Annual Keramisto Pottery Fair In 1979, a group of professional ceramists formed the Noord Limburgs Pottenbakkers Collectief (NLPC), in a region in the Netherlands with a centuries-old ceramics tradition, thus laying the foundation stone for the Keramisto Pottery Fair. In 1988 the first international pottery market in the Netherlands took place as an open air gallery 'by potters for potters', with 60 workshops and studios taking part. Keramisto was situated near Gennep outside the municipal region of Milsbeek, in a local recreational area called Mookersplats on the banks of a small lake. Netherlands : Birgit