David Hendley on mon 19 jul 99
Kevin, NCECA is all about education. Education, in the professional
sense, as it relates to ceramics teachers.
'Education for educators'.
The needs of potters are of no concern. Any benefit that
we, as potters, receive from the organization is just because
we are interested in some of the same things as ceramics teachers.
This is not a criticism; the organization is doing the job it was
created to do.
If I attend a NCECA convention, I go to have fun, hang out in
the Clayart room, and see all the pots and stuff for sale. The programs
are definitly secondary, and many not the least bit relevant to the
concerns of a potter.
This has changed for the better in the last decade. I don't know
if this is by design or happenstance.
If there were a potter's organization convention where I could go to
have fun and see pots and equipment, you'd find me there rather than
at the NCECA convention.
David Hendley
Maydelle, Texas
hendley@tyler.net
http://www.farmpots.com
At 02:36 PM 7/17/99 EDT, you wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> If NCECA were really an organization about education then they would
>fully support the needs of potters... Instead there is all of this talk
>about a "potters guild"... Obviously there is a need for an organization
>that you are organizing as a result of the ceramic sculpture
>superceding the values of the potter in the NCEAC political structure.
>
>By commission or ommission, NCEAC has failed in supporting potters.
>
>Next question?
>
>Kevin
>
Hluch - Kevin A. on tue 20 jul 99
David,
Certainly ceramic "educators" are also teaching pottery. Or am I
mistaken?
>From what I can discern from NCECAs I have attended, in general, pottery
concerns are quite low on the totem pole.
Let me assure you the gallery exhibitions of pottery at NCECAs have have
slim and none. And when pottery is exhibited it's in the worst venues.
I think there is a reason for that...
The "needs" of potters are of no concern because for NCECA it appears
pottery is of no concern.
Kevin A. Hluch
102 E. 8th St
Frederick, MD 21701
USA
e-mail: kahluch@umd5.umd.edu
http://www.erols.com/mhluch/mudslinger.html
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, David Hendley wrote:
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> Kevin, NCECA is all about education. Education, in the professional
> sense, as it relates to ceramics teachers.
> 'Education for educators'.
> The needs of potters are of no concern. Any benefit that
> we, as potters, receive from the organization is just because
> we are interested in some of the same things as ceramics teachers.
> This is not a criticism; the organization is doing the job it was
> created to do.
>
> If I attend a NCECA convention, I go to have fun, hang out in
> the Clayart room, and see all the pots and stuff for sale. The programs
> are definitly secondary, and many not the least bit relevant to the
> concerns of a potter.
> This has changed for the better in the last decade. I don't know
> if this is by design or happenstance.
> If there were a potter's organization convention where I could go to
> have fun and see pots and equipment, you'd find me there rather than
> at the NCECA convention.
>
> David Hendley
> Maydelle, Texas
> hendley@tyler.net
> http://www.farmpots.com
>
>
>
>
>
> At 02:36 PM 7/17/99 EDT, you wrote:
> >----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> > If NCECA were really an organization about education then they would
> >fully support the needs of potters... Instead there is all of this talk
> >about a "potters guild"... Obviously there is a need for an organization
> >that you are organizing as a result of the ceramic sculpture
> >superceding the values of the potter in the NCEAC political structure.
> >
> >By commission or ommission, NCEAC has failed in supporting potters.
> >
> >Next question?
> >
> >Kevin
> >
>
Stephen Mills on tue 20 jul 99
David,
Make a note in your diary to come to the next International Potters'
Festival at Aberystwyth in Wales UK in 2001: 600 plus Potters of all
types watching; a load of demonstrators from all over the world, a
seriously active Kiln site, Trade Stands, Hands on, Films, lectures etc.
etc.
Go to http://www.ftech.net/~carrog/ipc.htm for more information on '97,
who we saw in '99, et al.
Steve
Bath
UK
Still fired up from this year!
In message , David Hendley writes
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Kevin, NCECA is all about education. Education, in the professional
>sense, as it relates to ceramics teachers.
>'Education for educators'.
>The needs of potters are of no concern. Any benefit that
>we, as potters, receive from the organization is just because
>we are interested in some of the same things as ceramics teachers.
>This is not a criticism; the organization is doing the job it was
>created to do.
>
>If I attend a NCECA convention, I go to have fun, hang out in
>the Clayart room, and see all the pots and stuff for sale. The programs
>are definitly secondary, and many not the least bit relevant to the
>concerns of a potter.
>This has changed for the better in the last decade. I don't know
>if this is by design or happenstance.
>If there were a potter's organization convention where I could go to
>have fun and see pots and equipment, you'd find me there rather than
>at the NCECA convention.
>
>David Hendley
>Maydelle, Texas
>hendley@tyler.net
>http://www.farmpots.com
>
>
>
>
>
>At 02:36 PM 7/17/99 EDT, you wrote:
>>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>> If NCECA were really an organization about education then they would
>>fully support the needs of potters... Instead there is all of this talk
>>about a "potters guild"... Obviously there is a need for an organization
>>that you are organizing as a result of the ceramic sculpture
>>superceding the values of the potter in the NCEAC political structure.
>>
>>By commission or ommission, NCEAC has failed in supporting potters.
>>
>>Next question?
>>
>>Kevin
>>
>
--
Steve Mills
Bath
UK
home e-mail: stevemills@mudslinger.demon.co.uk
work e-mail: stevemills@bathpotters.demon.co.uk
own website: http://www.mudslinger.demon.co.uk
BPS website: http://www.bathpotters.demon.co.uk
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