2026 SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
NCECA’s 60th Annual Conference, Volumes, in Detroit, Michigan
March 25-28, 2026.

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
NCECA’s 60th conference, Volumes, will be held in Detroit, Michigan, from March 25 to 28, 2026.

Huntington Place Convention Center
1 Washington Boulevard, Detroit, Michigan, 48226

Volumes, the 60th conference of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA), explores diverse cultures, material-driven experimentation, and conceptual frameworks that animate art created through clay. The essential energy of voices and sounds of the Detroit region catalyzes this conference’s theme. 

Like the subterranean networks that connect trees in a forest, the meanings of words have roots that we can connect through etymology. Some of the earliest known artifacts containing writing were produced on scrolling spirals of papyrus that ancient Roman historians called volumen. The same underlying spiraling structure abides within pots, figures, and other forms fashioned from clay coils since ancient times. Today, neural networks carrying and harvesting volumes of information are generating Artificial Intelligence that will change how we learn, work, and create.

The meaning of volumes most integrally embodied in the 2026 conference theme lies within unseeable spaces of our clay works and the firing chambers that transform them. Volumes are forces that give power and shape to the world we experience. Detroit is a place that embodies this sense of interior energy. A real and metaphorical foundry of creative ambition and craftsmanship shaped by waves of migration, industry, and resilience, Detroit has volumes to teach us. 

Teaching, learning, and creation through clay involve continual engagement with volumes as action and analysis. Volumes give form to our cultural identities, continuity, and change in a time of environmental crisis. Centered on ceramic art, this 60th NCECA conference will expand access and deepen understanding of ceramic art. Creators of culture, educators, and students involved in pottery, sculpture, design and installation, and performance will be its engines.

Learn more about raising the visibility of your exhibitions, programs, services, and more while supporting NCECA.

NCECA has a database of over 33,000 ceramic artists from around the world that you can reach all year long or target directly through our annual conference. We offer a variety of exciting marketing opportunities through our print publications, digital platform, and via E-Advertising on our website through the Monthly Newsletter and Partner Links.

Download and review the NCECA Sponsorship packet! Purchases & payments can be made through the NCECA online store. NCECA cannot reserve or hold packages and ad space without payment. 

If you have any questions about Sponsorship opportunities, please get in touch with Edith Garcia at communications@nceca.net.

2025 NCECA Formation Conference, Program and Exhibitions Guide, Artwork credit: 2025 NCECA Emerging Artist, Michelle Solorzano

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