PRE & POST CONFERENCE EVENTS
2012 COLLECTOR PROGRAM, TALKS, PARTIES, FESTIVALS, AND VAUDEVILLE
March 25-31
Collector Week
An exclusive pre-conference and through conference program featuring private collector homes and penthouses, sneak previews of dozens of curated exhibitions at the Seattle Design Center; visits to prominent artists’ studios; conversations with major collectors, talks by curators of international exhibitions and collection spaces; excursions; tours to leading galleries in the heart of Pioneer Square; and fabulous cuisine at the finest Seattle restaurants…and more.
Small group, private coach and escorts, scholarship contribution to NCECA, and NCECA conference included. Hotel and airfare not included. Contact Marge Levy, 206-484-7582, ncecaweek@gmail.com. 3/25, 2pm - 3/31, 5pm. $1,500.
March 26–7
Brace Point Pottery Studio Open House
Brace Point Pottery is the studio and gallery of Loren Lukens and James Brooke. Hours: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Brace Point Pottery, 4208 SW 100th St., Seattle, WA 98146, 206-935-6740, Loren Lukens, 206-935-6740, BracePointPottery.com, llpots@comcast.net, free
March 27
Tuesday 5 – 9pm
Art of the Northwest Table at Herban Feast SODO, 3200 First Avenue South, Seattle
NCECA’s Seattle Design Center Shuttle or short cab ride on Tuesday night
Event tickets and shuttle tickets must be purchased in advance and separately
Art of the Northwest Table is a showcase & sale of 15 potters producing table ware: Chris Baskin, Robert Brady, Victoria Christen, Kowkie Durst, Julia Galloway, Dara Hartman, Brian Jones, Forrest Lesch-Middleton, Robbie Lobell, Hank Murrow, Drew Nicklas, Noah Riedel, Deborah Schwartzkopf, Al Tennant, and Sandy Simon, right.
Please join us for a remarkable evening of art for food, food as art, and the finest of Washington's wines & artisanal spirits. Ongoing cooking demonstrations featuring Cook on Clay flameware pots, meet some of the region’s favorite Studio Potters 15 Chefs will create delicious recipes at stations throughout the venue, Tastings of Washington Wines, Beer, Cider, Spirits, Multitudes of Tasty Bites & Sips. Pottery, Music, Schmoozing, Networking . . .
Everyone is invited to attend this very fun evening . . . Potters, Friends, Relatives, Foodies, Connoisseurs, Collectors, Visitors & Residents of the great city of Seattle!
Art of the Northwest Table is produced by Edible Seattle, Cook on Clay, and Herban Feast with sponsorships from Pottery Northwest, Georgie’s Ceramic Supply, and Mudshark Studios.
A portion of the proceeds of this event will be donated to NCECA scholarship funds.
Purchase tickets/$35: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/214509
Questions: contact Robbie Lobell, 360-678-1414 or 888-951-1194
More information: http://cookonclay.com/assets/nceca-art%20of%20table%20flyer.pdf
March 27, 5-9 PM
Seattle Design Center CIE Reception for 30 exhibitions in one place!
Get together and see over 30 Concurrent Independent Exhibitions curated by NCECA members in one indoor design center.
Fine pots and fine art in creative presentations, exhibitions, and installations...by individuals and groups from Japan, China, and throughout the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii. Live music.
Seattle Design Center, 5701 6th Ave South, Seattle, WA 98134. The entrance is on the north side of Orcas Street directly under the overhead skybridge....and between 5th Ave S. and 6th Ave S. Free parking under the Center.
Open daily: 9am-5pm
Receptions: Tuesday, March 27 and Friday, March 30, 5:00 - 9:00pm. Free, cash bar.
March 27
Rookwood Arts-&-Crafts Tiles: From Cincinnati to Seattle with Richard Mohr
Rookwood Pottery had a considerable presence in Seattle during the peak years of their production. Rookwood architectural tile was installed in the Leary Mansion, Sorrento Hotel, New Washington Hotel, and many private homes. Rookwood won a grand prize at the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition and its tiles were distributed by William W. Kellogg’s Seattle and Tacoma showrooms. Ceramic historian Richard Mohr explains the introduction of this Midwest company’s architectural products to the Northwest, exploring the origins, designers, techniques and styles of Rookwood faience tiles.
Episcopal Diocese (Leary Mansion), 1551 10th Avenue E., Seattle, WA 98102, www.historicseattle.org. Contact Larry Kreisman, Historic Seattle, 206.622.6952. 7pm - 9pm. $15 Historic Seattle and NCECA members; $20 general admission.
March 28
Creating Beauty from the Earth: California Decorative Tiles, 1910-1930 with Joseph Taylor
California art tile is showcased behind the Malibu tile façade of the Piedmont Hotel. Joseph A. Taylor, president of Tile Heritage Foundation, explores development of decorative tile manufacturing in California from its inception in 1910 through its heyday in the 1920s to its culmination during the Great Depression. California tile makers ushered in two new and distinctly different aesthetics, each of which captured the imagination of architects and designers throughout the state and, eventually, the rest of the country. Tuscany Apartments cafeteria (originally Piedmont Hotel), 1215 Seneca Street, Seattle, WA 98101, www.historicseattle.org. Contact Larry Kreisman, Historic Seattle, 206.622.6952. 4pm - 5:30pm. $15 Historic Seattle and NCECA members; $20 general admission.
March 28
Teapots: Artful, Eloquent and Worldly
A special presentation by Sonny and Gloria Kamm on the occasion of the opening of the Bellevue College Gallery exhibition Extreme, Extraordinary & Exquisite: Teapots on the Edge.
The Kamms will discuss the formation of their creative teapot collection, their nine museum travelling Artful Teapot exhibit (seen in 2003 at the Bellevue Arts Museum) and the eventual museum home for their teapot collection at the Fuller Craft Museum.
Gloria and Sonny Kamm of Los Angeles were early collectors of contemporary glass and ceramics. During the past 30 plus years they have formed the largest (17,000 !!!) and most comprehensive collection of teapots in the United States. Their collection includes artist created teapots in all media—ceramic, glass, wood, fiber, metal and other media. Also included is an extensive and important international component of antique teapots dating from the early 1700s
Wednesday, March 28, 2:30 PM, Bellevue College, Carlson Theater, E-Bldg, #105 (adjacent to the BC Gallery, 3000 Landersholm Circle SE, D-Bldg., #271, on the 2nd level). For specific directions call Public Safety, 425-564-2400, as they give directions and handle parking.) Bellevue, WA 98007 Free, no reservations necessary.
March 29
Meet the Artists: Michelle Erickson and Brendan Tang
discuss their work at the Seattle Art Museum
Conversation with the artists and SAM curators Marisa Sanchez, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and 2011 Patterson Sims Fellow, and Julie Emerson, The Ruth J. Nutt Curator of Decorative Arts, on the occasion of these two new acquisitions from Michelle Erickson and Brenden Lee Satish Tang. Thursday, 7 PM, Seattle Art Museum Downtown, New Acquisitions Gallery, top of escalator, free admission with NCECA badge.
Left: Koi Junk, 2009, Porcelain, colored earthenware (known as agateware), indigenous clays, underglaze decoration in manganese and cobalt, overglaze enamel digital transfer print, 12 ½ x 11 inches. by Michelle Erickson American, born 1960, Seattle Art Museum. Howard Kottler Endowment for Ceramic Art, 2011.23, Copyright: Michelle Erickson. Photo: Gavin Ashworth, NY
Middle: Manga Ormolu version 5.0-h, 2010, Ceramics, mixed media, 16 1/4 x 11 x 7 1/2 inches, Brendan Lee Satish Tang, Canadian, born in Ireland, 1975
Seattle Art Museum. Margaret E. Fuller Purchase Fund, 2011.27, Copyright: Brendan Tang. Photo: Brendan Tang.
Left below: Seattle Art Museum installation in Brotman Forum of international artist Cai Guo-Qiang’s monumental installation Inopportune: Stage One.
March 29
Lecture: How Long It Takes to Breathe: the Long Sentence and the Work of Susie J. Lee by Rebecca Brown at the Frye Art Museum
In a free-ranging presentation, author Rebecca Brown talks about duration and impermanence, meaning-making and memory in the art of Susie J. Lee and in the literature of Gertrude Stein, Samuel Beckett, and the Christian Mystics. Susie J. Lee will be present. Thursday, 7 PM, Frye Art Museum, First Hill, free admission. Susie J. Lee: Of Breath and Rain, the artist’s first solo museum exhibition, and Li Chen: Eternity and Commoner, the first U.S. museum exhibition of work by the exceptional Asian sculptor, will be on view in the Museum galleries until 9 pm. Free admission and parking.
Susie J. Lee. Still Lives: Exposure, 2010. HD video portrait in framed, matted LED monitor. Courtesy of the artist and Lawrimore Project. Photo: Ryan K. Adams.
March 31
European, ancient and contemporary Ceramics+Meet the Curators at the Seattle Art Museum in downtown Seattle
Visit the Seattle Art Museum's Porcelain Room with Julie Emerson, The Ruth J. Nutt Curator of Decorative Arts; tour newly acquired contemporary ceramics with Marisa Sanchez, Associate Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art; and view a range of works from the Ancient and Islamic work with Sarah Berman, Research Associate. Seattle Art Museum, 1300 1st Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101, www.seattleartmuseum.org. 2pm - 3pm. Free, no preregistration required.
March 31
Asian Ceramics+Meet the Curators at the Seattle Asian Art Museum in Volunteer Park
Join Mimi Gardner Gates, Director Emerita of the Seattle Art Museum, and Josh Yiu, Foster Foundation Associate Curator of Chinese Art, for a private tour of Asian ceramics at the Seattle Asian Art Museum. Seattle Asian Art Museum, 1400 East Prospect Street, Volunteer Park, Seattle, WA 98112, www.seattleartmuseum.org. 4pm - 5pm. Free, no preregistration required.
April 1-30
Skagit Valley Tulip Festival
The Skagit Valley Tulip Festival is one of the destination events for the Pacific Northwest, held each year from April 1-30. Every spring hundreds of thousands of people come to enjoy the celebration of spring as millions of tulips burst into bloom. As with all things governed by Mother Nature, the tulips bloom according to their own schedule sometime during the festival. The tulips allow us to share our corner of the world and help us to showcase Skagit Valley agriculture. www.tulipfestival.org. Free.
March 15-April 8
Moisture Festival
The Moisture Festival's mission is to enrich the community by presenting an affordable annual festival showcasing the art of live comedy/ variete performance. The Moisture Festival encourages the contemporary creativity that is constantly emerging in this field and strives to educate people about the rich history of this genre.
Comedy/Varietè is an intriguing assortment of entertainment. It is highly skilled performance mixed with many bizarre talents, often humorous, with no limit to the imagination.
Presented as a variety show, each act or artist performs his or her routine within a 3-15 minute time slot while being accompanied by a live show band. Aerialists, jugglers, comedians, dancers, rope acts, bubble acts, clowns, acrobats, can-can girls, strong women, strong men, tap dancers, drill teams, musical numbers, the weird and the wonderful- all keeping the tradition of Comedy/Varietè/Vaudeville alive.
The festival's Comedy/Varietè shows are at Hale's Palladium, in the Hale's Brewery warehouse located between Fremont and Ballard. For schedule, tickets, information: www.moisturefestival.org. 3/15- 4/8, 7-10pm. $15-25.
I found the NCECA conference very energizing and thought provoking. I am not a teacher but it is great to be in the company of so many people working in ceramic. I congratulate you for a job well done. Keep it up.
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