Call for entry – LEAP AWARD

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

Call for Entries for the 2011 Lydon Emerging Artist Program (LEAP) Award. Established in the fall of 2007, the LEAP Award provides early career artists who show exceptional promise the opportunity to showcase a body of their work to regional, national, and international audiences. The winner of this juried award receives a $1,000 cash prize to develop a line of work to be shown exclusively through the Store at the Society for Contemporary Craft (SCC).

The guest juror for the 2011 competition is Sharon Massey. An internationally recognized jeweler, Massey received a BFA from Winthrop University in 1999, and an MFA in Metal Design from East Carolina University in 2006. She received the Art Jewelry Forum Emerging Artist Award in 2009 and was recently chosen to participate in Lucca Preziosa Young, an exhibition of eight jewelers under 35, which was exhibited in Lucca, Italy, Munich, Germany, and at the JOYA Festival of Contemporary Jewellery in Barcelona, Spain. Her work is included in the collections of the Racine Art Museum, Wisconsin, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England. In the early 1970s, SCC’s founder, Pittsburgh arts patron Elizabeth Rockwell Raphael recognized that artists working in craft media were exploring new directions in contemporary art, and she opened The Store for Arts and Crafts and People-Made Things in Verona, Pennsylvania. Known locally as The Store, Raphael sold artwork by young and emerging craft artists such as Wendell Castle, Lenore Tawney, Josh Simpson, Howard Kottler, and Robert Lee Morris among many others that needed wider opportunities to exhibit and sell their work. Building on this early history, it is our hope that the LEAP Award will facilitate young artists move into a career in contemporary craft.A printable prospectus is available at their website. For more information, email [email protected] or call 412.261.7003 x16.

The first Shanxi contemporary Chinese carved Ceramic Exhibition in 2010…

by Carole Epp | Apr 26, 2010 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

…and “2009~2010 the 3nd Biennial Exhibition of Chinese Emerging Ceramists” Exhibition Compositions: (1) Invitational Exhibition of Foreign Ceramic Artists (2) Invitational Exhibition of Chinese Ceramic Artists (3) Awards section of “China 3rd Emerging Ceramic Artists” (4) Shan’xi Contemporary Ceramic Exhibition Foreword: Shan’xi is an important birthplace of Chinese civilization,where has rich cultural relics:ancient architecture,ancient temples,ancient city walls,ancient villages,ancient houses,religious culture,opera culture,folk culture,sculpture,mural art…”ChangZhi kiln,HunYuan kiln,HuaiRen kiln,DaTong kiln,HuoZhou kiln,JieXiu kiln,Ping Ding kiln”witnessed the northern Chinese folk ceramic culture. “Shan’xi Ceramic Artists Society” has had received great supports from Chinese Ceramic Arts Council, Shan’xi University, Shan’xi Artists Association and several universities’pottery studio since it was established in 2001. “Shan’xi Ceramic Artists Society”and”Shan’xi Ancient Kiln Carved Porcelain Co., Ltd”want to hold “2010 Chinese Carved Porcelain——Invitational Exhibition of the 1st Shan’xi Contemporary Ceramics”for to further promote the development of contemporary ceramics,to promote cooperation and exchange between enterprises and institutions,and to excavate advantage and potential of Shan’xi traditional ceramic culture.The exhibition takes local and contemporary,cooperation and exchange as curatorial purpose.We are willing to create a new platform for national ceramic colleagues,and to rejuvenate the Chinese contemporary ceramic art. Exhibition Title: 2010 Chinese Carved Porcelain——Invitational Exhibition of the 1st Shan’xi Contemporary Ceramics Exhibition Time: October 15, 2010 ~ October 21, 2010 Exhibition Venue: Art Space of Chinese Carved Porcelain Culture Garden Organizers: Fine Arts College of Shan’xi University Shan’xi Artists Association Shan’xi Ceramic Artists Society http://www.newtaoyi.com Sponsor: Shan’xi Ancient Kiln Carved Porcelain Co., Ltd Support Unit: Shan’xi Fortune Dragon Black Pottery International Co., Ltd. Shan’xi Ya Guang New Energy Co., Ltd. Shan’xi Jiang Zhou “Cheng” Mud Inkstone Co., Ltd. Shan’xi Xin Jiang Carved Lacquer Factory Shan’xi Europe Electrical Equipment Shop Shan’xi Vientiane Gallery Organizing Committee: Director: Gao Xin Xi Vise- Director: Wang Ji Ping Yang Zhi Feng Hai Min Secretary-General: Jiang Li Exhibition Contents: 1,To organize ceramic artists to visit “Shan’xi World Cultural Heritage”and to take part in”Millennium Raku Activities” during the exhibition. 2, To organize a number of artists creat artwork. 3, Experimental Base to go public, awards ceremony, seminars. 4,An exhibition catalog and a cultural documentary video disc named ” Urn Township——Xiao Ta Ze”. Note: Exhibition Organizing Committee will contact the invited artists for every detailed related matters. Requirement of the ceramists’exhibition: 1, All of the professional ceramic teachers, university students (graduate students, post-graduate students), potters and folk artists can participate in the event. 2,, Each potter should provide the following detailed information: ①A photograph of artwork which pixels should be more than 300 dpi.Highly professional photography is needed to ensure the quality of publishing.Do please to fill up the register form with name of the artwork, creative time, materials, firing style, size and other details. ② A photograph of artist which pixels should be more than 300 dpi. ③ A curriculum vitae of potter (include name, sex, date of birth, education, learning and work experience, awards, contact, phone, etc.) Deadline of mail artwork: June 5, 2010 (based on the time of receipt) Mail address of Foreign potters: Yangzhi NO:100 Han Guang South Road registrar Of Xi`an Academy OF Fine Arts Shaanxi Xi`an China Postal Code:710065 TEL:13572186216 [email protected] (domestic) [email protected] (abroad) Copyright: 1, All of the artwork must be created by artist theirselves. The organizing committee will cancel someone’s application if any kinds of copyright dispute happened, and the participant must to bear the responsibility himself. 2, The participants should ensure that the organiser will not in trouble of copyright with use artworks. 3, The organiser has right of exhibition, publishing (include electronic copyright) and collection. Please contact the organizing committee if you have any question or concern about the above information. Thank you for your support and collaboration! WEB: http://www.newtaoyi.com/2009/show.php?fid-11-id-5007-page-1.shtml Please make sure that “The Insurance Charge”be less than 10 dollars, if too much tariffs resulted, the organizing committee would not accept the works.