by Carole Epp | Apr 13, 2009 | Uncategorized
Lovely woodfired pots from the Oregon coast:
Todays pics are from artist Amy Hankins who spends half of her year in up in Alaska and half on the Oregon coast. A beautiful mix if you ask me.
In her words: I’ve just finished participating in my first wood firing at the Astoria Dragon Kiln, a traditional Anagama built in 1983 in Astoria, Oregon. I am very much drawn to the wood fire aesthetic, the look, the feel, the community to fire. During this process I’ve realized that I have been on the wrong path! So, I guess when this happens you just change your shoes for the new path and see what lies ahead!
(we’ve all been there Amy!)
I do mostly live in Alaska but spend the winters here on the Oregon coast for the Dungeness crab fishery that our boat participates in. The great thing about coming here for the winter is that yes, I eat a lot of crab but I have to opportunity to continue my ceramics education at the local Community College, something we don’t have nearby in Alaska.
The pictures above are a cup from this last firing with a shino glaze on the inside and a ground local clay ongobe on the outside, I’m showing three pictures of the same cup. The second is a lidded jar, shino glaze, thrown as one piece and then split at leather hard stage. And these below are new additions:
Thanks Amy!
by Carole Epp | Apr 12, 2009 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
Deadline May 1st
June 24–August 7
Open to work no larger than 20” in any direction.
Juried from digital.
Fee: $30 for two entries; $5 for each additional entry.
Contact Alfred McCloud,
Gallery Up,
201 E. Main St. 2nd Fl.,
Rock Hill, SC 29730
E: [email protected]
W: www.galleryup.com
P: (803) 980-5355
by Carole Epp | Apr 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
So i’ve been trying out that twitter thing for, I guess a few weeks now and I’m still not completely convinced by it. It definitely gets me looking at more things on the internet, but whether that’s a good thing or just a time waster for a person like me with little time to begin with, well it’s all debatable. But then you see a twitter like Andrew Widdis’s this morning that took me to Sophie Milne’s latest blog post and I think yah it’s worth it in the sense that there are soooooo many amazing blogs out there and not enough time to read them all, and twittering can be a great way to share those posts that are just too utterly fabulous that you can’t miss them…so the whole point of this is to get yourself over to Sophie’s blog and check out her new work, it’s absolutely fabulous!!!
by Carole Epp | Apr 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
I love a little bit of public intervention, taking ceramics to the streets!
Today’s work is both charming and thought provoking and brought to you by Dawn Vachon who is a current resident of Melbourne. It’s a mini raw ladder, one of the many she’s placed around the city. Anyone out there in Melbourne stumbled across one themselves?
A bit about Dawn in her words:
I’m a recent graduate from Emily Carr, currently spending some time in Melbourne.
I love and miss glazing, especially using wax resist.
Favourite ice cream? probably tiramisu or nutella
Music i’m listening to these days: Bon Iver, Neil Young, Band of Horses, Black Mountain
Check out more of Dawn’s work and adventures at:
www.conepack.ca Which is a blog shared by Dawn and the artist Claire Henry documenting work, inspiration and some fum events.
or got to her personal blog for more about Dawn and her work (the spinning pots are gorgeous!)
by Carole Epp | Apr 11, 2009 | Uncategorized
Well it’s a beautiful day here, spring has finally arrived as its intended to be +19 C today I can hardly wait to get outside for a bike ride…But first, and so much more important than frivolity in the sun, our artist of the day of course!
In Adam’s words:
I use humor, playfullness, and whymsy in my work because it can create a
dialogue that is unthreatening yet effective. I’d like to associate myself
with the industrial world, however i do find many problems with the value
paradigms that they hold. Through my current work I hope to inspire thought
and self-reflection in industry and popular culture.
Sadly I don’t have a link yet for you to check out more work by Adam, I’m working on it (as I’m so intrigued with this piece) and will update when I can. In the meantime if you’re interested in more about Adam’s work send me an email and I’ll forward it to him.
Thanks Amy!
