NCECA is pleased to announce the 2020 recipients of the newly established Helene Zucker Seeman Fellowships. Friends of the late Helene Zucker Seeman generously established two annual fellowships for women in the ceramic arts. 
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The first fellowship, Helene Zucker Seeman Curatorial, Research, and Critical Writing Fellowship for Women, has been awarded to Heidi McKenzie. 

The chapter I will contribute to the international reader, Craft is Political, will be framed by feminist geographer Minelle Mahtani’s thesis that the paradoxical space of hybridity fosters innate power to affect change within fractured societies. The chapter will engage with the politicized sculptural practices of three emerging Canadian female ceramicists and the liminal spaces they inhabit: JP Anderson, a mixed-race Jamaican/Métis who weaponizes the traditional burnished pots of her ancestry; Monica Mercedes Martinez of mixed Chilean heritage, whose transcontinental work addresses the atrocities of Pinochet’s regime; and Habiba El-Sayed, whose mixed Egyptian/Guyanese heritage informs her post 9-11 anti-Islamophobic work.