About the Club | We've Done It! | Club E-Lounge | E-Mail: HCCArt at Yahoo.com Spring '01 News | Favored Links, Explained | HCC Art Show Entrants' Info   The Hagerstown Community College Art Club disbanded with the resignation of its sponsor, Professor Ben Culbertson, who left to head the Shippensburg University Ceramics Department! • See Hagerstown Community College's Student Activities about reviving the Arts & Design Club. • This website continues for Ben's students and associates, a group now called the "Hagerstown-Centered Ceramics Art Club" a.k.a. "The Mim Clay Network."     Art Marathon! Friday Night, 17 April–Saturday Morning, 18 April 2009 Last Marathon to be held in the "old" Huber Art Building!   "Generations": Special appearances by HCC Art Marathon Veterans Tom McFarland (quick portrait sculpture demo; Lisa & Luke Zimmerman (forging demo); Brian Simmons (free eats pig-out demo) Open Studios, w/ main activities on Lower Level, Ceramics & Bookmaking Areas   Breakfast ⇒ at 6 am, courtesy of Gail Chapin at chez Culbertson, for those nine who went the distance!   Other workshops: Steve Dolbin: Art Career; Prof. Keely: Tornado Painting; Emily Santa: Paper Marbling & Quick-firing in a Raku Kiln with Iron Chloride mixtures over Terra Sig; "How to Draw a Bunny" (a Ray Johnson biopic)   Wednesday, 8 April–Saturday, 11 April 43rd Annual Conference   Phoenix, Arizona Phoenix Convention Center   Theme ⇒ "Ceramic Interface: From Dawn to Digital"   Ben is to attend with one senior student, Art Education major Jeff Kuratnick.   our 5th Annual, the weekend before the 4th of July, 26–28 June 2009: Friday, 26 June • Saturday, 27 June • Sunday, 28 June   Canal Campground, Harpers Ferry, MD a.k.a. Mim's Arts Park   18th Annual Sunday, 31 January 2010   back at the Elks Lodge #378, at the intersection of Medical Campus Drive & Robinwood Drive, Hagerstown   Admission tickets are $50 (c/o Temple Abraham, Hagerstown) Great soups! Other good food! Roger Schlossberg's Arts & Crafts Auction! The Raffle!   To avoid pop-up ads, bookmark http://www.geocities.com/hccart. >> Schedule of Events 2008 Sign up for events by e-mailing us at HCCArt at Yahoo.com or by contacting an active member. Reservations for events with a cost are only official after payment is received. Summer BenFest IV Friday, 1 August–Sunday, 3 August Harpers Ferry, Maryland Canal Campground Events: Camping, Potlucks, Swimming, Pit-Firing, Wood-Firing   See description at left.   Spring NCECA Trip Wednesday, 19 March–Saturday, 22 March Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania David L Lawrence Convention Center 42nd Annual Conference Via carpooling. Theme: Innovation, Community, Environment   See description at left.   Winter Potters Bowl 2008 Sunday, 10 February 2008 at the Elks Lodge on Robinwood Drive, Hagerstown New venue, new bowls! Admission tickets were $50 (c/o Temple Abraham, Hagerstown)   Over $17,000 was raised this year!   See description at left.         17th Annual Sunday, 8 February 2009   back at the Trinity Lutheran Church, corner of North Potomac & Randolph Streets, Hagerstown   Admission tickets were $50 (c/o Temple Abraham, Hagerstown)   Great soups included Turkey Sausage & Bean, Hungarian Goulash, Shitake Mushroom & Barley, Chicken Tortilla, and Chicken & Matzah Ball!   Other good food! Roger Schlossberg's Arts & Crafts Auction! The Raffle!   Potters Pictures by Charlie Burdick     Later Summer 2008 Friday, 1 August • Saturday, 2 August • Sunday, 3 August   Canal Campground, Harpers Ferry, MD a.k.a. Mim's Arts Park Theme: Pit-Firing/ Wood-Firing   Back by popular demand: Potters on the Potomac, otherwise known as BenFest!  Friday, 1 August • Saturday, 2 August • Sunday, 3 August   "Scheduling has always been difficult, given the popularity of our esteemed and beloved teacher. June and July were already tight. Our best shot was the first weekend in August—same place, the former Canal Campground."   "This year's workshop was a pit fire and a woodfire."   Wednesday, 19 March–Saturday, 22 March 42nd Annual Conference   Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania David L Lawrence Convention Center Theme: Innovation, Community, Environment   Sunday, 10 February 2008 at the Elks Lodge on Robinwood Drive, Hagerstown New venue, new bowls! Admission tickets were $50 (c/o Temple Abraham, Hagerstown) Over $17,000 was raised this year! 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