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EVENTS

• 16th Annual Juried Pottery Competition, Cape Fear Studios, Fayetteville, NC. October 22-November 22, 2010. Entry/CD deadline: September 1, 2010. Prize money totals $1,350. Prospectus available at www.capefearstudios.com or call 910.433.2986.

  FOR SALE

  • True Albany slip, original bags. $5 per pound plus shipping. No minimum. Contact Ren Parziale at 304.725.4251; e-mail: pamoren@frontiernet.net.
  • Arts Community — NC mountains near Penland School of Crafts. Hundreds of art studios nearby. Ninety acres includes forest preserve, hiking trails, organic farm site, green homes, cool neighbors. Studios/galleries welcome! Lots have electricity, water, fast Internet, from $55,000. High Cove, a community for arts, environment, and lifelong learning: www.highcove.com.
  • 5 acres for sale in the Texas hill country, close to San Antonio. Studio with two Kilns: 18-cu.-ft. raku and 60-cu.-ft. salt kiln, plus 900-sq.-ft. garage with workshop, pool, water, septic; fenced. All you have to do is build your home! E-mail: brendabeam@sbcglobal.net or call 210.273.3106.
    
    

OPPORTUNITIES


• The BCAC 8th Annual “It’s Only Clay” National Juried Competition and Exhibit — Bemidji, MN. Dedicated to functional clay vessels. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place prizes equaling $1,600. Purchase awards for Margaret Harlow Vessel Collection at BSU. $30 for 3 entries. Postmark deadline: September 3, 2010. http://bcac.wordpress.com/its-only-clay/its-only-clay-2010/ for more information.
• Excellent Opportunity for Exploring Wood Firing in a natural Ozark-forest setting. Studio assistant desired in exchange for room, board, small stipend, studio space and kiln space: anagama, noborigama. Also seeking a participant for October firing. For details: contact Joe Bruhin, 870.363.4264; www.JoeBruhin.com; email: joebruhin@gmail.com.
• Core Clay in Cincinnati, OH is in search for young, aspiring clay artists to join our artist in residence (AIR) program. We are a clay studio, clay distributor, and host to a sculptor specializing in high-end, custom-designed mannequins and figurative sculptures. We seek AIRs for both the clay studio and sculpture studio. In exchange for 15 hours of work per week, AIRs are provided with private living quarters located next door, personal work space, plus clay and tools at cost. We would like 1- to 2-year committed residents. Contact us at 513.961.2728, or check online at www.CoreClay.com and www.JustinPoole.com.
•  RESIDENCY at Cub Creek Foundation, Appomattox, Virginia. Large studio space, wood, electric, gas, and salt kilns. Beautiful rural Virginia setting. Visit www.cubcreek.org for complete details, or e-mail: info@cubcreek.org or call 434.248.5074 for more information.
• ENTER TODAY!!! Clay Times® presents “A New Decade of Clay 2010” National Juried Ceramics Show — Co-sponsored with Sierra Nevada College and Northstar-at-Tahoe® resort, Lake Tahoe. Juror: Richard Shaw. Drawing for Skutt Kiln plus $ thousands in cash awards and other amazing prizes! Submission deadline EXTENDED to: July 23, 2010. $25 for up to three digital entries. Visit www.sierranevada.edu/clay for prospectus and complete details.
• I have been commissioned to work on an in-depth look at American studio ceramics, 1940-1980. It will explore the makers, their teachers, and societal currents that influenced them during those years. To that end, I would like to hear from any makers and/or teachers who were working during those years, to learn about their work and what influenced them. The thoughts can be captured in personal memories, letters, or articles. If you have information, please contact me: Martha Drexler Lynn, Ph.D.; e-mail: marthalynn@mac.com; or write 189 Upper Walden Road, Carmel, California, 93923. Thank you!
• CERF - To find out how your group can support the Craft Emergency Relief Fund, call us at (802) 229-2306. www.craftemergency.org
• ClayParent — An Internet forum for potters who are parents and their issues. After many requests for this type of interaction, the Clayworkers’ Guild of Illinois is donating web space to open up this forum to members and non-members alike. Registration is free. The forum is located at: www.mudmamasandpapas.com.
• JOIN AMERICANPOTTERS.COM TODAY! Be a part of a national, searchable database for FREE. Or an “online gallery/portfolio” to sell your work, without commissions. If you have a Web site, join with a “link” page. All information is editable by you, without Web knowledge. Go to the site and click on “FAQ” for more info.
• K-12 Ceramic Exhibition — The 14th Annual K-12 Ceramic Exhibition opens in March 2011 at the NCECA Conference, Tampa, Florida. Open to K-12 students by teacher entry, the annual event is a great success. Check out past award winners and their works online at www.k12clay.org.
  

  Tools for Potters

  • Awesome! Bill van Gilder’s Professional Hand Tools. 12 very functional tools for handbuilding and wheel work: Classroom and studio-safe wire knife, corrugated handle-making boards, no-clog hole cutters, profiled foot ribs, textured butter paddles, rope-textured dowels, slip/glaze spray cans, wiggled cut-off wires, beveled undercutting stick. All designed by a potter, for potters! Visit store at www.claytimes.com to view and order tools.

  Videos & Books

  • Order Great Glazes II for just $15 at the Clay Times onlinestore at www.claytimes.com. This second hands-on studio glaze book features dozens of favorite glaze recipes for a wide variety of firing temperatures and atmospheres.
  • PotteryVideos.com — DVDs with Robin Hopper, Gordon Hutchens, and Graham Sheehan. Video workshops for potters at all levels of experience. Choose from 21 titles. E-mail info@potteryvideos.com or call 800.668.8040.
  • EXTRUDE IT! Getting the Most From Your Clay Extruder, new instructional DVD videos by David Hendley. Volume I: Extrusions as handles, feet and additions; Volume II: Two-part dies for hollow extrusions; Volume III: The expansion box and extrusions as building components. $43 each or $105 for the set (more than four hours of video). Call 903.795.3779 or visit www.farmpots.com.
    

  WORKSHOPS

  • Two-day workshops: Polo Zapata Ramirez: July 10-11; fee: $125. Cynthia Bringle: Sept. 11-12; fee: $180; location: Prescott, Arizona. For reservations call Karen vanPrice at 928.443.9723, visit www.vanprice.com, or e-mail vanprice1@msn.com.
  • Robin Hopper Workshop, October 29-30-31 at Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts in Lubbock, TX. $250 reg. fee includes meet & greet and Powerpoint presentation Fri. eve. plus 2-day workshop with Sat. lunch. For details, call Janis Hubble at 806.789.7960, or visit the Web site at www.lhuca.org.
    
  • Simon Levin Ceramics Lecture and Workshop — 2010 “It’s Only Clay” Juror Simon Levin to host workshop for the 8th Annual IOC, entitled, “Throwing With the End in Sight.” The workshop will be held November 4-5 at Bemidji State University in the Visual Arts Department and Ceramics studio. The workshop is open artists 18 years or older; fee is $25. Class size is limited; registration deadline Oct. 29, 2010. The IOC Lecture is scheduled for November 3 at 7 pm; it is free and open to the public. For more information on IOC and/or workshop registration, log onto: http://bcac.wordpress.com/its-only-clay/its-only-clay-2010/

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