As promised, the remainder of the NCECA pictures. Enjoy!
Malcom Davis gave the closing lecture. Some of the highlights include his talk about working with Martin Luther King Jr when he was a radical Pastor, only then to touch clay for the first time at the age of 40. Since then he has become a hugely influential potter, especially for his Shino glazes. 
Super awesome NCECA dance. We watched middle-aged women dance the night away. Well, we only sat their for about 20 minutes, but this was quite a hit with most of the drunken potters.
It was Spring!
Whales! I can't remember the artists name, but they were made at in this park right before NCECA with raw clay. What you're seeing here is how the clay dried and cracked on top of the wood and wire supports that he built for the shape.
Val Cushing exhibit in the middle of nowhere.
Did I mention it was Spring?
Mexican Pineapple! I took a little one of these guys home with me. Last year sometime, my throwing professor showed us a video on how these pieces were made. Each one of those individual bumps is from a sprig mold which gets attached to the piece with slurry. They mix all the lead glazes by hand and then apply them by throwing the glaze, again with their hands, onto the piece. Its lead... LEAD! How crazy. But after watching this video, I realized that I wanted to make pottery.
A Kathy Butterly show that we walked about 5 miles to get to...
The Magic Gardens by Isiah Zagar. Go to the link to understand how incredible this man is.
There was a bird living in a ceramic tea cup! Can you spot the babies?
Still disappointed that this sculpture wasn't bigger...
Tourists at the liberty bell.
And finally, what the three of us had to deal with for 7 hours. The sound that the rotating door are not nearly as annoying on camera as they were in person, but you get the idea.
Awes!
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