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OPA NEWSLETTER August/September 2005 DATES TO REMEMBER: “There is a 19th-century saying that if you wanted to sell a picture, you painted a little girl. If it didn’t sell, you painted in a dog next to the girl. Finally, if it still didn’t sell, to ensure success, you painted a bandage on the dog’s paw.” Click here for Oregon beach Pit Fire photos -Anonymous, from Enigmatic Images from Unknown Photographers by Robert Flynn Johnson NEXT OPA GENERAL MEETING: The Annual Picnic! The picnic will be Sunday, Sept. 18, 12 noon to 6pm, we will eat at 2pm. The picnic is not Sept. 11 as published in some earlier Newsletters. The picnic will be at Debi and Larry Nelson’s, 19438 SW Neugebauer Rd. This is a great time to hang out and get to know your fellow ceramic artists. A large BBQ pit will be cookin' and beverages will be provided. Along with the music jam and the tour de pottery exchange, there will be fire dancing, outdoor games, fire works, catapulting, and an erupting Mt. St. Helens cake. CLICK HERE FOR MAPThings to bring: * Potluck Dish and meat for the BBQ (OPA will not be providing chicken or salmon this year) * Bring your potluck dish in one of your own beautiful/interesting ceramic dishes. We will be photographing these dishes for an article in the Oregonian, so please bring your recipe along with the dish. * One of your ceramic creations for the pottery exchange, wrap it up to conceal what it is * Greenware pots or shards to be shot in the catapult. No fired clay, it is too hard to clean up. * Musical instruments If you have good photographic abilities and equipment, please contact James about taking pictures of the ceramic dishes. Also contact him if you can help in either set up or clean up, 503-232-6816 Coming from Portland, Vancouver, or Salem: Hwy 26 west to Hwy 217 or Hwy I-5 north to Hwy 217. Take Scholls Ferry Rd (Hwy 210) exit, head west. Continue west on Scholls Ferry Rd (Hwy 210) for about 7 miles to the yellow flashing light. Turn left (south) at the yellow flashing light to stay on Hwy 210. Continue about 2.5 miles straight through the town of Scholls. About .7 of a mile past the "Newberg 10" sign, turn right (west) on Vanderschuere Rd. Continue west on Vanderschuere Rd for about 1.4 miles. Turn left (south) at the stop sign, heading up Neugebauer Rd. Look for the red mailbox on the left after about 1.3 miles and turn left on the gravel drive just past it. Coming from Hillsboro: Take Hwy 291 south out of Hillsboro. Where the road turns sharply left (east) just past a large nursery, slow down and continue straight past the Midway Pub on Midway Rd. Turn right (west) at the stop sign (on Vanderschuere Rd) and continue for about .4 miles to the stop sign. Turn left (south) at the stop sign, heading up Neugebauer Rd. Look for the red mailbox on the left after about 1.3 miles and turn left on the gravel drive just past it. Coming from Newberg: Take Hwy 219 north over Chehalem Mountain. When you're almost to the bottom of the slope on the north side of the hill, look for the tall white nut drying building on the right. Just past the nut dryer where the Rd bends right past a small cemetery get ready to make a sharp left turn. Turn left (west) on Vanderscheuere Rd. Continue west on Vanderschuere Rd for about 1.4 miles. Turn left (south) at the stop sign, heading up Neugebauer Rd. Look for the red mailbox on the left after about 1.3 miles and turn left on the gravel drive just past it. Park anywhere but be sure you don't block the driveway. NEXT OPA BOARD MEETING: Thurs, Oct 6 at Julie Asbury’s. Potluck dinner at 6pm, meeting starts at 6:30. Take I-5 to the Woodburn exit (#271). Go east on Highway 214 (left turn off the freeway if your headed south, right turn if you headed north) a little more than a mile. Turn left on Boones Ferry Road. Go one long block and turn left on Henry's Blvd. Turn right on Aletha Street. It's the third house on the right. OPA BUSINESS OPA ANNUAL HOLIDAY STUDIO SALE GUIDE: The Annual Studio Sale Guide application is in this Newsletter. Last year, the OPA published this guide and a group of potters on the west side got together and published a similar guide that was to studio sales and other related events specifically on the west side of the Portland Metro area. That guide was conceived because very few west-Metro studios signed up for the regular OPA guide and it was perceived that the OPA guide had become an east-Metro area studio sale guide. Currently, Deborah Bouchette, the coordinator of the west-Metro guide, says that we will wait and see if enough people on the west side sign up for the OPA guide. If there is a good turnout, there will probably only be one guide this year. If turnout is low, she will work on a west side guide as well.THE OPA GOODWILL PROM: On Saturday Oct 1st OPA will celebrate their 25th anniversary with an unusual prom. Somewhere in a Goodwill or resale store is that special attire just crying out to snatched up and strutted in style at our Goodwill Prom. This is an adult event starting at 7pm. Please invite a friend or a newer OPA member. $5 gets you in the gym. There will be snacks, beverages, and special drinks provided. Please bring your own favorite concoction for the wet bar, or a yummy something for the snack table. There will be an awards presentation and a salute to OPA turning 25 years old. The location is yet to be decided, but please email or call James DeRosso if you want to attend or if you are interested in being part of the decoration committee. james3d@easystreet.com Start working on your outfit now.OPA ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER: After several months of planning, we are now officially sending out the Newsletter in an electronic-only format to everyone who has not specifically asked to receive it by old fashioned US mail. The OPA Data Coordinator, Nick Molatore, has spent a lot of time trying to find a format that makes everyone happy. The solution seems to be to send it out various ways as well as posting it on the OPA website, thus everyone can choose how they wish to receive it. We can still mail it to anyone who asks. To request your Newsletter by mail, contact Janet Buskirk at 4614 SE Salmon St, Portland OR 97215, janetbuskirk@yahoo.com.GROUP BUYS Victoria Shaw is organizing a group buy for red iron oxide (97% pure), rutile (Ferro ceramic grade 400 mesh), cobalt carbonate, tin oxide and copper carbonate. The red iron and the rutile are the varieties that are highly recommended for glazes, they are purer and finer ground than the cheaper versions and they are from Clay Art Center. The cobalt, tin and copper are from US Pigment. They are all priced at the 100 lb price plus a little bit for shipping. Hopefully the materials will be here before the OPA picnic so you can get them there. Otherwise you can pick them up at Stark Street Studios, 2809 SE Stark in Portland. Make your checks out to OPA and mail them to V. Shaw, 2809 SE Stark, Portland OR 97214. CHEMICAL BUY: Please order in 3 pound, 5 pound or 10 pound quantities.
Your name & telephone #: ________________________________ Chemical: Price per pound: Number of pounds: Total price: Red Iron oxide (97%) $1.93 Rutile (400 mesh) $1.76 Cobalt carb $14.50 Tin oxide $9.00 Copper carb $3.50 Grand total:
CERAMIC SHOWCASE SHOWCASE APPLICATIONS: Your next Newsletter will contain your Showcase 2006 Application. The deadline to apply is Nov 15. If you have not received an application by Nov 1st, contact your Newsletter Editor, janetbuskirk@yahoo.com,NEXT STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING: Tues, Sept 13th, 6:30pm at Contemporary Crafts, 3934 SW Corbett in Portland SHOWCASE 2006 will be May 5-7. Showcase 2007 is tentatively scheduled for May 4-6. SHOWCASE FINANCES: The good news is that Showcase expenses only went up 3.3% from 2004 to 2005. This means the booth fee will stay the same as last year. One new policy, though, is that each participant sharing a half booth will pay the full $75 refundable deposit. The Finance Committee and Showcase Steering Committee will be examining booth fees and expenses each year and it is inevitable that the fees will go up in the not-too-distant future. The Steering Committee’s goal is to try and have fees go up slowly, matching fee increases to inflation, so that we do not have huge increases. FROM THE PUBLICITY CHAIR: The Publicity Committee needs photos of potters working in their studios: loading kilns; throwing pots; weighing glaze chemicals; etc. If digital, please use a high resolution camera and always include your name and the date. They also can always use professional photos of your work. They also ask that you update your file in the publicity photo files. Please pick up old slides and photos. Currently the photo files are out of date, and they are trying to streamline the slide library so that only the most recent work is represented. Please sort through yours and remove everything that is old, and when you add things make certain the date is on them. If the slides are not at OPA Meetings, you can contact the chairs go through the files or deal with this through the mail. Contact Teresa Aman tjaman@comcast.net, or Kristin Yount Kristin@cascadia.net. Slides, photos and CDs are all acceptable. Please send new ones by Oct 1. The last chance to remove old slides from the file will be at the March OPA meeting.POINTS REVIEW COMMITTEE: At the last Steering Committee it was agreed that we need to re-assess how many points we grant for each OPA and Showcase job. It is a good idea to do this periodically. A committee is in the process of forming that will assess each job to determine how much work it requires, how much actual responsibility or risk it requires, how much it is necessary for the organization and other factors. So far, the committee consists of Janet Buskirk and Audrey Graham. They are looking for one or two other committee members who have extensive knowledge of the organization and jobs in Showcase and/or OPA. They plan to meet through the fall and report to the OPA Board and Showcase Steering Committee by the end of the year. WHOLESALING AT SHOWCASE: It has been brought to the OPA’s attention that one of the wholesale buyers who attended Showcase this year has been somewhat disappointed by the response of the potters with whom he placed orders. He says he placed many, many orders but only three of the potters actually shipped him the work he ordered. He was very disappointed by the professionalism of the group. As one OPA member who spoke to him about the situation pointed out, when an artist agrees to do an order for a gallery, the gallery puts aside money and space to accommodate their purchases. If the orders don't come in a reasonable time, the gallery is hurt by that thoughtlessness. Those potters who did not honor their commitment hurt not only themselves, but OPA and the reputation of Showcase as well. There may have been some miscommunication between some of the potters and the gallery, but there probably were also a few potters who took orders and did not follow through. SHOWCASE INSTALLATION PROJECT: Next year’s installation project will be called “Fish in a Crowd.” This year’s Chair, Colleene Little, plans to have people make a fish, such as a 3-D salmon. She will make several identical molds so all fish will be similar, as in a school of fish. Leather-hard fish will be given to members who will embellish, carve, add on to, subtract from, glaze and fire in any manner they choose. She will either pick up finished fish at the OPA meetings or they could be dropped off prior to Showcase. Each fish will look similar showing the unity of OPA members yet each fish will be different showing our uniqueness as individuals and our diversity as a group. Everyone can participate with as much or as little time as they choose. More details soon about for clay types, where molds will be available for use with your own clay, and drop-off information. The installation will be located at the entrance, as it has been, to welcome the public. It will be a meandering “stream” enclosed with large riverbed rock to accommodate the fish. Each fish will be mounted upon a piece of rebar that will be set into concrete. The concrete will then be covered with bark chips, bark dust, or smaller river rocks. The fish could be sold separately for a set price. They could be sold in small groups or as a whole to a business or private party. The installation could even be donated to a library, hospital, or park bringing additional positive publicity to OPA with possible articles in the media. She is looking for 150 fish, but there is room for expansion. To sign up for the project or for questions or comments please E-mail to litlcreations@kalama.com. If you E-mail please make sure the subject says “OPA”NEW FOR NEXT YEAR: Showcase is investigating the costs of mailing out a postcard instead of a poster next year. The printing would be substantially cheaper. We would still print a one-sided poster to use for the postering committee and hand out at the show. Showcase will rent the entire parking lot under the bridge next year and re sell the parking passes to participants. This is the same parking lot that many of us used last year, and we believe that it would be simpler to sell the passes ourselves rather than send everyone on parking pass purchasing wild goose chases. COMMITTEE CHAIR POSITIONS AVAILABLE FOR SHOWCASE 2006: There are a few Committee Chair positions available for next year’s Showcase. If you are interested in any of these, write a letter that includes which position(s) you are inquiring about and your qualifications and experience. Send to Audrey Graham, agraham@centurytel.net.ART DIRECTOR: 12 points. Experienced graphic designer needed to: Define a distinctive graphic style for use in all OPA advertising, promotion, and publications; Communicate and collaborate with Advertising and Publicity chairs and with Showcase Graphics Coordinator; Make an annual presentation to the Steering Committee for the purpose of design review; Create and maintain an archive of all OPA images as slides or digital format for any OPA use; Furnish graphics to Advertising and Publicity as needed for year- round OPA presence. This position will not be responsible for the Showcase poster (as had previously been described). Candidates should possess a working knowledge of graphic design and computers. Applicants should include at least three examples of non-OPA related graphic work CASH SALES TREASURER CO-CHAIR: (points unknown). Assist the Cash Sales Treasurer. Contact Susan Whitham suzahn10@hotmail.com for more information. In charge of actual cash collected at Sales Tables, including making deposits and supervising committee members. Need to be available during entire show, out of town people can do this job.WORKSHIFT CO-CHAIR: 6 points. Work with Chair Carol Lebreton to train for chair position. This position coordinates and schedules all workshifts during the show. Out of town people can do this job. WRAPPING CO-CHAIR: 6 points. Obtain bags, paper and other wrapping supplies for Showcase, supervise wrapping area during show. Contact previous co-Chairs, Chris Nielsen (503-282-7812, cnielsen@spiritone.com) or Shirl Lipkin cedarrowstudio@ados.com), out of town people can apply.OTHER LOCAL CERAMICS ORGANIZATIONS: CLAYFEST will be October 15 and 16 at the Eugene Fairgrounds. WILDFIRE, the new show organized by the Clay Guild of the Cascades, will be Sept 2-4 in the historic Boys & Girls club building near downtown Bend. POTTERY NEWS CLAY ART CENTER in Tacoma has some new products: The Gleeco sink trap is easy to install and protects your drains; the Lester bat system is for making your own plaster or hydocal bats; HVLP spray gun (High volume low pressure), a great price for a useful spray gun, $39.95 (as seen in the Geil ads in CM); they have several pallets of lightly used K23 soft bricks, great for kiln building; Raku sealer, a new water based sealer to protect and seal your raku pots and glazes, easy to apply; New Wax resist, they have Reid wax, it goes on nicely and is freeze resistant; New Paper Clays in stock are Terracotta P clay, Oregon Red Pclay, and a special run of English Grolleg cone 6 P clay; New clays are a cone 6 orange colored clay called Naranja and a cone 10 buff colored sculpture body, Bedrock, coarse like Akio, good for sculpture or architectural work. Also Laguna’s cone 6 super white porcelain, “Frost.” They are working on some new cone 6 glazes and have new Trash Can raku kilns in stock. Also close out deals on Aztec airbrushes. www.clayartcenter.net, 800-952-8030EDUCATIONAL DVD AVAILABLE: Out of the Fire Studio in Edmonton, Canada has recently produced the first of a series of educational DVDs on making pottery. It is 90 minutes long. They hope to develop a series where a beginning potter, using the DVDs, can learn to make pots independently. $29.95 + $5.00 shipping and handling. They also make and sell the "Perfect Profile Rib" for $14.95 + $5.00 s & h. They sell through Plainsman Pottery Supply, www2.plainsmanclays.com:4201/dealers.php, or contact them directly, 866 378 0240, www.outofthefirestudio.com.
GALLERY WARNING: OPA member Pamela Mattson McDonald has had trouble with a central Oregon gallery. She has had problems with payment and missing inventory. If you would like more information, contact her, matmcd2002@yahoo.com, 503-325-5812.DIGITAL SCALES: If you need to accurately weigh large quantities of materials or packages for shipping, OPA member Nick Molatore recommends UltraShip digital scales. They weigh up to 50 (or 75 lbs), have a detachable digital display, display lbs/oz or grams and are very accurate and reliable. About $50. Be sure to get the optional AC adapter. www.myweigh.com/mediumscales_ultraship.html. Nick bought his at www.oldwillknottscales.com/ (search for "ultraship" in the upper left corner)MERCHANT CREDIT CARD PROCESSING: There are a few new things to know about credit card processing. First, a new law went into effect last year that made it illegal for electronic printers to print out a customer’s entire credit card number. Most of us know about that, we know that we are only allowed to print the last 4 digits of their card. But what about those of us who use old fashioned manual imprinters (you know, the ones where you hand write the amount of sale and give the customer the top or bottom copy)? Kopper Slavens, our representative at Novus, says that it is still legal to have the entire card number on the manual imprints. That does not mean it is a good idea, since if the slip of paper is lost it leaves the customer vulnerable to fraud. In other credit card processing news, for a long time FDMS, the company to whom Discover/Novus sends many of the OPA Franchise VISA Mastercard purchases, has charged $7 per month for you to receive a paper (mailed) statement. You can check your statement on their website for free, so you can opt to not receive the paper statement and not pay the $7/month. Now Discover/Novus is also charging $6.95 for a paper statement and giving you the option of receiving it free via email or checking their website. So, if you want to avoid the fees, call now to ask for electronic statements instead of paper ones. Discover/Novus can be reached at 800-347-2000. For FDMS you can fill out an online form at www.viewstatement.net If you are looking for used equipment for credit card processing, one company that sells refurbished items in Tasq Technology, 800-827-8297 x3139The OPA has for several years had an arrangement with Discover/Novus for members to get decent rate for credit card processing. Their system also processes VISA and Mastercard, rates are generally below 3%, make sure to mention that you are part of the OPA Franchise. You can contact our representative, Kopper Slavens, at 503-521-1908. NEW KILN SHELVES: In the last Newsletter there was a group buy of the new kiln shelves that are being sold by Geil kilns. Various OPA Members bought some to test out. They are relatively thin, although not as thin as the Advancers we were hoping they emulated. They vary quite a bit in thickness, both from one shelf to another and also within each shelf. They are also very slightly warped. As we all use them, we will report how they perform. CONTEMPORARY CRAFTS MUSEUM & GALLERY: Rumors have been flying about Contemporary Craft’s future plans. They have officially announced that they are negotiating with a developer to purchase part of the old Daisy Kingdom store on NW 8th Ave in the Pearl District. They have had to do a lot of soul searching in order to come to a decision about their future. While their Corbett space is well loved by many people in the crafts community, it has limited their potential to serve more people and to grow their organization. The move will provide them with a much larger space that is nearer other arts organizations and galleries, thus giving them the opportunity to expand their museum and educational programs and to connect with both a vital arts market and a likely tourist market. They will have ownership of part of the building. They will also, sadly, have to sell the old building. It is an exciting time for them. KILN REPAIR PRODUCTS: There are several different companies that now sell moldable ceramic fiber or fiber that is used like a caulk. Thermal ceramics makes Kaofil for 2300 and 2600 degrees F (706-796-4200, www.thermalceramics.com), and Harbison Walker in Portland sells a form of Unifrax that comes in a standard caulk tube (503-227-7944, 1333 NW 12th)ENCAPSULATED RED PIGMENTS: Mason has come out with some new encapsulated red stains that can be fired to any temperature ( www.masoncolor.com). Spectrum glazes have come out with a variety of new glazes that use encapsulated reds, they have them in temperatures ranging from cone 06 to 10 (800-970-1970, www.spectrumglazes.com)LEAD GLAZE LITIGATION: The state of California for some time has had extremely strict laws relating to lead and cadmium leaching from ceramics. An article in Ceramic Industry’s annual 2005 issue mentions that private attorneys have brought many suits, using Proposition 65, against manufacturers of ceramics that have allegedly exposed customers to lead and cadmium. These suits each seem to settle on different “safe harbor” thresholds for leaching, so there are still many unknowns if you sell functional ware in California. There are rules that require work that does not meet the California standards to have permanent labels stating that it is non-compliant. For more info, contact the Society of Glass & Ceramic Decorators, www.sgcd.org. You may also want to contact Arts, Crafts & Theater Safety, Inc. They publish a variety of articles on lead leaching in glazes that are useful to the potter and will send reprints for a nominal price, www.casewb.com/ACTS, ACTSNY@cs.com, 212-777-0062MARKETING YOUR WORK: The NCECA Journal from the “Borders in Flux” Conference had some interesting articles about marketing work. Lisa Rankin encouraged potters to look past minor flaws and imperfections in their work. You will never make a perfect piece, and if you apologize to customers who are interested in a piece, you will never sell it. Be enthusiastic about your work, after all enthusiasm is contagious. She also mentioned some opening lines to use with customers. “May I help you?” is not good. Better options are “What can I help you find today?” or “Which of these pieces caught your eye?” These open ended questions are not often answered with a terse “yes” or “no” so the conversation is not stopped abruptly by the customer response. She also stressed the importance of informational tags that are included with the piece. They spread your story and attach more meaning to your work. Bill Hunt discussed traits of people who get to the top of their field. The main characteristic they all have is: persistence. He points out that on the road to artistic fame, you hear the word “no” far more often than you hear “yes” so you must be able to keep going in the face of failure. He also talked about the numbers of people who achieve a limited amount of success, then disappear, proving the old adage that “the hard part isn’t ‘getting there,’ the hard part is ‘staying there.’” Even if you achieve success, you must still have persistence. He also has noticed that most successful crafts people were respectful of others, and that seemed to help them. He spoke about how publicity and promotion work. To be done properly, it should provide sound education to the receiver. It should be interesting, useful and informative, not pushy or rude. BELLEVUE ART MUSEUM: They have reopened at last. The museum is across from Bellevue Square in Bellevue, WA. Open Tues-Sun. The new museum is supposed to be more spacious and better lit than the old one. 510 Bellevue Way NE, 425-519-0770, www.bellevueart.org.OPPORTUNITIES JUSTICE CENTER WINDOW DISPLAY: The OPA has a display in these large, street level windows in downtown Portland. The next two exhibits still have plenty of room for more work: “Masks and Monsters” will run from mid-September through early November. “The Decorated Table” will run from early November through mid January. If you would like to display work in these, contact Michelle Gallagher, thefunnything@hotmail.com,ONLINE SALES: Www.ArtandDesignOnline.com is a website for selling art. There is no fee to be listed, they did not say what their fees are for selling through them. To be listed, log on and click on “Join the Directory”. Another website that recently contacted us is www.unearthit.net. They list artwork for sale, arts events and other things of interest to people taking a “creative holiday.” They charge a flat fee for listings of artwork for sale, there is no commission. Event listing is free.CALL FOR ENTRY: West coast artists sought for RiverWalk Project in Astoria. Site representative artwork for along riverfront, $4000 awarded to nine winning proposals. www.astoriavisualarts.org/rp, inforp@astoriavisualarts.org. Deadline Sept 1.CALL FOR ENTRY: Art sought for Dia de los Muertos Festivities & Exhibition, Linn-Benton Community College, Oct 24-Nov 23, send SASE to Suzanne Campbell, AHSS Gallery, 6500 Pacific Blvd SW, Albany OR 97321, www.linnbenton.edu/calltoartists, deadline Sept 1.CALL FOR ENTRY: NCECA Regional Juried Student Exhibit, open to all undergraduate & graduate students in OR, WA, CA, AK, ID, NV, UT, MT, WY, & Western Canada. 2 works per entry, deadline October, www.nceca.net, 866-266-2322, deadline October
FAIRS NEW ART FESTIVAL: A new festival in St Helens, 40 minutes west of Portland. Deadline Aug 31, show Oct 1, $25 for 10x10’, outdoors, no electricity, artists encouraged to demonstrate work. Live music, on line application, http://www.artnphotos.com/2005_riverside_art_festival_appl.htmDISCOVERED (& UNDISCOVERED) POTTERS SALES: Issaquah, WA Oct 19-22. Woodinville, WA Nov 16-19. Fees $70-85 + 20% + one day of work. www.undiscoveredpotters.com, 425-868-3989WORKSHOPS-LECTURES-CONFERENCES-TOURS DON SPRAGUE: Nov 5-6. This workshop will cover altering thrown forms, throwing pieces in large scale and a few cheap tricks. $100 for Clay Guild of Cascade members, $125 for others, at Central Or. Community College in Bend. Contact Linda Heisserman, linheiss@msn.com.IAN CURRIE: Sept 17-18. One of only three Ian Currie workshops in the US this year, he is known for his innovative approaches to glaze calculation. $150, College of Southern Idaho in Twin Falls, contact Larry Davidson (208)543-6486 or ladavidson@mickey.myrf.net for more informationJOSH DEWEESE, VICTORIA CHRISTEN, GAIL NICHOLS: “Soda Masters” Sept 2-11, at Pottery Northwest in Seattle, www.potterynorthwest.org, 206-285-4421MAJOLICA TOUR OF ITALY: Sept 13-23, sponsored by Pottery Northwest in Seattle, www.potterynorthwest.org, 206-285-4421CHINESE CULTURAL EXCHANGE: May 12-26, 2006, Ceramics Cultural and Professional Exchange in the Peoples Republic of China. See Beijing, Shanghai, Jingdezhen, Yixing, Xi’an. Sight seeing and workshops. For information on becoming a member of the professional exchange, contact Ken Turner, www.kenturnerpottery.com, ken@turnerpottery.com.NCECA IN PORTLAND NCECA will be in Portland March 8-11, 2006. For information about registering, check their website, www.nceca.net. The Conference is always really interesting; don’t miss this opportunity to attend when it is in your own backyard.NCECA 2007 will be March 28-31 in New Orleans VOLUNTEER AT NCECA: There are many great volunteer opportunities for this Portland Conference. NCECA’s official liaisons here in Portland are Thomas Orr torr@teleport.com and Ted Vogel vogel@lclark.edu, If you have official questions, they are the guys to ask. If you would like to help out with volunteering before or during the conference, Deborah Shapiro shapiroporcelain@yahoo.com, is collecting names of people for that. People will be needed before the conference to help stuff envelopes, hang shows and build pedestals. During the conference people will be needed to man doors at each lecture, run slide projectors, and guide bus drivers on the gallery tours. You would volunteer for a partial day and still attend the conference for part of the day. You don’t have to live in Portland to volunteer, and it is a great way to meet other clay artists from throughout the world. Ted and Thomas are also looking for people to help them solicit donations from building supply companies for materials to build pedestals, and they are looking for help with fundraising efforts for some of the projects that are associated with NCECA.Deborah Shapiro will also be making buttons for OPA members to wear that say things like “I live here: ask me for directions” NCECA RESTAURANT GUIDE: The OPA is putting together a guide of fabulous places to eat for out-of-town NCECA attendees. Send in a list of your favorite restaurants. Give us as much info as possible: restaurant name, address, telephone, brief directions on how to get there using light rail or a bus from downtown (if possible), a one-sentence description of their food. Many participants will spend their day at the Convention Center (where we have Showcase) and their mornings and evenings in downtown Portland, so places that are accessible from either of those locations are especially useful. Send to Deb Bouchette, virtuosa@aleatoric-art.comSTUDIO TOUR DURING NCECA: There will probably be a self-guided tour of local clay artists’ studios at the end of the conference. Janet Buskirk will coordinate this, and it will probably look very much like the OPA Holiday Studio Sale Guide. It will be juried by some of the NCECA people. Look for information in a later Newsletter. MEMBER NEWS JUDE TOLER was featured in an article about her tiles in the Eugene Register Guard’s Home and Garden section on July 14th.FAYE NAKAMURA & STEVE ALBRECHTSEN were both in “Oregon Made for Interiors,” a show of fine furnishings at Maude Kerns Art Center in June and July. DEBORAH SHAPIRO wrote a nice article about OPA that appeared in a recent edition of Studio Potter Network News. It included some great photos of Showcase and a brief summary of both OPA and Showcase. RURI will have a show at Contemporary Crafts, 3934 SW Corbett in Portland, Oct 1-Nov 13, reception Sept 30, 5:30-8pm. HSIN-YI HUANG gave a demonstration of her work at Contemporary Crafts on July 16, DAVID PIPER gave one there on Aug 20. For more information on artists’ demonstrations and studio tours sponsored by Contemporary Crafts, check their website, www.contemporarycrafts.org.SHAMELESS ADVERTISING Evenheat kiln for sale: Sale at
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cubic feet, car, swing door, eclipse
burners. 40 like new shelves. Built and designed by Kinney Simpson. Fires
to cone 10 like a dream. FOR SALE: Suquamish Shores Waterfront house & Ceramic/Guest Studio. In Kitsap County, WA, views of Mt. Rainier, Cascades, Space Needle, nice beach nearby. 1400 sq ft, 2 br, 1 ½ ba, 700 sq ft studio, $160,000, on leased land. Brenda Beeley, P.O. Box 1339, Suquamish, WA 98392-1339, mtimes@telebyte.netFOR SALE: Olympic Downdraft DD30 gas kiln, 30 cu ft, 8 burners, 2 pilots. Incl 29 square shelves, plenty of posts, Bartlett controller (not installed) & custom fabricated detachable metal roof w/ built in flue. Very good condition, gets great reduction, $6000/obo, in Southern Oregon. Stephanie, FOR SALE: Bluebird type pugmill. A workhorse, non de-airing, 8 ½” barrel reduces to 4”, $700, Duane, dgmat@comcast.net.FOR SALE: Fiber updraft gas kiln, stainless steel shell, based on Hank Murrow design, shell lifts straight up so you have access from 4 sides, accommodates 4 stacks of 12x24 shelves or 3 stacks of 14x28s. 50” tall stacking space. Insulating firebrick base of kiln is 59x79”. Natural draft burners w/ two 2” Eclipse venturi mixers, ea manifolded to 13 ¾” stick-tight flame retention tips (26 flame tubes entering kiln). Shell requires 13’ ceiling. Gordon Ward, gordward@mindspring.com (Eugene)FOR SALE: Entire selection of glaze chemicals, including Albany slip, calcined alumina, chrome, cobalt, copper, cornwall stone, kona spar, iron chromate, ione kaolin, nickel ox, spodumene, silver nitrate, cadmium, selenium, praseodymium, Kingman spar, gerstley borate, frits many other materials. Kiln posts (lots), Skutt 231 w/blank ring, elec. shelves, 700# bagged clay, large and small cones, bats (60), Bailey basic slab roller, 4 burners with auto shut off, Kerokuro (traditional Japanese wheel purchased in Japan). Pricing will all be about 60% of SPS prices, preference to those who buy all I have of a material. After the sale I am going donate everything left to a school. Offers over $2600 can have it all. Michael, mkeenan@efn.org.FOR SALE: Tile cutters that produce 4 ½” tiles (if 11% shrinkage). 190 available, $15 each if you buy all, it cuts the tiles, then you plunge the tile out with spring loaded plunger. John Drain, www.fine-earth.com,SLIP CASTING STUDIO SOUGHT: Seeking capable slip casting studio in Portland area for ongoing subcontract production work, contact Steve Gerould ROOM FOR RENT: $425/mo includes utilities. Cute house w/ hot tub, wrap around porch, washer & dryer. Victoria. DATES TO REMEMBER:
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