NCECA 2027 Protest Cup Fellowship
We’re doing it again! We’re giving artists and communities a space to express what matters to them. We will be holding our second POW! Protest Cups Fellowship at NCECA 2027 in Baltimore. We love the irony of the cup as a subversive protest platform on a rather small object. The exhibition provides a space to communicate the things you care about; to use the platform of the cup to speak out about what matters to you, either as an individual, or as a person living in this world (or both). We want to center artists and empower creativity. This is a free speech exercise in the form of an art exhibition. We encourage you to channel your passion about all the things you might want to protest into visual language.
Interested in learning more and being involved in future iterations of the fellowship? Contact us!
Pots On Wheels — POW! — is a mobile clay education and exhibition space, opening new doors of creative experience to communities and organizations.
OUTREACH
The POW! truck allows established and emerging ceramic artists to share their knowledge and perspectives with audiences of all ages and backgrounds outside the conventional educational or studio settings.
ENGAGEMENT
By encouraging participants to actively participate in the creation of hand-made objects, POW! cultivates each individual'sability to make something useful and beautiful with their hands, and their understanding of how that can impact the experiences of others.
AWARENESS
The gallery space within in the POW! truck serves as a showcase for the diverse and dynamic range of functional handmade ceramics currently being created by artists from around the country (and sometimes even by program participants!).
Hands-on creativity
Most POW! event participants have never had the chance to make something with clay. For others, it rekindles a joy they may not have had the opportunity to pursue in decades. You would be surprised by what you are capable of!
Connecting people & ideas
Our Make-A-Cup, Take-A-Cup exchange has given a first-hand introduction to creating an original clay object to thousands of participants! Folks can decorate (and sometimes even hand-make) a cup that will be part of a future POW! event, while taking home a cup that someone else decorated at a previous one.