JoyceLee on tue 12 apr 05
A search for NCECA 2006 will bring you
all the information available at this
time. Within the same search, I also
found "clayart - current
discussion," which brought me up to
date with our thread on Portland 2006.
I've reserved my room at the Red Lion Inn,
which I fully intend to occupy this next
time around. Melsan, the Mayor of Clayart
Town, has done a great job. All hail
the Leader of the Band!
Joyce
In the Mojave where the roofers are
driving the westie a little nuts... saw
a Mercedes outside the PotPourri yesterday
with a westie (white with diamondy collar,
and a black scottie (same attire)) in
the back seat. Looked just like my
westie, except this one was better
groomed. Mine prefers the ragamuffin
look. Hmmmm..... that scottie sure
was precious, too ..... Poet Son wants
me to get a massive guard dog but I'm
afraid he'd gobble up Mojo.
Susan S on tue 12 apr 05
In a message dated 4/12/2005 2:15:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
joycelee1@VERIZON.NET writes:
> A search for NCECA 2006 will bring you
> all the information available at this
> time. Within the same search, I also
> found "clayart - current
> discussion," which brought me up to
> date with our thread on Portland 2006.
>
> I've reserved my room at the Red Lion Inn,
> which I fully intend to occupy this next
> time around. Melsan, the Mayor of Clayart
> Town, has done a great job. All hail
> the Leader of the Band!
>
> Joyce
Hello Miss Joyce in the Mohave! May I please ask a question? I looked up
NCECA 2006 on google and I got the website that said it's in Portland. But it
didn't say where it's actually going to be held. I'd like to check into going
next year and it will be my first time attending. But I'm handicapped and I
wanted to find out about accessibility issues and where I could stay that would
be close by, etc.
I know I missed a bunch of posts after NCECA this year because my mailbox
overflowed with messages and AOL dumped some so I apologize if I missed this
info, but if you could point me in the right direction, I'd be really grateful for
your help!
Thank you,
Susie
Hank Murrow on tue 12 apr 05
On Apr 12, 2005, at 2:37 PM, Susan S wrote:
>
> Hello Miss Joyce in the Mohave! May I please ask a question? I
> looked up
> NCECA 2006 on google and I got the website that said it's in Portland.
> But it
> didn't say where it's actually going to be held. I'd like to check
> into going
> next year and it will be my first time attending. But I'm handicapped
> and I
> wanted to find out about accessibility issues and where I could stay
> that would
> be close by, etc.
Here it is, Sue.
Cheers, Hank
www.murrow.biz/hank
Tig Dupre on thu 17 nov 05
Dear Mudbuds,
As you may have noticed, I live in Port Orchard, Washington. Portland, Oregon is about two hours south from me. I WILL be attending NCECA this year! My first, and with any luck, NOT my last.
Back in April, when Hizzoner Mayor Mel announced that he had secured a block of rooms at the Red Lion, I burned up the phone lines and made a reservation. I have a double queen-bed room, non-smoking, which I am willing to share, and split the cost.
I am male, 60 years old, non-smoking, non-drinking, retired military. Let me know off-line if you'd like to share a room with such a character.
Rubbing my hands in gleeful anticipation,
Tig Dupre
in Port Orchard, Washington, USA
Rog Coman on sat 19 nov 05
Hi Tig,
Please contact me off the Listserv at the following address;
fishhookpottery@bresnan.net. I am interested in you offer to share a room
at NCECA.
Best Regards,
Rog Coman
Fish Hook Pottery
Montrose, CO
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tig Dupre"
To:
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 8:19 AM
Subject: NCECA 2006
> Dear Mudbuds,
>
> As you may have noticed, I live in Port Orchard, Washington. Portland,
Oregon is about two hours south from me. I WILL be attending NCECA this
year! My first, and with any luck, NOT my last.
>
> Back in April, when Hizzoner Mayor Mel announced that he had secured a
block of rooms at the Red Lion, I burned up the phone lines and made a
reservation. I have a double queen-bed room, non-smoking, which I am
willing to share, and split the cost.
>
> I am male, 60 years old, non-smoking, non-drinking, retired military. Let
me know off-line if you'd like to share a room with such a character.
>
> Rubbing my hands in gleeful anticipation,
>
> Tig Dupre
> in Port Orchard, Washington, USA
>
>
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primalmommy on sun 12 mar 06
Greetings from my little house in Ohio, in the wake of the first night
of
sleep I have had all week that consisted of several contiguous hours.
My husband and children are happy to see me, and I am in that golden
place where I have somebody wrapped around my waist at all times...
by Monday, the homeschooling and chores and schedules and nagging
and whining will all be back where they belong. So I am savoring this.
My third NCECA was marvelous, largely because of the clayart community.
An entire hotel full of clayarters is a wonderful thing. It's like a big
class reunion,
except I actually care about everybody ;0)
Every time the elevator opened you just knew it was going to be somebody
you needed to hug.
I suspect the hotel staff had some theories about who this Mel Jacobsen
guy was.
First, he booked the entire hotel on his credit card... and with two
exotic looking
companions (Nils and Kurt) he comandeered a suite, complete with meeting
table,
bar and hot tub... then the entourage of women in feather boas started
showing up.
Hotel staff must have raised some eyebrows. They think he's Hugh Hefner.
I am not even speculating about what the gallery made of his reception,
which featured
Nan and Snail in pirate gear and some random wenches.)
The entire sixth floor, with huge windows looking out on the sparkling
lights of Portland or the constant play of sun/clouds/mist rolling over
the
little hills behind, belonged to clayart. A menu (titled "clayart menu")
allowed
us to order our meals in the bar, carry them to the enormous clayart
room,
move back and forth from place to place. One night it snowed... I was
prepared
to roll my eyes about it until I saw how much the desert people enjoyed
it. Big fat
snowflakes swirled all night past the colored motel neons and dusted the
hills by morning.
Paul Soldner seemed unfazed in his flimsy hawaiian skirt and flip flops
(pink toenail polish.)
My lovely and talented roomies were a joy as always. Stephani makes a
fine
pot of coffee in the morning, and one morning prepared some microwaved
eggs that
had us leaping right out of bed with excitement. I'm so looking forward
to seeing the cleavage
photo shoot she orchestrated for Vince.
Did I mention I got a Nils Lou teabowl? I just thought I would mention
that, not that I am smug
about it. Or anything.
It was great to see Polly Beach, the Studio Potter folks and the
Ceramics Monthly editors,
every one of them accessible, friendly, unpretentious and excited about
clay. The exhibition
hall is always worth several visits. There were great demos and toys to
covet, whisper-quiet
little pug mills and big gleaming kilns. I got one of those silicone
rolling pins... my suitcase
was heavier than limit so I ended up hauling a carry on full of pots
(like my Nils Lou
teabowl) with that rolling pin poking out the top. Plus a poster roll.
(12 hours of planes and
airports w/ Edith between OR and OH... whew.)
I scored big time in the mug exchange with Merrie Boerner's little pot..
made some great trades
and was given lovely gifts (like Tom Buck's heart necklace... thanks
Tom!) I rode busses to
galleries with a dashing David Hendley (memorable stops included Hank
Murrow's show at the
Aurora and a funky little hidden gallery-tattoo-parlor-healing-center
with a line of disaster ware.
I liked the mad cow milk pitcher, myself ;0)
Wayne earned some major karma points this week -- busting his butt in
Phil's Bison booth,
hauling groups of clayarters from the lobby to mel's opening, and
distributing feather boas to all.
Some of the assorted boas clayarters brought had a tendency to shed down
hallways and in
bathrooms... someone overheard a maid say in Spanish that the place had
been infested by
red chickens.
I sat through most of a lecture about education health and safety next
to Ron Roy. I think I am
spoiled by learning things through animated clayart posts and real life
conversations, because
I didn't have much patience for the slides-and-droning approach I had to
sit through in college days.
After the part about studio ventilation, and before the speaker got into
MSDS sheets, I dropped to
the floor and made a belly-crawl to the door.
I went to slide presentations of potters' work, which was much more
enjoyable.
The best session I attended was Lee Burningham's students, talking about
their award winning
work and their program. They paint quite a picture of their teacher, who
they call "B". That is a
serious bunch of cowboys, out there -- clearly of the "try it first and
ask questions later" school
of pottery. I have seen college programs with less energy and resources.
David Suzuki was awesome, handsome and brilliant at 70, challenging a
lot of what we take for
granted and spelling out quite accessibly the exponential-growth
scenario my environmental
biologist hubby has driven home for us. He defended science over
economy, politics and dogma,
in a time when it sorely needs defending on many fronts. I left the
lecture determined to be proactive,
and to get his new book at the library -- and a little guilty about the
airplane that had made the trip
across the country with only half a dozen of us aboard. The stats about
the rise in asthma cases
hit close to home as well.
The Randall session might better be left to more appreciative others to
describe -- the combination of
my sleep deprived punchiness and my unruly seatmates were a bad match
for the interesting but
atonal, arhythmic, epic compositions -- especially in a warm room after
a big dinner. The man
playing the ceramic guitarish thing was brilliant, despite tuning
challenges, but I heard one person
framing the situation this way: "We have established that it is possible
to make musical instruments
from clay. On the issue of whether we SHOULD, the jury is still out."
It was a wonderful week of familiar faces and laughter, connection and
conversation and more
laughter, and not enough sleep. My voice is shot. My brain is full. All
my pots made it home safely,
some wrapped in a voluminous gypsy skirt in my suitcase -- Mark Kelleher
bowls from the artstream,
Connie Christenson's mug, the little bowl mel sent my daughter, and of
course my Nils Lou teabowl.
My suitcase runneth over with new tools and dirty clothes, both calling
to me with their own sense of urgency... so I need to step away from the
keyboard and get back into the flow of life.
I was happy last year at my second NCECA to begin to put together in my
head the email addresses
with the name, the face and the posts. A year later, the experience also
includes friendships, and
personal lives, "understories", families, romances, the previously
hidden currents life changes, health issues, crises and trials as well.
A big cyber hug to all of you who have been my friend, made me laugh,
forgiven me my quirks and bull-in-a-china-shop faux pas, and maintained
those connections from
year to year. I am looking forward to Kentucky with all my heart.
I love you guys.
Yours
Kelly in Ohio... tired and nostalgic and a little sappy.
P.S. Did I mention I have a Nils Lou teabowl?
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Earl Brunner on sun 12 mar 06
Ok, now I'm seriously jealous. I can see I need to be there next year.
Damn, Kelly, you do paint a fine picture with words.
Earl Brunner
Las Vegas, NV
-----Original Message-----
From: Clayart [mailto:CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG] On Behalf Of primalmommy
Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 8:36 AM
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: NCECA 2006
Greetings from my little house in Ohio, in the wake of the first night
of
sleep I have had all week that consisted of several contiguous hours.
My husband and children are happy to see me, and I am in that golden
place where I have somebody wrapped around my waist at all times...
by Monday, the homeschooling and chores and schedules and nagging
and whining will all be back where they belong. So I am savoring this.
Etc..........
Penni Stoddart on sun 12 mar 06
After reading Primalmommy's account of the convention - I am left wondering
if anyone has pictures that are going up on a site for us stay-at-homers to
peruse.
And by the way Kelly, did you get a Nils Lou teabowl?
Thanks for the report,
Sona si latine loqueris,
"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow
in Australia." (Charles Schultz)
Penni Stoddart
London, Ontario
Laurie on sun 12 mar 06
Wow, only 263 Clayart messages all week? ;-)
My first NCECA was a wonderful experience. Anytime you can get
together with old and new Clayart friends is a great thing.
Mel red-dotted our badges so we could find one another easier, and
when you were in the huge convention center crowds it really helped.
They said it was the second-largest attended NCECA in the 40 years
the conference has been happening. And there were times it sure felt
like it! But aside from the dots the red boas were another way to
find one another. There were feathers everywhere! I even noticed them
stuck in nooks and crannies in the elevator one day. I have several
as souvenirs!
My only regret is that I wish I had been able to spend even more time
chatting with Clayarters. Time was too short! The expo hall was
great! I had to be careful to buy just enough to fill my suitcase and
not go overboard! It would have been SO easy to do that! Especially
when visiting Georgie's when we went over to look at the Orton Cone
Box show that was housed there. I went on Thursday - in the SNOW!
Said snow came down from about 9 AM till about 2 PM, but did not
stick around. Still, it was fun to see it and not have to drive in
it. And it made a nice backdrop.
I did not only see Clayarters there, of course. I ran into several
clay people that I didn't even know were going to Portland! I
attended mostly interesting lectures (I loved the Paleolithic Project
talk), sat in on the demos when I had some time between other things,
bought a couple of really nice Bison tools to keep my old one company
(it was nice to finally meet Phil and put a face and voice to his
words! Same goes with Wayne and everyone else that I met for the
first time!), bought a "Mud-slinging Pyromaniac" t-shirt that I
thought was appropriate for a raku person, treated myself to a really
nice handmade brush, enjoyed pizza with Snail and Kathleen, ogled
Lezlie's new kosai-ware (if you saw it you know what I mean!),
walked, and walked and walked...
David Suzuki's opening address was GREAT! I have been a big fan of
his for years and never missed "The Nature of Things" on PBS. He is a
wise man and a passionate speaker. I am proud to have a signed copy
of The Sacred Balance now in my possession.
So now I am home again. Lucky that it was only about an hour and a
half flight from Portland to Sacramento. It would have been a 12 hour
drive on a good day! I got myself up early this morning and over to
the light rail stop across the street from Red Lion (could Mel have
picked a more perfectly-located hotel??? I think NOT!) to catch a
train near 7 AM for a 9 AM flight. Wayne was the last Clayarter I
encountered this morning as I left. I hope you had (are having) a
safe trip home!
My three cats and my dog were SO happy to see me, even though my mom
took extremely good care of them while I was gone. Actually they are
probably just glad I turned the heat back up to normal when I got
here - heheheheheh! It's cold enough that it could snow here today or
tonight. Unlike Portland, snow is less common in Sacramento - maybe
once every ten years or so. It's raining now, though - just like
Portland!
Well, back to reviewing a pile of snail mail and several dozen
emails! And thinking about Louisville....
Laurie in Sacramento
Hank Murrow on sun 12 mar 06
What a brilliant stroke it was to book the Red Lion. Kudos to all
concerned for a warm human experience in the midst of the overwhelming
NCECA blather. As it happened, I stayed across the street in the more
minimal but comfortable Shilo Inn (Yes, I know the owner, Mr.
Helmstreet, supports radical Right causes), but headquartered on the
sixth floor for the duration. many clayarters were fascinated by the
porcelain stone samples of David Stannard that I brought to share(wild
dug porcelains which rang loudly and long when banged
together........none broke under the treatment!). Marcey ran after me
to return a Southern Ice bowl I inadvertently left in the room but
couldn't find me, so I suggested(via email) that she just enjoy it. So
many fine conversations enjoyed in the Clayart Room! So many fine folk
to share with!
Speaking of sharing, I have to mention Linda Ferzoco's magnificent
contribution to the table on Friday evening. She brought a mixed case
of Cabernets from California, the star of which was a Caymus from '97,
but hanging in there were Groth, Villa MT Eden Single Vineyard Reserve,
and others too rare to let languish in Linda's cellar. you cannot
imagine how pleased I was to enjoy a small libation sampled from each.
Not to be limited to wine gifts, she also bought one of my big tiles
from the "Mogrations" series at the Aurora gallery show! I had saved a
Shino plate for her, and she asked how much she owed me for
it.........."No WAY you get to pay for this", was my reply. a very
generous person, Linda.
I also scored a tiny jug from Ms. Erwin(I think), who will be thanked
properly as soon as I can find her card amongst the NCECA papers.
A bunch of us hied ourselves over to Caprial's Bistro for a stupendous
meal Friday evening, and i retired from the NCECA/Clayart fray for some
sleep.
Saturday, I finally made it around to the galleries to catch some
shows, ending up at the West Linn Library to take down my work there.
Elizabeth from the Aurora Gallery asked me to bring some of that stock
so I took it to Vancouver around 6:30 in the evening. A lovely potter
from Kansas City, MO was waiting there with Elizabeth to buy a bunch of
the new stock, and it was a treat to visit with him and answer his
questions about my firing ideas, etc.
By Sunday the time I finished at the gallery, I was feeling super
lonely with Clayarter Withdrawal, so I called Ken Pincus(who had lovely
pots in the Zen Gallery show) and prevailed upon he and his generous
wife Hiko to let me stay with family(them) and he and I had a lovely
visit to the Japanese Garden and the show there in the morning.
Again and again Clayarters stopped me to view my 'performance art'
costume presentation (a rain coat with pics of my tools down the front,
and pics of my pots and kiln down the back.........flashing all who
paid any attention, with "psssst, you wanna see some tools?" I will
never do this again, because while the costume pleased folks, the tools
stayed in the pockets.....unsold. Funny how these Life Lessons just
keep on rolling onto you as you age...............and I AM aging.
Have to mention the great and needed ministrations of Gail (Figglywig)
who eased the daily trauma with fine shoulder massage.......... I too
shy to ask for more. What a bundle of fine energy she is! As i recover,
I will note some of my egregious omissions
, but
Cheers!!! for now, from Hank in Eugene
www.murrow.biz/hank
Ivor and Olive Lewis on mon 13 mar 06
Primal Mommy commented...thought I would mention that, not that I am smug about it. Or =
anything.>...
Dear Kelly,
I'm pleased about that. Had I not asked the question about Gorilla Slip =
that could might never have happened ! ! ! !
Sorry I had to miss the event. Olive sends her regards, your medallion =
hangs in a place of honour. Did the seeds germinate.
Best regards,=20
Ivor
lee love on mon 13 mar 06
--- In clayart@yahoogroups.com, primalmommy wrote:
> David Suzuki was awesome, handsome and brilliant at 70,
> challenging a lot of what we take for
> granted and spelling out quite accessibly the exponential-growth
> scenario my environmental
> biologist hubby has driven home for us. He defended science over
> economy, politics and dogma,
> in a time when it sorely needs defending on many fronts.
Great! I had to ask about Robert Hughes when he spoke at
NCECA. David Suzuki is a childhood hero of mine. He co-wrote an
interesting book about outcasts in Japan titled "Other Japan: Voices
Beyond the Mainstream." I watched his science programs on the CBC
growing up in Michigan. He was part of the reason I started out in
school in ecology and the reason I have been involved in the
environmental movement and helped to start the greens in Minnesota.
This perspective also guides my work as a potter.
I will start putting up a weblog related to these ethics at:
http://patriotfire.blogspot.com/ Right now, I only have the
Declaration Of Independence and the Bill of Rights up.
--
Lee In Mashiko, Japan
http://mashiko.org
http://seisokuro.blogspot.com/
Connie Christensen on tue 14 mar 06
There is always so much more to do and see at NCECA and the clayart
room that its impossible to fit in everything your interested in
doing. This year I had family to visit with and a friend that flew
out to visit galleries with me - and she isn't even a potter. I
didn't get to spend as much time in the clayart room as I wanted to
and almost didn't get in there in time to bag my mug. But it was so
nice being in a hotel where you knew almost all the faces and
thankfully we had name tags because I'm so forgetful when it comes to
names. I so appreciate the fact that everyone is welcome in the
clayart room - the experienced as well as inexperienced, the
talkative and not so talkative and even a non potter friend. It's a
wonderful group.
My head is still spinning from some of the shows, the Japanese Garden
and the show there, the Lawrence Gallery, the dinnerware show and so
many others. I came back inspired and am waiting for the inspiration
to work its way around my brain and out through my fingers. My
scanner is going to soon be smoking from scanning all my slides and
reorganizing for the digital world.
After a week of rain I was hoping to come back to sunny Denver, but
it was snowing - soooo disappointing. But the next day the sun was
out and all was right with the world again.
Thanks to all of you at the clayart hotel for helping to make it such
a wonderful experience - and I came back with several mugs and a tea
bowl from clayarters - cool.
Connie Christensen
Arvada, CO
Alyss Dorese on wed 15 mar 06
What a week!
Took off on Tuesday and drove straight 9 hours from Berkeley, CA to =20
Portland. Originally, I planned to break up the trip and drive five =20
hours to Ashland, stay overnight, and drive to Portland the next =20
morning. Because the weather was on my side with the passes clear of =20=
snow and the audio book I was listening to holding my interest I =20
drove on.
I arrived at Portland about 6:15 PM and, as I was trying to change my =20=
Wednesday reservation at the Red Lion, I spotted fellow Clayarters =20
and immediately offers were proffered to share a room for the night. =20=
As Swanica=92s roommate had cancelled and she had an extra bed, I =20
bunked with her the first night. The next night I was ensconced in =20
my preplanned room with Diana Panciola and Marienne Milks, thanks to =20
the forethought of Lori Leary who had reserved rooms at the Red Lion =20
months before. I would like to thank all these gracious ladies who =20
made my NCECA experience so wonderful.
On Wednesday, Mel entered the Clayart room and we all got our hugs =20
and red dots. Joyce Lee held down the fort in the Clayart room, =20
greeting all and making everyone welcome.
As usual, the exhibitors=92 room was bustling with new equipment, new =20=
ideas and giveaways. I drove back with a car full of samples and =20
purchases. Unfortunately, the NCECA program itself seemed even =20
further distant than usual for the studio potter. The demonstrations =20
were poorly lit and cameras badly set up-- making viewing of details =20
difficult. I usually find myself transfixed by the demonstrations, =20
but found I was unable to sit for too long under these frustrating =20
conditions.
Another highlight of my trip was the gallery exhibits, especially the =20=
Santa Fe dinnerware show.
As usual, the real highlight of NCECA is Clayart. Following molting =20
red boas from the lobby of the hotel to the 6th floor Clayart room, =20
to the generosity of the treats, including homemade blueberry pie to =20
wonderful wine tasting (thank you Linda F.) to the wenches who =20
dressed up and all those who posed in back of Stephanie=92s bawdy =20
drawings, to the group call to Vince, to the graciousness of the =20
people willing to share their knowledge and expertise. Thanks to all =20=
of you for making this year=92s NCECA so wonderful and a special thanks =20=
to the seven of you for making me feel like a teenager again, when =20
you all piled into my small Toyota Matrix to go to Caprial=92s for a =20
gourmet meal=97we should have taken a picture.
Got back to Berkeley after 10-hour drive. Must say the drive seemed =20
much longer coming home, but I smiled all the way.
Alyss Dorese
dorese@ix.netcom.com
www.greatpottery.com
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