Autumn 2021 Newsletter

AUTUMN EXHIBITIONS | EVENTS | EDUCATION | ARTIST SERVICES

2021

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American Pottery Festival September 1 – 5, 2021

Main Gallery, Emily Galusha Gallery, and Online Opening Day, Wednesday, September 1, 10 am CT Workshops, Artist Lectures, and Benefit Sale

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Welcome to Northern Clay Center’s 23rd annual fundraising benefit and celebration of notable clay makers.

American Pottery Festival guest ceramic artists from across the country will illuminate and celebrate the honor in, and value of, the infinite ways to be and live and create in the U.S. This year, we focus on the power of making and its role in healing, story-telling, and community building through collaboration.

Thank you for your visible support as we continue to listen and learn with intent and relentlessly evolve our organization to ensure meaningful diversity, impactful equity, and genuine inclusivity.

AMERICAN POTTERY FESTIVAL 2021 INVITED ARTISTS Kurt Anderson, Ashley Bevington, Doug Casebeer, Pattie Chalmers, Matthew Dercole, Amanda Dobbratz, Justin Donofrio, Sanam Emami, Brett Freund, Stuart Gair, Bianka Groves, Guillermo Guardia, Mike Helke, Peter Jadoonath, Randy Johnston, Bill Jones, Kathy King, Forrest Lesch-Middelton, Jordan McDonald, Jeff Oestreich, Ronan Peterson, Tricia Schmidt, Mike Tavares, Sue Tirrell, Sandra Torres, Daniel Velasquez, Joyce St. Clair Voltz, Lars Voltz, Kurt Brian Webb Please visit northernclaycenter.org/APF for more information about workshop registration, preview work for sale, tickets, and our sponsors.

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WHAT IS AMERICAN POTTERY FESTIVAL? Fundraiser: First and foremost, APF is Northern Clay Center’s annual fundraiser. All contributions, and NCC’s portion of the purchased work created by 2021 APF artists, support NCC’s programs in advancement of the ceramic arts for artists, learners, and the community, through education, exhibitions, and artist services. This year, as our organization rebuilds and reinvents, our annual fundraiser is more valued and necessary than ever.

Community: APF is a moment to come together to explore and to celebrate studio pottery and its diverse community of artists in the United States. Over the last 23 years, APF has evolved into a revered tradition, one that is steeped in depth of talent, breadth of knowledge, and the generosity of artists, buyers, educators, students, volunteers, sponsors, staff, neighbors, and our board of directors. NCC is a non-profit ceramic arts center with a regional, national, and international presence. Thousands of people connect with NCC annually through outreach, education, studio programs, and through the sales and exhibition galleries. This year, we continue to work relentlessly to keep those connections whole and meaningful and ensure NCC is a welcome and safe place for all. Whether you are an up-and-coming or long-time student, an emerging studio artist or maker on the road to mastery, a new shopper visiting our online gallery or experienced collector, we invite and encourage you to engage with this year’s APF. Come to learn, explore, splurge, and connect with our welcoming clay community.

Exhibition and Sale: APF launched this year with a Preview Show in May introducing participating artists and featuring their work in our gallery and online. Annually, NCC invites a group of artists whose wares represent an array of aesthetics, voices, and materials—from humble wares rooted in historic processes, to audacious explorations of form and surface, to technical mastery of new technologies—all established in balanced composition and service to utility. Every September, APF presents over 1500 wares from the hands of the most accomplished ceramic artists in the country alongside makers who carry the promise of tomorrow. All are remarkable.

This year, the festival is a five-day opportunity to choose

Bianka Groves, Serving Bowl.

from a selection of finely-crafted objects from engaging artists in support of NCC programming. Your APF purchases underscore the impact makers have on our world.

Conference: This year, we determined the safest way for us all to come together for the education component of APF weekend is through virtual or hybrid platforms. Local workshop participants will have the opportunity to either come to NCC to pick up the clay and supplies needed to participate, and return their work to be bisque fired as part of their workshop fee, or join us from anywhere in the world with their own supplies to participate and learn.

APF artists will offer weekday interactive virtual workshops and a full weekend of demonstrations, panels, and lectures, all with the opportunity to immerse yourself in their worlds and pose questions. In addition, everyone is welcome to join us nightly, Wednesday through Saturday, for evening social hours and artist lectures. Rather than our hallmark Friday Opening Night Party, we will open the sale on the morning of Wednesday, September 1 and will offer time-specific tickets throughout the week so you can safely come into the gallery to shop in person. Our free Personal Shopping Service is also available for those who are not able to attend in person for any reason.

For conference details and pricing, please refer to pages 5 – 8.

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APF: Exhibition & Sale* View, enjoy, and purchase the work of this year’s APF artists in person at NCC. (Online sale will also be available with the same start time: Wednesday, September 1, 10 am CT.) Between Wednesday morning and Sunday afternoon, you’ll have the opportunity to enjoy over 1500 pots and purchase your favorites for your growing collection. Tickets are available for 1.5 hour-long gallery appointments with a maximum of 10 guests in the gallery at a time. Gather nine of your friends and make it a private party! Please watch for our Members Only Ticket Pre-Sale!

GALLERY ADMISSION Ticketed shopping appointments are available every 1.5 hours, beginning at 10 am, with a maximum of 10 tickets per time frame. Masks and social distancing are required. Hand sanitizer and masks will be provided.

OPENING DAY: Wednesday, September 1, 10 am – 7 pm 1.5 hour gallery appointment: $35 Thursday, September 2, 10 am – 7 pm 1.5 hour gallery appointment: $25 Friday, September 3, 10 am – 7 pm 1.5 hour gallery appointment: $15 Saturday, September 4, 10 am – 7 pm 1.5 hour gallery appointment: $5 Sunday, September 5, 10 am – 7 pm 1.5 hour gallery appointment: $5 * We will continue to make decisions based on the health and safety of our community and will communicate any changes to our event as soon as they occur.

Left to right: Ronan Peterson, Facets Vase. Ashley Bevington, Poodle Liquor Bottle.

APF: VIP PACKAGES NCC provides the opportunity to enhance your support of our annual fundraiser and ensure you’ll enjoy all that our event has to offer at various levels of patronage.

Luster: $500 • One-year Individual or Dual Membership • First tier access to schedule two 1.5 hour-long gallery (or Personal Shopping) appointments • Registration for two pre-festival workshops with Jeff Oestreich, Sue Tirrell, Tricia Schmidt & Kurt Brian Webb, or Lars Voltz & Joyce St. Clair Voltz • All-day Virtual Workshop Passes for both Saturday and Sunday Porcelain: $250 • One-year Individual Membership • Second tier access to schedule two 1.5 hour-long gallery (or Personal Shopping) appointments • All-day Virtual Workshop Passes for both Saturday and Sunday Celadon: $125 • One-year Individual Membership • Third tier access to schedule one 1.5 hour-long gallery (or Personal Shopping) appointment • All-day Virtual Workshop Passes for both Saturday and Sunday

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APF: Conference ARTIST LECTURE SOCIAL HOURS Each evening, we’ll end the day with time to listen to some of this year’s APF guest artists. Attendance is free and priceless.

Wednesday, September 1 Kurt Anderson, 6 pm Ashley Bevington, 6:30 pm Thursday, September 2 Ronan Peterson, 6 pm Brett Freund, 6:30 pm Friday, September 3 Friends in Clay Places Panel: all APF artists and YOU, 6 pm Saturday, September 4 Daniel Velasquez, 6 pm Justin Donofrio, 6:30 pm

PRE-FESTIVAL WORKSHOPS Pre-Festival Workshop Scholarships Available • 100% scholarship available to BIPOC attendees.

• 50% scholarship available to any who identify as experiencing financial need.

• NCC Members receive 5% discount.

Jeff Oestreich Wheels & Heels This 2021 American Pottery Festival weekend kick-off workshop with Jeff Oestreich will have several in-studio student spots available and take place in the virtual realm as well.

An internationally-recognized artist, Oestreich has one foot in tradition and one paving the trail of contemporary ceramics.

During his workshop, Oestreich will demonstrate a few of his favorite forms on the wheel amidst stories and sentiments from his career experiences. He will share techniques that contribute to the simplicity and directness of his approach. Much like the fond stories he will share, and the process of creativity, the workshop will unfold and build in an organic manner. Your time together will also feature a high-profile surprise!

Thursday, September 2, 10 am – 1 pm Fees: $80 in-person workshop (Limited tickets available) $60 Virtual Workshop - Content Only $30 Students Virtual Workshop - Content Only

Kurt Brian Webb, Three-Legged Mythological Crows and Coronaviruses.

Tricia Schmidt & Kurt Brian Webb Concatenation of Art & Education Join artists and educators, Tricia Schmidt and Kurt Brian Webb, for a workshop on figurative storytelling in contemporary ceramics, their relevant work as educators, and where these paths intersect. Schmidt and Webb will demonstrate their illustrating and figurative decoration techniques and discuss the role of symbolism and social commentary in their work. With a combined 50+ years of experience teaching in public schools, Schmidt and Webb will also share insights on guiding students in their expression of story and how their role as educators weaves with their artistic practice. As you absorb their teaching and techniques, practice surface decoration methods on tiles and forms of your own.

Thursday, September 2, 2 – 5 pm Fees: $80 Virtual Workshop with Materials Kit $60 Virtual Workshop - Content Only $45 Students with Materials Kit $30 Students - Content Only

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Sue Tirrell Unforgettable: Commemorative Plates and Tiles What images, feelings, and situations will you remember most about this tumultuous past year? How would you translate complicated feelings into an object of beauty and contemplation? Join Sue Tirrell for an exploration of plate making and narrative surface design. She will discuss examples of historic and contemporary commemorative ceramics and why they are important. Demonstrations will include handbuilt plate construction techniques as well as how Tirrell approaches narrative composition using pattern, symbols, and expressive color. With a Materials Kit option, participants will design their own plate and have the opportunity to paint, draw, and carve their own narrative designs with underglazes on a leather-hard tile.

Friday, September 3, 10 am – 1 pm Fees: $80 Virtual Workshop with Materials Kit $60 Virtual Workshop - Content Only $45 Students with Materials Kit $30 Students - Content Only Joyce St. Clair Voltz & Lars Voltz Make it Thicker!

This dynamic couple strikes a compelling balance with the distinct, juxtaposed personalities of their work. Their unique processes of creating involve practically contrary ways of building—Voltz makes objects that exude visual weight through methods of reduction, and St. Clair Voltz creates robustly feminine forms with a light evocation through amassing and layering clay components. During this workshop, Voltz will demonstrate tactics for using mass advantageously through the process of throwing and building thick, then aggressively subtracting material. St. Clair Voltz will demonstrate throwing forms as base structures for sprig adornment and for accumulating decorative mass. Join in with a Materials Kit and practice reductive and additive methods along with the artists.

Friday, September 3, 2 – 5 pm Fees: $80 Virtual Workshop with Materials Kit $60 Virtual Workshop - Content Only $45 Students with Materials Kit $30 Students - Content Only

Clockwise from top left: Joyce St. Clair Voltz, Sprigged Pitcher. Amanda Dobbratz, Oval Vase. Pattie Chalmers, Small Vase with Pigeons. Forrest Lesch-Middelton, Pitcher.

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WEEKEND WORKSHOPS 100% scholarship available to BIPOC attendees.

50% scholarship available to any who identify as experiencing financial need.

Saturday All-day Virtual Workshops Saturday, September 4, 10 am – 5 pm Fees: $45 NCC Members and Educators: $35 Students: $30 Tippy Maurant prepares breakfast with Guillermo Guardia, Forrest Lesch-Middelton, Jeff Oestreich, & Sue Tirrell Maker-To-Table 10 – 11 am Get energized for your Saturday APF experience by sharing a cup of coffee with clever makers from across the land. Tippy Maurant, Guillermo Guardia, Forrest Lesch-Middelton, Jeff Oestreich, and Sue Tirrell will create their favorite breakfast specialty, whether in the oven, on the stove, or by the campfire, and engage in lively discussion about the parallels between clay and kitchen practices and the Maker-To-Table movement.

Kathy King & Pattie Chalmers Time Keepers 11:15 am – 12:30 pm Illustration experts Kathy King and Pattie Chalmers are sure to capture your attention and spark your imagination with their respective illustrative techniques. Both King and Chalmers admire the ability of the ceramic material to survive for eons, and take that quality as an opportunity to create time capsules of current perceptions of cultural themes and personal experiences. Learn how they utilize line, form, and material as a vehicle for storytelling.

Guillermo Guardia & Matthew Dercole Interplay 1 – 2 pm In their studio practices, Guillermo Guardia and Matthew Dercole migrate seamlessly back and forth between functional and sculptural work. Watch as they demonstrate their distinctive building techniques, and listen as they discuss the importance of interplay between sculpture and function in their artwork and how one way of making informs the other.

Sanam Emami, Large Bowl.

Sanam Emami & Forrest Lesch-Middelton The Clay Artists’ Book Club 2:15 – 3:30 pm This captivating duo reunites for this year’s APF to explore new avenues of inspiration. Sanam Emami and Forrest LeschMiddelton will offer each other passages from their favorite books, then use them as prompts for their demonstrations.

Tune in to witness these artists give physical form to their ideas, discussion, and inspiration.

Amanda Dobbratz & Mike Tavares Modular Molds 3:45 – 5 pm There’s no limit to form when you have molds on your side!

Amanda Dobbratz and Mike Tavares will demonstrate how they employ molds in their studios to create one-of-a-kind works. They will discuss their preferences for mold-making mediums, tips and troubleshooting, and how the process adds to the versatility of their practices.

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Left to right: Mike Helke, Salt Dish. Randy Johnston, Teapot.

Sunday All-day Virtual Workshops Sunday, September 5, 10 am – 4 pm Fees: $40 NCC Members and Educators: $30 Students: $25 Sandra Torres Fine Lines & Form Redefined 10 – 11 am Sandra Torres’ precise lines and illustration motifs will hypnotize you. In this demonstration, Torres will illuminate the intent behind her pottery; the carefully considered color, the deliberate line work, the subtle forms, and the delicate aesthetic. She will open your eyes to the beauty of detail, highlighting the significance of small variations and repetition of patterns.

Mike Helke, Jordan McDonald, & Peter Jadoonath Favorite Pots 11:15 am – 12:30 pm Let’s take the activity ‘Show and Tell’ one step further. Mike Helke, Jordan McDonald, and Peter Jadoonath will each offer one of their favorite pieces of pottery, discuss the qualities of each piece, then reinterpret the pots through a demonstration of their own. Watch as these talented and entertaining makers identify aspects of their favorite pieces and elaborate on them to make something entirely theirs.

Randy Johnston & Doug Casebeer Between the Idea and Making: Round Two 1 – 4 pm This APF workshop is a rare opportunity to spend time with internationally-recognized ceramic artists Randy Johnston and Doug Casebeer. In this workshop, Johnston and Casebeer will focus on the exchange of ideas involved in making pots related to form and function with sculptural intention. These short demonstrations will cover some use of the wheel as well as handbuilding construction of forms by altering and combining pieces using slabs and paper patterns. In addition, they will share their thought processes through conversation with each other and the participants about why we make the objects we choose to make and what experiences in our lives have brought us to this place in our journey as artists.

This will be a quick, exciting, and fun workshop with personal discussions about traditional and new ways of making, surface decoration, wood firing, soda firing, gas firing, and their relationships to contemporary ceramics. Both artists have studied, traveled, and taught extensively in Chile, Japan, Europe, and the US, and will share their ideas about these experiences and influences. Casebeer was the Associate Director at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado and is currently a Resident Artist at University of Oklahoma.

Johnston studied in Japan with living national treasure Tatsuzo Shimaoka and was privileged to teach as a professor at the University of Wisconsin–River Falls.

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APF: Fundraiser HOW YOU CAN HELP US ACHIEVE THIS YEAR’S FUNDRAISING GOALS The American Pottery Festival is NCC’s most impactful annual fundraiser. Money raised during these few important days goes to support the advancement of the ceramic arts through our education, exhibitions, outreach, and artist services programming. There are many ways you can engage in our fundraising efforts throughout our APF weekend: • •

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Purchase an all-access VIP Package and enjoy everything APF has to offer. Available in three levels of patronage: Luster at $500, Porcelain at $250, and Celadon at $125.

Purchase a piece of donated work. Every year, each of our generous APF artists donates one hand-selected piece to our fundraiser, so 100% of the selling price funds programming. (Thank you, kind artists!)

Attend our on-site gallery with a few of your fellow clay fans. (Ticket prices vary, depending on the day.)

Become an NCC member and enjoy the benefits that come with supporting your favorite local ceramic organization.

Round up your ticket price throughout the week for an added contribution.

Be inspired by the exhibition and artist lectures, and then buy your new favorite pot (or several) online to ship as a gift to introduce someone new to clay.

Support NCC’s fundraising efforts with a larger gift, and double it with your company’s matching contributions. $2000 can accomplish the following: support a studio fellowship for one emerging artist for an entire year; fund a ClayToGo virtual residency for 100 school children; or create up to 10 lecture or workshop opportunities for artists visiting from around the world.

Membership Purchase or renew your NCC membership before APF to take advantage of special workshop pricing and access to the onsite event ticket pre-sale. Members are invited to be the first to purchase tickets to see the American Pottery Festival exhibition in person and purchase pots. NCC members are included in a rare community of artists and supporters working to advance the ceramic arts. In addition to supporting a unique, medium-specific organization and its programming, your membership will provide you with discounts to classes, workshops, and pottery by sales gallery artists year-round.

You may purchase your membership online, in the gallery, or by telephone.

Ceramic Purchases Here are a few tips to help with purchase choices for the festival week whether you engage from the comfort of your home or purchase a ticket to visit the gallery: • Shop online for hundreds of pieces by this year’s APF artists as well as the artists represented full-time in the sales gallery. This year, because the event is once again nearly entirely virtual, the online selection is more robust than ever before.

• We offer a Personal Shopping Service for those of you who choose not to attend the festival in person, but would still like to see all of the artwork whether available only in the galleries, or listed online. Please register as soon as possible so we are able to send images and to work with you to choose your favorite pieces. Sales of APF work open on Wednesday, September 1, at 10 am CT with a Wednesday ticket purchase of $35. It’s advisable to partner with our staff in the days leading up to the event so we can set aside exactly what you’d like as soon as the exhibition opens. Personal shopping sales after September 1 do not require the purchase of a gallery ticket. We are also happy to assist you in the purchase of work by our year-round gallery artists and exhibition artists. Please submit our online form or send a request for a personal shopper to salesgallery@northernclaycenter.org.

• Shop in person in the gallery by purchasing a ticket for your preferred appointment time. A limited number of tickets will be available for each appointment time frame, and members will have access to the ticket presale in midAugust. There is no limit on purchases, and, as in years past, we will assist you by storing pieces near the register.

The gallery will be designed to ensure social distancing, and masks are required while inside NCC. This in-person opportunity is subject to change to protect everyone’s safety and NCC’s compliance with all government requirements and science-based protocols.

• Shipping to the US and Canada is available for all purchases. Arrange for shipping online during checkout, or simply allow us to offer personal service by contacting us via phone at 612.339.8007, email, or during your shopping appointment in the gallery.

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Passages From India September 18 – October 31 Main Gallery Virtual Tour available September 23 Public Reception: Friday, October 8, 6 – 8 pm, Limited Audience

With its great cultural diversity, India offers more than a single ceramic tradition or history. It offers multiple local and regional traditions in addition to many different characteristics that reflect India’s social, religious, and cultural richness. India’s vibrant ceramic culture encompasses functional, as well as sculptural, work; objects made for everyday use and domestic décor, ceremonial and architectural creations, and now, installations on the cutting edge of contemporary artistic exploration.

Contemporary Indian art is finally gaining the attention it deserves on the world stage. This exhibition will serve to bring equally-deserved attention to contemporary Indian studio ceramics. Studio ceramics in India has its own distinctive history, related to developments in the United States, Europe, and East Asia, but with significant differences. In addition to the extraordinary social and cultural complexity of India and its native traditions, there is the enormous impact of the British Colonial Period on art institutions and art education.

Over roughly the last hundred years, traditionalism met modernism, and local, regional, and national traditions met international trends, with remarkable results. As Kristine Michael has noted, Indian pottery has been “at the crux of craft, art, and modern industry.” In recent decades in particular, globalism has played a major role in transforming Indian art and ceramics. To take but one important example, an international ceramics triennial premiered in 2018 in Jaipur. The relationship between

artists in India and abroad, as in many other countries, has become more fluid. Indian-born artists may go to the UK, the United States, or elsewhere for their higher art education, and may not necessarily return to live in India.

This exhibition will include artists who continue to live in India as well as some who are part of the Indian diaspora.

The exhibition will not provide a survey of historical Indian ceramics or contemporary work that principally continues folk traditions. It will feature contemporary studio ceramics with an emphasis on sculptural, rather than functional, work. Featured artists will

include several who do both, and others whose primary emphasis now is on gallery or architectural installations rather than small-scale individual works. Contemporary Indian studio ceramics are an exciting area of artistic creation full of skill, energy, and daring. This exhibition will open a new window on Indian art and life.

Artists featured in the exhibition are Reyaz Badaruddin, Mudita Bhandari, Ashwini Bhat, Sharbani Das Gupta, Vineet Kacker, Shaurya Kumar, Shampa Shah, and Madhvi Subrahmanian.* *With respect for the daily consequences of the current pandemic-related health crisis in India, this artist list is open to amendment.

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Related Events Inspiration and Process During this remote event, Mumbaiborn, Singapore-based artist Madhvi Subrahmanian will share her background, inspirations, and process from her home and studio in Singapore.

Subrahmanian’s studio process and subject matter are led by space (physical and mental), and informed by her circumstances and life’s events.

Drawing from her cultural context, she subtly weaves her life experience into her work. Join Subrahmanian as she shares about her work and process, and for a timely discussion on identity, space, and inspiration.

XV1: Saturday, September 25, 9 am CT FREE, Remote Login Passages From India Panel Discussion Join us remotely to observe a panel discussion of artists exhibiting in Passages From India, moderated by curator Robert Silberman. Get a glimpse into the art and life of these artists and the energetic, skillful, and daring area of contemporary Indian studio ceramics.

XV3: Saturday, October 9, 9 am CT FREE, Remote Login

Opposite page: Sharbani Das Gupta. This page, clockwise from top left: Shampa Shah, Reyaz Badaruddin, Shaurya Kumar, Ashwini Bhat, Mudita Bhandari.

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MESSENGER: Works by Adam Chau September 18 – October 31 Emily Galusha Gallery Virtual Tour available September 23 Public Reception: Friday, October 8, 6 – 8 pm, Limited Audience

Adam Chau.

From sharing selfies to connecting with loved ones, the way we communicate has dramatically changed in the last decade. When digital technology first started to proliferate, the general public was hesitant to adopt this as a valuable and meaningful experience—the fear was the loss of authentic relationships because we couldn't see who was behind the screen. MESSENGER explores the potential to forge relationships on digital platforms. Adam Chau presents porcelain tiles in the shape of smartphones with real messages sent to a stranger after a chance meeting in Italy. Now married to the person he shared messages with for six months without meeting, Chau reflects on how impactful these interactions can be and can alter the course of life, proposing the instant message as a 21st Century love letter.

Chau writes, "My husband and I lived in different countries for many years and without the web I wouldn't have been able to have sustained our connection.

The messages I sent him are just as heartfelt as sending and receiving a handwritten letter."

Adam Chau is a working artist in New York who currently resides and works in Denmark. A graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, his practice hybridizes digital manufacturing with traditional ceramic techniques. His research has been widely published and curatorial efforts for his passion in digital ceramics have included Reinvented, a 13-person exhibition travelling to five locations in two years. In 2018 he received the NCECA Emerging Artist Award and in 2019 became a member of the International Academy of Ceramics.

Chau has had solo exhibitions at venues including Harvard Ceramics, The Clay Studio, and Manchester Craftsman's Guild. He is currently on the board of Artaxis and is a co-organizer for The Color Network.

Related Event Love Your Self(ie) In this one-hour youth workshop, artist Adam Chau will talk about selfportraiture throughout the ages and lead a hands-on demonstration to draw a selfie on a porcelain tile. Students will come away with a bit of history and a whole lot of ideas relating to how we present ourselves in digital spaces.

Ages 13-18.

XV4: Saturday, October 16, 12 pm CT FREE, Remote Login

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MN NICE Graduates November 14 – December 30 Emily Galusha Gallery Virtual Tour available November 18 Opening Reception: Sunday, November 14, 12 – 4 pm Limited Audience, Subject to Change

MN NICE Graduates features the work of seven emerging ceramic artists from the seventh graduating class of the Minnesota New Institute for Ceramic Education (MN NICE) program.

Participating artists include: Maggie Archbold, Kim Hamilton, Shawn Kelly, Alex Lange, Sheila Murray, Mel North, and Joe Tashjian.

Over the 2020 - 2021 cohort year, these individuals have taken a focused journey to define and refine their voice in clay.

Through persistent making, critical analysis, investigations into ceramic history and chemistry, and the guidance of mentors and the support of peers, their evolved work has taken shape and stands with presence. Collectively, the work exemplifies their determination and risk taking as well as their passion for materials and processes. This graduation exhibition celebrates their accomplishments as they step into the next stage of their artistic journey, ready to strengthen and shape the future of contemporary ceramics.

MN NICE is an advanced certificate program that provides rigorous, personalized instruction for artists who are serious about taking the next step in their ceramic education. The program is designed to respond to the changing needs of emerging makers and to give non-traditional students high-level training in ceramic materials, history and theory, and professional practice. Through instruction and individual mentorship, artists build the skills, knowledge, and insight necessary to create a personal and cohesive body of work.

Clockwise, from top: Joe Tashjian, Mel North, Alex Lange.

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New Adult Scholarships!

NCC is committed to maintaining accountability and pursuing action to build meaningful diversity, impactful equity, and genuine inclusivity in the ceramic community. We recognize that there are significant and systemic racial and economic impacts that impede participation in the arts, and resulting financial barriers contribute to further divide. To address and help bridge financial barriers to ceramic education, NCC is implementing new scholarship options for our education programming.

This will open access to the ceramic arts and welcome all who wish to learn, grow as an artist, and participate in the ceramic arts community.

MN NICE extends beyond the physical classroom to take advantage of the rich ceramic resources throughout the Twin Cities, including: artist lectures, gallery tours, and virtual studio visits with established ceramic artists. Under the leadership, guidance, and keen instruction of program head Ursula Hargens, MN NICE strives to prepare artists both artistically and professionally, whether they are seeking gallery representation, applying for graduate school, or selling work to the public.

Our exhibiting MN NICE emerging artists joined this program because a horizon line was taking shape for them, and they felt compelled to pursue a sharpened focus. They made an intense commitment to bring their work under a collective critical eye in the hopes of stepping toward a new future on terms they have defined through this program, with a new professional peer network, and a deeper understanding of the potential held by a daily life engaged in contemporary ceramics.

We offer two scholarship options: • a half-tuition scholarship open to artists and learners with financial need • a full-tuition scholarship open to artists and learners who identify as Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color Scholarships are limited and will be available on a first come first served basis. For more information about these scholarships and to apply, please visit our website at northernclaycenter.org

Top: Kim Hamilton. Bottom: Maggie Archbold.

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September Featured Artists: Casey Beck, Laura Casas, Randy Schutt September 14 – October 10 Sales Gallery & Online

Walk into the worlds of wonder created by these three talented ceramic artists.

Beck’s dreamy soda-fired surfaces will encourage you to slow down and appreciate the details of the world around you. Casas’ playful imagery will comfort you with a sense of heritage and nostalgia, and Schutt’s carefully constructed pottery will make you rethink the limits of the ceramic material. Enjoy the unbridled creativity of these dedicated makers!

Clockwise from top left: Randy Schutt, Casey Beck, Laura Casas.

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October Featured Artists: Jill Foote-Hutton, Kirk Lyttle, Matthew Krousey October 12 – November 7 Sales Gallery & Online

Fall is the perfect season to appreciate the beauty of our natural world.

Foote-Hutton utilizes imagery of monsters as a vehicle to explore concepts of ritual and religion. Lyttle’s work focuses on the creatures that inhabit our world; his wares offer rich surfaces adorned with joyful and cheeky illustrations. Krousey’s pottery presents an earnest perspective of Minnesota’s natural environment. Join us in celebrating these imaginative artists’ mastery of material!

Clockwise from top: Jill Foote-Hutton, Matthew Krousey, Kirk Lyttle.

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2021 Emerging Artist Award Recipients

Left to right: Persis Wade, The Potter's Field. Jason Wang, Blue Tea Bowl.

Each year, numerous courageous souls step up and apply for NCC’s Emerging Artist Awards, in hopes of capitalizing on the momentum they have gained in school, apprenticeships, community classes, or their individual studios. Every one of them is hoping to take the next step, challenge themselves, and forge their way in this world as an artist.

Northern Clay Center is pleased to continue to offer these Emerging Artist Awards. The life of NCC’s programming is always enriched by the annual contributions of new, creative energy entering our community. The 2021 spring award recipients from three of our grant programs include artists from the full spectrum of contemporary ceramic arts. NCC is is committed to continue supporting artists at all stages of their careers.

EMERGING ARTIST RESIDENCY AWARDS The Emerging Artist Residency (EAR) Awards provide a furnished studio space for one year, plus a materials/firing stipend, a group exhibition in January and February 2023, employment opportunities, and other benefits. This year we awarded the 2021 Anonymous Artist Studio Fellowships to Persis Wade (Goshen, IN) and Jason Wang (Kansas City, MO). Our 2021 Fogelberg Studio Fellowship was awarded to Joel Willson (Arden Hills, MN).

Persis Wade received her BFA from Indiana University Bloomington in 2021.

When working through each series of work, Wade is motivated by the process rather than the product. Her handbuilt sculptures are created in a repetitive

and meditative state—utilizing myriad processes at each stage of every piece.

Encouraged by spontaneity and impulse, Wade’s decisions are driven by a tactile energy. She is attracted to fingerpinching textures and the immense and intense world of glaze characteristics and color variations. Recently, Wade completed a large-scale installation for her thesis show The Potter’s Field, composed of eleven large tombstones. In contemplation of morality, she created a vibrant polychromatic cemetery to honor the dead and give reverence to life.

Jason Wang is a ceramic artist currently living in Kansas City, MO and holds a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute.

He intends his vessels and sculptures to invoke a strong emotional response in order to further the dialogue about identity, mental health, and mindfulness in contemporary America. He was awarded a scholarship to partake in a workshop at Anderson Ranch Art Center in Snowmass Village, CO and has exhibited in group exhibitions at LeedyVoulkos Art Center in Kansas City, MO.

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(UK), and an MFA from Cornell University (Ithaca, NY). She has been an artist-inresidence at MacDowell (Peterborough, NH), Yaddo (Saratoga Springs, NY), The Studios at MASS MoCA (North Adams, MA), Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre (Latvia), and The Pottery Workshop (Jingdezhen, China), among others.

Upcoming residencies include Sculpture Space (Utica, NY) and CATWALK (Catskill, NY). Troxell has had solo shows at Neighbors Gallery (Ithaca, NY), The Herbert F. Johnson Museum (Ithaca, NY), and Haw Contemporary (Kansas City, MO).

Left to right: Joel Willson, Plate. Grace Sachi Troxell, Untitled (Carrots).

Joel Willson grew up in Pakistan and Germany, moved to Minnesota in 2008, and discovered clay during his freshman year of college. Since earning a BA in Studio Art in 2014, Willson has completed apprenticeships with S.C. Rolf (River Falls, WI) and Michael Kline (Bakersville, NC), and has taught classes and worked as a studio technician at the Dahl Arts Center (Rapid City, SD) and Northern Clay Center (Minneapolis, MN).

His work has been exhibited nationally in such venues as Charlie Cummings Gallery (Gainesville, FL), Companion Gallery (Humboldt, TN), Saltstone Ceramics (Seattle, WA) and Baltimore Clayworks (Baltimore, MD).

We are grateful to a variety of institutional and individual donors, including secondary market sales through NCC’s sales gallery, for their support of these particular grant programs. The residencies will begin on September 1, 2021. We are excited to see the exchange of ideas in the studios with the residency program crossing boundaries of generation, material, origin, and approach.

RED WING COLLECTORS SOCIETY FOUNDATION AWARD

WARREN MACKENZIE ADVANCEMENT AWARD Launched in 2014, the Warren MacKenzie Advancement Award (WMAA) honors the educational legacy of Warren MacKenzie. Recipients of the award can research a new technique or process, study with a mentor or in an apprenticeship setting, visit other ceramic art centers or institutions for classes and workshops, collaborate with artists of other media, and travel. The grant period is 12 consecutive months, from June 2021 to May 2022. One award was granted in 2021.

Grace Sachi Troxell (Ithaca, NY) received a BS in Studio Art from Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, NY), a PgCert in Painting from the Glasgow School of Art

This award is made possible by the Red Wing Collectors Society Foundation, and is presented by Northern Clay Center to a deserving individual pursuing a career in pottery, or studying or researching the historical aspects of the pottery industry. The Foundation endeavors to broaden appreciation of pottery, past and present, for the general public and maintains the Red Wing Pottery Museum in Red Wing, Minnesota.

Wendy Eggerman (Saint Paul, MN) first fell in love with pottery while attending college in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Since then, her work has been exhibited nationally and she has been an active ceramic artist in a variety of studios. Most notably, she was involved with the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, CA where she was a teacher, volunteer, and had a solo show, Wrought Clay, in 2016. Eggerman currently has a home studio where she makes functional earthenware pottery. Her work is

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This year’s selection panel was wonderstruck by applications which demonstrated a sense of imagination that extended beyond the traditional paths of ceramic research. They were interested in supporting emerging voices that would amplify overlooked perspectives in the field and applications that demonstrated a thirst for growth and expansion within the community of makers at NCC. Even with these guideposts, they found their decisions incredibly difficult to finalize with so many strongly-qualified applicants in the pool.

Left to right: Wendy Eggerman, Butter Dish. Zoe Kaplan, Cow Jar.

influenced by her love of antiques and, in particular, hobnail glass.

BISQUE RESIDENCY AWARD BISQUE stands for Believe, Include, Sustain, Question, Understand, and Evolve. BISQUE is also a metaphor for makers in the early stages of development. NCC is proud to announce the second recipient of this experimental residency program, which is inspired by our desire to cultivate new voices in the field. As a community-based ceramic art center, we are in a unique position to have access to pre-emergent talent and the BISQUE Residency will offer time, space, and professional development resources, plus participation in a group exhibition in January and February 2023. The future of this program will be dependent upon funding.

NCC issued an invitation to Zoe Kaplan (Minneapolis, MN) to be the Center’s second BISQUE Resident Artist. Kaplan is a queer, Jewish, gender-liberated ceramic artist, originally from Chicago, IL. Their ceramic practice primarily centers on form, functionality, and lightness. Kaplan’s pottery journey began in elementary school and later deepened while attending Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH) where they had leadership roles at their campus’s 80-member Pottery Cooperative. Kaplan is committed to providing access to those who have had less access to artistic opportunities, whether that be through offering pieces to be donated to benefit community members or giving profits to help fund frontline artists and organizations. As Northern Clay Center’s 2021 BISQUE Resident, they are excited to delve deep into, and expand, their artistic practice and incorporate values of play, boldness, growth, liberation, and abolition into their work.

The 2021 jurors for the Emerging Artist Residencies and the Warren MacKenzie Advancement Award included: • Claudia Alvarez (New York, NY), is a ceramic sculptor and educator who received her BFA from University of California, Davis and MFA from California College of Arts (San Francisco). Through both her 2D and ceramic work, she addresses the way social, political, and psychological structures impact behavior and personal interaction.

Her sculptures of children imbue adult characteristics and mannerisms to address issues relating to violence, empowerment, endurance, and what they reveal about human nature.

Alvarez has received numerous awards and attended residencies both nationally and internationally.

Through her career, her works have been seen on exhibit and added to the permanent collections of myriad locations, including El Museo Latino (Omaha, NE), National Museum of Mexican Art (Chicago, IL), Bemis

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Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha, NE), Pelham Art Center (NY), Keramik Museum (Berlin, Germany), FUTUR (RapperswilJona, Switzerland), Blue Lear Gallery (Dublin, Ireland), and the Edward Hopper House and Study Center (Nyack, NY).

• Ashwini Bhat (Petaluma, CA) is a ceramic artist who was born in southern India and currently both lives and works in the Bay Area in California. She holds an MA in literature and had an earlier career in classical Indian dance before beginning her work in clay. Her work and artistic voice developed at various academic and residency venues including Golden Bridge Pottery (Pondicherry, India), Tin Shed Pottery (Tasmania, Australia), FuLe International Ceramic Art Museum (Fuping, China), UMASS Dartmouth (New Bedford, MA), and Red Lodge Clay Center (Red Lodge, MT).

Exploring the deep relationship between the human and non-human, between the constructed and the inherited, her work invites viewers to interact with the revealed and the hidden. Bhat’s work has been exhibited and permanently installed internationally at venues such as Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park (Japan), Newport Art Museum (RI), Clayspace Gallery (Ashville, NC), Arch Contemporary Ceramics (Tiverton, RI), StarWorks (Star, NC), and Lacoste Gallery (Concord, MA).

• For over 20 years, Joe Singewald (Cold Spring, MN) has pursued a passion for clay that began when he first started making pots in high school. He received his BFA from University of Wisconsin–River Falls and an MFA from Utah State University (Logan). He currently serves as a teaching artist and technical manager at Saint John’s University (Collegeville, MN), and is a studio potter. In addition to being featured in various publications and periodicals, Singewald’s work has also been exhibited and represented at venues across the United States including Red Lodge Clay Center (Red Lodge, MT), Archie Bray Foundation (Helena, MT), The Clay Studio (Philadelphia, PA), Lillstreet Art Center (Chicago, IL), and TRAX Gallery (Berkeley, CA).

Congratulations to each of our award recipients! Please watch our website and our winter 2022 newsletter for future deadlines for these grant programs and others. If you would like to have a presentation on our grant programs at your school or institution, please reach out to Kyle Rudy-Kohlhepp at kylerudyk@northernclaycenter.org And a special thank you to all of the 2021 applicants—your interest in the grant programs and your applications help keep our arts economy strong by demonstrating the great talent, need, and diverse work that is present—from Minnesota and beyond.

AUGUST 3 August Featured Artists opens

Fall Class Registration opens, 10 am 22 Eleven McKnight Artists closes 29 August Featured Artists closes SEPTEMBER 1-5 American Pottery Festival 6 CLOSED 1 APF Lecture: Kurt Anderson & Ashley Bevington, 6 pm 2 APF Lecture: Ronan Peterson & Brett Freund, 6 pm 3 APF Lecture: Friends in Clay Places Panel, 6 pm 4 APF Lecture: Daniel Velasquez & Justin Donofrio, 6 pm 14 September Featured Artists opens 18 Passages From India and MESSENGER open 23 Virtual tour online for Passages From India and

MESSENGER OCTOBER 8 Passages From India and MESSENGER public

reception, 6 - 8 pm 9 Passages From India panel discussion, 9 am 10 September Featured Artists closes 12 October Featured Artists opens 16 Love Your Self(ie) youth workshop, 12 pm 21 – 23 Art Educators Weekend 25 Artist Talk: Madhvi Subrahmanian, 9 am 27 AAH: Looking & Learning, 6:30 pm 31 Passages From India and MESSENGER close NOVEMBER 7 October Featured Artists closes 14 Holiday Open House, 12– 4 pm

Holiday Exhibition and MN NICE Graduates open 18 Virtual tour online for Holiday Exhibition and

MN NICE Graduates 25 CLOSED DECEMBER 4 AAH: Decorative Clay Spoons!, 2 – 4 pm 30 Holiday Exhibition and MN NICE Graduates close 31 CLOSED

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Art Educators Holiday Weekend Open House October 21 - 23, 2021

Save the Date!

Sunday, November 14, 12 – 4 pm Member Preview Hour, 11 am – 12 pm FREE, Limited Audience

Please join us for our annual Holiday Open House. Help us launch the winter holiday season with sociallydistanced shopping in our galleries.

Hands-on clay activities and artist demonstrations will both inspire you and capture your attention. We invite you to sign up for a visit online to ensure we maintain attendance throughout the event at a level that facilitates proper social distancing.

Art Educators Workshop 2020, making and decorating with terra sigillata with Rhonda Willers.

Mark your calendars for October 21 23, as Northern Clay Center presents another exciting round of workshops for art educators! They are designed to provide you with lots of ceramic-centric classroom resources that will also jump-start and inspire your own studio practice. Look forward to workshops that include conversations on critique, surface design, finding meaning and function in pots, and more. As usual, we’ll build in plenty of time for handson activities and opportunities to learn collaboratively with your peers. You won’t want to miss this chance to learn from notable artists and experts in the clay field. Some workshops will occur online, and some will be in-person.

Peter Leach Scholarship Fund

NCC Members are invited to attend a private viewing from 11 am – 12 pm.

Please visit our website for updates as the event draws nearer. We will continue to ensure we design our events with the health and safety of our community as a first priority.

We are thrilled to announce the Peter Leach Scholarship Fund at Northern Clay Center. The Peter Leach Scholarship Fund will be used to fund the BIPOC NCC education scholarship which covers 100% of class costs at NCC for BIPOC students.

This humbling opportunity is made possible by Nan Skelton in Peter’s memory. Cash donations may be made by contacting the gallery at salesgallery@northernclaycenter.org.

Donations of pottery for the ReCollect program, with all proceeds earmarked for the scholarship fund, may be made in the gallery during business hours, 10 am to 5 pm, seven days a week.

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McKnight Artist Residency for Ceramic Artists: Tom Hubbard

Join Northern Clay Center in welcoming our 2021 fall McKnight Artist Resident, Tom Hubbard (Attleboro, MA). We look forward to supporting his creative visions while establishing new connections with our community.

Allowing each project to evolve organically, Hubbard approaches his work with foundations built through his design training and strong belief that the solution is often derived from the problem in question. Through a diligent process of inquiry, research, and immersion, he explores, interprets, and distills visual opportunities into solutions that are specific, unique, and meaningful. Informed by current events, and exploring themes of loss, memory, and the passage of time, Hubbard aims to allow the viewer to freely interpret his abstract forms that reference industrial implements to discern their forms, markings, and meanings.

Hubbard received his BFA from Indiana University (Bloomington) and continues to interact with myriad colleges, universities, museums, and institutions to present lectures and workshops.

Over the course of his career, Hubbard has been awarded numerous grants, residencies, and honors including an Individual Artist’s Grant by the Indiana Arts Commission in 2004, Open Studio Residency at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in 2014, and named Merit Fellow & Resident Artist at The Steel Yard in 2019. Additionally, he has received recognition through numerous print and broadcast sources including The Indianapolis Star, Chicago Tom Hubbard

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Sun Times, The Hague/Amsterdam Times, The Veteran, Ceramics Monthly, Ceramics: Art & Perception, and at TEDxAugusta (GA).

Hubbard’s work has been featured in group and solo exhibitions nationally and internationally at venues including the Herron School of Art (Indianapolis, IN), National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum (Chicago, IL), Haagse/Kunstkring (Den Haag, The Netherlands), Kent State University (Kent, OH), and the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (IN) with works additionally included in various collections including the Chicago Public Library (IL), University of Saint Francis (Fort Wayne, IN), the Robby Poblete Foundation (Vallejo, CA), and the Fort Wayne Museum of Art (IN).

Related Event Please join us in welcoming Hubbard to the NCC community for his residency taking place from October through December. During the first weeks of his time with us in Minneapolis, he will present a slide talk and artist lecture with time afterwards for participant questions. This virtual presentation is both free and open to the public.

McKnight Artist Resident Lecture: Tom Hubbard XV5: Tuesday, October 19, 6 pm CT FREE, Remote Login

As we emerge from a time of sustained uncertainties, NCC remains hopeful that we will be able to open our doors for the full extent of our fall programming, but our plans may continue to evolve as updates and recommendations are made available. Our class sizes may continue to be limited and appropriate safety initiatives will remain in place. We will continue to offer Clay-Along online classes if you are not able to join us in person. Please visit our website for the most up-to-date information.

Cooler days and colorful foliage harken us to fall back to familiar rhythms and embrace the warmth of routines. NCC is thrilled to welcome you back to your clay habits and to offer you the space and resources to deepen or begin your journey with clay. Whether you take the path of handbuilding, wheel-throwing, sculpting, or travel between multiple methods, our comprehensive class roster has something for you.

We offer open studio time allowing you the space to digest demonstrations and practice your craft independently. Adult students generally have access to our studios from 9 am to 9 pm, four days a week, from 4:30 to 9 pm on Mondays when space is available, and from 9 am until midnight on Tuesdays and Thursdays (subject to other NCC events and programming). Our open studio schedule may be adjusted due to public health concerns and NCC may choose to limit the number of people allowed in the studios through a sign-up process to allow plenty of distanced work space for all. Browse our open studio schedule online to check the most upto-date listing of available studios.

NCC is committed to maintaining accountability and pursuing action to build meaningful diversity, impactful equity, and genuine inclusivity in the ceramic community. We recognize that there are significant and systemic racial and economic impacts that impede participation in the arts, and resulting financial barriers contribute to further divide. To address and help bridge financial barriers to ceramic education, NCC is implementing new scholarship options for our education programming. This will open access to the ceramic arts and welcome all who wish to learn, grow as an artist, and participate in the ceramic arts community.

We offer two scholarship options: • a half-tuition scholarship open to artists and learners with financial need • a full-tuition scholarship open to artists and learners who identify as Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color Scholarships are limited and will be available on a first come first served basis. For more information about these scholarships and to apply, please visit our website at northernclaycenter.org Check out pages 30 – 31 for information about our ART@HAND programs. @ Classes marked in this section with a are designed for, and easily accessible to, older adults.

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CLAY-ALONG VIRTUAL CLASSES & WORKSHOPS Stay connected to your creativity from home and Clay-Along with NCC through virtual classes, workshops, and materials kits designed to fulfill your clay longings from the convenience and safety of home.

Virtual classes will meet online once a week for five or ten weeks, for two hours each week with an NCC teaching artist who will guide you through quality at-home digital learning. Special topics workshops will keep you curious and offer insight into your creative practice. We are also pleased to offer self-guided clay kits with lesson plans for an independent clay experience.

Classes, workshops, and kits have the option to include low-fire clay (lowfire red: a smooth terracotta body; or Raku: a grittier, off-white body) and a set of engobes (colored slips), firings at NCC, and a guide to setting up a space for clay in your home. No clayspecific tools? No problem! All classes and lessons can be accomplished with everyday utensils and objects. If you have everything you need already, just select the content-only version.

Maker-to-Table Join a rotating cast of makers who will inspire you with their functional ceramic craft as well as their kitchen artistry.

Each week, join a different artist who will demonstrate a handbuilt kitchen tool or vessel and share about the dish, event, or ritual that accompanies it. Gain a new recipe each week and learn the tradition behind it as you practice and add new forms to your repertoire and cabinets. This may

include coffee pour-overs, mortar and pestles, serving dishes, and more while you reflect on your own food traditions and thoughtfully consider the function of objects that hold and embody the memories surrounding them. Come to the table with your own favorite recipes and learn how to intentionally craft forms to fit them as you pinch, coil, and construct your way through the kitchen!

V1: Thursdays, 6:30 – 8:30 pm Instructor: Multiple NCC Teaching Artists November 4 – December 2 Fee with Kit: $140 (members receive 5% discount) Fee, Content Only: $90 (members receive 5% discount) Dig It: Earth Connection for Clay Artists As clay artists, we have a direct and special connection to the physical earth. During this two-day virtual workshop with Minnesota native Amy Joy Hosterman, inspire or reinvigorate your relationship to earth and materials through instruction and demonstrations for harvesting your own wild clay. Gain practical tips to implement sustainable practices in your studio processes.

On day one, learn simple steps to connect with the clay that’s beneath you, including how to harvest, handprocess, and conduct basic tests to determine properties. Discover accessible natural additives, like grog, sand, and paper pulp, and how these can improve workability.

On day two, you’ll discuss tips and tricks to reduce waste, and firing and finishing methods that use less energy.

You will also get information on pit firing, alternative coloring oxides, and methods for sealing clay without glaze. This workshop aims to inspire clay artists to take a step back from

Amy Jo Hosterman harvesting wild clay.

their commercially-processed clay and get curious and intimate with natural materials as an exercise in observing our consumption, and deepening our respect for, and connection to, the earth that makes them. This workshop will be recorded and available for two weeks following the workshop, and is best suited for those who have an understanding of the stages of clay, building methods, and material components.

Amy Joy Hosterman is a co-founder of the Visitor Center Artist Camp in Ewen, MI, where she has developed comprehensive ceramics programming with locally-harvested clay for a nearwilderness annual artist residency.

XV2: Saturday & Sunday October 2, 10 am – 1 pm & October 3, 10 am – 12 pm Instructor: Amy Joy Hosterman Fee: $90 (members receive 5% discount)

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Clay & Macrame During this virtual craft crossover extravaganza, you’ll expand your skills in clay and textiles to create both components of your new favorite household statement piece—the planter and the artful hanging mechanism.

Spend the first evening with a ceramic teaching artist creating 2 – 3 planters of varying sizes using coil and pinching methods. Learn tips for caring for houseplants and creating optimal environments for them as you form, design, and decorate your pots with colorful engobes.

Bring your finished work to NCC for a bisque firing, and pick up your pots along with a textile kit (enough for two plant hangers) before the macrame session on November 19. Resume the workshop with a textile artist for two hours of beginner macrame to make custom hangers for your planters. You’ll learn basic techniques, including several different knots and construction methods, and build the skills to keep on knotting!

XV6: Fridays, November 5 & 19 6:30 – 8:30 pm Instructors: NCC Teaching Artist & Textile Center Teaching Artist: Kaylyn Gerenz Fee with materials kit: $110 (members receive 5% discount) Self-Guided Kits Clay-Along Self-Guided Kits balance the independence of self-guided clay exploration with the support of instructions that guide you step-by-step through a variety of projects at a range of levels; kid-friendly lessons included!

These kits are sure to satisfy your clay cravings, keep you creative, and increase your knowledge of forms and techniques. It’s also a great opportunity

to play and explore clay, whether you’re brand new or very experienced.

VKit: Fee: $45

INTRODUCTORY Want to learn the basics of making clay art? Get your hands dirty during five weeks of instruction, and practice in these introductory classes that focus on the basics of building and glazing techniques. These classes will have plenty of guidance for beginners, making them ideal if you have little or no experience with clay and want to test your interest. We recommend that you take an introductory class two or more times (within one quarter, or over consecutive quarters) to build your skills and prepare for Wheel or Handbuilding 201 classes and beyond. Wear old clothes, and bring an old towel, a bucket no larger than one gallon, and a beginner’s set of tools to the first class.

Tool kits are available for purchase at NCC. Lab fee includes one bag of clay (25 pounds), all glazing materials, firings, and open studio access.

Land of Round Pots—Wheel 101 I1: Mondays, 6:30 – 9:30 pm Instructor: Delaney Keshena September 13 – October 18 Fee: $195 + $20 lab fee (members receive 5% discount) I2: Mondays, 6:30 – 9:30 pm Instructor: Delaney Keshena October 25 – November 29 Fee: $195 + $20 lab fee (members receive 5% discount) I3: Wednesdays, 10 am – 1 pm Instructor: Priya Thoresen September 15 – October 20 Fee: $195 + $20 lab fee (members receive 5% discount)

A masked student centering clay on the potter's wheel.

I4: Wednesdays, 10 am – 1 pm Instructor: Priya Thoresen October 27 – December 1 Fee: $195 + $20 lab fee (members receive 5% discount) I5: Wednesdays, 6:30 – 9:30pm Instructor: Clarice Allgood September 15 – October 20 Fee: $195 + $20 lab fee (members receive 5% discount) I6: Wednesdays, 6:30 – 9:30pm Instructor: Clarice Allgood October 27 – December 1 Fee: $195 + $20 lab fee (members receive 5% discount) I7: Fridays, 6:30 – 9:30pm Instructor: Ruby Sevilla October 29 – December 3 Fee: $195 + $20 lab fee (members receive 5% discount) I8: Saturdays, 1 pm – 4 pm Instructor: Claire O’Connor September 18 – October 23 Fee: $195 + $20 lab fee (members receive 5% discount)

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The Three Graces of Handbuilding Learn the basic skills for creating ceramic sculpture and handbuilt pottery through a series of projects and demonstrations.

This class will introduce the three foundational methods of handbuilding— coiling, pinching, and slab-building—to provide the base for any project you might imagine.

I9: Mondays, 6:30 – 9:30 pm Instructor: NCC Teaching Artist September 13 – October 18 Fee: $195 + $20 lab fee (members receive 5% discount) I10: Mondays, 6:30 – 9:30 pm Instructor: NCC Teaching Artist October 25 – November 29 Fee: $195 + $20 lab fee (members receive 5% discount)

WHEEL We recommend that students begin their study at NCC with an introductory experience in clay, such as our Project Workshops or five-week classes (above). Beginner Throwing—Wheel 201 will take your skill set to the next level and deepen your understanding of clay to prepare you for Wheel 301 and advanced special topics classes.

Our education staff will happily assist you in finding the appropriate class, via phone or email: 612.339.8007 x309 or samanthalongley@northernclaycenter.org.

Beginner Throwing—Wheel 201 Take the next step on your journey with the potter’s wheel to build on your foundations and discover the secrets of making great pots. Improve your skills and learn new techniques for throwing such forms as cylinders, bowls, vases, and more using the pottery wheel as a

tool. You will learn surface treatments such as glazing, staining, and slipping, and be introduced to firing procedures.

Dress for mess, bring an old towel, a bucket no larger than one gallon, and a beginner’s set of pottery tools to the first class. Tool kits are available for purchase at NCC. These classes are designed for those with some previous wheelthrowing experience, who have taken one or two Land of Round Pots sessions, or equivalent, and who feel comfortable navigating basic forms on the wheel.

W1: Tuesdays, 1 – 4 pm Instructor: David Swenson September 14 – November 30 Fee: $390 + $40 lab fee (members receive 5% discount) W2: Wednesdays, 6:30 – 9:30 pm Instructor: Jennica Kruse September 15 – December 1 Fee: $390 + $40 lab fee (members receive 5% discount) W3: Thursdays, 10 am – 1 pm Instructor: Lucy Yogerst September 16 – December 2 Fee: $360 + $40 lab fee (members receive 5% discount) (No class on Thanksgiving Day—no make-up session.)

W4: Saturdays, 10 am – 1 pm Instructor: Risa Nishiguchi September 18 – December 4 Fee: $390 + $40 lab fee (members receive 5% discount) Intermediate Throwing—Wheel 301 Take your skills to the next level as you learn additional techniques for throwing more complicated forms. Refine your skills and continue to define your voice in clay. Each section has a specific focus but leaves room for personal interests and development. Each course will also include more information about surface decoration, firing procedures, and the

A student adding drainage holes to a wheel-thrown berry bowl.

differences between low- and hightemperature clay bodies and glazes.

Designed for those who have taken several Wheel 201 classes or equivalent.

W5: Mondays, 6:30 – 9:30 pm Instructor: Erin Holt—Focus on Finding a Voice September 13 – November 29 Fee: $390 + $40 lab fee (members receive 5% discount) W6: Tuesdays, 10 am – 1 pm Instructor: Lisa Himmelstrup—Focus on Surface Decoration September 14 – November 30 Fee: $390 + $40 lab fee (members receive 5% discount) W7: Thursdays, 1– 4 pm Instructor: Leila Denecke—Focus on Function September 16 – December 2 Fee: $360 + $40 lab fee (members receive 5% discount) (No class on Thanksgiving Day—no make-up session.)

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practice of reinvigorating the bowl form with independent project time, and will offer an introduction to the basics of glaze chemistry. Learn about glass-making components, colorants, firing effects, glaze flaws and more.

Students will have a chance to work in the materials room under guidance of the instructor to create some new glaze colors using oxides. Through instruction and experimentation, gain a foundational understanding of how and why glazes do what they do! Designed for students with some previous handbuilding experience, but beginners will be nurtured.

H1: Tuesdays, 6:30 – 9:30 pm Instructor: Marion Angelica September 14 – November 30 Fee: $390 + $40 lab fee (members receive 5% discount) A student using a banding wheel to add finishing touches to a handbuilt porcelain bowl.

HANDBUILDING Switch up your rhythm this fall, and take a break from the land of round pots: Take a trip to Studio C to delve into concepts that offer new perspectives and ways to reimagine working with clay. Embrace the philosophy of s-l-o-w and develop a new physical memory with an alternative language of touch.

What might an expansion of technique and deliberate process offer your clay vocabulary?

Bountiful Bowls and Basic Glaze Chemistry There are never enough bowls!

Investigate and handbuild a wide assortment of bowls—salad, dipping, berry, shallow, tall, large, and more.

This class will balance the study and

Beyond Grace If you’ve taken The Three Graces of Handbuilding a few times and are ready to take your next steps in handbuilding, Beyond Grace is the class for you.

Demonstrations will focus on tilemaking, working with leatherhard slabs, and using and creating sprig, drape, and press molds out of clay or plaster.

Other topics covered at student request include: scaling up your vessels or sculptures; using the extruder; internal and external armatures; slip and glaze application techniques; and alternative firing methods. Students should be competent in basic handbuilding methods such as coiling, pinching, and building with soft slabs. Students may bring their own project ideas and receive guidance, or may choose from a variety of intermediate project-prompts, provided by the instructor. Intermediate to advanced level.

H2: Thursdays, 6:30 – 9:30 pm Instructor: Elizabeth Coleman September 16 – December 2 Fee: $360 + $40 lab fee (members receive 5% discount) (No class on Thanksgiving Day—no make-up session.)

Guided Study in Handbuilding Expand your handbuilding fundamentals by exploring figural, architectural, animal, decorative, and other non-functional applications of clay. Students are encouraged to bring projects and ideas to work on with low- or high-temperature clays, with guidance from the instructor.

Learn to speak the language of clay as you anticipate technical challenges and plan to achieve your sculptural vision; investigate critical thinking as it pertains to the evolution of your work.

Intermediate to advanced level.

H3: Fridays, 10 am – 1 pm Instructor: Franny Hyde September 17 – December 3 Fee: $390 + $40 lab fee (members receive 5% discount)

SPECIAL TOPICS CLASSES Combined Techniques Take breaks from sitting at the wheel, and stretch your pottery skills in a different direction in this class that combines the best of both worlds— handbuilding and wheel-throwing. Learn to approach the wheel as a tool for alternative methods of pottery building.

Then, tie in functional and sculptural methods of handbuilding, like adding slabs to wheel-thrown work, or adding coils as decorative elements. Expand your building vocabulary, and feed your well of ideas as you gain tools to create anything you imagine—the kiln’s the limit! This class is open to wheel-

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throwers and handbuilders alike, but advanced beginner level experience on the wheel is preferred.

T1: Tuesdays, 1 – 4 pm Instructor: Heather Barr September 14 – November 30 Fee: $390 + $40 lab fee (members receive 5% discount) Atmospheric Explorations Dive into eight weeks of making with an emphasis on the forms, designs, and materials best suited for atmospheric kiln firing. Participants will explore form and surface treatments to further develop their work and take better advantage of the varied surfaces that the kiln provides. Through explorations applicable to both soda- and reductionfirings, students will take part in the loading and firing of two soda kilns and in group critiques to better understand the fired results. This class is designed for makers of intermediate to advanced levels of construction with interest in exploring and learning about alternative atmospheric firing techniques. No previous soda firing experience is necessary.

Tentative firing schedule: Kiln loadings: October 12 & November 2 Firing and unloading schedule will be discussed during class.

Studio meetings all other weeks.

T2: Tuesdays, 6:30 – 9:30 pm Instructor: Joel Edinger-Willson September 14 – November 2 Member Fee: $275 ($290 non-members) + $60 lab fee Shino, What Do You Know?

What is the deal with Shino? See for yourself what the obsession is all about in this class that explores the ins and outs of Shino glazes and makes this ancient, variable method more

approachable. Answer all your questions about color and carbon trapping, and find the right viscosity to complement and add texture and interest to your ceramic wares. Learn about the history and variations of this glaze, and even mix a couple batches for experimenting with as a class. With the wheel as your first tool, you’ll make wares that will be a showcase for Shino. Become Shinosavvy, and carry on the time-honored tradition—it will be your new go-to for rich, atmospheric surfaces. Intermediate to advanced levels recommended.

T3: Thursdays, 1 - 4 pm Instructor: Chris Singewald September 16 – December 2 Fee: $360 + $40 lab fee (members receive 5% discount) (No class on Thanksgiving Day—no make-up session.)

Soda-Firing Methods Join teaching artist Emily Murphy in the studio, and dive deeper into the techniques and materials to get the most from the soda kiln’s kiss of fire.

Load and fire at least three kilns on three firing dates, and critically examine the results of each firing. Successive firings ensure that each student has the opportunity to understand the nature of atmospheric firing and, in turn, capitalize on the process by the end of the quarter. Explore more advanced forming and decorating techniques to take full advantage of what the kiln has to offer. Students will each participate in all kiln loadings and in at least one unloading. This class is designed to provide an experiential learning opportunity for students who are keen to develop their approach to atmospheric firing. Throwers and handbuilders are welcome, advanced levels recommended.

Tentative Firing Schedule: Kiln loadings: October 7, 28, & November 18 Firing and unloading schedule will be discussed during class.

Studio meetings all other weeks.

T4: Thursdays, 6:30 – 9:30 pm Instructor: Emily Murphy September 16 – November 18 Fee: 360 + $70 lab fee (members receive 5% discount) Pouring Pots Take six weeks to explore the artful, complex form of the pitcher. From creamers to coffee pourers to large juice pitchers—learn how to troubleshoot and thoughtfully craft spouts that pour with ease and handles that effortlessly balance liquid weight. Create ideallydesigned, and skillfully-made, pouring pots fit to serve any occasion and drink!

This class is best suited for advanced beginner levels and beyond.

T5: Saturdays, 1 – 4 pm Instructor: Claire O’Connor October 30 – December 4 Fee: $195 + $20 lab fee (members receive 5% discount)

SPECIAL TOPICS WORKSHOPS Focus on Form Join local, nationally-admired artist Maggie Jaszczak for a two-day workshop exploring alternative handbuilding methods to create purposeful, dynamic pottery forms.

Learn to effectively use and balance combinations of thrown parts, coils, slabs, and molds to create the forms you imagine, or ones you experiment into existence. Jaszczak will demonstrate and guide participants through the process of making simple 2D plywood

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9 am – 12 pm: Gas-kiln loading and firing 12 – 1 pm: Lunch on your own 1 – 4 pm: Electric-kiln loading, programming, firing, troubleshooting, continuation of reduction firing 4 pm – finish: Finishing cone 10 firing All day gas- and electric-firing with special information about temperature and kiln atmosphere for firing with gas.

X3: Saturday, November 13, 9 am – 6 pm Instructor: Audra Smith Member Fee: $90 (non-members $100)

Two multichambered vessels by Maggie Jaszczak showcasing her varied building methods.

drape-molds to use as a foundation for building vessels. You will learn to intuitively utilize varied building methods, develop or strengthen your unique sense of form, broaden your toolbox, and will be equipped to approach clay with confidence to create anything from small dinnerware items to large statement pieces. This workshop is open to anyone with an interest in clay, with any level of experience.

X1: Saturday & Sunday October 16, 10 am – 2 pm & October 17, 10 am – 1 pm Instructor: Maggie Jaszczak Fee: $125 (members receive 5% discount) Alternative Surfaces for Ceramics Tired of glaze firing your ceramic art and sculpture only to have it look like pottery? Take advantage of the possibilities beyond glazing to reinforce your concepts. In this one-day workshop, students will learn about ceramic art history's traditional cold surfaces such as paint, wax, and oils.

Bisque tiles will be provided for testing out a few techniques. This class is

designed for those with previous clay experience and who have a foundational understanding of glazing ceramic forms.

Electric-kiln only X4: Saturday, November 13, 1 – 4 pm Instructor: Heather Barr Member Fee: $45 (non-members $50)

VISITING ARTIST WORKSHOPS & LECTURES These events are free and open to the public.

X2: Saturday, November 6, 10 am – 1 pm Instructor: Elizabeth Coleman Fee: $60 The Hot Seat—Kiln Firing 101 Great for art educators!

So, you’ve read your kiln manual but still have questions about firing? Worry no more! In this one-day workshop, you will learn the basics of firing and maintaining your own kiln. Covering basic information about kiln styles, firing speeds, kiln requirements, and firing temperatures, this class will have you walking away more confident in your abilities to become the next kiln master.

The workshop is led by teaching artists who have fired kilns hundreds of times.

This workshop does not authorize NCC students to fire our kilns independently, but is helpful for educators and anyone aspiring to become an NCC studio artist.

Basic clay knowledge is preferred.

Inspiration and Process During this remote event, Mumbaiborn, Singapore-based artist Madhvi Subrahmanian will share her background, inspirations, and process from her home and studio in Singapore.

Subrahmanian’s studio process and subject matter are led by space (physical and mental), and informed by her circumstances and life’s events.

Drawing from her cultural context, she subtly weaves her life experience into her work. Join Subrahmanian as she shares about her work and process, and for a timely discussion on identity, space, and inspiration.

XV1: Saturday, September 25, 9 am CT FREE, Remote Login

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Passages From India Panel Discussion Join us remotely to observe a panel discussion of artists exhibiting in Passages From India, moderated by curator Robert Silberman. Get a glimpse into the art and life of these artists and the energetic, skillful, and daring area of contemporary Indian studio ceramics.

XV3: Saturday, October 9, 9 am CT FREE, Remote Login Love Your Self(ie) In this one-hour youth workshop, artist Adam Chau will talk about self-portraiture throughout the ages and lead a handson demonstration to draw a selfie on a porcelain tile. Students will come away with a bit of history, and a whole lot of ideas relating to how we present ourselves in digital spaces. Ages 13-18.

XV4: Saturday, October 16, 12 pm CT FREE, Remote Login McKnight Artist Resident Lecture: Tom Hubbard Please join us in welcoming Hubbard to the NCC community for his residency taking place from October through December. During the first weeks of his time with us in Minneapolis, he will present a slide talk and artist lecture with time afterwards for participant questions. This virtual presentation is both free and open to the public.

XV5: Tuesday, October 19, 6 pm CT FREE, Remote Login

PROJECT WORKSHOPS No previous experience required! NCC will provide all materials and tools for these workshops.

CrafterBrewery: Cider Stein Workshop with Minneapolis Cider Company Build your own stein with a Northern Clay Center teaching artist at Minneapolis Cider Company, and enjoy a complimentary cider! Two weeks later, come back to Minneapolis Cider Company for an artist demonstration and to pick up your finished stein! Must be 21+ to register. IDs will be checked at Minneapolis Cider Co. • First session: Build your stein at Minneapolis Cider Co. while enjoying a cider.

• Second session: Come back to Minneapolis Cider Co. for a demonstration by an NCC teaching artist and to pick up your finished stein.

21AAH12: Wednesday, September 22, 6:30 – 8:30 pm & Wednesday, October 6, 6:30 – 8:30 pm Location: Minneapolis Cider Co., 701 9th Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414 Fee: $35 per person Crafternoon & Crafterdark Pottery Workshops Bring your friends—and make a few new ones—and get creative as you learn the secrets of throwing pottery on the wheel. This three-hour workshop is a fun and messy introduction to clay. The $40 fee includes instruction and materials for one adult. Students can expect to make three to five pots and decorate them using colorful slips and textures.

Your pots will be ready to pick up after approximately two weeks.

X5: Saturday, October 2, 1 – 4 pm X6: Saturday, October 30, 1 – 4 pm X7: Saturday, November 13, 6:30 – 9:30 pm Fee: $40 per person, per session

Clay for Couples Pottery Workshops Looking for a unique date night activity that is sure to impress your partner?

Look no further than NCC’s original Clay for Couples. Sign up with your significant other, BFF, or family member, and learn the secrets of throwing pottery on the wheel in a fun and relaxed environment. Already attended a session? Sign up again and take your skills to the next level. The $80 fee includes instruction, materials, and firings for two adults. Completed pieces will be ready to pick up about two weeks later.

X8: Friday, September 24, 6:30 – 9:30 pm X9: Friday, October 15, 6:30 – 9:30 pm X10: Saturday, November 6, 6:30 – 9:30 pm X11: Saturday, December 4, 6:30 – 9:30 pm Fee: $80 per couple, per session

ART@HAND CLAY FOR OLDER ADULTS

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ART@HAND is NCC’s series of accessible programs for enjoyment of the ceramic arts. Intended for individuals 55 years old or greater (and their families), ART@HAND offers lectures, tours, workshops, and handson activities. ART@HAND specializes at meeting people where they are at, this year in their homes, and we are offering distance-led workshops.

CrafterBrewery: Cider Stein Workshop with Minneapolis Cider Company Build your own stein with a Northern Clay Center teaching artist at Minneapolis Cider Company, and enjoy a complimentary cider! Two weeks later, come back to Minneapolis Cider

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Company for an artist demonstration and to pick up your finished stein! Must be 21+ to register. IDs will be checked at Minneapolis Cider Co. • •

First session: Build your stein at Minneapolis Cider Co. while enjoying a cider.

Second session: Come back to Minneapolis Cider Co. for a demonstration by an NCC teaching artist and to pick up your finished stein.

21AAH12: Wednesday, September 22, 6:30 – 8:30 pm & Wednesday, October 6, 6:30 – 8:30 pm Location: Minneapolis Cider Co., 701 9th Street SEdd, Minneapolis, MN 55414 Fee: $35 per person Looking & Learning Join us for the 15th installment of this show-and-tell series, featuring Edith Garcia, visiting McKnight artist from California; and Tom Hubbard, visiting McKnight artist from Massachusetts. The presenters will each share and discuss objects from their personal collections that have inspired and influenced their making. This event will provide a glimpse into the lives and stories of each artist. Join us via Zoom—you don’t want to miss it!

21AAH13: Wednesday, October 27, 6:30 – 8:30 pm FREE ART@HAND Holiday Open House Workshop Join us for some good, old-fashioned holiday fun! Our 31st Annual Holiday Open House features artist demonstrations, a free hands-on workshop, and fabulous holiday

An example of a decorative clay spoon made in red earthenware with sculptural motifs applied to the handle.

Two young artists creating clay sculptures.

shopping opportunities. Get ready for your holiday treats by creating your own handmade candy or hors d’oeuvres dish containing a peek-a-boo surprise on the inside. Open to all ages. Mark your calendars!

CLASSES & WORKSHOPS FOR FAMILY & FRIENDS

21AAH14: Sunday, November 14, 12 – 4 pm FREE Decorative Clay Spoons!

Come to NCC to create your own large decorative spoon out of clay. Sculpt a handle that tells a story or shows off one of your favorite wintry creatures.

These will be a wonderful centerpiece to your holiday table or to display on your wall! Bring a friend or a grandchild for this intergenerational event, and create some forever memories.

21AAH15: Saturday, December 4, 2 – 4 pm FREE

For all family classes, children must be accompanied by an adult. Neither children, nor adults, will have access to open studio time during the quarter. Weekend workshops are open to all skill levels, ages 6 and up for handbuilding workshops and 9 and up for wheel-throwing.

Throwing Together Parents and kids (ages 9 and up) spend a little Q.T. together learning a new skill.

Learn to make basic cylinders, bowls, plates, and more as you grow your skills using the potter’s wheel. Hightemperature clay and glazes will be used.

Wear old clothes, bring an old towel and a one-gallon bucket for each participant.

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adults and children to work side-by-side in a collaborative environment.

F1: Sundays, 1:30 – 3:30 pm Instructor: Elizabeth Coleman September 19 – November 7 Member Fee: $295* ($315 non-members) *Note: This fee is for two people, one adult and one child.

Round and Round Learn how to use a potter’s wheel and practice centering, opening, pulling, and shaping the clay as the wheel goes round and round. Paint your projects with colored slips. All skills welcomed.

Dress for mess. Ages 9 and up.

Saturday, September 18 Instructor: Eileen Cohen F2: 10 am – 1 pm F3: 2 – 5 pm Fee: $60 for two people, $25 for each additional participant From Kiln to Table Make pots inspired by the bounty of the season for your favorite fall meals. Learn basic coil and slab construction and paint your projects with colored slips.

Ages 6+ and skill levels welcome.

Saturday, October 9 Instructor: Eileen Cohen F4: 10 am – 1 pm F5: 2 – 5 pm Fee: $60 for two people, $25 for each additional participant May Your Mug Runneth Over Make mugs suitable for any occasion.

Keep one for yourself, and give one as a gift. Learn basic handbuilding skills using slabs and decorating techniques to personalize your mugs. Ages 6+ and all skill levels welcome.

Saturday, November 20 Instructor: Eileen Cohen F6: 10 am – 1 pm F7: 2 – 5 pm Fee: $60 for two people, $25 for each additional participant

CLAY FOR YOUTH Love Your Self(ie) In this one-hour youth workshop, artist Adam Chau will talk about self-portraiture throughout the ages and lead a handson demonstration to draw a selfie on a porcelain tile. Students will come away with a bit of history, and a whole lot of ideas relating to how we present ourselves in digital spaces. Ages 13-18.

XV4: Saturday, October 16, 12 pm CT FREE, Remote Login Pottery Punch Card for Teens Teens may purchase eight, 2-hour classes, to be used on any Saturday, 10 am – 12 pm. Classes will cover the fundamental techniques of throwing basic forms on the potter's wheel and creating surface decoration using glazes, slips, and applied elements, with varied demonstrations and projects for advanced students. Create a series of functional pots with high-temperature clay bodies. Previous experience is not required. Students may attend on a drop-in basis, and the complexity of projects will depend on multiple consecutive classes. Great for students and families with busy schedules. Wear clothes that you don't mind getting dirty; NCC will provide the tools and the clay. Students do not have access to open studio time. For ages 13 to 17.

Y1: Saturdays, 10 am – 12 pm Instructor: Erin Holt Student Fee: $265 (members receive 5% discount) Add multiples of four additional sessions at a time ($135, students who are members receive 5% discount).

Please note: • Some Saturdays are not available due to holidays or NCC events.

• Due to NCC's COVID-19 protocols, there is a strict capacity in the studios. In order to be guaranteed a place on any given Saturday, teens/parents must notify NCC. • Your eight class sessions expire six months after the date of purchase.

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Fall Class Registration Opens Tuesday, August 3, 10 am

To Register: Register with cash, check, or any major credit card. NCC accepts registration online at www.northernclaycenter. org, in the gallery, or by telephone at 612.339.8007.

Download a paper registration form online, or call the gallery for more information. Member discounts are available online.

multiple times per year, though priority will be given to new applicants.

Due to the high demand for classes, we require full payment with your registration to reserve your seat in class.

For any questions regarding NCC’s scholarship program, please contact Samantha Longley, Education Coordinator, at samanthalongley@northernclaycenter.org

NCC will send confirmation of registration. If there is insufficient enrollment, we will cancel class, notify registered students, and refund all payments without penalty. Decisions are made approximately one week before classes begin.

Policies: Tools: Standard tool kits for introductory classes are available in NCC’s Sales Gallery for $25.00 + tax. Other specialty tools are available as well.

Please register early or you might find that your favorite class is full, or canceled due to low enrollment.

Education Access Scholarships: To address and help bridge financial barriers to ceramic education, NCC is implementing new scholarship options for our education programming. This will open access to the ceramic arts and welcome all who wish to learn, grow as an artist, and participate in the ceramic arts community.

We offer two scholarship options: • a half-tuition scholarship open to artists and learners with financial need • a full-tuition scholarship open to artists and learners who identify as Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color Scholarships are limited and will be available on a first come first served basis to adult students only. Students are eligible to receive only one scholarship per session.

We will do our best to offer students one of their top 3 choices of in-person or Clay-Along class or workshop.

Once enrolled, all scholarships are non-refundable and non-transferable. Scholarship students are committed to their selected class, and the scholarship cannot be applied to a different class or term. Should a selected class cancel due to low enrollment, students will have the option to transfer classes. Previous recipients can apply

Within a week of your application, you will be notified of the status of your application and will be aided in registration from there should you receive the scholarship.

Open Studio: The tuition for regular adult classes includes access to open studio time. On average, adult students enrolled in a qualifying class will have access to our studios between 9 am and 9 pm Wednesday through Sunday, 4:30 to 9 pm on Mondays, and 9 am to midnight on Tuesday and Thursday evenings (subject to other NCC events and programming). To regulate our studios as much as possible out of concerns for safety this term, students will sign up for open studio in advance via an online sign-up system. Browse our open studio schedule online to check the most up-to-date listing of available studios. NCC reserves the right to close studios for special classes or workshops.

Minimum Age Restrictions: Only students ages 18 and up are eligible to register for NCC’s adult classes and workshops.

Continuing Education Credits: If you are a teacher in need of CEUs, contact the education department to learn how NCC’s classes and workshops can be taken for continuing education credit.

Weather: As a general rule, NCC will remain open during inclement weather. We take our cues from local colleges and universities for canceling or rescheduling classes during particularly hazardous conditions. When in doubt, feel free to call us at 612.339.8007, and please be safe!

Tuition, Fees, & Refunds: Please refer to class listings for tuition and fees.

Unless otherwise noted, fees for adult classes include instruction, open studio time, 25 pounds of clay, basic glaze materials, and a firing allowance. Tuition may not be prorated. Some students may incur additional expenses if they choose unusual glaze materials or if their work occupies a large volume of kiln space.

COVID-19 Cancellations: Given the uncertain nature of what lies ahead of us, NCC will remain flexible when it comes to cancellations as they relate to the current environment and recommendations by both local and national health authorities. In the event of an NCCinitiated cancellation, students will be issued a full refund without penalty. Cancellations initiated by the student will be handled on a case-by-case basis with individual and community well-being maintained as a top priority.

If you are sick or have COVID-19-related symptoms, we ask that you contact us before coming to or entering NCC for any reason.

Classes: 100% of tuition (less a $15 processing fee) will be refunded if a student elects to drop or transfer a class no later than one week (7 days) before the day of the first class meeting. 50% of tuition (less a $15 processing fee) will be refunded if a student drops or transfers a class within the seven days prior to the first class meeting or within the first two business days after the first meeting. After this period, if a student elects to drop a class, tuition and fees will NOT be refunded for any reason except documented medical emergencies. There are no other exceptions to this policy.

Workshops: 100% of tuition (less a $15 processing fee) will be refunded if a student elects to drop or transfer a workshop for any reason at least one week (seven days) prior to the workshop. No refunds will be given with less than one week’s notice.

If you find you need to cancel your enrollment, please contact Samantha Longley at samanthalongley@ northernclaycenter.org or call 612.339.8007 x309.

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This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

NCC Shop/Gallery Hours Galleries are open 10 am - 5 pm, 7 days a week.

Masks are required and visitors to the galleries are limited to four at a time.

We would like to respectfully acknowledge that NCC is located on Dakota land.

Special Needs Exhibition Group Tours: Available for visitors with mental or physical disabilities and the hearing-impaired. Monday – Friday, 9 am – 4 pm. Please call at least three weeks in advance of the event.

Signed Interpretation: Available for any NCC public event. Please call the Center to request an interpreter at least three weeks in advance.

Wheelchair Seating for classes or other accommodations: Please call the Center at least two weeks in advance of the event. NCC’s building is wheelchair accessible and includes a wheelchair accessible potter’s wheel.

The information in this newsletter is available in large-print format upon request.

Mission: Northern Clay Center advances the ceramic arts for artists, learners, and the community, through education, exhibitions, and artist services. Ongoing programs include exhibitions by contemporary regional, national, and international ceramic artists, as well as historical and architectural ceramics; classes and workshops for children and adults at all skill levels; studio space and grants for artists; and a sales gallery representing many top ceramic artists from the region and elsewhere.

Front cover: Skulls Amphora, Daniel Velasquez.

Announcing the Peter Leach Scholarship Fund We are thrilled to announce the Peter Leach Scholarship Fund at Northern Clay Center. The Peter Leach Scholarship Fund will be used to fund the BIPOC NCC education scholarship which covers 100% of class costs at NCC for BIPOC students.

This humbling opportunity is made possible by Nan Skelton in Peter’s memory. Cash donations may be made by contacting the gallery at salesgallery@ northernclaycenter.org. Donations of pottery for the ReCollect program, with all proceeds earmarked for the scholarship fund, may be made in the gallery during business hours, 10 am to 5 pm, seven days a week.