by Carole Epp | Mar 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
DEADLINE: ONGOING (runs all year)
LA MACINA DI SAN CRESCI ARTIST RESIDENCY, Chianti, Italy
Disciplines: VISUAL ART, PHOTOGRAPHY, SCULPTURE, PAINTING, LITERATURE The artist residency program provides the ideal combination of living and working in a setting of truly inspirational beauty. Applications are open to artists of all proficiencies-beginners to more advanced artists. Artist residency consist of sojourning from 7 to 90 days, with a possible time extension subject to availability. This period covers a program based on the personal project proposal presented. The artists are expected to pursue work independently or together with other creative people from other countries, developing and interchanging concise ideas on contemporary art and culture. The artist has open access to the space and equipment 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We will provide promotion through exibition, publication and/or exposure. Applicants are invited based upon resume, compatibility and stated artistic intentions. Admissions Timetable – There are no application deadlines. Decision dates are on the 15th of every month, and responses will go out within 15 days. Incomplete applications will not be reviewed. Residency fee: 1 week € 400, each next week € 300. Is requested a deposit of € 200 when the applicant receives acceptation of the candidature.
La Macina di San Cresci offers 10 partial funding in grant based on a combination of merit and need. This assistance reduces Residency fees and may cover up to half the full cost of a minimum three-week residency. This grant assistance is available from October 1 , 2009 to March 31 , 2010 residencies. Applications for these awards are accepted any time.
Visit website for complete details: www.chianticom.com La Macina di San Cresci
Pieve di San Cresci 1
50022 Greve in Chianti (FI) Italy
by Carole Epp | Mar 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
Sorry guys, sometimes I just don’t get the information on time. You still have a few hours left to get in on this one. There is some absolutely gorgeous work up for auction check it out here.
An Exhibition and Online Auction to honor a man who gave to so many through his friendship, his teaching, and his art. All the work for this event has been donated by artists who in someway have experienced Tom’s presence in their lives.
Money raised by this event will be used to help establish the Tom Rohr Memorial Scholarship Fund. This will be one of several fundraising events this year. Please watch for an auction later this year, which will include Tom’s work.
Auction will run from Feb. 22nd to March 11th.Highest bid placed by 5:00 pm on March 11th will be the winning bid.
by Carole Epp | Mar 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
As I may have mentioned earlier in the year, I’m spending more time focusing on developing a new line of functional tableware. It’s going okay, I guess. Lots of self doubt and wondering if I’m just making the same old boring thing that seems fashionable now a days. There isn’t much of a lineage in this new work from my previous streamlined, wheelthrown, porcelain, clean cut work. This new stuff is dirtier, less refined, more organic (perhaps…i’m not sure, maybe organic is just a nice way of saying sloppy!)
I’ve been trying to focus my energy on the making part of the process, yet the marketing aspect seems to be screaming at me most days…will this sell? whose your target audience? this isn’t gallery standard work so where will you sell it? Does that even matter as you have the sculptural stuff for gallery shows? where is the concept? the research component? can work just be fun to make and not have to have layers of theory and technique to justify it’s existence?
What are you thinking – go back to what you we’re doing before!!! But alas that wasn’t paying the bills either. hmmm. So in the midst of this whole marketing dilemma i spent a day not caring and playing out in the studio making some pots for my kid since it’s time to put the melamine plates and plastic bowls aside for the ‘real” stuff, the clay. As a kid my folks got us each a set of Bunnykins dishware which i still have to this day. So i thought to myself that there must be an audience for ceramic dishware made just for the little ones – although i guess it’s their parents that are the ultimate suckers that dole out the cash for them. Anyway, I’m not sure where I’m going with this thought, but I sure had a ton of fun making them, and you know some days that’s really all that matters, right?
Etsy link to the kids pots.
And here’s a few other examples of those making ceramics for the young ones:
Heath Ceramics
Shenzhen Effort Trading
Tigware
Studiotto
Scott McCarthy
Moorefeild Pottery
Brooklyn Rehab
Pumphouse Studios
Ema Zuma
Silvia Howes
by Carole Epp | Mar 9, 2010 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
What is C3?
C3 – Collecting Contemporary Craft is a Craft NI initiative aimed at stimulating the market for collecting contemporary craft and encouraging individuals, businesses and institutions to buy and collect.
Working with a wide range of stakeholders including commercial, gallery and other cultural outlets, Craft NI is currently exploring and testing new markets in order to assist in the expansion of the customer base for high value craft. Through a number of high-profile promotional and showcasing events, C3 – Collecting Contemporary Craft will market local artists to potential collectors. It is hoped that this will be an ongoing programme which, over time, will encourage innovation and excellence in individual practice, grow craft businesses and contribute to the strengthening the overall infrastructure for craft development in Northern Ireland. As part of the promotional support, Craft NI will produce a catalogue which will contain biographical material, critical endorsement and high quality images in relation to each selected artist. An exhibition of the work of selected designer-makers will be included in the initial launch event to be held in the Ulster Museum in late spring 2010. Designer-makers will also be involved in ongoing promotional activity related to the programme.
Craft NI is inviting designer-makers to apply to be part of this programme. The closing date for applications is 4.00pm, Monday 15 March 2010 The initiative is supported by The Ulster Museum and The Merchant Hotel.
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD APPLICATION FORM>>
by Carole Epp | Mar 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
examining the origins of today’s
most common / popular design objects
and asking how we can improve them
or how they have been re-interpreted.
from its packaging to the surroundings in which it’s consumed and everything in between. this course gives you a good taste of design in the food sector…
youth and middle age are for fulfilling
desires and duties, when a person is spiritually ready, they allow the young to
replace them, in power positions. it means
the person spends more time in
philosophical pursuits and begin an inward
journey, a cultural practice of moving to greater truth.
lesson list online soon
enrollment for will be available
one month prior to course start date.
For more info check out the website here.
