The Northern Clay Center is a ceramics arts organization with gallery, studio, and educational programs located in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
It hosts exhibitions by contemporary regional, national, and international ceramic artists, as well as special exhibits of historical and architectural ceramics. It operates classes and workshops for children and adults at all skill levels. It contains studio space and provides grants for artists; and it operates a sales gallery representing many top ceramic artists from the Region and further afield. Fellowship grants, McKnight residencies.
It hosts the American Pottery Festival,
Opened in 1990, Northern Clay Center is now an established ceramic arts organization. Through special programs, lectures, symposia, and publications, we reach a national and international audience, as well as a direct audience of regional participants. Other programs, such as the American Pottery Festival, McKnight Residencies, and other fellowship grants, bring national artists to the region