Green Learning Community Meeting Quick Registration Links!

Green Learning Community meetings are open to everyone to attend. Come to learn, come to tell us what you are doing, come to support sustainability in our field! For detailed descriptions of each meeting please visit the Green Learning Community Tab above.


green learning community (GLC)

The Green Learning Community is a casual group of makers, artisans, craftsman, distributers, collectors, and educators who gather every month to discuss different topics involving sustainability, materials consumption, and environmental issues and stewardship in ceramics. All are welcome to join these meetings! Click on Green Learning Community above for more information. Next discussion groups listed to the left.

green task force (GTF)

The NCECA Green Task Force is a committee of the National Council for the Education of the Ceramic Arts (NCECA). It was formed in 2008 to increase awareness and share knowledge that advances environmental stewardship in all venues of ceramic art and education.

our mission

VISION

Through tenets of sustainability, community, and education the NCECA Green Task Force works to expand the capacity of the community to engage in environmental stewardship in the practice of using clay and ceramic materials.

MISSION

Through education, research, programming, and communication, the NCECA Green Task Force will expand and advance the scope of awareness and knowledge about environmentally sound practices when working with clay. Recognizing that sustainability and issues in equity are tied together, we proactively strive towards racial equity, greater diversity, and thoughtful inclusion.

The NCECA Green Task Force (GTF) is a sub-entity of the National Council for the Education of the Ceramic Arts (NCECA). It was formed in 2008 to increase awareness and share knowledge that advances environmental stewardship in all venues of ceramic art and education. Ranging from administrative work to conference gatherings and further extending to share information with and among NCECA’s members about important environmental issues affecting the ceramic arts. The GTF will provide a forum for progressive discussion on green studio practices and creative solutions to issues facing the field.

The Green Learning Community (GLC) is a sub-entity of NCECA formed in 2021. It is a casual group of makers, artisans, craftsman, distributers, collectors, and educators who gather every month to discuss different topics involving sustainability, materials consumption, and environmental issues and stewardship in ceramics.

our history

In 2008 under the presidency of Robert Harrison the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Art (NCECA) formed the Green Task Force (GTF) to focus on the increasingly popular green/sustainability movement and how it relates to the field of ceramics. The early meetings were spent focusing on what it was the Green Task Force would do to bring forth issues of sustainability to the international community that makes up the membership of NCECA.