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This Listing up-dated on 5th March 2020
29 February - 15 March 2020 - Malvern, Victoria, Australia
A Daedal Gallimaufry - exhibition of anagama-fired and new work by Owen Rye – at Malvern Artists’ Society.
March – Richmond, Virginia, USA
Exhibitions with a woodfire content showing to coincide with this year’s NCECA conference taking place in Richmond VA include:
24 – 28 March
Caravati’s
Caravati’s
A Conscious Collective. Work by Monocacy River Pottery Group from Maryland.
23 – 29 March
Branch Museum of Architecture and Design
Branch Museum of Architecture and Design
Cub Creek: Twenty Years Together – residents and founding members of the Cub Creek Foundation for the Ceramic Arts.
24 – 31 March
Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Farmville
Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Farmville
Woodfire – including Dan Molyneux, Chris Gustin, Tim Rowan, Peter Callas, Ted Neal, Jan McKeachie Johnston, Randy Johnston, John Neely.
2020 – St Ives, Cornwall, England, UK
To celebrate the centenary of the foundation of the Leach Pottery in 1920 exhibitions will be held at the Leach Pottery and overseas.
15 February – 10 May
Leach Studio Potters: 100 Years On.
21 March – 7 November
Century of Connections.
4 Jan - 5 July
Shoji Hamada Memorial Mashiko Sankokan Museum.
Shoji Hamada Memorial Mashiko Sankokan Museum.
Leach and Hamada Part 1,
28 June – 8 November
Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art, Mashiko, Japan
Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art, Mashiko, Japan
Started it in England
23 – 29 March; 3 – 9 August, and 12 – 18 October – Skælskør, Denmark
Communal Woodfirings at Guldagergaard – International Ceramic Research Center: Application deadline is two months prior to the start of each programme.
5 - 8 March 2020 - Seagrove, North Carolina, USA
The 33rd North Carolina Potters Conference – guest demonstrators include Bede Clarke and Dan Finnegan. The conference which is hosted and organised by the North Carolina Pottery Center will be held at the Historic Luck’s Cannery complex.
6 March - 25 April 2020 - Red Lodge, Montana, USA
Solo exhibition by Perry Haas – at Red Lodge Clay Center.
Until 8 March 2020 - St Ives, Cornwall, UK
An exhibition illustrating how potters evoke surface - in the Cube Gallery at the Leach Pottery. Includes many historic and contemporary wood-fired pots.
21 March – 19 April – Uppingham, Rutland, England,UK
Svend Bayer – Best Pots exhibition at Goldmark Gallery.
18 - 24 April / 25 April - 2 May 2020 - Good Hope, Trelawny, Jamaica
The Eloquent Wood Fired Vessel workshops parts 1 and 2 – Anderson Ranch Arts Center (Colorado, USA) Jamaica Destination Workshops. Tutors include Randy Johnston, Jan McKeachie-Johnston, Pelusa Rosenthal, Chris Gustin, Nancy Train Smith, David Pinto, Doug Casebeer.
18 – 26 April, Gulgong, New South Wales, Australia
Guest artists at this years Clay Gulgong event include woodfirers Linda Christianson, Justin Rothshank (USA), Steve Williams (Aus).
19 April - 2 May 2020 - Certaldo, Tuscany, Italy
Finding the Beauty in Imperfection – handbuilding, throwing and woodfiring workshop with Akira Satake.
24 April – 2 June – La Borne, Cher, France
Michel Cohen exhibition – Le four comme partenaire (The kiln as partner), at Centre Ceramique La Borne.
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29 April - 8 May 2020 - Kecshemét, Hungary
Stoneware Glazes for Woodfiring – workshop with Markus Böhm including a woodfiring, at the International Ceramics Studio.
29 April - 17 May 2020 - Sasayama, Hyogo Ken, Japan
Making, glazing, packing and anagama firing workshop with John Dix, Bruce Dehnert, and Ashwini Bhat, at the Fieldwork Studio.
1 May – 21 Jun – Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Influence and Creativity: A Retrospective of Rock Creek Pottery – Douglass Rankin and Will Ruggles, and Inspiration and Discovery: Pathways to Expression – a group show of work by 17 of their students at Northern Clay Centre.
23 - 27 May - Seagrove, North Carolina, USA
Seagrove pre-conference kilns: Several pre-conference wood-firing workshops to take place including Ben Owen III to host guest artists Chris Gustin, John Neely, and Cynthia Bringle to fire his four chambered wood-fired kiln.
28 - 31 May - Star, North Carolina, USA
Woodfire NC will examine the relevance of woodfiring in educational, historical, ethical, and aesthetic contexts. The conference will be preceded by several woodfiring workshops across the state.
4 - 6 June - Newberg, Oregon, USA
Northwest Wood firing Conference on the themes of Sustainability, Accessibility, and Education. Lectures, demonstrations, panels, exhibitions. Pre-conference firing of the East Creek anagama in Willamina.
7 - 21 June - Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
Sculptural Serving Vessels – workshop with Jeff Shapiro at Gaya Ceramic Arts Center. Making, packing, firing, cooling, unpacking, followed by a dinner using works produced in the firing.