Barbara Brown on sun 10 apr 11
I arrived in Tampa late Tues. afternoon, went to hotel(Embassy Suites acr=
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oss the street from the convention center with a great free breakfast eve=
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ry day, my roommates were Kelly Savino and Jane Walker), checked in and w=
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ent to a benefit dinner/pottery sale in St Petersburg at Lynn Merhige Gal=
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lery as a guest of Cecilia Cunningham. I bought a cup from the pottery s=
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ale and there was a tee shirt with NCECA and a picture of the cup I bough=
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t and other pottery on it and I asked to buy one and Lynn gave me one.
Wednesday I did gallery touring in St Petersburg with Liz Delatore, marta=
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matray and Jane Walker. Lots of great shows. My 2 favorites were the R=
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ichard Notkin show at the Florida Holocaust Museum and the Potters Counci=
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l show at the Nancy Marcoe Gallery. I bought a cup there. Wed evening w=
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ent to the Opening ceremonies.
Thursday was a stormy day with hurricane warning and lots of rain so it w=
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as a perfect day to stay at the convention center and go to the exhibitio=
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n hall and see all the vendors(there were less vendors this year and not =
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many free giveaways). I had promised to get some things for friends so w=
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ent to Mud tools and got Bev a rib, went to Ceramics Monthly and got post=
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ers for Jan and others. There was a booth selling Keraflex and Porcelain=
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Canvas tiles. These tiles are what Robin Hopper is using to paint on an=
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d he has a new dvd called "Inspiration and Interpretation" which shows 4=
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decorating techniques and the last one is painting on porcelain canvas. =
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I found the idea very exciting so I bought some of the tiles and plan to=
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show the idea to my students.
Went to the Paul Soldner memorial, the NCECA business meeting and visited=
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the clayart room and participated in the clayart cup swap. It is wonderf=
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ul to have the clayart room at the convention center and I am hoping they=
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will be able to make it happen next year also
Friday I went to a lecture on Iznik tiles of Turkey and then one on Conte=
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mporary Cuban Ceramics by Peter Held (I went to Cuba on an art tour in 20=
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00 so loved Peter's talk). Then discussion on low fire ceramic technique=
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s (I teach a lowfire class for Seniors), then went to clay art room and h=
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eard a great talk by Susan Fox Hirschmann on "Marketing from the seat of =
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your pants". She had a great handout sheet she gave everyone.
Friday eve I was invited to a wonderful dinner party in a Thai restaurant=
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by the Pottery Workshop group from China.
Saturday I went to emerging artists presentation, followed by the closing=
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lecture by Robin Hopper. It was outstanding, he started it with a sing-=
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along that was a pottery song, gave a great slide lecture and ended with=
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another sing-along.
Went to 2nd NCECA business meeting and went to airport and caught a fligh=
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t home.
I had a great time and am looking forward to Seattle.
Barbara
Barbara Brown
1225 Manzano Way
Sunnyvale, Ca 94089
408-736-3889
cell 408-482-9459
bbrown3@webtv.net
www.barbarabrownclayart.com
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