CALL FOR ENTRIES: COMING UP NEXT, ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL

by | Jan 27, 2010 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: APRIL 26, 2010
Exhibition Dates: June 5 – July 17 (Discovery Gallery)
Artists Reception: TBA The Alberta Craft Council is organizing it’s 4th annual juried exhibition that is open to emerging fine craft artists who are in the first five years of their career or in the last year of their formal education. If you are creating contemporary fine craft (clay, glass, fibre, wood, furniture design, jewellery or metals) with fresh new designs submit:

  1. current CV
  2. artist statement
  3. bio
  4. 3 – 5 good quality images (digital – 4″x6″ 300dpi) of work presented for the exhibition
  5. Portrait image of artist in the studio or against a neutral background
  6. an image list that includes title, medium, technique, year made, size and photo credit

Note: All submissions must have been produced in the last two years.
Send your submission to the Alberta Craft Council 10186 – 106 Street, Edmonton AB T5J 1H4.

Artist profile – Gary Slavinsky

by | Jan 26, 2010 | Uncategorized


For a while now I keep meaning to post about a lovely new potter I recently stumbled across. Well new to me, maybe not to you. I instantly fell in love with these beautiful pieces. Here’s a bit from his profile:

“My ceramic work is both practical for the enjoyment of everyday use as well as aesthetically pleasing for the presence in a room. I choose the wood fired process solely because it is an extension of my finding experience when creating. The wood fire process truly is an exciting adventure with discovery and the unexpected which is one of the most valuable experiences of human existence.”


Find out more about Gary here or shop for his work here.

Back to a dead end.

by | Jan 25, 2010 | Uncategorized

Well rather than have a full productive day in the studio today, I spent the day shoveling out a path to my studio and unearthing my car from the surrounding 3 foot snow drifts, only to have to repeat said shoveling again this evening. It’s Canada and it’s February and we’re all too tough to just give up and declare snow days so there you have it. We had to shovel in order to get the cars out to get to work tomorrow morning. Good news is, it’s likely going to continue to snow a good 10 cm more overnight….how is any of this relevant to ceramics? Well it is my hope that someone, anyone out there might be so kind hearted as to offer me a job somewhere, anywhere other than here…

(where I was today)

(where i’d rather be. why did i ever leave???)

Okay on a more serious note I’ve realized that what goes around truly does come back around. Looking at some of the functional tests I’ve been playing with lately I suddenly was reminded of a piece I made quite a few years ago in grad school, which at the time turned into a dead end, but go figure it’s rearing it’s head again.

back to 2003:

currently in the studio:

Similarities, yup. Interesting. So either I’m a one trick pony or there was something there the first time and I gave up too quickly…well see where it goes this time.