by Carole Epp | Apr 2, 2020 | workshops
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We may be in the house, but it’s time we think outside the box. This FREE three-part online series is meant to be an inspiring, refreshing, pragmatic, and safe conversation space. We’ll explore innovations in our craft communities in the face of adversities and challenges during the COVID-19 outbreak. We want to hear from you about ways artists, writers, and organizations are creating unique solutions in a time of crisis.
Produced and presented in collaboration with American Craft Council, CERF+, Springboard for the Arts, and the Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG).
Part 1: Vulnerabilities, Disruptions, and Opportunities in the Marketplace
April 3, 2020, 2 – 3:15 p.m. CDT
Americans for the Arts is reporting a $3.6 billion impact on the arts sector due to the effect of the outbreak on operations through canceled events, lost wages, and other expenses. The business of craft has been disrupted at every level – from marketplace events to supply chains to retail and gallery outlets to small manufacturing production. What solutions are we seeing? How are artists and businesses adapting? What alternatives might we consider? Can we use craft thinking to design our way out of this?
Program Outline:
What have we learned?
- Guest: Jackson Schwartz, co-founder of Hennepin Made, a glass lighting fixture company launched in response to the last economic recession @hennepinmade
- Moderated Q&A: Where have we been and what have we experienced in the past and how did we overcome it?
What’s new about this scenario and what does innovation look like?
- Guest: Ayumi Horie, founder of Pots In Action lauded for her pioneering use of digital marketing and social media within contemporary ceramics @ayumihorie
- Moderated Q&A: Who else is innovating, changing, refocusing?
How do we coordinate new ways of working?
How can we take care of one another, ourselves and our community?
Part 2: Understanding the Impact and Pursuing Relief
April 10, 2020, 2 – 3:15 p.m. CDT
The nation’s arts and culture industry is experiencing devastating economic losses with closed venues and cancelled performances, exhibitions, and events as a result of the pandemic. With the passing of the $2 trillion emergency stimulus package that includes important provisions supporting the arts sector and creative workforce, there is still a lot to sort out for independent artists, entrepreneurs, and organization leaders. This series of online forums continues with this session devoted to helping you navigate what all this means for the craft sector and practical advice for pursuing relief.
Program Outline
What are we finding and why is this work important?
- Guest: Ruby Lopez Harper, Mexican, mother, wife, dancer, photographer, poet, and social justice warrior. Ruby is also the senior director of local arts advancement for Americans for the Arts @americans4arts
- Moderated Q&A: What other studies should we be staying focused on?
How has the craft field specifically been impacted and what sources of relief are out there – for artists, for businesses, for organizations?
- Guest: Carrie Cleveland, artists advocate and assistant extraordinaire and education and outreach coordinator at CERF+ The Artists Safety Net @cerfplus
- Moderated Q&A: What other needs should we be focussed on getting relief for?
How can we take care of one another, ourselves and our community?
- Guest: Carl Atiya Swanson, manager of Springboard for the Arts’ Creative Exchange program, a national platform sharing stories of artists with impact and toolkits for change @springboardarts
- Moderated Q&A: How else can we take care of one another, ourselves, our community during this time?
Part 3: Education Disruptions and Opportunities
April 17, 2020, 2 – 3:15 p.m. CDT
Our series continues by turning to the impacts COVID-19 has had on the education field. From residencies to education centers to higher education, the way we learn, teach, and educate has been turned on its head. We close our first round of the American Craft Forum by hearing from the education field – students, educators, and administrators – about new directions the field is turning to and what we’ve learned from this most recent disruption.
Program Outline
What impasses, roadblocks and challenges have our craft education systems faced in the past and how have we responded?
- Moderated Q&A: Other examples?
How are education systems innovating and changing and moving forward with this?
by Carole Epp | Apr 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
Juror, Sam Chung. Entries due June 26, 2020.
Apply online: kcclayguild.org/apply
CALENDAR:
Deadline for entries: June 26
Jurying complete: July 24
Notifications emailed: July 30
Deadline to send accepted work: September 30
Opening at Bredin-Lee Gallery, KCMO…5-9pm: October 2
Return of unsold work*: October 31
AWARDS:
Best of Show ($500), 1st Runner Up (($300), 2nd Runner Up ($200).
Other prizes include Purchase Awards, equipment awards, gift certificates totaling over $1000.
by Carole Epp | Apr 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
Concurrent with the NCECA 2020 conference theme of Multi(VA)lent: Clay, Mindfulness, Memory, resisters presents a dynamic presentation of contemporary ceramic artwork by women artists from the state of Virginia. The exhibition connects and addresses themes of memory by focusing on the works of women in alignment with an important historical marker of the Workhouse site – the women’s suffragists movement.
The group show includes 19 artists and 37 pieces and considers the methods in which artists use clay to explore ideas of potency, power and unity. The exhibition is on view March 14 – May 10, 2020 in the Vulcan and Vulcan Muse Galleries at Workhouse Arts Center.
Due to the statewide closures from the Coronavirus outbreak, we have put this exhibit online! Enjoy the virtual exhibit, artist studio talks and artist statements HERE.
by Carole Epp | Apr 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
“Why is this the time to get creative?
Together we have stepped into history and are now living inside an event unprecedented in our lifetime. Every day the news provides us with dizzying information that a few weeks before would have been unthinkable. What deranged and divided us a month ago seems, at best, an embarrassment from an idle and privileged time. We have become eyewitnesses to a catastrophe that we are seeing unfold from the inside out. We are forced to isolate — to be vigilant, to be quiet, to watch and contemplate the possible implosion of our civilisation in real time. When we eventually step clear of this moment we will have discovered things about our leaders, our societal systems, our friends, our enemies and most of all, ourselves. We will know something of our resilience, our capacity for forgiveness, and our mutual vulnerability. Perhaps, it is a time to pay attention, to be mindful, to be observant.
As an artist, it feels inapt to miss this extraordinary moment. Suddenly, the acts of writing a novel, or a screenplay or a series of songs seem like indulgences from a bygone era. For me, this is not a time to be buried in the business of creating. It is a time to take a backseat and use this opportunity to reflect on exactly what our function is — what we, as artists, are for.” – Nick Cave
Read the whole post HERE.
