Do It Today: The highly anticipated NCECA begins, The Good, the Bad and the Filthy, and Sickly Sweet

It's here! The Tampa Bay art scene can finally put an end to its clay-achin.'

The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts presents its 45th Annual Conference, Tidal Forces: The Next Wave, at the Tampa Convention Center today through April 2.

The conference is expected to draw a group of 5,000-plus artists, educators, curators and collectors from across the United States and 50 countries to participate in a full array of panels and lectures dealing with varied aspects of the ceramic arts, theme-related topics.

This article appears in Mar 24-30, 2011.