by Carole Epp | Apr 2, 2008 | Uncategorized
An Invitational Ceramics Exhibition to Benefit the Craft Emergency Relief Fund (CERF.)
The Charlie Cummings Gallery is hosting an online-only benefit exhbition curated by Anthony Schaller and Lana Wilson. The exhibition, which runs from April 5th-30th, features work by over 70 nationally and internationally recognized artists. This is a great opportunity to buy great ceramic art and support a great cause.
The exhibition is now available for preview. Sales will begin at 11am Saturday.
by Carole Epp | Apr 2, 2008 | Uncategorized
Deadline April 30
An exhibition of ceramic art being held at the Cultural Centre Gallery (Medicine Hat College Gallery) in Medicine Hat May 29 – June 27, 2008, to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Alberta Potters’ Association and will be planned to coincide with the Annual General Meeting of the organization.
1. Each participant may submit one work of art.
2. Exhibition open to all ceramic media and techniques may include other materials as part of the work.
3. Artists are encouraged to portray or communicate an aspect of ‘celebration’ in their submission, regardless of form, function, subject or interpretation.
4. Size is limited to the dimensions of an Orton Standard Pyrometric Cone Box (50 large cones), i.e. 3″ x 3″ x 6″; all components of the artwork must fit into the box.
5. Entry may be for sale; no commission is taken by the Gallery.
6. Registration form is to be submitted to the Gallery by April 30, 2008; mail to: Cultural Centre Gallery, 299 College Drive SE, Medicine Hat, AB. T1A 3Y6
7. Artwork must be shipped or delivered to the Cultural Centre Gallery no later than May 15, 2008.
8. Registration info: Name of Artist/ phone number Address Title of Artwork Brief description Price/ Insurance value (if not for sale)
For further details, contact Allan Jensen at (403)502-9006.
by Carole Epp | Apr 1, 2008 | Uncategorized
some days trying to strike a balance between my studio practice, updating this blog and running around with my new baby means that I only have a little time to search for opportunities and events happening out there in the ceramic world. So if you have a posting, an exhibition, call for entry, etc. that you’d like posted here to get the word out please let me know. International posting welcome as the blog is read by 58 countries/territories. You can email me at [email protected] with all the details. I can’t promise I’ll post everything, but I can promise I’ll do my best.
cheers!
carole
by Carole Epp | Apr 1, 2008 | Uncategorized
Anderson Ranch Arts Center has a list of what looks like some amazing upcoming workshops this summer. Personally I’d love to attend the “Ceramic Sculpture as Social/Political Commentary” with Richard Notkin. There really seems to be something for everyone, what a great way to spend the summer holidays!
*Working in Jamaica: ceramic vessels and pottery with
John Neely
Alleghany Meadows
David Pinto
Doug Casebeer
*Field & Frame: exploring plates and platters with Gail Kendall
*Animal Imagery & Meaning with Joe Bova
*Handbuilt Pots: form, function and context with Mark Pharis
*Ceramic Head Constructions with Stan Welsh
*Soda Firing & the Sculptural Vessel with Brad Schwieger
*Photographing Your Work with Michael Fortune
*Slab & Coil: handbuilding fundamentals with Jill Oberman and Sam Harvey
*Who You Are: a self-portrait with Tip Toland
*Majolica on Terra Cotta Pottery with Posey Bacopoulos
*Handbuilding Vessels with John Gill and Andrea Gill
*On & Off the Wheel: basic pottery with Andy Brayman and Christa Assad
*Wheel-Thrown Pottery with Doug Casebeer, Val Cushing and Alleghany Meadows
*Wood-fired & Decorated: the Bourry box alternative with Charity Davis-Woodard and Lorna Meaden
*Mata Ortiz Southwest Pottery with Juan Quezada and Michael Wisner
*Finding Form through Surface with Mary Barringer,David Pinto and Sam Clarkson
Check out there website for more information.
PHONE 970 923 3181
FAX 970 923 3871
EMAIL [email protected]
ADDRESS P.O. Box 5598
Snowmass Village, CO 81615
5263 Owl Creek Rd
Snowmass Village, CO 81615
by Carole Epp | Apr 1, 2008 | Uncategorized
Recently I’ve been working with a group of ceramic artists here in Saskatoon whose work has been inspiring to me in my own practice. I’m thrilled now to have the opportunity to work more in depth with them, gaining a new and more thorough understanding of their work, process and inspiration, all the while making some pretty fun work that takes me out of my everyday of studio work. I think for me at least, it can become a bit routine in the studio, working in isolation, and I benefit quite a bit from working with others and having the opportunity not only to work, but to talk about work and get into the dirt of why it is that we make what we do.
Here’s the basic premise of what we’re doing so far…we wanted to create some collaborative work, but where to begin? Each of us has a firmly established practice, aesthetic and technique. What we’ve set up as an exercise to get us going is not unlike the childhood game of telephone. If you don’t know the game, it begins with one person whispering something to another who then passes it on to the next, etc, etc. As children this saying would often get altered with humorous results once it had passed through a number of kids. So how we’ve undertaken this in the studio is that we’ve each begun with a piece of work by each of the other artists which we then make a response piece to. Then we meet as a group, discuss the pieces and see what’s been percolating in each others minds/studios. Then back to the studio again to respond and make new work based on the pieces we saw. With each successive piece the work gets further and further removed from the original through the work of a different artists hand. Make sense?
We also decided to deal with vessel forms to give ourselves some focus and an underlying premise to unify the finished work for exhibition. Our interest in the vessel is in part because of the functional research in all of our practices and because the vessel has been one of the most recognizable and central aspects of ceramic history and tradition throughout all cultures. Essentially a utilitarian object it has been a subject for representation of cultural aesthetics, ritual and visual history. The vessel can be both read universally as well as a signifier of specific personal, cultural, and geographic interpretations. Despite the contemporary focus on quantity over quality in industrial production of functional wares; the vessel and the craftsmanship of its creation by hand alongside the multitude of perspectives and aesthetic renderings, still remains a focus among contemporary practitioners of the ceramic medium.
We have yet to document any of the work, but when we do I hope to post it here to further show you what I mean. In the meantime here are some images of the work of these amazing local talents.
Zane Wilcox
Paula Cooley
and Bonnie Gilmour
This project we’ve undertaken will be exhibited in 2009 in Red Deer, AB and hopefully here in Saskatoon as well.
