American Art Pottery Association CONVENTION. Wednesday Sunday May 1 to 5. Chantilly, Virginia

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1 2019 American Art Pottery Association CONVENTION Wednesday Sunday May 1 to 5 Chantilly, Virginia

2 2019 AMERICAN ART POTTERY ASSOCIATION CONVENTION Wed. Sun., May 1st to 5th, 2019 Chantilly, VA Contact Information: Dear AAPA members, GENERAL CONVENTION INFORMATION: MARK LATTA GENERAL REGISTRATION: MARIE LATTA W. Fulliam Ave. Muscatine, IA SHOW & SALE INFORMATION: DON GILL & PATTI BOURGEOIS PO Box 834 Westport, MA The 2019 American Art Pottery Association Annual Convention will commence Wednesday, May 1st and continue through Sunday, May 5th, This year we are joining the Washington DC Art Deco Society Modernism Show and The DC Big Flea Antique Market at the Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly, Virginia. Ticket admission will allow our members and customers to view all three shows. Let s not forget they will be shopping us too! All 7,000 of them. We have some educational seminars on tap and two wonderful tours planned, read about them in this packet. Our host hotel, the Holiday Inn, is conveniently located next to the Expo center. This is a busy weekend in Chantilly, be sure to book your rooms early. Registration forms can be downloaded at our website ( info/convention) and mailed to Marie Latta, 2115 W. Fulliam Avenue, Muscatine, IA If you have questions regarding this year s convention or AAPA membership please contact Mark Latta at zona@netwtc.net (AAPA in subject line) or I hope you will all join us for this exciting convention venue. Best regards, Mark Latta, President, American Art Pottery Association The days and times of the schedule are subject to change without notice when circumstances are beyond our control.

3 Schedule of Events Wednesday, May 1st 8:00 AM Registration desk opens in the host hotel lobby 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Wednesday Tour (see details on the next page) The registration desk will open Wednesday morning at 8 AM at the host hotel. Please stop by to pick up your badges and convention info. 6:30 PM Welcome Meet & Greet with Auction. Hutchison Ballroom (cash bar). Thursday, May 2nd 9:00 AM-10:30 AM Seminar: The Art Pottery of Jerry Marek and the American Art Clay Company (AMACO) Presented By Mark Bassett 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Seminar: North Carolina Pottery Presented By Darrel Styles 1:00-3:00 PM Thursday Tour (see details on the next page) 4:00 PM Dealer Set-Up Begins - Dulles Expo Center North Hall 6:30 PM Banquet - Host hotel (cash bar). Friday, May 3rd 9:00 AM-10:00 AM Seminar: Rose Cabat and Edwin Scheier Two Twentieth Century Potters Presented By Bruce Block 10:00 AM- 4:00 PM Dealer Set-up - Dulles Expo Center North Hall 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM AAPA Show and Sale open for Convention Registered Members Only. Saturday, May 4th 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM AAPA Pottery Show and Sale Dulles Expo Center, North Hall Sunday, May 5th 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM AAPA Pottery Show and Sale Dulles Expo Center, North Hall WELCOME MEET & GREET and AUCTION Wednesday, May 1st, 6:30 PM Our Meet & Greet will be held in the Hutchison Ballroom at the host hotel. You are invited to see old friends and meet new members. There will be lots of food and fun! Bring some cash too!!! Our newly formatted auction will be held during our Meet & Greet. We are going to have a small 50 lot auction of donated pots as part of our reception. Please consider donating some pottery. HOST HOTEL: Holiday Inn Chantilly-Dulles Expo, 4335 Chantilly Shopping Center, Chantilly, Virginia Please contact the hotel at or to make your reservation. Make sure you tell them you are coming in for the American Art Pottery Association convention. Total rooms booked will help offset the convention costs, so please utilize our host hotel during your stay. Good news no reserves, no buyer s premium, no shipping and no internet competition. Bring lots of money and a fun-loving attitude. Let s make this event a BIG success. 3

4 Tour Wednesday, May 1st 8 AM to 5 PM THURSDAY BANQUET Our Banquet this year will be held in the Prairie Ballroom in the host hotel. Our banquet begins at 6:30 PM and will include your choice of one of entree. This is a must-do event! Following dinner will be a brief our Annual Meeting. This year s day long tour will escort participants to see some of Washington s most prized ceramic holdings. We ll start the day at the National Museum of American History for a private showing of some of the Smithsonian s most important holdings, including significant works by Ohr, Robineau, Rookwood and many others. Next, we ll cross the National Mall (stopping for pics of the Capitol and Washington Monument!) to visit the Freer, whose founder was an important early supporter of Pewabic and whose museum has important Pewabic holdings. While at the Freer, we ll also view the remarkable Peacock Room, beautifully designed by James Abbot McNeill Whistler to display Asian ceramics. Following lunch and another stop in DC, we ll head over to Alexandria, Virginia to visit the Torpedo Factory, where we ll watch and learn from some of the region s most important contemporary ceramic artists. Join us! Bring some cash as items are for sale. This tour will be limited to 65 so get your reservations in early. Our bus will have us back at the hotel by 5 PM where you will have time to rest and get a quick bite of dinner. A Welcome Meet & Greet for convention attendees will be held at 6:30 PM. A time to catch up with old friends and meet new members. And, don t forget our auction! Art Pottery Show & Sale Dulles Expo Center North Hall 4320 Chantilly Shopping Center, Chantilly, VA Convention Registered Members This year s AAPA Show and Sale, featuring many of the country s premier vintage and contemporary pottery dealers, will be held in the Dulles Expo Center - North Hall. Early admission to the show will be from 6 PM to 8 PM Friday, May 3rd for convention registered members. Open to the Public The AAPA Show and Sale will be open to the public on Saturday, May 4th from 9 AM to 6 PM and Sunday, May 5th from 11 AM to 5 PM. Show admission for non-registered AAPA members is $10 and provides admission to all three events Saturday and Sunday.

5 Seminars Seminar locations will be posted at the Registration table. THURSDAY, MAY 2nd, 9:00 10:30 AM The Art Pottery of Jerry Marek and the American Art Clay Company (AMACO) The American Art Clay Company of Indianapolis is celebrating their centennial during This presentation will highlight the collectible art deco ceramics created by AMACO between 1931 and The talk will feature images of both more common pieces and rarities, along with tips obtained from various longtime collectors. Images from the AMACO factory archives and from the family of their chief art pottery designer, Jerry Marek, will also be shared with attendees. Keep your fingers crossed--and the session will end with a tour of the small pottery Marek operated for a few years after leaving AMACO. Mark Bassett is a collector and researcher with a special interest in American art pottery of the 1920s and 1930s. He is the author of several books on Roseville Pottery and also of Cowan Pottery and the Cleveland School (co-authored with Victoria Naumann Smoot). Since 2010 he has taught full time at the Cleveland Institute of Art, where he is presently working with art historian Henry Adams on a history of the school. His courses include first-year writing and American Crafts History. THURSDAY, MAY 2nd, 11:00 12:00 AM North Carolina Pottery - A Journey from Utility to Artistry This will be a discussion of the transition of North Carolina potters from manufacture of utilitarian ware to art and tourist pottery. It will trace the progress of the great pottery families of NC, and provide examples of the wares they produced and their identification. Darrel Styles, DVM, PhD is veterinary microbiologist employed by the United States Department of Agriculture. Darrel was born and raised in western North Carolina where he was first exposed to southern stoneware and art/ tourist pottery. Darrel is an avid arts & crafts ware collector including furniture, glassware, metalware, and handthrown North Carolina and Kentucky art pottery made prior to 1960; Fulper pottery; Pierrefonds pottery; and life would simply not be complete without Burley-Winter pottery. FRIDAY, MAY 3rd, 9:00 10:00 AM Rose Cabat and Edwin Scheier Two Twentieth Century Potters By chance I collected two of the great potters of the 20th Century. Rose I knew very well and Ed I met when visiting my friend Rose. How this came about, the story of my connection, as well as information about these two great icons of American 20th Century Art Pottery will be shared and discussed. Bruce Block is the owner of the Antique Underground in Syracuse New York and creator of City Market Syracuse an Antique and Art Cooperative Market with the Everson Museum of Art. He grew up in New York City and thought he was suppose to wind up in Paris. A lack of sense of direction brought him to Syracuse. Who knew??? Tour Thursday, May 2nd 1 PM to 3 PM In the works, an optional Thursday tour which will take us on a tour of the Smithsonian s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, part of the Air and Space Museum and just a short drive from the conference hotel. There, we ll participate in a specially curated tour by Dr. Tom Crouch, exploring the role of ceramics in aeronautics and visiting some of the museum s highlights. Science and space nerds won t want to miss this tour! This tour will be limited to 28 so get your reservations in early. 5

6 Convention Registration WED. SUN., MAY 1ST TO 5TH, 2019 CHANTILLY, VA Marie Latta A SEPARATE FORM MUST BE COMPLETED FOR EACH REGISTRANT. EXHIBITORS MAY NOT REGISTER USING THIS FORM. Return with your check made payable to the AAPA to: Marie Latta/AAPA, 2115 W. Fulliam Ave., Muscatine, IA Name Address City/State/Zip Phone ( ) Membership #: (if you re a member; otherwise, leave blank) INSTRUCTIONS: Complete only Section B or Section C, plus Section A (if applicable). Complete one form for each person registering (make copies or download additional forms at All monies must be paid in full by April 10, Section A: Join Us! If you are NOT currently an AAPA member, but would like to join, you may do so now. Current members should skip this section. Those who take out a dual membership must live at the same address; they receive a single issue of the Journal, but have 2 votes. If you join now, you are eligible to register for the 2019 Convention as an AAPA member Membership Dues (new members only) l $54 Single or l $60 Dual If dual membership, provide 2nd name here Section B: Members Only Convention Package This section applies ONLY to Members wishing to register for a convention package. Otherwise, leave this section blank. Use Section C in order to register using the Day Rates. Member Full $175 per person (Welcome Reception, Tours, Seminars, Banquet, Early Admission to Show) l Please check if attending Welcome Meet & Greet, all are welcome to attend. Wednesday Tour Box Lunch Please check here l for vegetarian. Section C: Day Rates Day Rates, allows participation in select events. Section B SUBTOTAL Wednesday $65 per person. Please check here l for vegetarian. Thursday $30 per person Thursday $55 per person 3 $40 per person Section C SUBTOTAL l Check here if the total enclosed includes a new membership. l Check here if the total enclosed includes any additional (attached) registration form(s). TOTAL ENCLOSED Volunteer Activities: l I can l I cannot volunteer at the convention I can help with l Registration l Auction l Other OFFICE USE ONLY: Date Received: Amount: Check #:

7 AAPA Pottery Donations WED. SUN., MAY 1ST TO 5TH, 2019 CHANTILLY, VA Additional forms are available at Contact Mark Latta at or via at: Donations can be mailed to: Mark Latta c/o Latta Well & Pump, 1051 Taylor Ave., Wilton IA Donation proceeds support the Convention and Journal expenses. Description (Please note any damage, repair, restoration, etc.) Name Address City State Zip Telephone ( )