by Carole Epp | Dec 12, 2013 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
The Silpe Gallery at the University of Hartford’s Hartford Art
School is proud to announce a call for entries for DRINK! a national
juried cup show open to ceramic cups, goblets, mugs, tea bowls, teacups,
and tumblers of all kinds.
DRINK! is the Silpe Gallery’s national juried ceramics
show of cups, goblets, mugs, tea bowls, teacups, and tumblers open to
all artists working in the continental United States. All work must use
75% of clay as the primary medium. Juried from digital only. Fee: $35 for up to three entries. Juror: Doug Peltzman. Click here to apply.
The jury fee is $35 for up to three entries. A maximum of three
entries may be submitted per person. All work must use 75% of clay as
the primary medium.
Juror: Doug Peltzman
Submissions will be accepted online only from November 22, 2013 through January 31, 2014. Please visit callforentry.org and search DRINK! to enter, or click this link to be taken directly to our call.
Exhibition dates are March 10 through April 2, 2014.
An opening reception and awards presentation will take place on Sunday, March 9, 2014 at 4 p.m. in the Silpe Gallery.
Proceeds from the sale of DRINK! vessels will benefit the Silpe Gallery at the University of Hartford’s Hartford Art School.
Find all the details here: http://silpegallery.wordpress.com/drink-juried-cup-show/
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If you have any questions about DRINK!, please send us an email, we’ll be happy to help you out.
by Carole Epp | Dec 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
Artist talk by Michael Flaherty (www.ceramicfundamentalist.com)
this Saturday, Dec. 14th, 330 Avenue G. South, 1 – 3 p.m., courtesy of
Sask Terra and the Saskatoon Potters Guild. Promises to be interesting!!
The Education Committee invites you to a two part workshop with Mike
Flaherty which will be held in the SPG student room on Saturday, Dec. 14
from 4 – 7 p.m. and Sunday, December 15 from 1 – 4 pm.
Check out http://www.ceramicfundamentalist.com/ and Mike’s blogs.
First demo (Sat.): puling and pinching large antler forms, arranging for drying, throwing with a template.
Second demo (Sun.): trimming, assembling the antler, setting up a drying armature, carving and smoothing.
Mike will also show us how he decorates with the underglaze he formulates himself. He will also be bringing terra sigillata.
Participants
will have to opportunity to make and throw with templates. Bring some
clay, your favourite throwing tools, plastic cards such as gift and
credit cards, tools to form/shape the template, i.e. scissors, small
files, punches, etc.
You will be provided with handouts.
Feel free to bring your camera and/or video camera.
Mail a cheque made out to The Saskatoon Potters’ Guild to:
Education Committee
℅ Teresa Gagne
501 Avenue M North
Saskatoon, SK
S7L 2S7
Saskatoon Potters Guild
by Carole Epp | Dec 11, 2013 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
“Harrison is regarded as one most famous ceramic artists of the Pomona
Valley in Southern California and is known internationally. Considered
as a real leader of the art in the post Second World War era, his work
is recognised for its perfection of proportions and original decorative
patterns.” – Daniel Benning
Read the article and watch the film here on OEN.
Thanks to musing reader Naomi Duffey for this one! If you have suggestions for any of the musing features: eye candy, emerging artists, technical tuesdays, movie day, or a site to see friday, I’m always up for suggestions. Drop me a line at [email protected]
