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-excerpt from interview with Native American author Sherman Alexie, when asked about non-Indians making "Indian" art

6:30pm: Potluck Dinner! The March meeting’s primary goal is the selection of booths for Showcase, so we do not have time to have a lengthy speaker or panel discussion. Instead we will feature YOU and YOUR POTLUCK DISH and have dinner together. Please bring a generous dish of warm food, salad, side dish or dessert to share. Also bring serving utensils, your own plate, cup and silverware. We will provide coffee, drinks and music. This is a great time to meet new and old members and explore the tremendous human resource that is OPA. Future programs include a presentation by Steven Hill in May, the Best of Show Award winner from Showcase 2001 (ideally in July), and a panel of woodfire potters in November. Please speak to either Deborah Shapiro or Laurie Childers if you have ideas for future programs.

7pm: Showcase Meeting. If you are planning to be in Showcase, it is highly recommended that you attend these meetings. Showcase is a cooperative show, and communication is so much easier if participants attend the meetings! Thanks!

7:30pm: OPA Business meeting. Call Sandy Brown 503-552-8695 if you have items for the agenda. Bring items for the swap table, notices to pin to the room divider, etc

8pm: Showcase booth location allocation. This year’s space allocation will be similar to last year’s. The process will be done with these guidelines:

1. You will be called by your ranking based on your points.

2. You will either have to be at the March meeting or send a proxy to choose your booth space. Map is provided in this newsletter to help you or your proxy with booth selection. If there is no proxy, we will decide a spot for you

3. If you are "group spacing" your points will be averaged. A lottery has been done for applicants with the same number of points.

NEXT BOARD MEETING: 6:30pm April 2nd at Victoria Shaw’s house, 4806 NE 14th Place (Place is very important, not road, avenue or street) in Portland, 503-331-0950

NEXT NEWSLETTER DEADLINE: April 2, 2001. (Please notice this is earlier than usual!) Send submissions to Janet Buskirk, 3624 SE Yamhill, Portland OR 97214

BEST OF NORTHWEST/OPA BOOTH: The OPA Guild Booth at Best of the Northwest’s Portland show is being coordinated. It will be Nov 9-11, 2001. 10x10’ booths are $370 + $38 electricity. If you would like to participate, call Ann Stecker ASAP, 503-399-0590

WORKSHOPS: Our new workshop chair, Lisa Clapp, would like to hear from you! Please fill out the enclosed questionnaire and return it to her ASAP.

OPA JURIED SHOW: Victoria Christian and Ted Vogel are still working on a juried regional show, sponsored by OPA. The current tentative plan is to have it at Contemporary Crafts in spring 2002. They are working with Contemporary Crafts to sort out a budget and they are hoping to solicit sponsors in order to offer prize money. If this show does occur, they will be needing assistance in sponsorship soliciting, publicizing the show, coordinating the jurying, and many other duties. There will be more information as this progresses.

LOCAL CLAY now has Merry Newcomer as President and Frank Gosar as President-Elect. If you are interested in getting more involved with the Eugene clay group, contact either of them.

NEXT CLAY FEST MEETING: 6pm Wed, Feb 21 at WISTEC, 2300 Leo Harris Parkway (near Alton Baker Park) in Eugene. The next LOCAL CLAY MEETING will be Thurs, April 5, 6:30 pm at Georgies, 1471 Railroad Blvd, Eugene. Local Clay membership is $10.

EMPTY BOWLS EUGENE will be Friday March 2 at White Lotus Gallery. They still need hundreds of bowls. You can drop them off at Club Mud or Georgies in Eugene, or contact Frank Gosar (Chair) 541-607-2708. Terry Inokuma is also collecting them in Corvallis.

BOOTH SELECTION: This will be at the March general meeting. Please see information at the beginning of the newsletter.

CERAMIC SHOWCASE 2001 will be May 4-6 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. Sumi Wu and Margie Adams are co-chairing this year’s show, and we are still looking for a co-chair (working with Margie) for 2002. If you applied for the show, you should have received your letter which tells you your points ranking and your committee assignment. If you did not receive that, contact Farshad Barman or Mark Heimann. In mid April you will receive your Showcase packet which will give you all the information you will ever want to know about our show!

PARKING LOT: The parking lots will be torn up during this year’s show. Both exhibitors and customers will have to park in other areas and take shuttles to the show. We will have a customer package pick up area in our usual loading area to try and eliminate their inconvenience.

NEW BANNERS ON MLK: There will be Showcase banners on Martin Luther King Jr Blvd for one month prior to Showcase.

MAILING LISTS: This is your plaintive message from the Mailing List Chair, Ginger Steele. Please update your mailing list and send it to Ginger NOW! We will not share your mailing list with others if you ask us not to. About one third of our customers come to the show because of the mailer. We like to mail posters to all of our past customers as well as all participants’ customers. Send it on IBM compatible disk or any readable paper copy, to Ginger Steele, 3285 NW Susbauer Rd, Cornelius OR 97113

FROM THE WRAPPING COMMITTEE: Please start collecting boxes for Showcase, if you have not already been doing so. In the April newsletter we will give a schedule for people to bring their boxes to the show (participants are each assigned a specific day, so we will not be overloaded on the first day). Everyone should bring 25, they should be flattened and bundled by size. They also should be CLEAN. This is especially true for clay boxes. Imagine your happy customer arriving home to find iron oxide stains all over their clothes. Not good. Sponging off the outside is adequate & easy. The BEST SIZE is a clay box, liquor or wine box, or produce box. We also need a few (not many) larger ones, small ones are rarely used. -Gay Liebert & Chris Nielson

Please bring your Empty Bowls donations to the next meeting (or any meeting) and sign up to volunteer to work at our booth at the Blues Festival in Portland on 4th of July weekend. Stephen Mickey is planning a throw-a-thon at Mt Hood Community College. There will be majolica decorating at Jeanne Charles & Janet Buskirk’s studio, and more events are in the works. Drop off points so far are: Georgie’s, Thurman Street Studio, Mount Hood Community College (Pottery Studio), and Jan Edwards’ home. More places will be announced later. If your school is doing something for Empty Bowls, Richard Palen (503-647-1219) is the liaison with schools. This year’s chairs are Jeanne Charles (503-233-2317) and Tony Hackenbruck (503-235-4417)

ART IN UNEXPECTED PLACES A Clackamas County Treasure Map, is an interesting treasure map of sculptures, murals, stained glass, interesting architecture, and other art-friendly items and events in Clackamas County. If you would like one or would like to include something in the next one, contact them. artsaction@hevanet.com, 657-6958 x2666

OREGON TAX LAWS FOR ARTISTS: Oregon does allow a subtraction for artists who donate a work of their own art to a charitable organization. The amount allowed is the difference between the fair market value and the amount actually allowed as an itemized deduction under federal law. Call 503-378-4988 or 800-356-4222 with questions

STUDIO POTTER NETWORK will have their annual fund-raiser at NCECA, March 28-30. The theme will be "Beautiful Soup" and they are looking for donations of anything that has to do with serving or eating soup. This is a great organization which promotes grassroots organization within the ceramics community. Yes, you donate your piece to them, but it will be seen by thousands of potters from all over the world. You may ship work to Studio Potter Network, Chris Schafale, 209 N Woodrow St, Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526. They need to be received by March 26, 2001. You can also try to talk your friends who are going to NCECA into taking your work in their luggage.

AN AMUSING EXHIBIT announcement was sent in by Cynthia Spencer- Jim Bosley, the well-known morning TV personality, will exhibit his mosaic terra cotta pots at Lawrence Gallery in February.

TOZAN WOOD KILN/INTERNATIONAL WOOD KILN FESTIVAL: The Tozan kilns are a Noborigama-type kiln with a special "doge" chamber in the front which appears to be similar to an anagama-style chamber. They are woodfired, and there are only three in the world. One is in Nanaimo, BC, and the Tozan Cultural Society in Nanaimo will host the 2001 International Wood Fire Festival July 30-August 10. It is unclear how much this will cost. It will include demos, firings, slides, shows, and more. 250-245-486,7900 5th St, Nanaimo BC Canada, V9R 5S5, http://www.tozan.bc.ca/

STUDIO SAFETY is the topic of an article in the Jan/Feb Clay Times. It mentions fumes, dust and waste disposal. The article points out that we legally must have Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) for all of our studio chemicals, and if chemicals are too old for these to be available, we cannot legally use them. Chemicals also must have their original labels. We also probably all violate federal laws about disposal of water and dust contaminated with barium, chromium, copper, iron, manganese, zinc and other chemicals. Read the article or email the author (Monona Rossol) at 75054.2542@compuserve.com

EYEWEAR FOR GLASS, CERAMIC & METAL WORKERS: (from article in the Assoc of Clay & Glass Artists in California newsletter by Monona Rossol of Art, Craft & Theater Safety (ACTS), www.caseweb.com/ACTS, ACTSNYC@cs.com) There are three types of light emitted by glowing objects: infrared (IR), ultraviolet (UV) and visible. In welding processes, more UV light is produced. In glass and ceramic work, more IR light is produced. This is the type of light that feels like heat when it hits your skin. Your eye has no heat/pain sensors, so you cannot feel the IR heat which could be causing damage that will lead to cataracts. ACTS has recently changed their recommendations for ceramists’ eyewear. Their previous recommendations were based on some very confusing studies by NIOSH, but recently some Italian researchers studied glassworkers who worked in close proximity to glass furnaces (my understanding is that glass furnaces are typically what we would call ‘stoneware temperatures’ -ed). Their research showed alarming exposure to IR-B and IR-C light. IR-A light is measured as ~760-1400nm, IR-B is 1400-3000nm, IR-C is 3000-1,000,000nm. This may mean nothing to you, but it should mean something to the person selling you your safety goggles.

Their recommendations are that we wear lenses that provide very low IR transmission, good visible transmission, low level optical aberrations, and high impact resistance to penetration by hot material. The problem they found is that lenses are generally only tested for light radiation in the 770-2000 nm range. It is not normal for anyone to report IR transmission above 2000nm, so the eyewear we need has probably not been tested for our applications! Ask your supplier for eyewear that protects you in all IR ranges, especially the high IR-C range. If you find something that really is supposed to work in those ranges, please tell your newsletter editor so I can pass the word along! (I have kept a copy of this article. You can call me if you have questions, or check the website listed at the beginning of this section. -ed)

MERCHANT CREDIT CARDS: If you use Discover/ Novus for your merchant credit card account & received a nasty letter from their VISA/Mastercard provider (FDMS) stating that you will be assessed huge new fees, take heart. A few of us have had our fees waived by pointing out that we are part of the "Oregon Potters Association Franchise". Call FDMS (800-848-0053) with your merchant # in hand and beg.

POTTERS IN FRANCE: Jean Nicolas and Vivianne Gerard, the potters from Provance who gave a slide talk at the last OPA meeting, gave us some copies of a list of potters who live and work in France. This list does not actually include telephone numbers and addresses, but it does give some information about each of these potters. If you are planning a trip to France and want to visit potters, your editor has a copy of this list, as do OPA members Ray and Jere Grimm (they have probably visited many of these potters).

GALLERY TROUBLE: OPA member Barbara Hertel reports that she has been having trouble receiving payment from Blue Spruce Gallery in Bend. If any other OPA members are having problems with them, please contact her 503-648-2483. A reminder to all of you who are looking for new galleries in which to show, always ask for the names of a few artists who show there, and call them to ask about the gallery!

PAUL SOLDNER VIDEO: "The Courage to Explore", a 31 minute video about Soldner’s raku & salt firing, throwing, handbuilding, low fire techniques and more. For more info contact Colleen Black-Semelka, 919-933-4102, rakupots@bellsouth.net

FAMILY CLAY SUNDAYS at the Marjorie Sherman Ceramics Center in Salem, parents and children can learn about and experiment with clay for $5 per family. noon-3pm, Sundays Feb 18, March 4 & 11. 503-581-7275

HORSETAIL RAKU: Have you been fascinated by those "horsetail glazed" pieces with the intriguing soft lines which encircle the piece? An article in the Jan/Feb Clay Times tells you how to do that. Interestingly, it is a process that is done on a hot pot that has just been pulled out of the kiln.

HIRADO PORCELAIN from Japan at the Seattle Asian Art Museum through July 8. Also there are ongoing exhibits of Chinese Celadon and Korean Koryo at Seattle Art Museum on the 3rd floor. 1st Thursdays free at SAM.

SHIMPO CERAMICS has a new website offering general information, catalogues, instruction manuals, drawings, etc. www.shimpoceramics.com

US PIGMENT, the chemical supply company, does sell directly to potters. I just received their price list, and frits, colorants and many of our fluxes are very reasonably priced. 800-472-9500, www.uspigment.com

CALL FOR ENTRY: Artistic Imaginings in Clay, deadline March 31, show Oct 10 2001-Jan 15 2002, architectural ceramic work or contemporary handmade tile, $25 for 2 entries, contact Gaye Lindsey, 703-893-2184, glindsey@erols.com, Washington DC

CALL FOR ENTRY: 2001 Equinox-A Regional Survey of Contemporary Art, Aug 25-Oct 21, deadline May 1, $20 for 5 slides, all media including crafts, no more than 96" or 75 lbs, artist pays shipping both ways, catalogue, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, 1400 1st Ave N, Great Falls MT 59401-3299, 406-727-8255

CALL FOR ENTRY: Crafts National 35, March 9 deadline, show June 5-July 20, $25 for 3 slides, Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, PO box 1023, State College PA 16804, craftsnational@arts-festival.com, 814-237-3682

CALL FOR ENTRY: The Art of Tea, deadline March 14, show May 21-June 23, $20 for 3 slides, for prospectus send SASE to Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S Allison Pkwy, Civic Center North, Lakewood CO 80226, 303-987-7874

CALL FOR ENTRY: Allied Arts Assoc Annual Juried Show, deadline March 1, show May 1-31, $8 per entry, Ruth 509-967-3568, 89 Lee Blvd, Richland WA 99352

CALL FOR ENTRY: Works of Faith, deadline Feb 23, show May 3-June 24, for works expressing faith in God, $15 for 3 slides, First Presbyterian Church, 1200 SW Alder, Portland OR 97205, 503-228-7331

WEBSITE LOOKING FOR CRAFTSPEOPLE: 6 months for $205, 10% commission, Craftboothonline.com, 360-666-7296

PROPOSALS SOUGHT for In Situ Portland, bringing challenging temporary artwork to various locations, three $7500 projects, deadline Feb 26, selection in March, Kristin Calhoun, 503-823-5401, klcalhoun@racc.org

PROPOSALS SOUGHT by city of Eugene for outdoor work for 20 sites in parks & sport centers, Kirsten Jones, 541-485-3991, kirstenj@teleport.com, deadline Mar 1

APPRENTICESHIP AVAILABLE: Summer 2001, work 24 hr/wk for 12 weeks for wages, no fee. Use of studio space, materials, Moravian Pottery & Tile Works, 130 Swamp Rd, Doylestown PA 18901, 215-345-6722

RESIDENCY information available from Alliance of Artists’ Communities, 2311 E Burnside, suite 300, Portland OR 97214, 503-797-6988, aac@artistcommunities.org

RESIDENCIES: The Archie Bray Foundation has full time or short term (generally summer) residencies in ceramics. March 1 deadline, www.archiebray.org, 406-443-3502, send SASE to Josh DeWeese, Resident Director, Archie Bray Foundation, 2915 Country Club Ave, Helena MT 59602

RESIDENCIES at the Banff Center are available in both spring and fall. To receive info, contact them at box 1020, station 28, 107 Tunnel Mountain Dr, Banff, Alberta T0L 0C0, Canada. www.banffcentre.ab.ca/CFA

RESIDENCY: Laguna Clay Co is accepting scholarship applications for 2 week summer residencies at Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts in Newcastle, Maine. Includes room, meals & studio free of charge. Maryellen@lagunaclay.com, 800-452-4862 x235

RESIDENCIES, GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS are listed in the January 2001 Ceramics Monthly. Their list is very extensive, so if you are looking for any of these, pick up a copy of the magazine.

RESIDENCY & SUMMER SCHOOL, Jingdezhen Sanbao Ceramic Art Institute in China, Residency 4-12 weeks from May to November, traditional studio space provided in Sanbao, the porcelain capitol of China. Summer school is 3-week sessions in July & Sept with Chinese & international instructors, includes porcelain making, brush making, enamel, saggar woodfiring. www.chinaclayart.com

OPEN STUDIO TOUR in Portland, Oct 13, 14, 20, 21, with exhibit in group show at PSU Littman Gallery, deadline April 23, www.portlandopenstudios.com, PO Box 42509, Portland OR 97242-0509

CLAY ARTIST NEEDED: to make 24 2" high statues w/ similar bodies but different hair, faces, etc for a prison board game currently in the final stages of preparation for copyrighting. Base of each must be 3/4" diameter, each has different "prison number" above heart, would like them completed within 6-9 months. Michael McCormack, 503-371-9985 (Salem)

SUN VALLEY ARTS & CRAFTS FESTIVAL, Aug 10-12, deadline Feb 28, $15 app fee, booths $350-700, 5 slides + booth slide, PO box 656, Sun Valley ID 83353, 208-726-9491

ART IN THE VINEYARD, July 6-8, deadlines Feb 15 & April 2, booths $250-500, 4 slides + booth slide, Maude Kerns Art Center, ATV Artists Marketplace, 1910 E 15th Ave, Eugene OR 97403, 541-345-1571

FORT VANCOUVER RODEO & ARTS & CRAFTS FESTIVAL, July 5-7, $30 app fee, booths $40, Carol Hodson, Fort Vanc. Rodeo Admissions Chair, PO box 1019, Brush Prairie WA 98606

ART IN BLOOM: May 12-13, deadline Feb 28, booths $50-110, 5 slides, $10 app fee, outdoor, Rogue Valley Foundation, 101 8th St, Medford OR 97501

TAPESTRY, Sept 1-3, deadline March 30, $25 app fee, booths $390-950, 4 slides/photos, 255 N Market St suite 124, San Jose CA 95110, 408-494-3590

DISCOVERED (& UNDISCOVERED) POTTERS SALES March 1-3 (Redmond, WA), May 9-12 (Woodinville, WA), Sept 13-15 (Redmond, WA), Oct 11-13 (Seattle), Nov 14-17 (Woodinville), fees $30-50 + 20%, first come, first served, Patsy or Ken 425-868-3989, 4411 211th Ct NE, Sammamish WA 98074

ART IN THE PEARL, Sept 1-3, deadline March 31, $15 app fee, booths $375, 4 slides, PO Bo 5906, Portland OR 97228, 503-722-9017

GATHERING OF ARTISTS, July 13-15, deadline Feb 28-May 30, $25 deposit required w/ app, booths $50, 5 slides/photos, Winston-Dillard Chamber of Commerce, PO box 1344, Winston OR 97496, 541-679-6887

INLAND CRAFT WARNINGS, Nov 2-4, deadline April 2, for application send SASE to G Freuen, 15205 Shady Slope Rd, Spokane WA 99208

TASTE! KIRKLAND Sept 15-16, $10 app fee, booths $175, deadline March 1-July 1, Kirkland Chamber of Commerce, Attn TASTE! Arts & Crafts, 401 Park Pl, suite 102, Kirkland WA 98033, 425-822-7066

TILE HERITAGE and Oakland (California) Museum show in conjunction with Fired Up About Clay, deadline March 1, show might be April 7, contemporary & antique tile, $150 booth (sorry, no more info)

ARTFEST June 1-3, deadline March 9, booths $30-40 + 20%, 5 slides, $10 jury fee, Sue Ellen Heflin, 509-328-0900, Eastern Washington State Historical Society, Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, 2316 W 1st Ave, Spokane WA 99204

BELLEVUE ART MUSEUM FAIR July 27-29, deadline Feb 28, 5 slides, $10 jury fee, booths $35-45 + $150 deposit + 25%. 425-519-0770, 510 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue WA 98004

UNIVERSITY DISTRICT STREET FAIR: May 19-20, deadline March 5, 4 slides or photos+booth photo, $5 jury fee, booths $180-225, 4519 1/2 University Way NE, suite 203, Seattle WA 98105, 206-632-9084

ANACORTES ARTS FESTIVAL Aug 3-5, deadline March 2, booths $100-250, 2 slides + booth slide, 505 "O" Ave, Anacortes WA 98221, 360-293-6211

CONTEMPORARY CRAFTS MARKET Santa Monica (Nov 2-4), Fort Mason San Francisco (March 8-10, 2002). deadline April 15, booths $350-850, 5 slides or photos, $15 app fee, $50 deposit w/app, Roy Helms, 575 Cooke St #A2820, Honolulu HI 96813, 808-422-7362

CHOOCHOKAM July 7-8, jurying begins late Feb, booths $240, PO Box 580, Langley WA 98260, 360-221-7494

INTERNATIONAL CERAMIC ART TEAPOT SYMPOSIUM in Yixing, China, May 24-June 13, exhibits, lectures, workshops by Yixing masters, contact Richard Notkin, notkin@ixi.net, or Guangzhen "Po" Zhou, pozhou@email.msn.com, Chinese Ceramic Art Council, PO Box 64392, Sunnyvale CA 94088-4392, 408-245-6271$3750 includes airfare, transportation in China, pre- and post-symposium trips, meals & lodging. There are lower rates for shorter time in China.

NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR EDUCATION IN CERAMICS ARTS (NCECA) Conference, in Charlotte NC March 28-31. http://nceca.net, 800-99-NCECA

PAT STRAUSS-COIL BUILDING: Sat, March 10, 10-4, hands-on, learn about Pat’s unique style of illustration using coil construction. Lower Columbia Community College, Longview. Limited to 20 people, call Trudy Woods, 360-577-2314, $25

ANDERSON RANCH has a long list of all-star ceramists teaching from June to September. If you want to get on their mailing list, contact them at PO box 5598, Snowmass Village CO 81615, 970-923-3181

ANAGAMA WITH BARB CAMPBELL- firing the anagama for color at Stephen Mickey’s anagama. Load March 10-11, fire March 15-18, unload March 24. $220 for workshop & 10-12 cu ft firing space, mickeys@teleport.com, 19806 NE 224th Ave, Brush Prairie WA 98606

2001:A CLAY ODYSSEY, The Archie Bray Foundation’s 50th anniversary conference, June 21-23, $140-210, demos, panel discussions, exhibits, tours, 2915 Country Club Ave, Helena MT 59601, 406-443-3502.

BRUCE FINCH & DEBORAH LIPMAN are the authors of an article called "On the Road with Raku" about Bruce’s portable raku workshop. Pottery Making Illustrated, winter 2001

MEMBERSHIP IN OPA is open to any serious studio potter currently living in Oregon or southwest Washington. There is no jurying for membership. It is for $40 per calendar year. Membership is not pro-rated, it is for a January-December calendar year, but you may join at any time. Membership benefits include six newsletters per year, six meetings per year, and the opportunity to apply for Ceramic Showcase. If you live over 100 miles from Portland and do not plan to use the other membership benefits, you may subscribe to the newsletter for $10 per year. Send your name, address, email, phone number(s) and a check to Mary Orcutt, 131 Schilling Rd, Lyle WA 98635

FOR SALE: 500# Amador clay, 1000# Half & Half clay. Both are cone 10 Laguna clays which were shipped here by mistake, they are fresh off the truck and priced to sell, approx 15 cents/lb, Ace Dumond, 503-663-9114 (Boring)

FOR SALE: 10,000 tongue-in-groove hard brick, price varies depending on quantity. 8,000 2600 degree F soft brick, $1.50 each, RHI Refractories, 1333 NW 12th, Portland, 503-227-7944

WANTED: K23 soft brick, good or bad condition, Janet 503-231-2810 (Portland)

PROPERTY FOR SALE 62 acres, pottery studio & living quarters, 40 mi south of Eugene on I-5, garden space, green house, 600 ft year round creek frontage, lots of timber & firewood, includes 32 cu ft down draft kiln w/ propane, slab roller, enough hardbrick for small wood kiln, $185,000, $65,000 down, owner carried contract, make offer, motivated seller. Jay 541-849-2475

NEED A STUDIO ASSISTANT? I am advanced hand builder & have great local references. Flexible, agreeable, competent. I’m just what you’re looking for! Amy Swanson, 503-235-2839 (Portland)

STUDIO TO SHARE: $110/mo, N Portland, Beth Mills, 503-331-1676

LOOKING FOR EMPLOYMENT: Presently working as apprentice for well known potter in Mashiko, Japan & want to come to America next year. For 3 years have worked for thrower making 200-300 pots per day, also have basic experience mixing glazes, want to integrate American pottery experience with current knowledge. takeito@ma4.justnet.ne.jp

Feb 21- Clay Fest Meeting

Feb 27- Showcase Steering Committee Mtng

March 2- Empty Bowls, Eugene

March 9- OPA Meeting

April 2- OPA Board Meeting &

Newsletter Deadline

April 5- Local Clay Meeting

May 4-6- Ceramic Showcase