recently, Kaneko's sculptures were installed throughout the city of Philadelphia, coinciding with the East Coast debut of his production of the opera Madama Butterfly with the Opera Company of Philadelphia. An installation of Kaneko's sculptural work is on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Perelman buildings Skylit Galleria.
The lecture will take place at the University of Pennsylvania, Meyerson Hall, Room B-1, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104
Transcending the Figure: Contemporary Ceramics
Sponsored by The Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens OH
March 12 - April 25, 2010
The Dairy Barn Arts Center is excited to present Transcending the Figure: Contemporary Ceramics. Curated by Tom Bartel, Assistant Professor of Fine Art at Ohio University, Transcending the Figure will broaden the viewer¹s idea of what the figure can be. Don't miss this contemporary, cutting edge ceramics exhibit, which will feature approximately 70 artworks by 20 Ceramic Artists from across the country.
The Dairy Barn Arts Center
8000 Dairy Lane
PO Box 747
Athens, Ohio 45701
ph: 740-592-4981
www.dairybarn.org
Post-Conference
Studio Open House
The Studio Integrated into your Community
Saturday, April 3rd, noon to 5pm / Free
Come meet potters Neil Patterson & Sandi Pierantozzi and visit their urban studio and classroom.
Learn more about how to make your studio a vital part of your community.
Refreshments will be served.
Neighborhood Potters, 2034 Fairmount Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, 215-236-1617.
For more information visit www.sandiandneil.com.
Val Cushing Lecture
Sponsored by sub octo gallery
Saturday, April 24th, 4pm - Free
Don't miss this opportunity to hear one of America's formost ceramic artists speak about his work. Val Cushing received his BFA in 1952 and his MFA in 1956 from Alfred University and taught pottery and technical courses there from 1957 until his retirement in 1997. He has been designated Professor Emeritus by the university. His work is included in many private and public collections including; American Craft Museum, Detroit Institute of Arts, Cooper Hewitt Museum, Renwick Gallery at the Smithosonian. sub octo gallery, 2202 Alter Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19146, 215-893-8812. www.subocto.com, Contact:info@octostudio.com
I worked as a volunteer this year and will do that for all future conferences I attend. Volunteering was a fantastic experience!
— 2008 Conference attendee