Monday morning eye candy: Wendy Gingell




I really just want my work to bring a smile to people. I started doing the organs and muscles due to my lack of knowledge of my own insides and keen interest in learning more after finding out I had only one kidney and a big cyst and not really knowing what either looked like. The little characters are really just for fun, often revealing my current relationship with my husband and 2 dogs.


www.gingellceramics.com

Call for submissions – 500 Prints on Clay

Lark Ceramics is publishing an exciting new ceramics book in our “500” series, and we would like you to submit images for consideration.

Paul Andrew Wandless, author of Image Transfer on Clay, will jury 500 Prints on Clay, a 420-page, full color survey of typography, lettering, drawings, and photographs applied to clay. This international collection will be beautifully presented and widely distributed throughout the world in Spring 2013. We welcome outstanding ceramic works that feature image transfer techniques. Ceramic pieces may be created with any type of clay and employ techniques including: screening, monoprinting, stenciling, stamping, relief printing, and decals. Artists whose work is selected for inclusion will receive full acknowledgment in the book, a complimentary copy, and discounts on the future purchase of books. Artists retain copyright to their work. Lark accepts high-quality digital images. No entry fee is required. Submissions must be postmarked by September 15, 2011. Detailed entry guidelines and permission forms are included on the 500 Prints on Clay Entry Form, which can be downloaded here. Please mail your submissions to: Lark Crafts/500 Prints on Clay 67 Broadway Asheville, NC 28801 USA Attn: Dawn We look forward to seeing your work!

Art of the Pot


Art of the Pot: 8th Annual Studio Tour
2 Days • 5 Locations • 16 Artists
May 7th and 8th, 10am-5pm
Mother’s Day Weekend, Art of the Pot will be hosting their 8th Annual Ceramics Studio Tour. Art of the Pot is a collective of Austin potters committed to expanding the reach of contemporary studio pottery. This event is FREE, so bring your family and friends May 7th or 8th between 10am and 5pm to any of the designated locations.Five local artists, Chris Campbell, Ryan McKerley, Lisa Orr, Claudia Reese and Keith Kreeger, will be hosting this fabulous event! These artists, plus 11 more nationally recognized guest artists, will be displaying their latest art at their assigned location. For those who complete the tour and make it to all 5 stops during the weekend, there will be a “Passport” drawing with 5 winners. Prizes will come from the artists’ studios. The 11 Nationally recognized invited artists are:
Margaret Bohls (Mn), Jon and Jan Brieger (Tx), Michael Connelly (Pa), Diana Fayt (Ca), Julia Galloway (Mt), Chris Gray (Tx), Maria Dondero (Ga), Molly Hatch (Ma), Michael McCarthy (Ma), Holly Walker (Vt). The Artstream Nomadic Gallery from Colorado will as be in attendance. For more information about this event, please visit www.artofthepot.com

Call For Submission – Boxed In


The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery & the Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador

Boxed In! an exhibition of small sculptural works Deadline: 30 June 2011

Simply put, a box is a container with a lid. Until it is opened, a box protects the secrecy of its contents. It is imbued with mystery and the promise of surprise. As such,the empty box can metaphorically take various meaning such as that of confinement, absence, hiding place. In our day to day life we make casual contact with the mail box, the lunch box or the toolbox. And then, there are others such as the fusebox, blackbox, glorybox, coachbox, treasure box and ballot box. Each one has its own particularities and functions,a direct meaning that can take on a metaphorical one if we think outside the box. To bring Canadian artists together, and considering the size of our country and the cost of shipping, we propose an exhibition of small sculptural works that would fit in a specific box and spring from the idea of the box itself or of one of its metaphors. The works must be three-dimensional and can be presented on a shelf, plinth, suspended or mounted on the wall. Your proposed work should fit in a box no bigger than 16x12x12 inches, wrapping included with the lid on, without any alteration to the box. Of course, the work can be smaller but not bigger than this set size. The proposal should be for a work of expression, functional or not, that pushes the limits of your practice within a conceptual approach. Your application must include the attached completed form, a half to one page proposal, artist statement, drawings or sketches of the proposed work and its technical information (medium, finished size, presentation), CV or resume (maximum of three pages), up to ten digital images of recent works (no earlier than 2005) and a list of images. All images (drawings, sketches and previous works) should be in JPG format at a resolution of 72 dpi (no more than 1800×1800 dpi in size). For more information: www.therooms.ca/artgallery/ Inquiries : [email protected] Submissions should be sent to the following address:
Denis Longchamps, curator
Boxed in! Exhibition Project
The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery
9 Bonaventure Avenue P.O. Box 1800, Station C St. John’s, NL, Canada
A1C 5P9 Deadline to send your application: postmarked no later than June 30, 2011.
(Please note submissions will not be returned)

via The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery