THE AUSTRALIAN CERAMICS ASSOCIATION

The Australian Ceramics Association works within a generous grass-roots ceramics community, drawing our membership from all states and territories. Foremost to our Strategic Plan are our members, our aim being to provide services for the benefit of their ceramics practice and to create connections between them and the broader arts community.

Membership is open to everyone interested in Australian ceramics, including professional ceramicists and potters, hobbyists, teachers, students, curators, collectors, writers and enthusiasts.

We aim to connect with established ceramic groups such as societies, clubs, study groups and associations and to those who exhibit ceramics such as galleries, artist-run spaces, retail shops, online stores and public institutions.

We value and support those who provide services and opportunities to ceramic practitioners, such as suppliers, competition organisers, artist residencies, workshops, classes and tertiary ceramics education.

We advocate for and on behalf of our members, and our community, to strengthen ceramics in Australia.

We reach out to the broader public to inspire, inform and connect people with Australian ceramics. We work to spread the excitement and passion of ceramics throughout Australia so that everyone has the opportunity to recognise, experience and value ceramics in their daily lives.

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The Australian Ceramics Association

Diamando Koutsellis: Chief Executive Officer, Gadigal land / NSW

Montessa Maack: Project Officer, Gundungurra - Wodi Wodi lands / NSW

Georgie Avis: Communications Officer and Administrator, Gadigal land / NSW

Jessie Bancroft: Administration Assistant, Gadigal land / NSW

The Journal of Australian Ceramics

Montessa Maack: Editor & Production, Gundungurra - Wodi Wodi lands / NSW

Board Directors

Jackie Gasson (President), Gubbi Gubbi and Jinibara land / QLD

Mark Ellis (Treasurer), Gubbi Gubbi land / QLD

Hannah Kothe, Eastern Arrernte: Mparntwe / NT

Alfred Lowe, Kaurna Yerta / SA

Robyn Phelan, Naarm / VIC

Janice Keen, Naarm / VIC

Brett Stone, Kamay / NSW

Secretary: Diamando Koutsellis, Gadigal land / NSW

BOARD

The Australian Ceramics Association (TACA) is managed by a voluntary board elected by the members at the Annual General Meeting held in September/October. All members are encouraged to contribute to the planning and realising of TACA events. TACA members can express an interest to the Board in joining a Working Group (currently Financial, Communications, Exhibition and Mentorship).

TACA Board meetings are held at regular intervals throughout the year via Zoom.

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STRATEGIC PLAN

The Australian Ceramics Association
SQ1 Studios, 32 Bowden St, Alexandria NSW 2015
PO Box 677 Alexandria NSW 1435
T: +61 (0)2 9698 0230 (outside Australia)
Contact 1300 720 124
mail@australianceramics.com
australianceramics.com
australianceramicscommunity.com
australianceramicstriennale.com.au

The Australian Ceramics Association acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and First Nations Peoples’ connections to land, sea, and sky.

We recognise that sovereignty was never ceded and that we are on stolen land. We pay our respect to Elders past, present, and emerging, and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who engage with the Association, our events, and our programs.

As we gather to listen and speak we are doing so in the home of one of the longest continuous cultures of shared oral storytelling, material wisdom, and artmaking on this planet.