NCECA-“Current” Cincinnati, Ohio

Event Phone: 512-666-9003

NCECA’s 57th Annual Conference, Current, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 15-18, 2023.

NCECA’s 57th annual conference takes place:

Wednesday, March 15 – Saturday, March 18, 2023
Duke Energy Convention Center
525 Elm St, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Current day Cincinnati is home to a vibrant creative community of artists, many working with clay. Collectively and individually, they are getting their hands dirty and shaping new worlds. The region’s first peoples of the Eastern Woodland Indian tribes venerated their ancestors, moving tons of earth over long distances to form massive mounds. In the early 19th century, scores of brickmakers and artisans churned out construction materials from the clay-rich flatlands bordering the mill creek in their very back yards. Still later, ceramic artists like Maria Longworth Storer established Rookwood Pottery when she found that the clays of the Ohio Valley rivaled those used in the world’s finest ceramics.