by Carole Epp | Mar 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
“This week on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler I have an interview with Alex Kraft and Tony Merino. Both are established ceramic artists and co-curators of the exhibition 50 Women: A Celebration of Women in Ceramics. The exhibition will open in 2016 at the American Jazz Museum in Kansas City, MO and will be one of the major exhibitions featured during this year’s 50th NCECA conference. In the interview we talk about gender, dismantling hierarchies, and the challenges of curating a large scale exhibition. For more information please visit their Facebook page or YouTube Channel.”
by Carole Epp | Mar 16, 2020 | monday morning eye candy
Hi everyone! Thanks for showing up, thanks for being here.
I know today feels pretty heavy, everywhere around this little planet of ours. My kids are home from school indefinitely now, and my aged parents live provinces away. I’m missing my loved ones and just want to go and give every last one of my friends in this world a hug. But alas it cannot be so. #fuckcovid19 to put it mildly.
So today I thought i’d share one of my favorite instagram accounts @ihavethisthingwithfloors
I love how this account allows me to travel around the world looking at stunning ceramic tile works. Thank goodness for social media and the internet at times like this to keep us feeling connected to the rest of the world. May we find ways to still share art and love and creativity throughout this pandemic and self isolation. I’ll try my best to stay active here on the blog and on instagram. But hugs my friends. Stay safe, stay healthy. Be creative. Love with wild abandon. Tell each other you love them. Help each other, we are all in this together. There is no I. We are one.
xoxo
Carole
by Carole Epp | Mar 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
2020 Board Candidates
NCECA is pleased to introduce 2020 candidates for two positions on its Board of Directors: Director at Large and Student Director at Large. Elections will open early March and will be conducted via SurveyMonkey. All current members prior to March 1 will receive an email invitation to vote. If you joined membership after this date, please notify [email protected] or [email protected] to receive your evite. All votes must be cast by 4pm ET, Friday, March 27, 2020.
To learn more about each candidate head over to the NCECA website for info and videos!
Director at Large:
by Carole Epp | Mar 14, 2020 | events
“Women ceramicists, she said, struggled for recognition, not only because they were female artists, but also because their chosen medium wasn’t as accepted [as fine art] as it is today.
The struggles of women ceramicists over the last four decades, she said, have opened up opportunities — unavailable to/for women in the past — for a new, rising group of female and female-identifying artists.”
Read the full article by Jennifer Huberdeau of the The Berkshire Eagle and find out more about the exhibition and upcoming symposium on Women in the Visual Arts HERE.
by Carole Epp | Mar 14, 2020 | call for entry
Social Distance Gallery will be posting BFA and MFA thesis exhibitions that are canceled or limited in access due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The digital exhibitions will be hosted on Instagram at @socialdistancegallery
Here is what we need from you:
Gather all of the students in a show. There are hundreds of exhibitions being canceled and posting shows as a group will make things a little smoother. I understand it might be difficult to gather everything from everyone. These are unprecedented times, and this is a one-person operation. Please help me out by gathering all the info before sending it to me. Thanks and stay well.
Take and send multiple photos of the installation. Try to get photos that showcase the whole space. If the show is not being installed, you can skip this step.
Send up to 3 documentation photos of works for each student exhibiting. Please edit the photos so the color and light are correct. Please send files in .jpg format. Name each file with artists name, and image number (Example: JaneDoe_1.jpg) Along with each image, please include the following:
Name of institution
Is this a BFA or MFA thesis exhibition
Title of exhibition (if applicable)
Artists name / corresponding image number (example: JaneDoe_1.jpg or JaneDoe_2.jpg)
Title of work
Medium / size / date
Artists Instagram handle (if applicable)
Send all material to [email protected]
socialdistancegall.wixsite.com/socialdistance
