NCECA12

TODAY’S AGENDA!  More pages of notes and more on which to reflect.  Looking more and more like that reflection time will be post-conference.  We’re off at 6:30 AM to get in line for the cup sale!

8am–Sold Out

Rooms 615–617

Twentieth Annual Cup Sale

Coordinated by Richard Wehrs

Continue to build the NCECA Fund for Artistic Development, designed to provide opportunities for artistic growth through scholarships, residencies and programs, including the Regina Brown Undergraduate Fellowship, and at the same time build your collection. Purchases are limited to three cups.

9-9:30… Can’t decide!

Room 612

K–12: Transforming Classroom into Gallery: Teaching Interpretation Using Live Conceptual Artwork

By Hannah Traynham

Push the limits of conventional teaching methods with this lesson in collaborative interpretation of conceptual art. Come interact with a live installation sculpture used to expand boundaries in learning. Transform your classroom into a gallery setting, teach your students to interpret and create meaningful artwork.

OR

9–10am

Ballroom 6B

Lecture: The Old Weird Claymerica

By Garth Johnson

The 1960s and‘70s were a time in which ceramic artists challenged orthodox ideas of beauty. Artists like Clayton Bailey and Rimas VisGirda used humor and performance to skewer traditions and

Program.  This lecture is devoted to preserving the“weirdness” that is missing from 21st Century ceramics.

10-11:30 AM

K–12: Master/Mini Clay Class

By Doug Jeck

This session is modeled as a 45–minute class work assignment, from prompt start through clean

up. Participation is limited to 45 stations with materials provided. Drop–in observers are certainly welcome, but materials and time are finite. There is no late start for this. It’s a hands–on project that I’ve altered and implemented for graduate students, pre–schoolers, the homeless, the elderly, experts, and beginners, and is deceptively rudimentary.  We will begin with a brief explanation of the project,“Kitchen Sink”, and some discussion about its parameters, applications, and modifications.  We will end with a clean room and 45 artworks that evidence your radically varied approaches to the theme. My hope is that this class session will introduce different strategies for exploring clay and the infinite ideas and behaviors that orbit the stuff, as well as to produce an intriguing small exhibit.

11:30am–12pm

Ballroom 6A

Lecture: Boredom, Skill, and the Creative Act

By Janet DeBoos

We don’t think much about what boredom really is, other than that it should be avoided. But there are positive aspects to boredom – it can be cultivated as an antidote to a culture of“more”and “new”, and can be an essential partner to skill and deep creativity

12–1pm

Ballroom 6B

Awardees / Honorees

Honorary Member presentations to Ruth Braunstein and Don Reitz

NCECA Excellence in Teaching Award presentations to Chuck Hindes and Jack Troy

NCECA Outstanding Achievement Award presentation to Bill Strickland

NCECA Regional Award of Excellence presentation to Jean Griffith

1-2 PM

Room 612

K–12: Dangling From the Edge of Technical Knowledge into the Precipice of Creativity

By Anna Wiehe

Through qualitative research, art educator Anna Wiehe discovered that although teachers envision art class to foster creativity, emphasis on technical knowledge took so much precedence that creative development was only an afterthought. This interactive lecture will explore how we can balance programs to teach both art–making skills and foster innovative ideas.

2:30 - 3 PM

Room 612

K–12: The Relevancy of High School Ceramics: Change or Perish, We Are On the Edge

By Susan Hanley

Without fear you can integrate your ceramics program into the core curriculum and become a relevant part of the instructional plan of small learning community, multiple discipline education. Learn how to expand your lessons and become a major force. This is an exciting time for ceramics. Bring your questions.

3-4:30 PM

GO SHOPPING at the Exhibitor’s Hall, collect posters, etc.  Run back to hotel and drop everything off!

5-6 PM

Ballroom 6A

Teaching Ceramics Online?!

Suzanne Shield–Polk

A watershed of trends and changes are occurring in college level instruction, often from pressure to develop innovative teaching methods.  For years, I believed that it would not be possible to make the jump to electronic instruction for ceramics courses, however, I have found that hybrid online Ceramics classes are possible. This NCECA Connection will focus on the sharing of ideas for successful online ceramics instruction.

THEN…

Openings at the Seattle Design Center

Dinner at the Space Needle!

Size matters. -Christa Assad

She’s a supermodel, y’know. -Jason Walker

(referencing Assad’s Carhartt modeling gig)

So much to do and see, and I can’t decide on a few sessions.  I’m going to copy/paste from the program for today.  The plan is to attend all of these sessions, and to post notes on what I’ve learned later on.  I’m still a pen-and-sketchbook note taker, haven’t quite mastered the iPad for that yet.  (Maybe if I ever get that ‘3’…)

By the way - if you want to ask a question or comment - there’s a ? link in the top right corner of the blog page.

Here we go!

9-9:30 AM session, I can’t decide between…

Lecture: Activism Through Ceramics

Rooms 602–604

By Roberto Lugo

The tangible value inherent in the ceramic object is a great opportunity for ceramic artists to support the community with their works. This program will discuss how artists can make community activism a part of their practice and the impact these efforts make.’

OR

K–12: The Edges of Learning to Learn

Room 612

By Marvin Bartel

Learn multiple ways to coach engaged

learning without examples and fewer demos. Learn creativity theory, self–learning, empathic studio culture, intrinsic motivation using autonomy, mastery, and purpose. Learn methods of idea generation, experimentation, discovery learning, empathic critique, self–instruction, team learning, and coaching. Presented by the author of Ten Classroom Creativity Killers.

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