by Carole Epp | Mar 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
2020 Board Candidates
NCECA is pleased to introduce 2020 candidates for two positions on its Board of Directors: Director at Large and Student Director at Large. Elections will open early March and will be conducted via SurveyMonkey. All current members prior to March 1 will receive an email invitation to vote. If you joined membership after this date, please notify [email protected] or [email protected] to receive your evite. All votes must be cast by 4pm ET, Friday, March 27, 2020.
To learn more about each candidate head over to the NCECA website for info and videos!
Director at Large:
by Carole Epp | Mar 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
It is with regret that we are informing you that the 2020 Canadian Clay Symposium at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts on March 21, 2020 has been postponed. We look forward to presenting you with this year’s Perspectives in Canadian Ceramics in March of 2021 – details to be announced as soon as they are confirmed.
The Symposium attracts presenters and patrons from local, national and international locations and while we take pride in connecting people from many places through a shared love for ceramic art, due to travel restrictions and health concerns expressed by presenters and participants, we can no longer offer a quality symposium experience this year.
The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts will be processing full refunds – if you have not already withdrawn from this event, we respectfully request your patience with this process as it will take some time to contact each participant directly. If you have not heard from us by April 1st please feel free to contact the front desk at 604-297-4440 at that time.
We thank you for your understanding in this matter and look forward to seeing you in March 2021.
Shadbolt Centre for the Arts
www.canadianclaysymposium.com
by Carole Epp | Mar 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
In light of the reality that many of our colleagues are scrambling to create online learning for their ceramics students, Studio Potter is offering a three-month free membership to ceramic departments or your school library. Our archive of over 8,000 pages of content will be accessable to professors and their students, and it is an excellent resource for remote ceramic education.
Any university or educational center affected by COVID-19 is eligible for the free three month membership. All students and faculty will access the journal under one log in for the three month period.
If you would like to take advantage of this offer, please have a faculty or staff member of your organization email Jess Detweiler at [email protected]. We will set up one account for each group. Include the following information in your email:
1. Your name
2. Your organization’s name
3. The email address you would like associated with the log in
4. Estimated number of students that will access the journal through this log in
Furthermore, we encourage you to give your students a writing assignment – Create an article for Studio Potter. You screen the submissions and send your top three to Jill Foote-Hutton at [email protected] for consideration. Selected student authors will be published on studiopotter.org and will receive a one year membership to Studio Potter.
Need some some suggestions for how to use Studio Potter as an educational resource? Look no further! Check out there blog update HERE.
Studio Potter remains committed to supporting our ceramics community. If you would like to help support our efforts, please donate to us today.
studiopotter.org
by Carole Epp | Mar 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
The artist says the prize is validation of his career spent making “difficult ideas accessible”.
by Carole Epp | Mar 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
2020 NCECA CONFERENCE UPDATE
After an exhaustive process of due diligence conversations and staff preparation efforts, we have come to a difficult decision to cancel the 2020 NCECA conference planned for Richmond, Virginia. We know this message is not the one many of you were hoping to receive. For others, it may be the challenging and difficult decision you hoped NCECA might reach. Please know that all of you reading this message are in our thoughts and understand that while reported risk levels for COVID-19 infection may currently be low in the conference region, the unique challenges and responsibilities associated with staging large gatherings at the present time remain immensely complex.
Over the past weeks, NCECA has heard from many of you. Your messages both to stay the course with the 2020 conference and those urging us to cancel have been read, shared, and heeded. Fortunately, and unfortunately, communing in large groups is a huge part of what NCECA has been, is, and will continue to be. Hundreds of you in the Greater Richmond community have been busy planning for years, and we are aware of how disappointing this news must be. NCECA has and will continue to be an organization that values people. Our love and dedication to ceramic art is bound up in relationships, teaching, and learning. When considering all of the factors before us, we felt that the well-being of the people and communities that have led us through 53 extraordinary conferences needed to be paramount in our decision-making.
So, it is with both deep regret and faith in solidarity with all reading and affected by this most unfortunate of announcements that we invite you to read on and learn more about this decision and next steps.
