by Carole Epp | Sep 17, 2007 | Uncategorized
I’ve mentioned before in a post the upcoming NEOCRAFT conference to be held this November in Halifax, so if you haven’t checked it out yet have a look at their website for a list of all of the amazing speakers that are going to be presenting. If you can make it there will be exhibitions throughout the city as well.
But just today I got an email that a related publication is already out to press. Here’s the blurb from the email:
‘The relationship between the crafts and modernity has long been characterized as difficult and the crafts are often perceived as occupying a marginalized role in the discourses of modernism. NeoCraft: Modernity and the Crafts seeks to challenge the assumptions surrounding this relationship by introducing a wide range of scholarly essays that explore the historical, contemporary and future positioning of the crafts within the broader scope of visual culture. The crafts occupy an important role in material, globalized modernity, and as such they must be understood through a multiplicity of gazes. With that in mind NeoCraft: Modernity and the Crafts unites an international, interdisciplinary range of writers who are actively contextualizing modernity and the crafts. Drawing upon writings in the fields of craft history, art history, philosophy, museum studies, anthropology, fashion theory, history, women’s studies, and design, this book explores in detail the shifting and influential cultural position of the crafts. NeoCraft is divided into five central themes: Cultural Redundancy or The Genre Under Threat; Global Craft; Crafts and Political Economy; Invention of Tradition: Craft and Utopian Ideals; and Craft, the Senses and New Technologies. Within each of these themes leading scholars, craftspeople and curators including Bruce Metcalf, Larry Shiner, David Howard, Grace Cochrane, John Potvin, Beverly Lemire, Joseph McBrinn, B. Lynne Milgram, Janice Helland, Elizabeth Cumming, Alla Myzelev, David Howes, Tanya Harrod, Love Jönsson, and Mike Press, explore the reality of craft practice that engages with the modernizing world.’
Product details:
273 pages, 65 bw illustrations, 7 x 9″
ISBN: 978-0-919616-47-9 (paper)
Price: $39.95
To purchase, visit http://www.nscad.ns.ca/press/press_neocraft.php
by Carole Epp | Sep 17, 2007 | Uncategorized
If you’re looking for a consignment opportunity in the Ontario region check out Artists Walk at Village Square. Deadline is October 13th.
by Carole Epp | Sep 17, 2007 | Uncategorized
I realize that lately I’ve been falling a bit behind with postings, artist profiles and the like, but with good reason. I’ve been preparing for an upcoming gas firing, got some new forms I’m really excited about and looking forward to showing you (I’m trying to hold off until they’re done rather than showing you bisqued work), I’ve just lined up a new space in Victoria, BC that’s selling my work – the Gallery at Mattick’s Farm – plus it’s grant writing season, so whenever I’m on the computer I seem to be staring at budgets and project descriptions.
But I do have happy news to share so I figured I’d better post. If you’re a reader of Ceramics Art and Perception check out the latest issue as there’s a great article stacked with gorgeous images of the work of Feffakookan‘s Mel Robson as well as an article by Diana Hare about an exhibition of work I organized for this past years’ NCECA conference.
Speaking of NCECA check out their website for deadline details for their Regional Student Juried Exhibition – Deadline is October 1st and their Call for 2009 Concurrent, Independent Exhibition Proposals – deadline November 15th.
More to come in the next week as the dust settles in the studio and the grants get finished. Till then…
by Carole Epp | Sep 4, 2007 | Uncategorized
The Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador celebrates CRAFT YEAR 2007 with the exhibition CONTAINED, which runs from September 8 – October 7, 2007
For CONTAINED Guest curator, Gloria Hickey, has invited 12 artists working with clay, fiber, metal, and wood to consider the halo of contemporary issues evoked by the concept CONTAINED. This touring exhibit showcases work that is unique to Newfoundland and Labrador but will have a resonance in communities elsewhere.
EXHIBITORS: BRIAN BANFIELD, ELLY COHEN, GORDON GOSSE, MICHAEL MASSIE, MIKE PATERSON, JANET PETER, GARMEL RICH, ISABELLA ST. JOHN, TRINE SCHIOLDAN, REED WEIR, RAY WILL, LINDA YATES & DAVID HAYASHIDA.
Also in the AnnexGALLERY
CONTAINERS: OBJECTS OF FUNCTION AND BEAUTY
A juried multi-media exhibition featuring a variety of functional containers. All works in this show are for sale. Exhibitors: Brian Banfield, Paula Cooley, Judy Cooper, Christine Gagnon, Leslie Delanty, Florence Donaway, Carole Epp, Bonnie Gilmour, Gordon Gosse, Susan Greenbank, Shannon Kennedy, Bonnie Johnstone, Urve Manuel, Erin McArthur, Sophie Meyer, Sarah Minty, Shawn O’Hagan, Belo Simo, Peter Sobol, Alexis Templeton
Also RELATED PROGRAMMING – CONTAINED: Protection or Prison? The Craft Council Gallery invites the public to an artist’s panel Sept. 17th, 7pm at the Craft Council, Devon House, 59 Duckworth St. Artists Janet Peter, Trine Schioldan, and Ray Will will discuss their work in the context of relationships and the contemporary need for sanctuary.
