Call for artists: 2nd International Ceramic Triennial UNICUM 2012 – Slovenia

by | May 4, 2011 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday


The emphasis is on popularization as well as presentation of contemporary ceramics as an independent area in the field of artistic creation. Triennial is connection between international and Slovene space and it gives fresh insight into artistic ceramics. Its intention is to search through elementary artistic research in connection with contemporary though; the character of contemporaneity is given by individualism, development of personal artistic language and enriched by traditional influences of old technologies.

International Triennial of Ceramics Unicum 2012 contains competitive part and accompanying events and exhibitions.

Competitive part of triennial
RULES
Call for applications is international and public.
Any individual artist or group of artists who work in this media (ceramics) may participate in the II. International Triennial of Ceramics Unicum 2012.
Members of the organizing committee, international jury and invited authors are not allowed to take part in the competitive part of triennial.
Each participant is allowed to submit up to three entries among which the international jury will make the selection.
Artworks without any ceramic techniques, technologies or approaches will be rejected. Ceramic artworks can include other materials which must not predominate.
By applying the artist assures that each ceramic artwork was created within last three years.
Costs of sending and returning artworks are author’s responsibility.

Applications
Applications to the competitive part of triennial with all documentation required should be sent via post or by e-mail.

Each author has to deliver:

  • Correctly filled entry form;
  • Three photographs of each ceramic artwork in required format and quality for printing.

    • All photos should be in JPG or TIF format, 300 dpi and marked as on the entry form.
    With application each author also allows the organizer to use all information from received documentation for promotion and the catalogue of the triennial.
    The organizer of the triennial does not take any responsibility for published information given by the authors in the application. The author is taking full responsibility for correctness of the information about him/her and his/her artwork.
    The organizer will not return the material that will be sent with applications. All the material will be kept in the archives of the triennial as a part of applications documentation.
    Artworks which will be selected on the base of received photographs authors can not exchange or replace with other artworks.

    Deadline for applications
    Deadline for application is 31st October 2011.
    The organizer will not consider incomplete applications.

    Want all the details? Check out their website here.

    15. May – 30. September 2012
    ZDSLU, Komenskega 8, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
    E-mail: [email protected]
    www.unicum.si
    Fax: +386 1 434 94 62
    UNICUM phone: +386 1 433 03 80
    ZDSLU phone: +386 1 443 04 64
    Cell: +386 40 896 785

    Call for artists: Elizabeth R. Raphael Founder’s Prize

    by | May 3, 2011 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

    DEADLINE: June 3, 2011
    In 1997, in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Society for Contemporary Craft, a $5,000 prize for excellence in the field of contemporary craft was established. The biennial award is given in conjunction with a catalogue, juried exhibition at SCC, and the acquisition of the winning piece for SCC’s permanent collection. This opportunity is funded by the daughters of Elizabeth R. Raphael, the founder of SCC and a nationally known figure in the contemporary art scene for many decades.
    visit the website here.
    For more information please contact Kate Lydon,
    [email protected].
    Download the Prospectus Here!

    New works by Les Manning – Common/Opposites

    by | May 2, 2011 | Uncategorized


    Common/Opposites Apr 30-Jun 19 2011 Les Manning
    RECEPTION WITH THE ARTIST
    THURSDAY, MAY 5, 7 PM
    FREE ADMISSION

    Common/Opposites presents the most recent works in clay by Les Manning, the internationally recognized ceramist based in Medicine Hat, Alberta. For the past several decades, Manning has elegantly rendered the topographical forms of the Rockies in laminated and shaped clay vessels. In these new sculptures, Manning uses his firm grounding in the land and landscape around us to create ceramic works that vault beyond, into a realm where our recognition of everyday things jostles and collides with metaphor, revealing the rich and contradictory poetry of our ordinary world.

    Les Manning is the Senior Artist in Residence at the Shaw International Centre for Contemporary Ceramics in Medicine Hat, Alberta. His work has been shown around the world, most recently in Scotland, the Netherlands, Latvia, the United States, Greece and China, and is held in private, corporate and public collections, including the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea.

    Les Manning was the Director of the Ceramic Studio at the Banff Centre for the Arts for 20 years, and has contributed to ceramics world-wide as a teacher, lecturer, conference and symposium participant and organizer, as well as Vice President of the International Academy of Ceramics, founding member and Vice-President of the Alberta Craft Council and first President of Canadian Craft Council.

    ESPLANADE ART GALLERY
    www.esplanade.ca
    403.502.8580
    401 FIRST STREET SE
    MEDICINE HAT, AB
    T1A 8W2