Studio Potter is gearing up for next week's NCECA (National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts) conference in Portland, Oregon, March 22 - 25. We hope that you'll come visit our resource hall table #29 to take a look at our brand new issue, Vol. 45, No. 1, Winter/Spring 2017, Women in Ceramics, and learn more about SP.  Here's what we have planned during NCECA:

1. NCECA members, don't forget to take advantage of our FREE 6-month digital membership via your member welcome e-mail from NCECA!  If you are already a trial member, we are offering you a $20 discount on an upgrade to full membership at NCECA, and via our website.  (Login to studipotter.org, click membership at the top, then renew at the left, then choose NCECA trial upgrade from the dropdown menu).

2. Visit us at the RESOURCE HALL TABLE #29 - Convention Center, Wed. & Thur. 9a - 5p, Fri. 8:30a - 4:30p 

$10 coupon towards any new or renewal membership (look for the pink SP membership card!)                    

$5 off the purchase of our new current issue: Women in Ceramics, Vol. 45, No. 1, Winter/Spring 2017

FREE Women in Ceramics Poster with the following:

• Any purchase: issue or any new or renewal membership, including digital, (print subs will get one inside the issue!)
• Any donation of $5 or more
• Any post with a picture of anything SP (poster, issue, selfie at booth, etc.) on social media, tagging @thestudiopotter

3. Join us at The Jonescast* & School House Flux = RAD! – Wednesday @ Oregon College of Art and Craft, 8245 SW Barnes Rd.

Three live podcast recordings and exhibition with different invited artists talking about changes in their lives/work/world.

• Same deals at our Resource Hall Table above, AND . . . 
• Attendees get an additional $5 discount on any new or renewal membership of any kind

11a – Silvie Granatelli, Gail Kendall, Mary Barringer

2p - Giselle Hicks, Peter Beasecker, Mike Helke

5p - Kyle Carpenter, Simon Levin, Sean Scott, Peter Scherr

*Read "Keeping Up with the Jonescast," by Brian R. Jones in the Summer/Fall 2010 issue of Studio Potter!

4. Vist us at SANTA FE CLAY's LA MESA – Exchange Ballroom (123 NE 3rd Ave.); Wed. - Fri. 9a – 6p

• $20 discount on an SP membership or renewal with pottery purchase
• Also, same deals as our Resource Hall Table

5. Join us at the ARTSTREAM - Exhibitor’s Hall/Gallery Expo, Convention Center, Thur. 1p - 3p

1:30p Live Interview – follow us @thestudiopotter! – with Alleghany Meadows, wood-firerer Tara Wilson, and Lauryn Axelrod, author of Passing the Torch: The Legacy of Wood-fire Women in the U.S., from the current issue.

• $20 discount with pottery purchase receipt (or item shown; e-mail receipt acceptable)
• Also, same deals as our Resource Hall Table

6. Pop-up interview, Friday a.m., with Brett Binford of Eutectic Gallery for a preview of Friday night's events!  

7. Studio Potter will once again be giving student awards! Please be sure to visit the following exhibitions to see these gifted students' work:

20TH ANNUAL NATIONAL K–12 CERAMIC EXHIBITION

Open 10a - 6p C120–122 (Level 1); Reception Wed. 4:30p - 5:30p 

Awards: 2 students will win an annual membership for their school. 

ANNUAL NATIONAL JURIED STUDENT EXHIBITION (NJSE) 

Oregon College of Art and Craft, Hoffman Gallery, 8245 SW Barnes Rd., Reception: Fri. 6 - 9 p  

Awards: 2 Graduate, 2 Undergraduate. Students win an annual membership and, new this year, the option to have an essay about their work published in the Summer/Fall 2017 issue. 

Follow us @thestudiopotter!  See you in Portland!