30 years ago when I started dabbling in ceramics with my mother, I found a show near where I worked in Dallas. The Southwest Ceramic Association show, SWCA, was huge, taking up an entire hall in the Dallas Market Hall complex. I entered a piece in the hobbist division: a large underglazed ceramic cathedral with stained glass windows (I was doing stained glass at the time) and won a coveted Southwesterner award. Fast forward to this weekend, which is the 60th, and last, show. It is now a very small show and is no longer attracts the vendors or entrants so they are folding up their tent this year. Since it is the last year, I traveled to the Mesquite Convention Center and entered two of the AA pieces I have been working on and will see how they do in the professional division. It's the end of an era.
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