purplelama@AOL.COM on thu 19 may 05
Ok, Wayne, so if I am able to get the time off next year and attend NCECA (I already have reservations at the hotel - being an optimist), as a NCECA virgin I will have to bring my OWN boa? OK, I'm game. Red, well that's a possibility, unless I can get a purple boa. I think purple would be much more appropriate for a purplelama, don't you?
Shula
back in Filthadelphia AKA Philadelphia, PA
Wayne Seidl on thu 19 may 05
I want to take a minute to remind folks of the origin of "the boa
with regard to the Clayart room" thingy:
NCECA Indianapolis (2004) was to be my first. I flew up to North
Carolina to meet up with Lisa Skeen (whom I had met only once
before, doing a kiln building workshop with Mel at Leanne Pizio's
house) and from there we were to drive to NCECA, and stay with Gail
Phillips (whom I had also met only once).
Someone on the list asked (on list) if I was going to be there, and
how would they recognize me? Being the flippant loudmouthed yahoo I
am I told them that I would be the "only potter there wearing
the kelly green feather boa". A legend was born...and a ritual.
For this NCECA in Baltimore (2005), a few people asked what color
boa I was wearing, not realizing perhaps that I had so done the year
before only as an identifier for one person in particular. I
decided that (because it was within my means) that I would buy as
many lemon yellow boas as I could find/afford, and hand them out to
"NCECA virgins"...folk who had never attended one. (That's what Nan
Kitchens called me last year...and that's what I felt like in the
presence of all the "famous names" I met. Very humbling indeed, but
all made me feel welcome, part of the community we call Clayart.)
In this way, people who would not otherwise be recognized as
"belonging to the (Clayart) family" would be identified, drawn into
conversations, made welcome, dragged out to dinner, etc.
I guess it worked. I gave out 30 boas for this NCECA, I'm still
finding yellow feathers around the house . =20
You can't stay on the sidelines in a feather boa,
it's_just_not_done-! Even on the street, and in the convention
center, people came up and introduced themselves to folks they saw
wearing boas. It did my heart good to see inclusion, not exclusion.
Because of that boa, I got to meet some truly fascinating people,
some amazing potters! And so did some of those "NCECA virgins".
That was the whole point. Just like David's jacket and shoes, Mel's
Dots, Primal wine or salt licorice, clayart tee shirts...anything
that helps us figure out who our "family" is among the throngs of
potters, and gets us talking to each other can only be a good thing.
Next year, fire engine red? Yes, by all means, bring your own!
Portland, look out! Clayart is in town...LOL
Best,
Wayne Seidl
(who hopefully will be able to attach a plastic lobster to his next
year)
Original-------------snip
And Avril knowing Wayne meant that, Carole and I got yellow feather
boas
too - you certainly get noticed in a boa! In the end I went ahead
and
talked to people - introduced myself - because I knew I was going to
get one crack at it and if I left having stood on the sidelines and
not
pushed myself forward I'd have just wasted the trip.
Walking forward and speaking up - even if only to say "hi" - can
take
courage sometimes.
Jacqui
North Wales
L. P. Skeen on fri 20 may 05
Purple is most appropriate for E VERYONE! :)
L
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OK, I'm game. Red, well that's a possibility, unless I can get a purple boa.
I think purple would be much more appropriate for a purplelama, don't you?
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