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The Potters Cast

NCECA 2020 Canceled | Executive Director & Members of the Board | Episode 611

The Potters Cast

Paul Blais

Visual Arts, Careers, Arts, Business

4.9591 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

This year's NCECA that was slated to take place in Richmond, Virginia had to be cancelled as a result of the covid-19 pandemic. In this bonus episode of The Potters Cast the executive director, Josh Green and a few of the board member, Board Steward Rhonda Willers, Current President Holly Hanessian, and incoming President Elect Pete Pinell all got on a conference call with me to tell their story of how NCECA is doing. After the introductions we talked about three things- How they came to their decision and its impact, what is going on currently and in the future with NCECA, and how we as a community can help.

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0:00.0

Welcome to an extra special episode of the Potter's cast.

0:04.0

This is not going to have any kind of, you know, branding, no music and things like that, no ad

0:09.3

spots.

0:10.0

This is basically kind of a PSA, public service announcement, so to speak.

0:16.1

The, as you probably know already, and Sika of 2020 has been canceled, the Richmond, Virginia one.

0:24.1

And it's, it was a bit of a blow, a bit of a blow. But you know what? I think it was the right

0:29.4

decision, an important thing to do as we hear of all the other things that are happening,

0:33.6

you know, like the NBA shutting down. College sports are doing things where there's no fans allowed.

0:41.2

They have to participate.

0:42.6

The athletes have to participate with no fans in a line of sight.

0:47.3

And so things like that and, you know, travel bans going on, mayors shutting down cities, and it's a serious thing.

0:59.4

So I'm really thankful that the board did what they did for the board of Enceica.

1:06.0

Well, I asked if I could help to spread the word and to kind of get some insights to this. And so we had a

1:13.2

number of the board members and the executive director get on and talked this through. We got on

1:20.6

a conference call and we talked this whole thing through from their perspective and to look at what it was like to make the decision, how it's

1:31.4

impacting not only them, but also the community around them, both the community there in Richmond,

1:37.3

Virginia, but also the people who come and make their living off of NSECA. So we talked through

1:44.0

that.

1:44.5

And then we also ended up talking about the future.

1:48.0

And also what is going on in Richmond, Virginia, even as this gets canceled, that there are

1:55.0

other things that will still continue to happen that's going to be there at Enceca in Richmond,

1:59.7

Virginia.

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