Sarah Heitmeyer Qwist Joseph Nick Lenker Lindsay Montgomery Sean Scott George Rodriguez NCECA’s Emerging Artists program recognizes exceptional early career artists highlighting them to an international audience during NCECA’s Annual Conference. NCECA believes that those [...]
Kyungmin Park - Being an Artist Growing up in South Korea, I was labeled as a too opinionated, too independent and uptight not so girly girl. I always ask questions until I find an answer that makes sense to me. [...]
Tom Jaszczak - Artist Interview What is the biggest change in your work or life since your emerging artist talk? I don’t know that I have made a major change in my work since my emerging artist talk. Things [...]
Sean O'Connell - Artist Interview How would you describe yourself? I would say that I am inquisitive, detail obsessed, and a bit of a control-freak, but also easy-going with most other things . . . and I try as [...]
Brooks Oliver - Artist Interview How would you describe yourself? I hope they would say I was funny. I think they would most likely say that I was a very passionate and friendly person with an ability to relate [...]
Sara Parent-Ramos: Being An Emerging Artist "My work originates out of a cyclical process of accumulation and synthesis. I make sense of information first by arranging the objects I create and then assigning them a meaning through organization. I then obscure [...]
Finish up those applications for the 2019 NCECA Emerging Artist! "Applying for the NCECA emerging artist was such a spur of the moment decision for me. Not something I ever thought I would apply for, but was encourage [...]
Natalia Arbelaez - Art as Language "Creating artwork has been important to me from a young age. I came back to the US at the age of four not speaking English and communication was hard for me. I learned English [...]
Janet Macpherson - Finding her voice as an artist "A friend who was a sculpture major first introduced me to ceramics while we were at university. I was not an art major, but I hung out with the artists at [...]
Del Harrow was an Emerging Artist at NCECA in 2009. These are his thoughts about his expierence and the program.... "Thinking about the opportunity to present as an emerging artist at NCECA (2009) one of the first things that comes [...]
NCECA believes that those creating work offering new/exciting/thoughtful perspectives on the ceramic medium, expanding upon genres of creative production and inquiry are qualified as candidates for its Emerging Artist awards. An Emerging Artist may be at the early stages of [...]
Wade MacDonald - Becoming an Artist and Advice for the Future "While preparing for high school graduation, I had a brief moment to sit at a kickwheel in the art classroom and attempt to throw a pot. This was my [...]
Andrew Stansbury: An Ode to Missed Connections "We didn’t have long, and you let someone skip in front of you. When it was our time, you choked back tears. “Oh honey, it’s okay,” I said, “we don’t gotta talk,” and [...]
Adam Chau - Essay about influence and idea development "My clay journey started early - my family opperated a bakery when I was growing up and I learned commercial-level baking at a very young age; it was shortly after that [...]
