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EventsThe Annual CornfestCeramics Student, Michael Magnussen,On a beautiful fall day in September, we welcomedstudents, faculty and staff back to school with the CeramicsCornfest. Over 12 dozen fresh cobs of corn wereoffered to all who came by.Fundraiser for NCECA TripIn November, the Ceramics Students Associationfor a held a fund-raiser to travel to the NCECAconference to be held in Philadelphia in March2010. NCECA, the National Council for Educationon the Ceramic Arts, conference is an opportunityto see numerous exhibitions of contemporaryceramic art, to attend workshops, lectures and paneldiscussions on Aesthetics and Critical Theory, ArtHistory, Education, Professionalism, Technology,and new work. Fourteen Concordia students planto attend the conference. These students created 400cups which brought in over $2500. This money will beused to cover the conference registration fee and someof the travel expenses for all of the students. Thanksto everyone who supported them by purchasing thecups. Special thanks to Student Association presidentLana Jamieson, who coordinated the event and toCeramics faculty members Diane Brouillette andLinda Swanson who helped with the fund-raiser. Ifyou missed out on the last sale, you will have a secondchance for a unique cup at a second fund-raiser to beheld the week before Valentine's Day in 2010.The Ceramics Student Association Fund-raiserOur Thanks to Tucker’s Pottery Supplies for their supportand donation of materials.NewsLinda SwansonLinda Swanson: Red View, detail, 2009Linda Swanson has continued working on her firedViews Series in Concordia's gas kilns this fall. Shegave a lecture as visiting artist at the State Universityof New York in Plattsburgh in November. Her workwas featured in Amy Gogarty's presentationentitled Ceramics and Dissolution: Toward the Zero

of Form at the 2009 Universities Art Association ofCanada Conference. Recent issue #78 of CeramicsArt & Perception included her work in the articleentitled Ceramics Pluralism: Diversity of Practice andthe Role of Criticism by Glen R. Brown.Diane BrouilletteDiane was invited to participate in the China JingdezhenContemporary International Ceramic Exhibition ,held from October 18th to October 22nd 2009.Her piece "Presser / Palper / Pouffer" was chosen tobe displayed in the Exhibition and is now part of thepermanent collection in Jingdezhen.Francine Potvin: Piling of rocks on picnic table, ephemeral installationin Gros-Morne, Newfoundland, 2008•Application Deadlines:Ceramics Programme - March 1, 2010Portfolio submission - February 22 -25, 2010info at: www.concordia.caDiane Brouillette: Presser/Palper/Pouffer, 2009Francine PotvinThis Fall, Francine has been engaged in the juggling actof teaching three Introductory ceramics courses whiletaking care of usual and unusual family business withher three teenage sons.Francine has a small print of ginkgo biloba leaves aspart of a Nomad Collective Print Exchange, organizedby Print Zero in Seattle. The collagraph circulated inSeattle, and Regina. It is now in Montreal and will bein Buffalo for the month of February. The Ginkgo isregarded as the bearer of hope.•Attention all ceramics alumnae andformer Concordia ceramics students!We invite you to send us informationand a jpeg about what you are up to. Wewill need the info by May 15, 2010 forour June issue of the newsletter. Pleasesend to:kit.griffin@concordia.ca•This newsletter is also available onthe Concordia Studio Arts web site underthe link for ceramics.http://studio-arts.concordia.ca