Our America/Whose America? @ FERRIN CONTEMPORARY

by | Oct 5, 2022 | Uncategorized

Throughout our forty year history, we have used multi-artist survey exhibitions as a platform to explore social issues. We’ve focused on gender and feminist perspectives, broached relationship taboos, and challenged historical notions of ceramics and art. Last summer we partnered with Heller Gallery to present MELTING POINT as a way to use the mediums of ceramic and glass to address issues surrounding climate change. Now, it is time to turn our lens on the racist representations in mass market ceramics.

Our America, Whose America will present a dialogue between contemporary artists and a collection of commercially produced ceramics. This collection of historical objects, collected across the span of several years by Founding Director Leslie Ferrin, are in the form of plates, souvenirs, and figurines from the early 19th through mid-20th centuries. The items were produced in England, Occupied Japan, and various factories in the USA. The exhibition title was chosen from a series of plates produced by Vernon Kiln that features illustrations of American scenes by the painter Rockwell Kent.

In response to this historical collection, contemporary works by nearly 30 participating artists will provide new context and interpretation of these profoundly powerful objects. Seen now, decades and in some cases centuries later, the narratives they deliver through image, characterization, and stereotype, whether overt and bombastic or subtle and cunning, form a collective memory that continues to impact the way people see themselves and others today.

The contemporary artists we’ve invited use their work to assert their autonomy and subjectivity by presenting intertwined cultural critiques through lenses of their own choosing, starting with race, gender, and class. Each of these categories is tentacular and touch upon myriad other ideas including nature, warfare, food and water inequity, and more.

Visit Ferrin Contemporary online for more.

nendo reinterprets raku tea bowls for ‘KICHIZAEMON X’ at sagawa art museum

by | Oct 5, 2022 | Uncategorized

KICHIZAEMON X introduces five enchanting collections

Via Designboom

“nendo has teamed up with Raku master potter Kichizaemon Jikinyu for ‘KICHIZAEMON X’ exhibition that comprises five captivating collections. Running from September 16, 2022, to March 11, 2023, at the Sagawa Art Museum, Japan, the display includes collaborative works from different artists and artisans, and the result sees a conjunction of colors, textures, materials, and techniques. Each piece is a reinterpretation of traditional Japanese pottery, unfolding different narratives behind it. 

For example, the ‘chuwan’ series represents the passing of time, while the ‘michiwan’ series materializes the internal space of Raku ware. The ‘junwan -chroma-’ is a line of eight ceramic pieces completed by soaking them in ink to separate colors, the ‘junwan -redox-’ takes shape as a collection of three ceramic works fired after absorbing metal, and the ‘jihada’ is an installation piece that compromises five small spaces.

Read the full article on Designboom

 

Visiting Scholar opportunity @ New Brunswick College of Craft and Design

by | Oct 5, 2022 | job posting

NBCCD is pleased to announce a new initiative, designed to give its students the opportunity to learn from and collaborate with a creative role model. 💡
Launching in January 2023, the Visiting Scholar program will provide a creative, dynamic environment for a visiting artist to build and accelerate their practice, while also sharing their knowledge with emerging artists.
Applications for the four-month, paid opportunity are now open. ✍

upcoming lecture: Martina Lantin | “Role: Function and Object”

by | Oct 5, 2022 | workshops

After a more than two-year hiatus due to Covid, the North-West Ceramics Foundation is thrilled to finally be able to present Martina Lantin as their featured speaker. Martina will present via Zoom on Sunday, October 16, 2022, at 1pm PST. The presentation is free and open to all, but registration is required. Please see below for information about how to register.

Born in Montreal, Canada, Martina Lantin received her Master of Fine Art degree from NSCAD University in Halifax. She has participated in residencies in Canada, the United States, Germany, Iceland and China, including the Watershed Centre for the Ceramic Arts in Newcastle, ME; the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, TN; and the Liling Ceramic Valley Museum in Liling, Hunan Province, China.

Martina has written for various ceramic publications and edited the 2017 summer issue of the Studio Potter journal. Her work has been included in numerous juried and invitational exhibitions internationally. Recent participation includes Borderline, the Alberta Biennial 2020 and The Pots and Passion of Walter Ostrom at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.
Martina Lantin is an Associate Professor at the Alberta University of the Arts.

Martina mines the history of ornament and pattern to explore the mutation and boundaries of functional ceramics through vessels and installations. More recently, her exploration of adaptation and change has engaged emergent technologies as a method of production. In her talk “Role: Function and Object,” she will share new works produced during recent residencies in Iceland and Germany and discuss the evolution of her practice. Her talk will take place on Zoom on October 16, 2022, at 1pm. Registration is required.

To register, please click on this link, which will take you to a sign-up form. We look forward to seeing you there!

For more on Martina Lantin , please see her website 

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Online course with Jacquie Blondin

by | Oct 2, 2022 | workshops

The Hand Building Basics online course starts next week and runs Oct 4-Nov 29.

It’s the perfect course for beginners and throwers looking to expand their hand building techniques.

It’s not too late to join.

PS participants should have access to a kiln to get the most out of this course.

Let me know if you have any questions. I’d be happy to help you.

🔗Course info – click to learn more

https://courses-with-jacquie.thinkific.com/courses/hand-building-basics-fall-2022

Or go to https://jacquieblondin.com/pages/workshops-and-classes