NOVEMBER 19 – DECEMBER 30, 2017
Main Gallery, Sales Gallery
You always have opportunities to utilize ceramic art in your daily life, but it’s especially true during the last few months of the year. Enjoy serving trays and bowls for your own dinner table. Share a mug & your favorite cider recipe with someone in your life who deserves a warm thank you. Take the time to choose a memorable gift for the friend or loved one who is traditionally impossible to impress and will now smile whenever they think of you.
Participating artists: Adrienne Eliades | Amy Von Bargen | Andy Bissonette | Austin Riddle | Beth Lo | Bianka Groves | Birdie Boone | Brent Pafford | Ernest Gentry | Gary Erickson | Gillan Doty | Gruchalla Rosetti Pottery | Ian Petrie | Janel Jacobson | Jason Burnett | Jeffrey Oestreich | Kent McLaughlin | Kevin Wilcoxson | Kurt Brian Webb | Lazare Rottach | Lisa Buck | Lydia Johnson | Marty Fielding | Matt Repsher | Nathan Bray | Sam Chung | Sarah Chenoweth Davis | Stephanie DeArmond | Sue Tirrell | Suze Lindsay | Tricia Schmidt
shop for gifts
- Pots from over 60 year round NCC artists
- Work by more than 24 special guest artists
- Handmade clay tools and ceramic jewelry
The Open House event offered good holiday cheer, fed your creative spirit, and celebrated the opening of the Holiday and MN NICE Graduates Exhibitions.
create with clay
Arctic animals and candy-colored birds were just some of the hands-on clay projects at this year’s Open House. All projects were fired and ready to give as gifts by December 5.
eat, drink, & be merry!
The Open House also offered us the opportunity to let us take care of you with treats, hot cider, and Somali coffee (from Capital Café!). Then, guests could mingle & try their hand at the pottery wheel in our studios.
Members Holiday Benefits
NCC members were offered a Members Only check-out line during the open house — members move to the front of the line and use the member discount!
During the Open House members may also share their member discount with a friend!
Holiday Mug 2017
This year’s holiday mugs were created by a local favorite, Janel Jacobson, and a gem from the East Coast, Kevin Wilcoxson.
$29 each
Each mug was gift-wrapped and includes the artist’s favorite mug-worthy recipe!