2018 Ceramic Showcase & Northwest Potters Interpret Their World

Join us for the 26th Annual Ceramic Showcase!  

This three day event showcases over 150 Oregon Potters Association members who make sculptures, wall art and functional pottery for the home, garden, and work. Special areas for children to play with clay and pottery demonstrations run throughout the show.

Ceramic Showcase is joined by the Gathering of the Guilds: Creative Metal Arts Guild, Guild of Oregon Woodworkers, Oregon Glass Guild, Oregon Potters Association, Portland Bead Society and Portland Handweavers Guild.

Show Hours: 

• Friday, April 27- 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
  
• Saturday, April 28- 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
  
• Sunday, April 29- 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
  

Featuring:

• Daily artist demonstrations
  
• Live music
  
• Family-friendly crafts & education
  
• Hourly door prizes & gift certificate giveaways 11am-4pm each day

You could win a $50 Ceramic Showcase Gift Certificate! Fill out a mailing list form and drop it in one of the collection boxes located throughout the show. Names will be drawn twice each day.

• Northwest Potters Interpret Their World
  

Northwest Potters Interpret Their World is our 2018 OPA Fundraising installation. Themes involving Peace and the Northwest, with interpretations of plants to animals, ocean life to wetlands, homes, neighbor- hoods, geology, mountains, and abstract conceptual work focussed on our concerns, hopes, and observa- tions of our world. Funds from NW Potters Interpret Their Worlds benefit OPA’s Clay In Education program.

The Hokkaido Potters Society invited OPA to send eight peace poles for exhibition in their Museum of Contemporary Art in June 2018, along with an OPA members’ juried exhibition. A Peace Pole Exhibition of fifty five-foot sculptures created by Pacific North- west Youth are exhibited in the lobby just outside the entrance of showcase. A jury will select 8 for travel to Japan.