Matthew O’Reilly artist talk @ Craft Alberta

by | Oct 10, 2022 | Uncategorized

Join the Alberta Craft Council for a virtual Artist Talk and Closing Reception of Procession of the Self on Monday October 17, at 7pm MDT,
Procession of the Self is an Alberta Craft Council solo exhibition by 2022 Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics winner Matthew O’Reilly. The figural ceramic works in Matthew’s show were developed during his year-long residency at Medalta in Medicine Hat, Alberta. Through the iterative making and exhibiting process, Matthew’s work has evolved from gallery white, distorted public statuary to richly expressive, towering figures. Using the sculpted figure as a launch pad for conversation about the human condition and making reflexive work that pushes, pulls, and complicates dialogues around identity, Matthew’s work conveys a personal narrative while simultaneously being a larger cultural time capsule.
Learn more about this FREE virtual event and register: http://ow.ly/7Y1350KQMnc
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call for submissions: NCECA Fellowship Opportunities

by | Oct 5, 2022 | Uncategorized

NCECA’s purpose is to promote and improve the ceramic arts through education, research and creative practice. The following Fellowships are one of the means by which we accomplish this goal.
2023 Fellowship opportunities:
NEW Fellowships:
Environmental Sustainability Fellowship
Youth Educators Seed Fellowship
Emerging Artists Fellowship
Regina Brown Undergraduate Student Fellowship
NCECA Graduate Student Fellowship
Multicultural Fellowship
NCECA Helene Zucker Seeman Curatorial, Research, and Critical Writing Fellowship for Women
https://nceca.net/scholarships-and-fellowships/

call for entry: Hang Up’s – Prospectus Good Habit Pottery Co

by | Oct 5, 2022 | call for entry

Please review the exhibition Prospectus. (copied below)

Follow the link below to application form where you can upload your images and details.

Application Form

Hang Up’s – Prospectus

Exhibition Title:  Hang Up’s

Juror: Soojin Choi

Exhibition Location: www.goodhabitpottery.com

Dates for Exhibition: January 30, 2023 – April 2, 2023

Submission Deadline: November 13, 2022

Ship work by: December 15, 2022

Fee: $10 USD, up to 3 works

Hang Up’s ­is an exhibition of wall mounted/hanging ceramic works, hosted online by Good Habit Pottery Co.

Eligibility

Open to all artists living in North America, 18 years of age or older. Works must wall hanging, have a ceramic component(s) and be no larger than 18 inches in the largest dimension. All works must be ready to hang. Please provide any special hardware or hanging instructions as needed.

Juror

Soojin Choi was born and raised in South Korea, and she has worked as an artist in the United States since 2010. Soojin earned her BFA at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2015 with a double major in Craft/ Material Studies and Painting/ Printmaking. She continued her studies at Alfred University to pursue a MFA degree in ceramics in 2018. After graduate school, she accepted a residency at the Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, MN with funding by Anonymous Artist Studio Fellowship, and a long-term resident artist at Red Lodge Clay Center in Red Lodge, MT. Currently, she is a long-term resident artist at Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT. Her work transforms objects, figures and spaces into visual language by repeatedly layering flat and spatial surfaces.

Submissions

Artists may submit up to three works. Images must be formatted JPEG, a minimum of 1200px on the small dimension.  Artists may submit up to 3 views of each piece.

Name files in the following format “lastname_firstname_title_view(A,B,C).jpg”

 

Fee

Artists may submit up to three submissions for a fee of $10 USD. Fee must be paid with credit card through the Good Habit Pottery Co. website ‘Open Call’ page.

Sales

All work must be for sale, Artist will be paid 55% of the retail price, Good Habit Pottery Co. will retain 35%, and 10% will be donated to one of our three beneficiary organizations.

Shipping

Selected artists are responsible for shipping costs to Good Habit Pottery Co. and must include a prepaid return shipping label. All works must be shipped by December 10, 2022.

About Good Habit Pottery Co.

Good Habit Pottery Company is an aspiration to focus more time on the good things in life – to celebrate our good habits. The craft of pottery is one of humanity’s earliest inventions and is, at it’s root, about nourishing our family and community.

As craftspeople and artists, we know it is a luxury to pursue our passion through a life in the studio; as collectors of pottery, we know it is a luxury to adorn our homes with thoughtfully crafted wares.

We hope to inspire our customers to slow down, appreciate the small things, and take care of one another. To that end, we at Good Habit Pottery Company donate 10% of every sale to community building organizations.

Currently, we are supporting Milwaukee Habitat for Humanity, Days for Girls, and Crafting the Future.

Contact

Any and all questions can be submitted to [email protected]

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