by Carole Epp | Dec 21, 2014 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
Artist Statement – Mindy Andrews
Trees and nature have always inspired my imagination. My playground growing up was the idyllic setting of Northwestern Ontario, Canada, situated on 98 acres surrounded by crown land. I believed that the trees would speak to me through their rustling leaves, and I would sing back to them. Many days were spent dreaming in my magical world.
I continue to love the smell, texture and light created by a magnificent forest. For over 20 years I have lived in or near the Canadian Rockies, with its majestic mountains, carpeted by endless forests.
My lifelong connection with nature has directly influenced my ceramic work. Through the use of porcelain clay I am able to create beautiful light and depth, and trees or flowers are painted on the vessels using a variety of slips and underglazes. Sometimes I will carve the trees to suggest the texture of bark. The resulting pieces are sometimes functional, while others are sculptural.
by Carole Epp | Dec 19, 2014 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
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| An image from Maayan Strass’s 2011 series ‘Freight’ (image courtesy of the artist) |
Fantasizing about an artist residency? It’s unlikely that vision includes a cargo ship. The enormous container carriers supply 90% of everything — from the food you eat to the clothes you buy — but they aren’t exactly, well, dreamboats.
Israeli photographer Maayan Strauss sees potential, though. She is launching Container,
an artist residency that will invite 12 creatives to travel along
existing shipping routes for a month. “Artists require solitude, beauty,
the natural sublime and global travel,” the website explains. “They
crave extended stretches of time, free of any interruption, in order to
create new work. All of this can be found on a container ship.” While
aboard, each will create his or her own body of work, which will be
shown later in a group exhibition.
“The program is also a part of my artistic practice,” Strauss told
Hyperallergic. “It’s a different type of artistic fulfillment from
making photographs or objects — creating something that is not
representational, rather a new situation and exchange in the world.”
Find out more here: http://hyperallergic.com/167446/an-artist-residency-inside-the-hidden-world-of-a-cargo-ship/
by Carole Epp | Dec 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
This trip is primarly intended for ceramic artists and for people who
are intereted in experiencing the unique nature of Iceland and would
like to meet Icelandic artists. Participants will have the opportunity
to collect material in the natural environment including volcanic lava
from recent and older eruptions from black lava beaches, etc.
We offer an 8 day trip and begin our travel in the south of Iceland and will stay in a hut in Þórsmörk for
two nights. We will hike to the area between the two Glaciers, where
the eruption occurred in 2010 and collect some material by the two
craters Magni and Móði.
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