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As over 6,000 people stream into Pittsburgh for this year’s NCECA Conference, the scope of interest in the ceramic arts and the diversity of makers, teachers, and collectors will be evident.  Standard Ceramic’s NCECA Exhibits will include the work of former Washington Redskins Chris Cooley, a man in whom the power of creativity could not be squelched.  This owner of The Cooley Gallery in Leesburg, Virginia returned to an early love after nine years in major league football.  His The Cooley Gallery exhibit will showcase his functional pieces. 

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Enriching the exhibits in the Standard Ceramic facilities will be eight additional shows by university faculty and students.  Representing current education in the ceramic arts, eight universities will showcase work in special shipping containers.  These “pop-up” spaces will be located in a parking lot adjacent to Standard Ceramic.  Visitors can stroll through each structure, viewing the work of noted ceramic educators and their students.  Combined with the featured shows, the university exhibits will enrich and complete the NCECA visitor’s experience of the full range of ceramic work in the United States in 2018.

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  Standard Ceramic’s NCECA’s Exhibitions   When the 52nd Annual Conference of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts convenes in Pittsburgh this coming March 14 – 17, Standard Ceramic will transform its facilities into several galleries that will feature exhibitions by noted ceramic artists.  In addition, eight universities will be featured in... Read more »

The ceramic arts, along with most visual arts, tend to be a solitary pursuit – one artist giving form to a personal creative idea.  Collaboration is not the hallmark of potters.  For artists Kelly and Kyle Phelps, twin brothers whose lifelong alliance has carried them along parallel paths, working independently makes no sense.  These Ohio artists will bring their representations of industrial workers to Standard Ceramic’s production facility-turned art gallery for the NCECA Exhibits.

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  Standard Ceramic’s NCECA’s Exhibitions   When the 52nd Annual Conference of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts convenes in Pittsburgh this coming March 14 – 17, Standard Ceramic will transform its facilities into several galleries that will feature exhibitions by noted ceramic artists.  In addition, eight universities will be featured in... Read more »

Though potters Jack Troy and Kevin Crowe are based 275 miles apart, they share a long history of collaboration and friendship.  Visitors to Standard Ceramic’s NCECA Exhibits will see a sampling of their work in a space that shares the closeness of this alliance.  In a small office space at ClayPlace@Standard, converted to a mini-gallery, Troy and Crowe will tuck a selection of their smaller pieces into an intimate setting that enhances the personal, not only of each artist’s relationship with his work, but of their relationship to each other.

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  Standard Ceramic’s NCECA’s Exhibitions   When the 52nd Annual Conference of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts convenes in Pittsburgh this coming March 14 – 17, Standard Ceramic will transform its facilities into several galleries that will feature exhibitions by noted ceramic artists.  In addition, eight universities will be featured in... Read more »

  Standard Ceramic’s NCECA’s Exhibitions   When the 52nd Annual Conference of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts convenes in Pittsburgh this coming March 14 – 17, Standard Ceramic will transform its facilities into several galleries that will feature exhibitions by noted ceramic artists.  In addition, eight universities will be featured in... Read more »

Two curators from different mid-west cities will collaborate together on an exciting group exhibition of noted ceramic artists during NCECA.  Jayson Lawfer of Chicago’s The Nevica Project and Philipp Eirich of Kansas City’s Cerbera Gallery have put together a show of works by living and deceased artists that they consider notable and of interest to the NCECA audience and worthy of the designation, “10″.

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The NCECA Bus Tour to Standard Ceramic on Wednesday, March 14 will bring conference attendees to a veritable smorgasbord of ceram
ic art, both inside and outside of Standard’s facilities.  Detroit non-profit Pewabic will park its mobile museum and traveling kilns in the alley between Standard’s main buildings, staging pop-up raku firings throughout the multi-day events. 

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  Standard Ceramic’s NCECA’s Exhibitions   When the 52nd Annual Conference of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts convenes in Pittsburgh this coming March 14 – 17, Standard Ceramic will transform its facilities into several galleries that will feature exhibitions by noted ceramic artists.  In addition, eight universities will be featured in... Read more »

Standard Ceramic’s NCECA exhibitions will include works by the visionary ceramic artist Mary Bowron, who passed away at age 84 in 2017.  The six decades of her work, begun in the 1960s as a young mother seeking an outlet for her creativity, form an extensive archive. 

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