This event is about strengthening the ceramics community in Ottawa and surrounding areas bringing together all of us working solo in our studios, in our guilds and in our co-operative studios. We hope this event will foster more events like this and increased collaborations and community. We want new ideas, new artists, new events, we want to shake things up and do something new for Clay in Ottawa.

The schedule is still in the works but here is the rough plan:

Friday

evening:

Registration

Meet and greet

Panel Discussion: Making it in Craft

Saturday

Day:

Registration

All 3 artists demonstrating during the day.

With space at the start of day and over lunch for studios/guilds to run shorter sessions.

Evening:

Slide Talk

Sunday

Day:

All 3 artists demonstrating during the day.

With space at the start of day and over lunch for studios/guilds to run shorter sessions.

In addition to the conference we are working on organizing concurrent exhibitions in the Ottawa and surrounding area with a map/directory on our website. It could be highlighting existing exhibitions are special exhibitions planned to coordinate with the conference. We hope these could run Thursday-Sunday so anyone coming into the area for the conference has a bit of time to see them outside of the conference hours.