by Carole Epp | May 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
Register by calling 505-984-1122
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New 7 Week Classes Begin May 28th
Full schedule and class descriptions will be posted soon
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Stay Weird
Instructor: Max Lehman
May 18 & 19
9:30 am – 4:30 pm
Participants
will work with Max as he explores the spontaneous side of the creative
process. Demonstrations and activities will be geared towards working
fast and not over-thinking. Technical demonstrations will include
simple slab techniques such as slump and drape molding. Max will also
show how to use these slab techniques in combination with slip-cast
objects. Finally, Max will show how simple underglaze application can
tie it all together
In the Gallery
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Christa Assad, Hayne Bayless,
Jason Bige Burnett, Linda Cordell,
Thaddeus Erdahl, Kelly Garrett Rathbone, David Hicks, Steven Hill, Marilyn Lysohir, Rodrigo Lara Zendejas
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Eliza Au, Nathan Craven,
Heather Mae Erickson, Del Harrow, Elizabeth Hunt, Maren Kloppmann,
Jae Won Lee, Julie York.
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www.santafeclay.com
by Carole Epp | May 4, 2013 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
The DO GOOD Residency
Red Lodge Clay Center | Deadline: September 2, 2013 | Fee (USD): $10.00
The DO GOOD-MJ Wood Memorial Short-Term Residency is an underwritten residency intended to support ceramic artists who wish to develop a body of work with a socially-conscious spirit and a strong sense of community engagement. Through a competitive application process one candidate per year will be selected to work at the Red Lodge Clay Center Studios with a full waiver of the residency fee. An additional stipend may be available for selected projects to assist with travel and/or production costs during residency.
Dates of residency: Any time between December 1, 2013 and May 31, 2014
For full details of requirements follow the link below:
https://redlodgeclaycenter.slideroom.com/#/Login
www.redlodgeclaycenter.com
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by Carole Epp | May 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
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| image via http://www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org/exhibitions/5412/ |
“Consider the bowl, the most common of household
objects. It is celebrated in a new exhibition at the Museum of
Contemporary Craft in Portland, Ore. We asked readers to send images of
their favorite bowls and tell us what makes them special. ” (via NY Times)
Check out the interactive article here.
There is also a corresponding article: Finally, The Bowl Gets Its Due. by Julie Lasky
And don’t miss Object Focus: The Bowl @ the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, Ore.
Curated by: Namita Gupta Wiggers
www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org/exhibitions/5412/
Museum of Contemporary Craft
in partnership with Pacific Northwest College of Art
724 Northwest Davis Street
Portland, Oregon 97209
Tel. | 503.223.2654
Fax | 503.223.0190
[email protected]
The Gallery at Museum of Contemporary Craft
Tel. | 503.546.2654
Fax | 503.546.2610
[email protected]
by Carole Epp | May 2, 2013 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
Application deadline: June 1, 2013
Entry Fee: 32.45 (25 Euro)
Show Date: July 6–August 31
Small Art Objects is a fund raising undertaking sponsored by A.I.R. Vallauris and consists of a competition, involving the creation of small art objects, their exhibition and sale. A call for entries is communicated to solicit artist participation from all over the world. Small art objects can be made from any material, but are restricted in size to 15 cm x 15 cm x 15 x cm (6 inches x 6 inches x 6 inches). Creations must also be consistent with the theme determined for the undertaking. Timing for this exercise is co-incident with the Fete Picasso, a popular celebration that takes place annually in Vallauris in honour of its most famous artist in residence. From 1946 and for 10 years, Picasso discovered ceramics with a passion in Vallauris. Coincidentally, Vallauris was already thriving economically with traditional pottery and was a lively and rich cultural environment, enhanced by the presence of Baud, Capron, Derval, Eluard, Picault and Ramié.
Picasso’ s arrival in Vallauris stimulated an artistic effervescence, prompting the influx of numerous artists and intellectuals at that time such as Aragon, Brassaï, Cocteau and Prévert, who came to visit Picasso in his studio. Corridas as well as Picasso’s birthday parties were organized and celebrated in his honour by the town’s population. The “Picasso Effect” was equally evident in the development of the arts. Several painters and sculptors, among them Chagall, Matisse and Brauner followed Picasso into studios in Vallauris. Many ceramists: les Argonautes, Baudard, Collet, Crociani, Gerbino, Gourju, Kostanda, Perot, Raty, Roy, Thiry, Valentin, Volkoff, le Tryptique (Del Pierre, Dialto, Portanier), also worked and created during this same period and were encouraged and entranced by the active artistic ferment.
Contact details:
A.I.R Vallauris
Place Lisnard, 1 Boulevard des Deux Vallons
[email protected]
www.air-vallauris.com
Phone: 33 (0)493 646 550
by Carole Epp | May 1, 2013 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
Rilla Alexander: Without the Doing, Dreaming is Useless from 99U on Vimeo.
We all have an idea we’ve been meaning to execute on, but how can we really make it happen? In this highly original, all-ages talk at the 99 Conference, illustrator Rilla Alexander walks us through this classic creative struggle by sharing the story of Sozi – an adorable character who walks us through the arc of an idea. She daydreams, she procrastinates, she sets deadlines, she gets tempted by new ideas, she buckles down and works hard – and finally – she realizes “Her Idea.”
1:15 – The start of an idea
1:45 – “I can’t work with anything hanging over my head…”
2:54 – “Finally. I put pencil to paper. ..and Im confronted by the mediocrity of my idea”
4:10 – What about all those other ideas?
5:03 – Five years pass…
5:30 – “I begin to hate my idea, its a huge weight of unfulfilled expectations”
6:05 – “I give up. But then, it happened…”
6:50 – I love this idea again
7:10 – Deadlines force me to have realistic expectations, “Instead of focusing on how wonderful it is, I focus on getting it done”
8:00 – How to execute your idea
8:41 – Dreaming up ideas is fun, but that’s only the tip of the iceberg
9:29 – Without the doing the dreaming is useless
9:55 – Set boundaries
10:11 – Let the idea take control
10:55 – Theres always another idea that looks better. But thats because I’m not working on it. I haven’t seen its flaws and failures
11:25 – Don’t give up. Don’t cripple it with self-doubt
12:09 – It’s a lot of work, but much more satisfying than procrastinating
12:30 – Rila reads “Her Idea”
About Rilla Alexander
Rilla Alexander is an Australian-born Berlin-based designer and illustrator. Her cast of creatures dance across Madrid’s Museo del Prado’s ceramics and stationery products, populate Swiss Credit Cards for Cornér Bank and sleep on the walls of Hotel Fox in Copenhagen (where she replaced the bed with a tent).
As a member of design collective Rinzen, she has published several books exploring the creative process. The felt-covered book Neighbourhood featured the collaborative efforts of over 30 artists reworking and remaking hand-made toys in a sequence that stretched across the world.
Her all-ages picture book, Her Idea, was launched with an exhibition at Colette in Paris — and tells the tale of her alter-ego Sozi and her quest to make ideas happen.
