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UPCOMING EVENTS

    • Sun, August 17, 2025
    • 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
    • Ginger Steele's home (see description)
    Register

    Ceramic Showcase Visions Meeting:

    Sunday, August 17, 1-4pm

    At the home of Ginger Steele. Please see address and info about Google Maps problems below


    In Person!

    But yes, there is a hybrid Zoom option: Zoom Link

    Please bring a Potluck item to share

    Meeting will be 1-4pm. The Zoom option will start a few minutes after 1pm. 


    Help us plan SHOWCASE 2026!

    This meeting will be our first planning meeting for next year's Ceramic Showcase. All Committee Chairs,  friends of Committee Chairs, curious people, or friends of curious people are welcome to attend!


    The Agenda will be sent out closer to the Meeting. 


    We will vote on the Wrap Meeting Minutes. Please review them here: Wrap Minutes  


    How to get to Ginger's: My address is 3483 S. W. 108th Avenue, Beaverton.  It's between Walker and Canyon Roads, about 3 blocks east of 217.  Google has been muddling my address and sending people to an address on 110th Avenue, don't be mislead.  I live down a flag-lot driveway in a contemporary dark green house behind a gray traditional home where my daughter and her family live. There will be an open gate and a big OPA sign on the street.

    • Mon, August 18, 2025
    • 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
    • Zoom

    https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82726365030?pwd=Ac2NbAwB3VMKbwYmYCN8KEhJRTooow.1

    Meeting ID: 827 2636 5030

    Passcode: 741597


    • Sun, August 24, 2025
    • 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
    • Champoeg Park - Oak Grove Picnic Area
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    Summer Picnic, Pot swap, and Member Meeting

    Sunday 8/24/25, 12:00 to 5:00pm in the Oak Grove Picnic area at Champoeg Park

    8237 Champoeg Rd NE, St Paul, OR 97137

    Join us for a fun day of friends, pottery, and good food! This picnic is open to all, bring your family, friends, and other interested potters to join us.

    Bring a dish to share, a pot to swap, a game to play, and a nice blanket/chair to sit on! 

    • Potluck will begin at 1230 (The theme this year is "Comfort Food")

    -Print out and bring your recipe to be entered into a drawing to win a prize!

    -Turkey sloppy joes, chips and pickles will be available

    • Member Meeting will take place at 2pm
    • Pot swap will follow directly after Member Meeting

    - (Please bring your pot in an opaque bag)


    *Please Note that Parking fees have raised to $10/vehicle for the day.

    ** If you are able, please bring a Cooler with ice to store beverages for the day


    Facilities include a frisbee golf course, a playground near the camping loops, walking/biking trails, and even a canoe and kayak launch on the Willamette River.   There is a very good visitor’s center as well as a Pioneer cabin, a small farm area, and a museum.   The Butteville Store is a 2 mile walk or bike ride.   They have great ice cream, even dairy free sometimes.   


    • Tue, September 02, 2025
    • Thu, November 13, 2025
    • Chehalem Cultural Center, Newberg, Oregon

    It’s been quite a while since the CCC has hosted an all-ceramics exhibition and they're really looking forward to this opportunity to highlight the remarkable and diverse work by OPA members for another segment of the local population. 

    The CCC used to be an elementary school and underwent extensive renovations when the Chehalem Parks and Recreation District purchased the grounds and building in 1997. In 2007, community members proposed a “cultural center for the arts.” The Chehalem Cultural Center broke ground in 2009 and opened in 2010 with a ceramics studio and classrooms. The Lajoie Theater opened and more gallery space and a movement studio were added. The gallery is a beautiful space as you can see in the image below. 

    The hours of this OPA-only exhibition are Tuesdays through Saturdays, 9am to 6pm.


    • Fri, September 12, 2025
    • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
    • Chehalem Cultural Center

    Success when working in clay requires patience and ultimately having a conversation with the clay. Sure, in the end the artist gets the credit but it’s the give-and-take with the clay that gets the result. And that’s not the only conversation. When the potter and the clay are in concordance, the kiln and glaze carry the conversation forward. This is an exhibition of those conversations in clay.

    415 E Sheridan Street, Newberg, OR. 97132 


    • Mon, September 22, 2025
    • 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
    • (TBD)

    This is an in-person meeting with the location not yet determined. We will plan for a Zoom option, as well:

    https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85150185120?pwd=ibBEYmJ6Hrjn01VvXsxRjoubaVGoB7.1

    Meeting ID: 851 5018 5120

    Passcode: 083543


    • Fri, September 26, 2025
    • 9:00 AM
    • Sun, September 28, 2025
    • 5:00 PM
    • Cornell Farm Nursery and Cafe
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    OPA Fall Fair 2025

    September 26 - 28

    9:00 am- 5:00 pm


    Cornell Farm Nursery and Cafe

    8212 SW Barnes Rd, Portland, OR


    Registration will open

    July 28 at 10am


    ** We have 8 spaces designated for new OPA members and any other members that have not participated in popups in the past


    We will have a waitlist when registration is full


    All artists that register are required to help with the operation of the event. You will be assigned jobs by the event organizer. Some of these jobs gain points for showcase.


    Cornell Farm Nursery and Cafe is an established nursery in the west hills of Portland. Great access from the Beaverton and Hillsdale area.

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

    This sales event is open to all members in good standing. Registration is first come, first served on the OPA website. You may sell any original work created by you from ceramic clay. Any mixed media work, must be predominantly made of clay.

    Cost of this event per space:

    $50 to OPA + 10% of sales to be paid to OPA.

    10% of each artist's sale will be paid directly to OPA at the end of the day on Sunday. An OPA member will collect 10% of sales from each artist and can provide a receipt for the payment if needed.

    (New in 2025 - there will be a cap of $200 paid as a commission to OPA for your sales during the event. Anyone selling over $2k will pay only $200)

    We will be inside two large greenhouse. There are 48 - 10' wide x 6' deep spaces available. 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.

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

    The greenhouse is fairly high ceilinged, has a gravel and landscape fabric floor, and will protect us from rain. There's good ventilation!

     

    Set up will happen:

    Thursday afternoon (Sept 25) from 3 - 6 pm

    and Friday morning, Sept 26th from 8 - 9 am

    At the time of registration members need to pay their $50 fee and submit:

    3 high quality images of their current work

    2 images of them making their pottery

    to dennisportz@oregonpotters.org

    ** $50 fee is non-refundable if you are accepted into the show and later withdraw

    Participants need to help promote the event through their

    personal social media accounts, distributing postcards

    and emailing their customer email list.


    Load in and load out is by your own hands/cart. You are allowed to park directly outside the greenhouses to unload. 


    Event organizers:

    Dennis Portz & Elizabeth Wocasek


    Please contact Elizabeth with any questions:

    ewocasek@proton.me




    • Fri, November 21, 2025
    • 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
    • Multnomah Art Center
    Register

    May OPA Member Meeting

    Where: At Multnomah Arts Center, 7688 SW Capitol Hwy in Portland

    What to bring: A delicious potluck dish and your own reusable plate, cup, and flatware.

    More details coming!


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