call for entry: Westerwald Prize 2014

by | Oct 28, 2013 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

European Ceramics
Call For Entries

The WESTERWALDPRIZE was first awarded in 1973 to present outstanding ceramic art and craft work in the framework of a competition and exhibition at the Keramikmuseum Westerwald (KMW). This remains a priority of the administration of the Westerwald region for the 13th WESTERWALDPRIZE in 2014. A further aim is to promote the dialogue between ceramics and art in the region and to support cultural exchange within Europe.

The Westerwald Prize
In 2014, five prizes are to be awarded for outstanding ceramic work in the following areas:
•Saltglaze: stoneware and porcelain
: The Höhr-Grenzhausen Municipal Prize
•Design / serially produced ware
•Vessel / Form / Decor
•Sculpture / Installation
•Talent Award
(up to the age of 35 – b. 1978) (applicable for all the above categories)

Download all the details in english here: http://www.keramikmuseum.de/sites/keramikmuseum.de/myzms/content/e3578/e3676/WW-2014-en-Form-2_ger.pdf

 http://www.keramikmuseum.de/e3578/index_ger.html

Please note that the closing date for entries is 19 January 2014

International Ceramic Art Festival in Sasama – Nov22-24th

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International ceramic art festival in Sasama offers ceramic artists
and ceramic lovers to have opportunities to exchange their techniques,
knowledge, and artist spirits with each other.
It will be held at Sasama, Shizuoka, Japan through November 22nd to
24th. 
This year we invite ten artists from nine countries. You can see
their skills and techniques through slide lecture and workshop.
Moreover, you will get opportunity to communicate with them in many
occasions. 
The event showcases pottery artwork of about 50 potters from across
Japan and the world, plus a lot of booths with pottery tools. Don’t miss
the chance – or you’ll miss lots of things that are exclusive to this
event. 
http://icaf.jp/e/

emerging artist: Kaitlyn McGill

by | Oct 27, 2013 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

Kaitly is a recent graduate from
the Alberta College of Art & Design who is currently
Artist in Residence at the London Clay Art Centre in London,
Ontario. She makes lovely functional pottery, but is also am a paper cut artist and is investigating a collaboration between the two mediums.
 

 

Artist Statement

There is something quite remarkable about children and stories. I think its
because the imagination of a child has no boundaries – it is tremendously limitless.
Children live in a wonderful world of make believe and for a short fleeting time cherish
childhood characters bound in books as their closest companions. For some of
us, as we age and grow these friends are slowly packed away in boxes, placed on shelves; the memories of them slowly disappearing just as the colourful pages
in which they live too begin to fade with time. I suppose I am not like most, for
the days lived in the pages of my favourite books are still as bright and clear as they
were in my young wanderings. For me, the characters of my childhood are not limited to these young fables; they exist within the birch trees in my parent’s back yard
and the fine chipped china in my grandmother’s kitchen cabinet.  To me, these are all representations of humble narratives. Whether it be made with paper or
porcelain, my artistic practice explores the glorious relationship between objects and
stories.


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