2010 NDPCS Convention Attendance, Awards & Activities

ATTENDANCE - The Grand Forks Convention registered 116 NDPCS members including six members from Virginia, Pennsylvania and Washington. About 25 additional NDPCS members attended the Saturday Auction and Sunday Pottery and Collectible Show.  An estimated 80 non-members attended the Auction, Pottery/Collectible Show and “Road Show.”

AWARDS – The First Timer Award to Joel Abel of Milaca, MN. The award is given to a member attending their first NDPCS convention. It was a 2010 Special Commemorative two piece paper-weight set depicting the UND Bison and Sioux curtain pulls.

The Cliff & Mayvis Olson Founders Award – Ken Metzen

Honorary Life Membership – Dale & Janice Deike

Activities – The Pottery & Collectible Show on Sunday, June 13^th at Hilton Garden Inn had 16 exhibitors renting 20 tables to display, show and sell North Dakota pottery and other pottery items. Five additional tables for NDPCS Historian Books, Past Convention Books, ND Pottery Books, NDPCS merchandise and Membership were available to view by those attending.

The NDPCS Social on Friday, June 11^th had two UND pottery related presentations. Ken Forster of Falls Church, VA shared information on the comparisons of UND pottery styles with those of other US potteries and university, especially Newcomb College, Iowa State and others. He also cited the influence of WPA/FAP in American ceramics. Ken authored the book titled “UND POTTERY – a History and Comparative Study of the Art Pottery made at the University of North Dakota” and was available for book signings.

Ted Hoberg of Grand Forks, ND presented a UND Cable Trivia session, sharing numerous bits of information about UND pottery and Margaret Cable, who was recruited  in 1910 to start and head up the UND Ceramics Department by Earle Babcock, State Geologist and Chemistry Instructor at the UND School of Mines. Ted showed a UND pottery utilitarian plate that Babcock displayed at the 1904 Exposition in St. Louis and pottery items made by Cable after she retired in California. Ted displayed and share information from two original books: 1. “The Ceramik Studio,” 1904 authored by Adalaide Robineau, a very well world wide known potter at Syracuse University; 2. “UND Staff and Students,” 1917 in which Hildegarde Fried and Ella Moen were listed as students. Moen became a well known artist and 35 year

year teacher at Fresno State Teachers College and was listed as being from Souris, ND, research information that Ken Forster was currently seeking for a new book he is writing.

NDPCS Silent Auction – NDPCS members attending the Friday Social had the opportunity to participate in a silent auction and bid on 28 pottery items that were decorated by NDPCS members at the 2009 convention. The $345.00 total proceeds raised from the auction went towards the top three cash prize awards in the Beginning Potters Category of the Annual Potters Show & Competition.

GF Thank You!! - The Grand Forks NDPCS Convention Chairs and Planning Members wish to thank all NDPCS members who volunteered and participated in the 21^st Annual NDPCS Convention. Special  thanks to the major contributors and sponsors: GF Convention & Visitors Bureau ($1,000.00); Columbia Mall; UND Department of Art & Design; UND Alumni Association; Garden Hilton Inn; Collector Display Presentations; North Dakota Museum of Art; Curt D. Johnson Auction Company.