by Carole Epp | Feb 6, 2017 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, technical tuesday
The
Manningham Victorian Ceramic Art Award was established by Manningham
Council in 2009 to support Victorian studio ceramics and acknowledge the
special place that ceramics has in the Manningham region.
The
biennial acquisitive award and accompanying exhibition celebrates the
best in contemporary Victorian ceramic art practice from across the
state. Works acquired through the award form part of the Manningham Art
Collection and are subsequently displayed in public buildings throughout
the municipality, as well as regularly featuring in Manningham Art
Gallery exhibitions.
Manningham Victorian Ceramic Art Award 2017
Major Award $10,000
Merit Award Acquisitions up to $4,000
Entries for the 2017 award will open soon.
The 2017 award will be judged by Janet DeBoos.
You may enter up to three individual artworks. Each artwork entry costs $30.
Entrants
are required to submit up to three high resolution images per artwork
entry (min. recommended – jpg or tiff; 300dpi; 1920 x 1080pixels).
Key Dates:
Entries Open: Soon
Entries Close: Monday 26 June
Finalists Notified and Announced: Friday 14 July
Finalists Exhibition Opening: Wednesday 16 August
Finalists Exhibition Closes: Saturday 23 September
Past Winners and Acquisitions
The
Manningham Art Collection includes almost thirty ceramic artworks
acquired through the Award since 2009, representing some of the best
contemporary ceramic work in Victoria. View a full list of past winners and acquisitions.
www.manningham.vic.gov.au/manningham-victorian-ceramic-art-awards
by Carole Epp | Feb 6, 2017 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, technical tuesday
About:
Cryin’ Out Loud is a juried exhibition that examines the
role of women’s and femmes’ voices as expressed in art about politics,
activism, and emotion. Considering both the metaphoric and literal
voice, Cryin’ Out Loud explores and celebrates the use of art
as a form of speaking up and out. A large group exhibition of works by
selected artists will take place in CCA’s Muñoz Waxman Gallery.
Juror’s Statement:
Cryin’ Out Loud takes each word of this maxim seriously –
Crying. Out. Loud. – and navigates the various implications of the
phrase, wheter exasperated and fed up (“Oh, for crying out loud!”) or
literal, as one who does not hide her desperation or emotion while she
is actually “crying out loud”. Similarly, “living out loud” has
associations with survivors of abuse, with activism in the LGBTQ
community, and with anyone refusing to “be quiet” about issues of
oppression, identity and authorship. It is time to speak loudly with our
voices and our art; with our intellect and our emotion; with our
politics and our personhood.
Throughout history women’s voices, perspectives, and innovations have
been undermined by those in power. In order to have their voices heard
or published, many women artists and writers have adopted gender neutral
or male pseudonyms. Women have fought for their right to vote, are
still fighting for wage-equity, and to have equal representation in
congress. Speaking and acting out is complicated for women and femmes
because of common double standards like the label “hysterical,” for
simply speaking her mind. Women have learned to work within these
oppressive structures often at the expense of their rights and humanity,
and frankly, we are ready for change.
Cryin’ Out Loud proposes that to unabashedly express emotion is a political act. To live out loud
is a necessary political gesture and that women’s experience needs to
be seen, heard, and cherished. The exhibition will consist of work in
all media that embraces emotion as statement; that broadcasts social and
political concerns, and that reacts to and resists the structures that
continue to oppress us.
How it Works:
Eligible artists can enter up to 5 images ($35 application fee),
statement, CV and web link. All works must be made within the last 2
years. The juror will review the submissions online and make selections A
large group exhibition will feature these selections, of which three
participants will recieve cash prizes (totaling $1,500.) All artists
will be responsible for shipping artwork both ways.
Where: Center for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM 87501; www.ccasantafe.org
- Applications Available: January 18, 2017
- Application Deadline: March 5, 2017
- Winners Announced: March 24, 2017
- Exhibition Dates: April 21 – July 9, 2017
Eligibility: Nation Wide (United States)
Application Requirements:
- Applicants can submit up to 5 images
- Current CV
- A brief statement on how your work addresses the themes of the exhibition
- Payment of a $35 submission fee
- Shipping artwork to and from CCA.
http://ccasantafe.org/visual-arts/call-for-artists-cryin-out-loud
by Carole Epp | Feb 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
February 16
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March 18, 2017
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 16, 6-8 PM
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P•P•O•W is pleased to present
Tie Me to the Mast,
a solo exhibition by Annabeth Rosen, a distinguished sculptor in the
community of West Coast ceramicists. Her work explores the fundamental
properties of
ceramics by directly confronting the aesthetic and chemical
relationships between sculptural form and painterly surface. Rosen’s
formally intuitive process is enabled by a complex understanding of
historical conventions, composite materials, and chemical properties,
placing her work in the tradition of experimental ceramicists including
Peter Voulkos, Betty Woodman, Linda Benglis, and Martin Puryear.
The
exhibition, her first with the gallery, will feature a series of
small-scale ceramic sculptures, elaborate organic forms that reveal
layer upon layer of clay,
glaze, and salt, fired using a ‘salt flux’ technique, which triggers a
self-glazing reaction. A signature innovation to this centuries-old
technique, through this process Rosen mixes surface chemistry into the
body of her work, creating a solid mass whose
glaze rises to the fore during the firing process. Rejecting historical
standards that distinguish decorative arts as ‘perfect’, Rosen’s
practice can be described as an effort to undermine established
conventions about an object’s merit, resulting in an extensive
body of work that embraces the challenges of a robust studio practice:
precarious balance, fissured surfaces, and accumulated fragments.
Among the works on view will be
Roil,
a large-scale sculptural work of individual ceramic forms, piled on top
of one another like layered gestures. Each individual piece is painted,
and together the work takes
on the effect of an abstract painting, ‘framed’ in a custom pedestal
made of metal. Pieced together, the work appears as if in motion, a
swirling, cascading form, seemingly driven by an inner velocity.
Rosen
describes the ceramic process for her as breaking down the barrier
between the visual and sensual. Her works invite not only an aesthetic
evaluation, but a
physical one as well. Creating works that appear as if caught in a
state of motion, the sculptures evoke a visceral response in the viewer,
inviting them to investigate the cracks and cervices visible on the
work’s surface. Interested in the way in which the
clay changes through being worked and formed, Rosen pushes the limits
of the material, building up works, firing them, adding new elements,
firing them again, and so on, exploiting the clay to create cracks in
the surface of the finished work that exposes
the nature of the materials.
“My
work represents a tally of touches that are informed by years of
deliberate working experience,” said Rosen. “My process may allude to a
desire to blur contemporary
experience into something timeless and familiar, like ceramics itself. I
engage in both recklessness and thoughtfulness at the same time,
embracing the awkward and the unfinished, the partial and the raw.”
Though
her works appear organic, found, or formed, masses of clay
un-heroically yielding to the weight of their material, Rosen’s work is
deliberate. Through the
process of creating her ceramic works, Rosen often breaks them, a
practice that she finds as interesting as the creation itself, as it
reveals the possibility and potency of a shard. She fires and re-fires
her work, interested in both the change in material
as the work accumulates mass, as well as the way the physical material
can be negotiated – its limits pushed, while simultaneously pushing the
limits of what a sculpture can be.
Born
in Brooklyn, New York, Rosen received her BFA from NYS State College of
Ceramics at Alfred University and her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of
Art. She was recently
announced as a 2016 recipient of a United States Artists fellowship.
She has been the Robert Arneson Endowed Chair at the University of
California Davis since 1997. Rosen has taught at School of the Art
Institute of Chicago, Rhode Island School of Design,
Tyler School of Art and Bennington College. Rosen has received multiple
grants and awards, a Pew Fellowship, two National Endowment for the
Arts Fellowships, several UC Davis Research Grants, and a Joan Mitchell
Award for Painting and Sculpture. Rosen’s work
is in the collection of the LA County Museum of Art, The Oakland Museum
of Art, The Denver Art Museum, and The Everson Museum, as well as
public and private collections throughout the country.
Annabeth Rosen: Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped, Rosen’s first
major survey chronicling 20 years of her work in ceramics and drawing,
will open at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in August of 2017. She
is represented by Anglim Gilbert Gallery
in San Francisco.
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by Carole Epp | Feb 6, 2017 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, technical tuesday
CITY OR COUNTRYSIDE!!
Choose our city residency and live and work in the historical center of Rome,
just a few blocks from the Roman forum, Pantheon or Colosseum.
Bramante’s Tempietto pictured here is just a stroll across the Tiber to
Trastevere.
Or opt for our countryside residency near the Lake of Bracciano and the
Medieval town of Anguillara. The house and studio in a tranquil garden
setting is just a half-hour walk from the train station where you can
catch a train into the center of Rome.
We
offer artist residencies for ceramic artists, visual artists and
writers for periods of 4 or 5 weeks. The residency periods can be
combined, but the residency cannot exceed 90 days (for non-EU
citizens). Both residencies conclude with a final group show in our Rome center gallery space.
To apply, please submit the following by e-mail to [email protected] by 1 March for summer 2017 residencies. We also consider applications on a rolling basis on the 1st of every month:
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- application form https://cretarome.wufoo.com/forms/m18h6lh10iwgpi5/
- curriculum vitae
- artist statement (250 words max)
- project proposal (500 words max)
- preferred residency period
- 10 images (jpeg or pdf), image list with year, materials & dimensions
- 4 short writing samples (writers and poets)
YOU CAN ALSO APPLY FOR THE FALL 2017 residency periods:
deadline 1 May 2017 (5 weeks unless noted)
10 AUGUST-13 SEPTEMBER
14 SEPTEMBER-18 OCTOBER
19 OCTOBER-22 NOVEMBER
23 NOVEMBER-20 DECEMBER (4 weeks)
www.cretarome.com
