AWARDS
1st place – $1000 / 2nd place – $500 / 3rd place – $250 / Honorable Mentions
ELIGIBILITY
This juried show is open to all US artists/residents (ages 18+) working in clay/ceramics. Works must be original, handcrafted, and have been completed in the past two years. Works submitted for consideration must fit on a 24”x24” or 15”x15” pedestal. Works may not have been previously exhibited at the North Carolina Pottery Center. Submission of an entry to this show constitutes an agreement by the artist to all conditions and stipulations listed in this Call for Entries.
ENTRY FEE
Artists may submit images of up to three (3) works for a non-refundable $35 fee. Submissions will not be considered complete until both the entry submission and the entry fee have been received by the North Carolina Pottery Center. Preferred entry fee payment is online by credit card via the center’s secure payment form at tinyurl.com/2019artofclay-entryfee.
If you need to pay by check, please make payable to North Carolina Pottery Center and mail to: North Carolina Pottery Center, PO Box 531, Seagrove, NC 27341.
ENTRY PROCEDURES
Up to three (3) works may be submitted for consideration. Images of works must be submitted online via tinyurl.com/2019artofclay-entrysubmission for preliminary judging. For each work, up to three (3) separate images showing details or different views may be submitted.
Images of works accepted will be retained/used by the North Carolina Pottery Center for record-keeping, documentary, and publicity purposes.
Digital images must be submitted in jpg format. Artist names should not appear on the image itself.
For good image quality and a fast upload, your image files must be sized around 1800 x 1800 pixels at 72 dpi (approximately 6″ x 6″ at 300 dpi). Please do not submit images smaller than this. Each image should be no larger than 5mb.
Digital files must be named using the following naming scheme:
FirstInitialLastName-entrynumber-imagenumber
Example:
jdoe-entry1-image1
jdoe-entry1-image2
jdoe-entry1-image3
To insure impartiality, the Juror will select works for the exhibition using a blind jury process. Artist names will not be included with any digital images sent to the Juror.
Entries will not be considered complete until the entry submission fee has been received. Entry materials and entry fee are due no later than December 15, 2018.
JUROR
Douglas Fitch (www.douglasfitch.co.uk)
Doug is also going to be one of the featured presenters at the 2019 North Carolina Potters Conference, sponsored by the Randolph Arts Guild, in Asheboro, NC, the first weekend in March 2019.
Says Doug, “My wife and I are long established potters with international reputations, havingtraveledd in Japan and throughout the USA, to exhibit our work and to deliver workshops and lectures. In 2013, we became partners in life and in business. Our styles compliment, as we have evolved from similar influences, but our work is nevertheless clearly distinct from one another.
I have been making pots for most of my life. It’s a strange thing, to be excited by something as simple as a brown clay jug and I can’t explain it, but it seems that it happens to some people; it just gets under your skin.
It was at the age of eleven that I first encountered medieval pottery. My headmaster, a keen archaeologist would take us on trips to formerly inhabited sites, commonly ploughed fields, where our eyes would scour the furrows in search of fragments of pottery. Back in the school room, he would show us photographs of the type of pottery that these shards had once formed a part of. The experience gave me my understanding at the time, of what I considered pottery made by hand looked like. This aesthetic has formed the basis of my work ever since.
We share materials, working in red earthenware, decorated with a self-imposed restricted palette of coloured slips, covered with rich honey glazes. The pots are fired in the wood kiln, which we stoke continuously for up to twenty hours. Subsequently we travel together to shows up and down the country, selling our wares. Our life is our work and our work is our life, we live and we breathe pottery.”
For more info: ncpotterycenter.org/artofclay2019/
