A site 2 see friday – Jill Bell Ceramics

by | Aug 13, 2010 | Uncategorized

As i’m slowing trying to better structure and add to the blog and its content, i thought i’d add to Eye Candy Monday by ending the week with A Site 2 See Fridays. Love it? Hate it? Other suggestions? As always I’m very open to advice and suggestions on how to make the blog better for you guys, the readers. I’m hoping to expand on Mondays gorgeous images and context with posts on fridays leading you to interesting blogs, galleries, podcasts, videos, craft writing, etc.

If you have ideas or would like to promote your own work, website, event, organization please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected]. I always try my hardest to get back to everyone. If you don’t see your content live on the blog in a reasonable amount of time, feel free to write again and bug me, sometimes things get lost in the spam folder or in my messy life : )

So for today’s A Site 2 See please check out the figurative work of Jill Marleah Bell on her blog Jill Bell Ceramics: Ceramics, drawings and all round nice girl.

Call for Artists: Cooperation Tableware (all media), Seattle

by | Aug 13, 2010 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

Deadline for entry (both electronic or by mail – no postmark): November 5

An exhibition featuring work by pairs of artists who cooperatively create a set of tableware (functional or nonfunctional.) To be exhibited at Fancy Gallery, Seattle during the Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG) conference 2011, and online at http://crafthaus.ning.com

This exhibition would like to show how two individual makers develop a tableware set together. These objects can work together, respond to one another, converse between each other, or work dependently with one another. Work should show where the influence of each individual artist ends, and FLOWS into the creative sphere of the team, thus picking up on the SNAG conference theme FLUX (Flux as a Process.)

This juried exhibition is an open call to all craft artists regardless of medium. Artists are asked to form partnerships based on interest in each other’s work, and diversity in craft technique/materials displayed. Cross-media and international relationships are strongly encouraged. Only one member of each pairing is required to be a current member of SNAG.

A website has been created to facilitate potential collaborations. If you are an artist (in any medium) who would like to connect with a SNAG member (and vice versa) can do so through this online connection service.

For more information visit: http://crafthaus.ning.com/group/cooperationtableware

Open Studio at Robin Dupont’s

by | Aug 12, 2010 | Uncategorized


A must see indeed if you’re anywhere near by! I just spent the month of July at a residency with Robin so can easily attest to the refined skill and mastery of the soda technique that Robin has been researching for years. It’s gorgeous work to own and more importantly to use.

LOCATION:
4562 Hwy 6,
Winlaw, BC VOG 2JO

Map Code: 13A

Directions: 20km North of the junction on hwy 6-7 km south of Winlaw.Find out more about Robin and his work on his incredible wife’s blog here.

NEW Exhibition Catalogues for Sale at the ACC

by | Aug 12, 2010 | Uncategorized

CLAY 2010: $15 + gst (and shipping)
Clay 2010 is the most recent and extensive venture intended to add fine craft to the AFA collection. The AFA has contracted the Craft Council to manage an acquisition process and touring exhibition that represents a 2010 cross-section of ceramic arts activity in Alberta. Unity & Diversity: $40 +gst (and shipping)
Intentionally broad in scope, the exhibition theme “Unity and Diversity” seeks responses from craftspeople on how they see their work in the context of the Canadian craft scene. Does Canadian craft have a unified identity, or do our vast physical and cultural geographies make the question of identity much more complicated and diverse?

To order catalogues call the ACC Shop at 780-488-5900 or visit the Alberta Craft Council.