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ClayToGo Partner Spotlight: Valley View Elementary
From monster mouths to bobble heads, private islands to rattles, students at Valley View Elementary in Columbia Heights crafted nearly 500 pieces over the course of the 2023 – 2024 school year! This year…
ART@HAND Intergenerational Programming
Interest in Northern Clay Center’s intergenerational outreach programming has been steadily increasing over the past year. This type of programming is geared toward connecting aging populations youth and is offered through ART@HAND. ART@HAND is…
Save the Date! American Pottery Festival
Join us for the 26th Annual American Pottery Festival, September 6 – 8, 2024! Our annual fundraiser will once again gather ceramic artists from all over the US who represent the best in the…
2023 Sales Gallery Panel Results
The sales gallery held its biennial panel (formerly jury) in May of 2023. The goal of the panel is to offer representation and opportunities to artists representing a diverse approach to technique and visual…
NCECA 2024
March 20 – 23, Greater Richmond Convention Center, Richmond, Virginia NCC’s sales gallery, exhibition, and artist services programs will participate in Coalescence the 58th annual conference held in Richmond, Virginia by the National Council…
Cecilia Lu’s WMAA report
This past fall, I spent a month and a half in China supported by the Warren Mackenzie Advancement Award. First, I stopped in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. While there, I went to the Zhejiang Provincial Museum…
Winter McKnight Artist Residency for Ceramic Artists: Larry Buller
Join Northern Clay Center in welcoming our 2023 winter McKnight Artist Resident, Larry Buller (Lincoln, Nebraska). We look forward to supporting his creative practice while establishing new connections with our local ceramic’s community. During…
NCC Brings Visiting Artists to Local Schools & Colleges
During the fall of 2023, NCC placed four American Pottery Festival artists at local schools and colleges across the Twin Cities Metro—Chris Alveshere at Central High School (St. Paul), Bekah Bliss at Anoka-Ramsey Community…
2023 25th Annual American Pottery Festival Review
The American Pottery Festival weekend always, always, gives us new reasons to appreciate artists and all of you who support them during the weekend. This year was especially wonderful because NCC was finally able…
Announcing the Recipients of the 2023 McKnight Artist Fellowships and Residencies for Ceramic Artists
Northern Clay Center is pleased to announce the 2023 recipients of the McKnight Artist Fellowships for Ceramic Artists, Chotsani Elaine Dean (Minneapolis, MN) and Anna Metcalfe (Minneapolis, MN). Also selected by this year’s panelists…
ClayToGo Partner Spotlight: Hmong International Academy
What do you get when you take over 250 pre-kindergarten through fifth graders from Hmong International Academy and put them in a room with hundreds of pounds of clay? An absolutely magical experience! Long-tenured…
Announcing the 2023 Early Career Artist Award Recipients
Each year, artists from around the country apply for the Early Career Artist Residency (ECAR) Awards at Northern Clay Center. These awards allow a group of emerging professionals to maintain the momentum they have…
ClayToGo Partner Spotlight: Northrup Elementary
January kicked off numerous after-school programs with Twin Cities elementary and middle schools. At the time of the drafting of this newsletter text, NCC had deployed nine teaching artists to lead 15 weekly, afternoon…
Updates on NCC’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access Work
We at NCC are on a continuous journey to develop programming initiatives and employ metrics that are fundamentally rooted and aligned in anti-racist practices and anti-oppressive principles in all areas of our internal and…
Sustaining Collaborations with Our Community
Creating experiential and lifelong learning opportunities is a goal of Northern Clay Center’s outreach program. While not always possible given the constraints of funding and the competing demands on our partner staff and teaching…
MN NICE: Year Nine
In November, we celebrated our eighth graduating class of Minnesota New Institute for Ceramic Education (MN NICE). The program is currently in its ninth year with another group of dedicated students. This exciting cohort…
Coming this Spring in the Sales Gallery!
Visit us in the Sales Gallery this spring for a sneak peek viewing of the work by our emerging artist residency grant recipients! During the months of April and May, we’ll represent the work…
NCECA 2023
NCC’s sales gallery, exhibition, and artist services programs will participate in Current, the 57th annual conference held in Cincinnati, OH by the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA). The conference will…
Partnership Spotlight: Southeastern Libraries Cooperating
This summer, NCC teaching artists were all over the southeastern corner of Minnesota, providing clay workshops to youth and aging adults through Southeastern Libraries Cooperating (SELCO). From Blooming Prairie to Le Crescent, Albert Lea…
2022 24th Annual American Pottery Festival Review
The American Pottery Festival weekend always, always, gives us new reasons to appreciate the artists and all of you who support them during the weekend, and this year was no different. Far from a…
You’ve Got Friends in Clay Places
Thank you for being a valuable part of Northern Clay Center and all that you have contributed to advance the growth and development of the organization. Your presence in, and support of, the community…
Director’s Report
As we near the end of another calendar year, we are provided with the opportunity to pause and reflect on both successes and areas for growth from the past year. I am excited for…
ClayToGo Spotlight: Cityview Community School
A new outreach partnership with Cityview Community School in Minneapolis began in early May 2022 and continued through early June 2022. Teaching artists Persis Wade, Elizabeth Coleman, and Jennica Kruse provided weekly classes for…
Announcing the 2022 Emerging Artist Award Recipients
Each year, early-career ceramic artists apply for Emerging Artist Awards at Northern Clay Center with a drive to continue the momentum they have gained through formal and informal education and experiences. Each of them…
Partner Spotlight: People Serving People
A new outreach partnership with People Serving People began in September 2021 and continues through the spring of 2022. This partnership was born out of a short interaction between two community members in a…
NCECA 2022 Wrap Up
We offer our collective thanks to all of you who engaged with NCC to view lectures or purchase pots for Fertile Ground, the 56th annual conference held in Sacramento, CA by the National Council…
Spring 2022 Program Updates
Administration NCC’s new health care plan went into effect for staff members who elected to participate. NCC has not had a group health care offering in recent memory. We hope the plan will provide…
ClayToGo Checking in to 2022
The fall of 2021 brought about a marked return of NCC’s outreach programming in the community! We were not quite back to full force, as the COVID-19 pandemic continued to affect the reality of…
MN NICE: Year Eight
Program Info SessionJoin us for a MN NICE program information session via Zoom, where we will discuss the program’s many components before opening the floor to questions. Virtual, Thursday, April 21, 6 pm CT,…
Winter 2022 Program Updates
StaffPlease welcome staff members who joined us in autumn of 2021: FacilitiesIn the near future, NCC will have two new lighting fixtures installed on the exterior of the facility to replace old and inconsistently…
Director’s Report
As we enter then final months of 2021, we are provided the opportunity to pause and reflect upon the myriad challenges, successes, and milestones of the year. Throughout the entirety of the pandemic, our…
Try a Clay Class from Home!
Interested in a virtual clay activity but don’t know where to start? Let us show you how simple it is to participate in an online ceramics class at home! First, sign up online. NCC…
2021 23rd Annual American Pottery Festival Review
This year’s American Pottery Festival (APF) left all of us here loving the clay community as we reflected on the accomplishments of everyone who helped us make the Center’s second virtual version of our…
Announcing the Recipients of the 2021 McKnight Artist Fellowships and Residencies for Ceramic Artists
Northern Clay Center is pleased to announce the 2021 recipients of the McKnight Artist Fellowships for Ceramic Artists, Mike Helke (Stillwater, MN) and Juliane Shibata (Northfield, MN). Also selected by this year’s panelists are…
Fall McKnight Artist Residency for Ceramic Artists: Tom Hubbard
Join Northern Clay Center in welcoming our 2021 fall McKnight Artist Resident, Tom Hubbard (Attleboro, MA). We look forward to supporting his creative visions while establishing new connections with our community. During the first…
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