by Carole Epp | Jan 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
Eden Revisted: The Ceramic Art of Kurt Weiser
Friday, February 12, 2010, 5:30 p.m.
Join us for this unique evening with Kurt Weiser! For this talk, the artist shares his process and how the role of drawing evolved in his work from formal design to narrative form. The talk will begin at 5:30, followed by a reception with the artist at 6:30. This special event is $10 at the door, $5 for students and SCC members.
2100 Smallman Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
www.contemporarycraft.org
p: 412.216.7003 f: 412.261.1941
Open: Mon–Sat 10–5 pm
by Carole Epp | Jan 20, 2010 | Uncategorized
A Conference for Wood Fired Pottery, Kilns and Woodfire Glazes
Dates: Feb. 11, 12, 13, 2010
Featuring: JOHN BRITT, NC Potter, Professor, Author, and BILL CLOVER, PJC Art Professor and other ceramic artists
The first annual clay Gulf Coast conference will have demonstrations, a slide show, a talk on glazes, a handle workshop and a vendor hall with products for clay arts and demonstrations of many of the products. John Britt will visit and demonstrate and talk on glazes; he will present a slideshow Thursday evening. His demonstrations will continue on Friday.
Noted PJC art professor and clay artist Bill Clover will host a workshop entitled “Can you handle it?” Friday afternoon at 1:00 PM. Gulf Coast area artists Patrick Bodine, Steve Dark, Anne Webb and Jason Stokes will demonstrate all day Friday.
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by Carole Epp | Jan 20, 2010 | Uncategorized
Exhibition runs: January 17, 2010 – March 21, 2010
From the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery Website:
“Introspective Expeditions: Journeys to the Self Winter welcomes exhibitions by three ceramic sculptors whose explorations about change and transformation are as much about three voyages of ongoing self-discovery. While these introspective exhibitions approach various archetypal models from deeply personal perspectives, the questions are universal and accordingly, each one invites us into a dialogue about our own connections to these mysteries.
Jane Adeney offers us TRANSUBSTANTIATION. Known for her installations and ceramic sculptures, Adeney’s works are about controlled states of transformation and of alchemical metamorphosis. Her fascination with the clay’s various stages of being, (malleability, firing, and smoking) mirrors her examination of various stages of personal passage, renewal, and the cycle of transformation. Her work is about human existence and the symbolic purification of fire while it reaches into the depth of our inner selves, touching internal worlds of desires, and possibly, fears.
In the 21st century, politics, technology, and economic globalization have resulted in the merging of people from many nationalities and cultures. Sin-ying Ho’s ONE WORLD/MANY PEOPLES describes the path of such an encounter between colliding cultures and eras. Fragments of various Eastern and Western forms and imagery are juxtaposed to comment on contemporary postcolonial theory, which critiques Imperial Europe by examining such issues as slavery, migration, race, gender, and place.
Throughout the ages, there has been a legacy of representing women and motherhood as an iconographic image of “Women as Vessel.” Usually symbolizing such ‘ideals’ as fertility, purity, and the nurturing caregiver, these representations were positioned as eternal yet lacked any human experiential dimension. In BROKEN … BUT STILL STANDING, the sculptures by Louise Pentz take us into a world of contradictions where mothering is a deeply personal journey full of on-going learning, teaching, and transformation. Here, women are the vessels of personal identity and experience and our mothers’ legacies of strength, endurance, and faith continue to inspire and guide. “
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by Carole Epp | Jan 19, 2010 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF DIGITAL IMAGES: FEBRUARY 5, 2010
Lincoln Arts & Culture Foundation, April 24 to May 30, 2010
Lincoln Arts & Culture Foundation will present its twenty-third annual juried competition of ceramic works April 24 – May 30, 2010 featuring artists residing or working in the United States, Mexico & Canada. This celebratory exhibition of contemporary ceramic art (sculptural, non-functional,functional) will be held on the property of the renowned Gladding, McBean Terra Cotta Factory, and displayed inside an original 35-foot beehive kiln and in the historic architectural design studio. Access to the exhibit is by tour only. Prospectus available
here.
by Carole Epp | Jan 19, 2010 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
February 2, 2010, Call for Entry
Exhibition Dates: April 16 – June 20, 2010
Location: San Angelo, Texas
The Eighteenth San Angelo National Ceramic Competition highlights a broad range of attitudes in the medium of clay from functional to sculptural work. The show is hosted and organized by the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts in close cooperation with Angelo State University. This competition is open to all artists who are residents of the United States, Canada, and Mexico. All work, both functional and sculptural, must have been completed within the last two years. Works previously accepted into this competition are ineligible. Work may be entered by either digital images or 35 mm slides. Awards for the show are First place 2000.00, Second Place 1500.00, Third Place 1000.00 and 750.00 going to the Tile Prix Primo which is a special prize awarded by the Tile Heritage Foundation, in cooperation with the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts. This award goes to the tile maker whose tile in the juror’s estimation best reflects the ceramic traditions of America. Exhibition dates for the show are April 16 – June 20, 2010. An Invited Artist will also have an exhibition of work and will lead a workshop.
In conjunction with the exhibition, several activities are planned. There will be a panel discussion concerning contemporary ceramics held at Angelo State University on April 16th at 1:30 p.m. The panel will include the Museum Director, the Invited Artist and the Juror. The Invited Artist, will lead a workshop at The Old Chicken Farm Art Center on Saturday, April 17th. Numerous other events of interest to artists will occur. For more information on this event and to download the prospectus, click here 18th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition.
