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NCC Supports Justice
Northern Clay Center stands in solidarity with our community in working toward change. We value diversity and equity and reject oppression and injustice. NCC offers its voice in unison with our entire community and commits to create space and attention for the voices of all.
Northern Clay Center is an organization, but it is only as...
Announcing the 2020 Emerging Artist Fellowship Awardees
Northern Clay Center is proud to announce the 2020 recipients of its Emerging Artist Residencies, Warren MacKenzie Advancement Awards, and Red Wing Collectors Society Foundation Award.
Emerging Artist Residencies
Northern Clay Center’s Emerging Artist Residency programs, the Fogelberg Studio Fellowship and the...
An Update From NCC
Hello everyone,
As you are likely aware, Northern Clay Center continues to meet the challenges presented during the last few months and found itself managing a more serious challenge this week. It’s impossible to overstate the concern and support we collectively offer to our community in the midst of dark injustice, exhaustion, anger,...
NCC Seeks Interns and Assistants
Join NCC for a fabulous and fun summertime clay adventure!
With camps scheduled to begin on June 8, we are seeking assistants that will be flexible to accommodate changing demands as our ability to facilitate programming becomes more clear. Last year, approximately 400 children participated in our weeklong camps, designed for all...
NCC’s Virtual NCECA 2020
We offer our collective thanks to all of you who purchased work through our pop-up website during the week we typically travel to NCECA’s annual conference. Your purchases of almost 200 pots during that last week of March allowed us...
Summer 2020 DIRECTOR'S REPORT
This is going to be short and light. We are all aware of what is happening around us, and this — a note from an arts organization serving some of the best (clay) people — should be your respite.
Yes, we have a new leadership team at Northern Clay Center. Kyle Rudy-Kohlhepp and myself are the Interim Co-Executive Directors. While it...
Northern Clay Center Updates
Hello everyone,
We trust and hope you are discovering ways to fill your time and your soul these days. We are just checking in to let you know that we are still here and creating new strategies for serving our community while doing everything we can to keep NCC’s everyday organization needs met too.
As many of you know, our...
Announcing the Recipients of the 2020 Jerome Ceramic Artist Project Grants
Northern Clay Center is proud to announce the recipients of the 2020 Jerome Ceramic Artist Project Grants. Three grants in the amount of $6,000 each have been awarded to Casey Beck, Rita Panton, and Ginny Sims-Burchard. The Foundation supports emerging artists in Minnesota and New York City who, among other qualifications:
- take...
NCC Update on COVID-19, 03.20.2020
Good evening,
We are checking in today to reassure you that Northern Clay Center is taking measures to keep those we care about safe: our students, staff, the artists we serve, and our supporters. NCC has decided to temporarily close the building, adjust programming, move all possible operations online, and create a remote work plan...
Northern Clay Center Withdrawing Participation at NCECA 2020
Every year, Northern Clay Center puts a great deal of planning into our attendance and participation in the NCECA conference, and it’s one of our most highly anticipated events. In light of recent developments in the tracking of both presumed and confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Virginia, Northern Clay Center (NCC) has made the difficult...