For
my 2001 HLCCA Conference Exhibit, I toted over 120 pieces to Pittsburgh
for a display entitled:
"Diversity
in the Clay - 100+ Shapes Spanning 100+ Years." As the image below shows,
I received a Silver Award for efforts this year meaning I now have a Grand,
two Golds, and now the Silver (no, I'm not going to be 'trying' for a bronze
next time around...). The exhibits are great fun and while it's nice to
win an award I more enjoy the chance to show pieces and provide information
to folks that they may not ever get a chance to see outside of the conference.
Included in the exhibit were some very rare items such as two early unidentified shapes - "Melon" and "Face-in-the-handle" - along with a Rococco covered vegetable, Victor mug, Shakespear cup and saucer, and much more.
The
other items in this photo are the sunflower-yellow Geo Bowl
with the HLCCA logo
that was used as the dinner 'premium' and the "Pottery Papers" plate from
Candy's most excellent
slide-show movie.
All three pieces sit on an antuque wooden Chinese hat box circa 1890s.
Here's how the exhibit
looked all setup and ready to go. I had a poster made of a vintage
HLC ad extolling "The Apothesis of a Lump of Clay" and mounted that above
the stand. Each piece had a indentifying tag listing the shape name
and the decade of introduction. The whole unit stands 7' high and uses
a 4' by 8' floor space.