Oregon Potters Association upcoming events

Ceramic Showcase Visions Meeting (Sun, August 02, 2026)

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 18:00:00 GMT

Ceramic Showcase Visions Meeting!

The first planning Meeting for Ceramic Showcase 2027

If you are a Committee Chair, or want to help plan Showcase 2027 in any manner at all, or if you are curious about Showcase, please join us!

This meeting is in person, but we will have a Zoom hybrid option.

Zoom link is here: Zoom Link

Meeting ID: 833 9815 2026

Passcode: 296275

Sunday, August 2, 11am-4pm

At the Saint John's Clay Collective, 6635 N Baltimore Ave in Portland (near Cathedral Park & St John's Bridge)

Parking is available behind the building that can be accessed on the west side (railroad tracks) of the building complex.

A potluck style lunch will begin at 11:15 am and grazing / snacking will be allowed during the meeting.

We will begin the meeting promptly at 11:30 am.

Please plan to bring:

- a food dish to share

- a chair

- a plate and utensils to eat with

Fizzy water will be provided.

Please send showcase chair anything for the agenda by the end of the day Friday, July 31

Please summarize your proposals and thoughts.

Due to everyone’s busy schedule, we will allow for 5 minutes to propose an idea and small discussion after. Ideas requiring more time and attention will need to be taken to a smaller committee and then proposed at a future meeting.

Do you have items for the Agenda? Send them to showcasechair@oregonpotters.org

The agenda can be found here:

Showcase Meeting Agenda

OPA Emerging Artist Fair at SymbiOp Garden Shop (Sat, August 15, 2026)

Sat, 15 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT

OPA Emerging Artist Fair 2026

Saturday & Sunday

Aug. 15 and 16, 2026

10:00 am- 4:00 pm

SymbiOp Garden Shop

3454 SE Powell Blvd, Portland, OR

Registration will be open from July 9 - July 17

Application does not guarantee event admission

A lottery system will be used to select artist participating with emerging artists selected first

Registration is open to all emerging potters in the OPA membership FIRST and it will be a lottery system.

If we do not fill all of the spots with emerging artists, we will then allow others into the show using a lottery system.

Emerging artists criteria:

- This is your first show/not done many shows

(Not done juried shows)

- You must have enough work to fill your 10'x5' booth

- You will need your own furniture

- You will also need your own wrap material,

bags and payment system for sales

- Registration button is at the bottom of this email. It is not timed, please read all of this before applying

- Complete registration first

- Registration will be open for 2 weeks

- We will randomly pick emerging artists July 20th from the application list

- You will receive an email of acceptance into the event, pay $50 registration, and send photos to provided link.

- Your registration will be complete after the fee is paid and your photos are submitted

- We will send an informational email closer to the show to provide all the info you need

SymbiOp opened in the fall of 2021 and is a worker-owned, ecological garden shop. They cultivate biodiverse and climate-chaos resilient food systems.

They garden shop will help us promote our event via their website, email list,social media sites and regular customers.

- Participants need their own indoor display set up, point of sale system & wrap materials.

- You may sell any original work created by you from ceramic clay.

Any mixed media work must be predominantly made of clay.

- No seconds or discounted artwork allowed.

- All art must be priced appropriately.

- Artists must setup and be ready to sell by the beginning of the event. - There is no packing up or leaving early.

Cost of this event per 10'x5' space:

$50 to OPA + 10% of sales to the nursery.

10% of each artist's sale will be paid at the end of the day on Sunday. An OPA member will get information from each artist to calculate total sales, collect the 10% fee, and provide a receipt for the payment.

You are welcome to share your space with another member,

but include their name & email contact when you register

so all participants are being promoted.

Set up will start Friday afternoon (Aug. 14) at 3 pm and continue Saturday morning (Aug. 15) at 9 am

All artists are required to provide photos!

These photos will be used for social media and can be easily taken with your phone. This can be you in any phase of making your work - throwing, carving, glazing, firing, unloading your kiln, etc. Please include your face, people want to know you!

All participants need to help promote the event through their

personal social media accounts, distributing postcards

and emailing their customer email list.

If you have any questions

or need assistance,

DO NOT CONTACT THE GARDEN SHOP.

Contact event organizers

Bryan Quintanilla bryanquintanilla@oregonpotters.org

Maya O'Neil

mayaoneil@oregonpotters.org

Best regards,
Oregon Potters Association

August Board Meeting (Wed, August 19, 2026)

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 01:30:00 GMT

All OPA members are welcome to join regular meetings of the OPA Board. This will be held via Zoom. Here's the link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84716853453?pwd=8rma0NxJeTkJRtQ6FNzjnipSvTGiaE.1

OPA 2026 Picnic (Sun, August 23, 2026)

Sun, 23 Aug 2026 19:00:00 GMT

Save the date for our picnic. Details coming later.

Pit Fire with Victoria Shaw (Sat, August 29, 2026)

Sat, 29 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT

The Magic of Pit Fire with Victoria Shaw

Join ceramicist and teacher, Victoria Shaw to create pit fired forms and sculptures using both thrown and coiled elements. Learn how to make and apply Terra Sigillata, and learn to build a simple kiln for low fire smoke results.

Schedule

Saturday August 29: Day 1: 10am-3pm

Bring one or more bone dry, thrown or hand-built clay pieces for learning how to apply Terra Sigillata. You may also bring leather hard work for carving. Victoria will demonstrate decorative techniques, discuss design possibilities, and be on hand to help. During lunch, she will discuss the pit fire process, and recommend combustible materials to enhance your pieces. You will leave your finished pieces with us for bisque firing during the week.

Saturday, Sept 5th: Day 2: 10am-12 noon

Decorate your bisque fired pieces with oxides and cocoon them with combustibles, then we will secure them in the pit and light it on fire!

Sunday Sept 6th: Day 3: 4pm, unpack the kiln and Discover!!

Registration Fee: $295 $265.50 with 10% OPA discount

Space is limited, please register to join us. Current members of Oregon Potters Association or the Pottery @ 446 receive a 10% discount off registration.

About Victoria

A Pacific Northwest native, and accomplished ceramicist and teacher, Victoria’s work derives inspiration from "the still, small voice within," and often her sculptures speak about a collective spiritual vision. Since 1986 she has been making totems of various forms. Victoria lives and works in Portland, Oregon, and her sculpture is collected throughout the United States, as well as Israel and Japan.

Pit Fire with Victoria Shaw (Sat, September 05, 2026)

Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:00:00 GMT

The Magic of Pit Fire with Victoria Shaw

Schedule

Saturday August 29: Day 1: 10am-3pm

Saturday, Sept 5th: Day 2: 10am-12 noon

Decorate your bisque fired pieces with oxides and cocoon them with combustibles, then we will secure them in the pit and light it on fire!

Sunday Sept 6th: Day 3: 4pm, unpack the kiln and Discover!!

Registration Fee: $295 $265.50 with 10% OPA discount

Space is limited, please register to join us. Current members of Oregon Potters Association or the Pottery @ 446 receive a 10% discount off registration.

About Victoria

Pit Fire with Victoria Shaw (Sun, September 06, 2026)

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 22:00:00 GMT

The Magic of Pit Fire with Victoria Shaw

Schedule

Saturday August 29: Day 1: 10am-3pm

Saturday, Sept 5th: Day 2: 10am-12 noon

Decorate your bisque fired pieces with oxides and cocoon them with combustibles, then we will secure them in the pit and light it on fire!

Sunday Sept 6th: Day 3: 4pm, unpack the kiln and Discover!!

Registration Fee: $295 $265.50 with 10% OPA discount

Space is limited, please register to join us. Current members of Oregon Potters Association or the Pottery @ 446 receive a 10% discount off registration.

About Victoria

September Board Meeting (Wed, September 16, 2026)

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 01:30:00 GMT

All OPA members are welcome to join regular meetings of the OPA Board. This will be held via Zoom. Here's the link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84716853453?pwd=8rma0NxJeTkJRtQ6FNzjnipSvTGiaE.1

October Board Meeting (Wed, October 14, 2026)

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 01:30:00 GMT

All OPA members are welcome to join regular meetings of the OPA Board. This will be held via Zoom. Here's the link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84716853453?pwd=8rma0NxJeTkJRtQ6FNzjnipSvTGiaE.1

November Board Meeting (Wed, November 18, 2026)

Thu, 19 Nov 2026 02:30:00 GMT

All OPA members are welcome to join regular meetings of the OPA Board. This will be held via Zoom. Here's the link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84716853453?pwd=8rma0NxJeTkJRtQ6FNzjnipSvTGiaE.1

OPA November Membership Meeting (Fri, November 20, 2026)

Sat, 21 Nov 2026 02:30:00 GMT

7688 SW CAPITOL HWY • PORTLAND, OR 97219

December Board Meeting (Wed, December 16, 2026)

Thu, 17 Dec 2026 02:30:00 GMT

All OPA members are welcome to join regular meetings of the OPA Board. This will be held via Zoom. Here's the link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84716853453?pwd=8rma0NxJeTkJRtQ6FNzjnipSvTGiaE.1