2022
Cultivating Community
Beginning with the NCECA Members' Meeting on September 25 and running through October 2, 2022, Cultivating Community is a week-long series of on-demand video presentations. NCECA is making this programming accessible at no cost, though donations will be welcomed.
Cultivating Community includes new and recently developed programming that highlights dynamic presenters and topics. From making, to collective action, leadership, and creativity, Cultivating Community explores concerns of teaching, learning, and creation to generate, expand, and sustain accessibility, inclusion, diversity, and respectful culture in the field of ceramic art and beyond.
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Members Meeting
NCECA Annual Members’ Meeting: Sunday, September 25, 2022.
Join NCECA Board and Members for the 3rd annual virtual Members’ Meeting this fall to kick off a week of specially curated NCECA programming. Scheduled on Sunday, September 25, 2022, at 3pm Eastern, this is your opportunity to let NCECA know your thoughts, ideas, comments and concerns.
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Join us for vibrant and powerful video presentations by POT Los Angeles, Dolores Huerta, Sanjit Sethi, Virgil Ortiz, and the 2022 NCECA Emerging Artists: Claudia Alvarez, Jasmine Baetz, Jihye Han, Ellen Kleckner, Chanakarn Semachai (Punch), and Carly Slade.
Mark your calendars for Cultivating Community from September 25 to October 2, 2022. Follow us on social media as we share and release video presentations on WATCHNCECA Youtube Channel.
NCECA is making this programming accessible at no cost, though donations will be welcomed.
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POT is the first community pottery studio for and by people of color in the Los Angeles area. Through clay, we cultivate pleasure, community, and new career paths for our communities while breaking opportunity cycles in our industry. We felt a need for spaces that feel fun and empowering for those marginalized in most ceramic spaces - namely people of color, the queer community, and the youth. For these reasons, we intentionally plan unique programming while also making pottery accessible to our communities through The Potluck Initiative.
To learn more visit https://www.potstudiola.com
Monday with POT, Los Angeles
Dolores Huerta | Every Momento, Si Se Puede!
Tuesday with Dolores Huerta
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Dolores Huerta is a civil rights activist and community organizer. She has worked for labor rights and social justice for over 50 years. In 1962, she and Cesar Chavez founded the United Farm Workers union. She served as Vice President and played a critical role in many of the union’s accomplishments for four decades.
In 2002, she received the Puffin/Nation $100,000 prize for Creative Citizenship which she used to establish the Dolores Huerta Foundation (DHF). DHF is connecting groundbreaking community-based organizing to state and national movements to register and educate voters; advocate for education reform; bring about infrastructure improvements in low-income communities; advocate for greater equality for the LGBT community; and create strong leadership development. She has received numerous awards: among them The Eleanor Roosevelt Humans Rights Award from President Clinton in 1998.
In 2012 President Obama bestowed Dolores with The Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States.
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Wednesday with Sanjit Sethi
Sanjit Sethi | A Case for Creative Cultural Leadership
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Artist, cultural and academic leader, Sanjit Sethi is currently the President of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design with prior leadership roles including the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at George Washington University, Memphis College of Art, the California College of the Arts, and the Santa Fe Art Institute.
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Thursday with
2022 NCECA Emerging Artists
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Claudia Alvarez is based in New York City. She earned an MFA from California College of Arts and BA from University of California, Davis. She currently teaches at New York University and Pratt Institute. Grants include Art Matters, McKnight Foundation, Bemis X, Northern Clay Center, SOMA Mexico City.
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Jasmine Baetz is an artist, activist, and educator who works with clay. While working towards her MFA at CU Boulder she led the project to make a commemorative, community-created sculpture for Los Seis de Boulder, the six Chicanx student activists who were killed in 1974.
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Jihye Han earned a BFA in sculpture and ceramics from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and an MFA in ceramics from the University of North Texas. She was the recipient of the NCECA Graduate Student Fellowship and the award winner for ClayHouston’s Texas BIPOC Ceramic Emerging Artist in 2021.
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Ellen Kleckner is an artist and educator based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Her artistic practice weaves together community engagement, material investigation, and collaboration. Ellen studied Ceramics at the Appalachian Center for Craft (BFA) and Ohio University (MFA). Ellen is the Executive Director of the Iowa Ceramics Center and Glass Studio, a non-profit community art center.
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Chanakarn Semachai (Punch) was born and raised in Bangkok, Thailand. She graduated in 2012 with her BA in Thailand and earned an MFA degree from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania in 2019. She focuses on issues of identity and multiculturalism in her artwork. Currently, she teaches ceramics at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.
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Carly Slade grew up in "Big Sky" Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Her work is influenced by her blue-collar roots, and plagued by a concern for the precarious nature of the working class. Using a mix of materials, Slade creates dioramas of real places in an unreal perspective.
Friday with Virgil Ortiz
Virgil Ortiz | ReVOlution! Rise of an Indigenous Future
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Ever heard of the 1680 Pueblo Revolt? Probably not. Virgil Ortiz illuminates how he combines clay and sci-fi to educate globally about Pueblo history using art traverses into the future. Blending age-old traditional methods with contemporary clay techniques; coil, scrape, and slab building processes, focusing on bust building and carving methods. Using visual storytelling, attendees will learn about the central cast of characters from Ortiz's screenplay Revolt 1680/2180 and how they shape the fantastical world he's creating with clay and multi-media art.
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Thank you for supporting NCECA and for joining us for Cultivating Community!
Virgil Ortiz
Demonstrating Artist Access
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Ever heard of the 1680 Pueblo Revolt? Probably not. Virgil Ortiz illuminates how he combines clay and sci-fi to educate globally about Pueblo history using art traverses into the future. Blending age-old traditional methods with contemporary clay techniques; coil, scrape, and slab building processes, focusing on bust building and carving methods. Using visual storytelling, attendees will learn about the central cast of characters from Ortiz's screenplay Revolt 1680/2180 and how they shape the fantastical world he's creating with clay and multi-media art.
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