News
1/2007 - Guild member Eduardo Lazo has been accepted to lead the NCECA Topical Discussions forum on "Naked Raku, Current Trends and Challenges" on Thursday, March 15, 2007 from 3:30-5:00 p.m.
If you are attending the NCECA conference in Louisville, please join him in the round table informal group discussion and share your experiences with other participants. Bring your ideas, questions, and successes to this NCECA conference event. Photographic images or actual samples of your work would be helpful and very much appreciated by Eduardo.
11/2006 -
New Workshop "The Paperclay Revolution: Techinques and Tips on Working with Paperclay" with Graham Hay. OVCAG is pleased to host this internationally known artist from Australia. Sign up now to take advantage of the Early Bird Special and to secure a space. Space is limited to 16 attendees to ensure enough personal hands-on time during the workshop.
10/2006 -
The Home and Garden Television Network has chosen three OVCAG members to be filmed
for the upcoming season of That's Clever !
They are Amy Brown, Judith Enright and Judy Lee.
9/2006 - The October issue of The Crafts Report has an article entitled "How to Start a Guild", a significant part of it about OVCAG.See page 44 of the October issue.
7/2006 -
OVCAG member Adrian Litman is written up in the latest issue of
The Crafts Report.
7/2006 -
The Guild's Art in Clay October Sale is on again. It will be on Friday the 13th and Saturday the 14th of October, 2006, at the Radisson Hotel in Sunnyvale, CA.
6/2006 - The 6th Annual OVCAG Barbeque is on Saturday August 12th, 2006. It
will be held at Myrna Ehrlich's in Cupertino. For details please click
here.
6/2006 -
Ceramics Monthly has published an article in the
June/July issue by Lee Middleman. Entitled "Hai Kaburi,
Creating Consistent Crusty Wood-fired Results" the article describes a
unique kiln in Goshogawara, Japan. Lee has participated in firing
this kiln, designed and built by master potter Ryoji Matsumiya. In
July, Lee will fire work in this kiln during the Goshogawara Woodfire
Artist-in-Residence Program.
4/2006 - Members, please note that its April 1st 2006 and
our new membership fee schedule is now in effect. Please see
the recent email from the
OVCAG Members Chair, Cristina Chang, for details.
The full text of that email is available
here.
5/2006 - Congratulations to Swanica Ligtenberg, her work titled "Horsehair Chalice" was accepted in the art gallery of the prestigious Mitsukoshi Store in Tokyo, Japan. Visit her blog site to read about her explorations in Japan.
5/2006 - Congratulations to OVCAG member Dan Dermer on his acceptance as an exhibiting member of the ACGA.
4/2006 - April 2006 Ceramics Monthly includes an article on OVCAG member
Jan Schachter written by Linda Mau, also of OVCAG.
3/2006 - Congratulations to Lee Middleman!!
His work has been selected for the 14th Annual Strictly
Functional Pottery National juried by Tom Coleman. The exhbition runs from April 22 to May 21 in Lancaster, Pennsyvania.
Lee also has been invited to participate in the 9th Annual Macsabal Woodfire Festival in Osan, Korea. This is Lee's third invitation to the festival. For more complete info on Lee Middleman, visit his website at www.leemiddleman.com.
2/2006 - OVCAG member Fred Yokel is included in the Beatrice Wood Ceramic Annual at the new Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts in Ojai,CA.
2/2006 - Linda Mau's clay feet project is covered in the Cupertino Courier.
The project is also on display at De Anza College's Euphrat Museum of Art.
1/2006 - Empty Bowls is on again. For information please see Empty Bowls Soup Supper under Opportunities.
1/2006 - Barbara Brown has written a Potter's Guide to NCECA, containing many tips on freebies and what to check out at NCECA this year.
1/2006 - The Craft Emergency Relief Fund has thanked OVCAG and Mother Earth Clay Art Center for their joint effort in fundraising for their Disaster Relief Fund. The full text of the letter of thanks is available here.
12/2005 - Gallery House in Palo Alto will be accepting submissions for juried membership. A few of our guild members are already juried in. Dan Dermer is the OVCAG contact for any interested members. Gallery House can be found at www.galleryhouse2.com and Dan may be contact at ddermer@sbcglobal.net
11/2005 - San Jose Mercury News features an article on Guild potter Ardrian Litman. Please note that if you are not registered with the Mercury you will need to do so to read this article, but its free and only takes a moment.
11/2005 - San Jose Mercury News features an article on Guild potter Geri Peterson. Please note that if you are not registered with the Mercury you will need to do so to read this article, but its free and only takes a moment.
7/2005 - Gentry Magazine features the Guild and our award-winning newsletter, Greenware, in their July issue!
2/2005 - Member
Lee Middleman is
featured in the
February 2005
edition of Ceramics Monthly.
 10/2004 - 20 Guild artists participate in the premiere show at the renovated Allied Arts Guild in Menlo Park. Read about it in the Almanac and the Mercury News.
7/2004 - Read about the Guild's Of This Earth / Ceramics on Exhibit show, held at the Olive Hyde Galllery, in the Tri-City Voice.
 5/2004 - Read member Wes Rolley's review of Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics, an exhibition at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles.
5/2004 - Member Dan Dermer received a Merit Award for his work, Ash Glazed Ginger Jar at the AVArtFest, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara.
5/2004 - The Guild's May Clay Extravaganza, held at the Roasted Coffee Bean in Cupertino, is listed in the Cupertino Courier. The show featured work from over 50 Guild artists.
 4/2004 - Guild President Judith Enright and member Alison Pangburn are featured in an article on Open Studios in the Willow Glen Resident.
 4/2004 - Members Cindy Couling, Eduardo Lazo, and Susan Worley each have works featured in Alternative Kilns and Firing Techniques, by James Watkins and Paul Wandless (published by Lark Books).
3/2004 - Saskia Dinh's "Sea Tea" teapot was accepted into the Teapots-A-Go-Go II show in Atlanta, GA from April 16 to May 15.
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1/2004 - Read a wonderful article about OVCAG in the 1/21/04 edition of Sunnyvale local newspaper, 
7/2003 - OVCAG's Newsletter, Greenware, wins APEX award for Communications Excellence. For more information about this award and the organization giving it, please go to the 
09/2002 - Guild member Fred Yokel is featured in 
04/2002 - 
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