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UPCOMING EXHIBITION
Early Career Artist Grant Recipients
January 17 – February 22, 2026
Main Gallery
Virtual Tour available January 22
Related Events:
Artist talks: Friday, January 16, 4 pm
Opening reception: Friday, January 16, 6 – 8 pm
Join us in celebrating the achievements of our 2024 – 25 Early Career Artist Grant Recipients. Northern Clay Center administers several grant programs designed to support artists in the early stages of their careers through residencies, grants, and education. This exhibition features the work of Jessica Hernandez, Hannah Kautto, and Anastasia Speer.
Northern Clay Center’s Early Career Artist Residency programs are designed to provide emerging ceramic artists an opportunity to be in residence for one year at NCC. Between September 1, 2024 and August 31, 2025 the residents had the opportunity to develop their work while exchanging ideas and knowledge with a dynamic network of ceramic artists. Among national clay art centers, NCC offers an urban experience within a diverse and supportive community.
UPCOMING EXHIBITION
Shadow Piece(s): Chance-Based Responses in Clay
January 17 – February 22, 2026
Emily Galusha Gallery
Virtual Tour available January 22
Related Events:
Opening reception: Friday, January 16, 6 – 8 pm
Virtual panel discussion: Wednesday, January 28, 6 pm CT
In Shadow Piece(s): Chance-Based Responses in Clay, seven ceramic artists—Maggie Adams, Alexis C. Brunkow, E.C. Comstock, Tomo Ingalls, Vanessa Romo, Jennifer Schumacher Waller, and Kurt Tomerlin—respond to a single set of written instructions: Shadow Piece (1963) by Japanese Fluxus artist Meiko Shiomi. Originally conceived as a poetic performance score, Shadow Piece invites a meditation on the presence and movement of shadow in space and time. In this exhibition, clay becomes the medium through which each artist interprets and performs the score, translating ephemeral action into material form.
EDUCATION
Ceramic Classes for Adults & Kids
We offer classes for clay lovers of all ages and skill levels. Never touched clay before? Try one of our beginner wheel throwing or handbuilding classes. Long-time ceramic artist looking for new skills? Check out our Intermediate-to-Advanced or Special Topics Classes. Is a kid in your life missing after school programs? Yep, we’ve got a class for that too.
Shop Ceramics
We add new pots from the country’s most exciting makers to our online sales gallery every week so that you can keep your collection current and find great handmade gifts for your loved ones.
Save the date for our largest annual fundraiser!
Shop most recent additions.
Check out our monthly Featured Artist show.
Pick up a piece from our secondary market sale.
ARTIST SERVICES
Grants, Residencies, & Studios
Artist Studios
Grants and Residencies
Grant Program Alumni
OUTREACH
Let’s get clay in your community
Northern Clay Center’s ClayToGo outreach program brings the ceramic arts into the community! Whether at a school, library, senior living facility, adult day center, or summer camp, NCC can bring the materials and teaching artists with clay expertise to your location!
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