Tragedy in Japan

I had thought long and hard about how to post about this, on my tea blog I made a bit of a call for making the year 2011 a year for Japanese Teas and Teaware. I encourage a similar thing on this blog. Though a bit more tragic is while most of the tea regions where minimally effected by this event, Japanese potters were directly effected by this event.

There is a Potter specific relief fund, found at the following link:

https://www.pubservice.com/Submiscrcpt.aspx?PC=PQ&PK=S103DON

Many people made donations to an auction which is going live tonight in which all proceeds are going to aid Japan.

http://stores.ebay.com/handmade-for-japan

And Robert Fornell an artist I am quite fond of although I have yet to acquire a piece by him, is donating all proceeds from his Etsy store for the time being.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/robertfornell?ref=pr_shop_more

If people have any other links involving ceramics and relief efforts for Japan please let me know an I will work on keeping this page updated.