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!
• 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."
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
Planned: Copper-fume raku kiln firing & potluck on Saturday
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!
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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.
Friday Night, 17 April–Saturday Morning, 18 April 2009
•• This is the last Marathon to be held in Shippensburg University's "old" Huber Art Building! ••
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!
G e n e r a t i o n s
Special appearances by HCC Art Marathon Veterans:
• Tom McFarland: Quick Portrait Sculpture Demo
• (Lisa &) Luke Zimmerman: Forging & Metalworking Demo
• Brian Simmons: Free Eats Pig-Out Demo, All Night
Other workshops:
• Prof. Steve Dolbin: Art Career
• Adjunct Prof. Kate Keely: Tornado Painting
• Emily Santa: Paper Marbling & Quick-Firing in a Raku Kiln with Iron Chloride Mixtures over Terra Sigillita
• "How to Draw a Bunny" (a Ray Johnson biopic video)
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.
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)
For the Hagerstown-Centered Ceramics Art Club Use the Mim Clay (E-Mail) Network
For the Arts & Design Club at HCC c/o: Mrs. Heather Barnhart, Coordinator
Student Activities
College Center
Hagerstown Community College
11400 Robinwood Drive
Hagerstown, Maryland 21742-6590
Phone: 301/790-2800 extension 225
E-Mail: barnharth at hagerstowncc.edu
