As a member of New Mexico Potters & Clay Artists, you are invited to participate in our annual Celebration of Clay exhibit. This show is our opportunity to share exciting ceramic creations.

This show's title was inspired by the idea of inclusiveness, based on the city, Santa Fe, in which this exhibit will take place. There are as many approaches to clay and the ceramic arts as you can imagine. This art form has been on the planet as long as people have but it can also lend itself to a completely contemporary expression too. We invite you to explore what inclusiveness means to you for the next Celebration of Clay. What will you create for Many Hands, Many Ways?

Three steps to register:

ONE Enter one or two entries on this website, nmpca.com by "registering" for this event. Enter the first entry by selecting Registration type "1..." and then register again for this same event if you want to enter a 2nd entry, selecting Registration type "2...". If you are a student, you can make two entries to the same "Student" registration type. Be sure to follow-through the payment via paypal. Do this starting January 1st. Registration closes April 1st or whenever we receive enough registrations to fill the show.

TWO Upload your images and descriptions to NMPCA.NET. This is a separate image upload site. Instructions for preparing your image and using the site are in the confirmation email you will receive after you have completed your entry in step one. This must be completed by March 15 for a chance to have your image included in the show publicity or April 1st at the latest to insure show participation.

THREE Go to the event "Celebration of Clay Tasks" and sign up for a task or make a contribution to the show setup and staging. Putting on the Celebration of Clay is a group effort and we need your help.

AWARDS

Awards will be selected by an award jury. Awards will be announced at the reception on April 26.

- Best of Show: $150

- UNM Arita Porcelain Award for Beauty, Quality and Functionality: $100

- Three $50 Merit Awards.

Entries are also displayed on our exhibition website, www.celebrationofclay.com where we will again feature our interactive People’s Choice Vote.

Show Timeline

Registration opens	January 1
Entry Due	April 1
Advance publicity images	March 15
Entry finalized and images submitted	April 1
Deliver work to collection points	April 21-23
Show setup	April 24-25
Show Duration	April 26 - May 31
Opening Reception and Awards Presentation	April 26, 5 - 7 pm
People's Choice Voting	April 26- May 31
People's Choice Award Announced	June 5
Take down exhibit, repacking work	June 1-2
Pick up entries from collection points	June 2-5

ELIGIBILITY

All members of New Mexico Potters & Clay Artists are eligible. New members are welcome and can join at the same time as entering the show. www.nmpca.com/join

SIZE OF WORK and LIMITATIONS

Works in this show must not have been shown in any previous NMPCA exhibition. All work must have an accurate photographic representation. No works may be substituted. This gallery has limited wall space and is unsuitable for heavy or large 2-D installations. If you are planning on a wall piece, please contact us in advance so we can determine feasibility. All work must be gallery ready with hanging system installed on the work.

Freestanding work should fit safely on an 18” x 18” base. It may be possible to install larger work providing space is available but artist will be required to install and remove the work themselves. Advance notice is required. We will not accept work we deem as unsafe or damaged.

ENTRIES

Submit your entry by clicking "register" at left. Entry Fee is $15 for one piece or $25 for two pieces. Students can enter up to 2 pieces for $10 per entry. Payment may be made online or by check payable to NMPCA Treasurer, 5708 Stillbrooke NW, Albuquerque, NM 87120.

SALES

The fee structure for the show is 65% for NMPCA artist and 35% for Santa Fe Clay. Sales tax is added to the purchase, collected and reported by the gallery.

WEBSITE IMAGE and STATEMENT

A digital image of each entry is required. These will be used for publicity, gallery selection, and People's Choice voting. You will receive a confirmation email with instructions on how to prepare your images and a link to the website to upload your image file(s). All images must meet required quality standards as well as be on white background. Images received by March 15 will be considered for use in publicity. All images must be uploaded by April 1, 2019. The committee reserves the right to reject images not prepared appropriately. The artist may resubmit rejected images up to the entry deadline stated in the timeline. If an acceptable image is not received, the work will not be shown and entry fee is forfeited.

After you pay your registration fee for the show, you will be sent instructions where to enter your entry information (title, size, price, description) and upload one image per entry.

INSURANCE and LIABILITY

Santa fe Clay liability insurance will cover art while on gallery premises and will pay 50% of value to the artist in event of breakage or theft. NMPCA does not insure art work while being transported to and from central collection points and galleries. Artists desiring further insurance are advised to arrange for coverage themselves. Artist exhibiting work agree to hold the NMPCA volunteers harmless from any costs or claims arising out of any damages or losses in handling, transporting, packing, and/or unpacking of work. We will do our best to take care of the work.

VOLUNTEERS

Please volunteer in order to make this exhibit possible. We need your help. See the confirmation email for special instructions about volunteer jobs. See the details on the task event registration and "register" for the task of your choice. If you absolutely can not help we understand and would still like you to participate, but ask that you contribute an extra $25 to help with the exhibition costs.

DROP OFF & PICKUP OF WORK

We will have two collection points to deliver and pick up your work, see time-line. All work must be boxed and labelled as described in the confirmation email. Please call in advance.

Albuquerque: Leonard Baca

Business Printing Service
4316 Silver Ave. SE Albuquerque
505-480-8292
leonard@bpsabq.com

Santa Fe: Santa Fe Clay

545 Camino de la Familia

Santa Fe, NM 87501

505- 984-1122

You must deliver work to one of these two locations or ship work directly to Santa Fe Clay to arrive no later than April 23. Shipped work must include prepaid return shipping label. Label shipped work for Celebration of Clay Exhibition.

All work must be boxed and labelled according to instructions in your confirmation email.

IMAGE UPLOAD SPECIFICATIONS

You can enter a 300 character statement about your work to be used in show publicity. Then, for one or two entries (depending on the number of registrations you signed up for), enter the following information on the image upload site, www.nmpca.net.

the title of the piece,
a description: clay, treatment, firing
outside dimensions expressed as 00″h x 00″w x 00″d (please put in the inches quote marks and h, w, and d)
price as $000 whole dollars, no cents, show dollar sign
click “choose file” to select the image. Your image must be a jpg file, minimum 800 px longest dimension, maximum 1280 px wide and 1024 px high, not to exceed 1mb in size. Follow the directions for image preparation in your confirmation email, including the name of the file.

If you are submitting an image by March 15 with expectation to have it used in publicity, please have readily available a higher resolution image (recommend minimum 1500x2100 pixels, 300dpi). If your image is selected for publicity, we will contact you for the larger image.

Questions? Contact the Celebration of Clay 2019 committee at email coc@nmpotters.org

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Celebration of Clay Tasks 2019

Start
27 Apr 2019

End
31 May 2019

Location
various

Registered
31 registrants

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Who does the work of presenting the Celebration of Clay? You do!

Sign-up for Tasks to be completed between now and the end of the show, January 1st through June 5, 2019.

Log in to with your member sign-in to access these tasks.

It takes the combined effort of a lot of people to present the annual Celebration of Clay. We have identified 20 jobs needing some 50 people doing those jobs. We make it easy for you to decide how you can help and sign up. You select one or more tasks that you want to perform by "registering" for a job here on this event. Just choose a "new registration" to sign up for an additional task.

We can't put on the annual Celebration of Clay exhibition without a lot of effort on the part of our members.  There are tasks that are widely varied in the times they are to be performed, the skills required, and the location. Several can be done at home. Several are contiguous on the same day and place, making it easy to sign up for two tasks or flexible if your time is limited.

If you absolutely cannot perform any of the tasks, but still want to participate in the show, would you be willing to contribute to the expenses of the show? You can do that here...select the final "task" in this registration.

See All Task Details

It is important that you review all the jobs and the details of what is involved, the perform date, and the location and conditions. Scroll down on the list at left to see all the details.

To sign up for the first task, select register at the bottom of the list, then select the task, and follow the prompts. To sign up for another task, register a second time for this same event, but select a different task.

Signing up for each task is limited to the number of people needed for that task. If there is a task you really want to do, but it is already fully taken, you can sign up for the waitlist on that task. If someone can't do their job, we will ask you to step in. Or, sign up for task #21 and we'll find a job that we didn't anticipate for you to help with.

Thank you so much for helping put on this show!

If you have any questions, contact the COC Show Committee:

coc@nmpotters.org

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Ghost Ranch V-Camp

Start
17 May 2019

1:00 PM (MDT)

End
19 May 2019

3:00 PM (MDT)

Location
Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, New Mexico

Spaces left
6

Registered
9 registrants

Register

Ghost Ranch Volunteer Camp

Sign up by April 20, 2019, subject to space availability

We are holding the 2019 v-Camp on the weekend of the Blue Grass Festival, May 17-19. This allows us to have fun attending the final festival concert...always great fun. During the days, we will be working hard to maintain facilities in the Pinon Ceramic studio.

The Ranch is providing free housing and meals for those working during Volunteer Camp. Housing is in "dorm" room with bathrooms down the portal. We will have separate Men's and Women's rooms, with 3-5 beds in each.

V-Camp is a great time for members to get to know one another and to have an exchange of ideas while working to maintain the facility. The mission statement of the NMPCA is to promote education in the ceramic arts, and by maintaining this site we are contributing to the well being of this magical educational facility, making sure it is kept in good working condition for our 2019 workshops and beyond.

Work activities this year include: Repairing the gas kiln, replastering the fuming kiln, finishing the wood working on the portal, general cleanup and moving, inventory of materials and preparing list of needed replacements, preparation of a manual for use of critical equipment for the ranch to use.

If you have questions, call Barbara Campbell, the event coordinator, at (575) 581-4430 or email becampbell33@gmail.com.

We will let you know about any special items to bring, but in general work gloves, work clothes, dust masks for cleanup and sturdy shoes, rakes, shovel, pick-ax, trowel.

Ghost Ranch V-Camp has a long and productive history. Here's the crew from 2008.

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