Free and paid listings of all types of potters and their pottery. List yourself with this online searchable database. Surf: www.americanpotters.com.

Many, many resources for artists, not the least of which is information on healthcare. Surf: www.artisthelpnetwork.com.

User friendly, online research tool with searchable database to match artists and scientists for projects. Telephone: 941-955-5103. Surf: www.asci.org/INDEX/. Dates: Open.

Wiki covers organizing a do-it-yourself (d.i.y.) budget gallery. Surf: wiki.budgetgallery.org/index.php?title=Main_Page.

Contact: Nancy Resler. Address: John Natsoulas Center for the Arts, 521 First Street, Davis, California 95616. Telephone: 530-756-3938. Email: ccaca@natsoulas.com. Surf: www.natsoulas.com/html/ccaca/index.html. Dates: Late April, annually.

CeramicArtsDaily.org is an online community serving active potters and ceramic artists worldwide. Contact: Jan Moloney. Address: The American Ceramic Society, 600 North Cleveland Avenue, Suite 210, Westerville, Ohio 43082. Telephone: 614-794-5843. Email: jmoloney@ceramics.org. Surf: www.ceramicartsdaily.org.

Group meets once a month to share and learn. Contact: Carissa Doying. Telephone: 803-215-5566. Email: cdoying@aug.edu.

Leave it to Garth Johnson to be on the bleeding edge! As he says, "I just started a weblog called extreme craft to catalogue some of the crazier intersections of art, craft, punk rock, etc. on the web. You can find it at www.extremecraft.com. Rock on.

Showing images of work on website when no paid advertising filling that space. Email: artists@gawker.com. Surf: gawker.com/artists. Dates: Open.

A visual encylopedia of Japanese ceramic types, glazes, forms, et cetera:. Surf: www.e-yakimono.net/guide/.

Write: International Ceramics Festival, Aberystwyth Arts Centre , Penglais, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3DE, Wales, UK; Telephone: (+44) 01970 623232; Surf: www.internationalceramicsfestival.co.uk. Dates: early July, annually

A website dealing in Kyoto-made pottery and ceramics. Surf: www.2000cranes.com.

Reflections on a recent residency at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia. Surf: www.elizabethlurie.com.

English, French, Spanish, Swedish, Danish, and Portuguese: www.dinoclay.com/info/dict/index.html.

Demonstrations, slide and video screenings, exhibitions, seminars all dealing with the ceramic arts. Address: National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, 77 Erie Village Square, Suite 280, Erie, CO 80516-6996; Telephone: 866-266.2322; Surf: www.nceca.net. Dates: March, annually.

We Make the World, the wonderiffic blog of the Ohio State University Ceramics Department. osuceramics.blogspot.com.

Dennis Stevens' blog www.redefiningcraft.com.

www.ruffordceramiccentre.org.uk.

Annabeth Rosen in Conversation with Jim Melchert�. Date: 9 May 2008, 7:30 pm. Private Tour of the di Rosa Preserve Collection. Date: 10 May 2008, 10 am. Contact: Forrest Lesch-Middelton. Address: Sonoma Community Center, 276 East Napa Street, Sonoma, California 95476. Telephone: 707-938-4626. Email: scc@vom.com. Surf: www.sonomacommunitycenter.org.

SOFA (Sculptural Object, Functional Art) presents two expo's each year - Spring in New York City and Fall in Chicago. Address: Expressions of Culture, Inc., 4401 North Ravenswood, Suite 301, Chicago, IL 60640. Telephone: 800-563-7632. Email: info@sofaexpo.com. Surf: www.sofaexpo.com. Dates: June and November, annually.

A visual catalog of some contemporary wood fired ceramics. wood-fired-ceramics.blogspot.com.

Held in the three Korean cities of Icheon, Yeoju and Gwangju. Surf: www.wocef.com. Dates: April - June, odd years.