by Carole Epp | Apr 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
The American Museum of Ceramic Art is pleased to offer two paid
summer internships sponsored by the Getty Foundation as part of its
Multicultural Undergraduate Internship Program. Founded in 2004 and
located in the Pomona Arts Colony, AMOCA is the only ceramics museum on
the West Coast. AMOCA’s mission is to educate by presenting,
collecting, and preserving significant ceramic achievements, and by
offering hands-on ceramic studio experiences.
Curatorial Internship: Participation in all aspects of planning and presenting exhibitions.
Education Internship: Planning and assisting with hands-on activities and with written curriculum.
The Getty Multicultural Undergraduate Internships will run for ten
consecutive weeks and pay a total stipend of $3,500.00 (before tax)
distributed twice a month.
Eligibility:
- According to the Getty guidelines, these internships are
“intended for members of groups underrepresented in the professions
related to museums and the visual arts, particularly individuals of
African American, Asian, Latino-Hispanic, Native American, and Pacific
Islander descent.”
- Applicants must reside or attend college in Los Angeles County.
- Be currently enrolled undergraduates. Students must have
completed at least one semester of college by June 2013, and those who
will complete their degree by September 1, 2013 are also eligible to
apply; (Students who are enrolled in a second BA or BS program are not
eligible.)
- Be available for ten consecutive weeks of full-time work (40 hrs/wk) between the dates of June 3rd and August 23rd, 2013.
- Be a United States citizen or permanent resident.
Application Deadline: April 28th, 2013
How to Apply:
Please send the following by email to
[email protected] with the
subject line “Getty Internship: [curatorial or educational as
applies]”. You may also submit by mail by sending your application to
AMOCA, 399 N. Garey Ave, Pomona, CA 91767.
- A cover letter describing the academic and/or work experience,
skills, and personal attributes that qualify you for the internship
- A current resume or CV
- A short writing sample (essay, term paper, article, etc.)
- Two letters of recommendation
Getty Curatorial Internship Job Description
The curatorial internship with the American Museum of Ceramic Art,
Pomona, CA, is designed to give an overview of the skills and
responsibilities required to organize, install, and present an art
exhibition for a professional museum setting.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Under the direction of AMOCA’s Associate Curator, the intern will
be directly involved in all aspects of mounting, maintaining, and
dismantling an exhibition.
- Exhibition Record Keeping: Maintaining master calendar,
exhibition notebook, marketing materials, publishing, incoming loans,
contracts, exhibition related events, and presentations.
- Research and Documentation: preparation of artist biographies,
images, audio-visual, and writing of interpretive exhibition didactics.
- Exhibition Design and Installation: development and floor plan
design using up-to-date design programs such as Sketch-up, learn proper
AAM art handling methods, art placement, knowledge of exhibition
furniture and current installation methods and standards.
- As an assignment designed to give the intern a start-to-finish
responsibility and a feeling of accomplishment, the intern will take
charge of data input, printing and mounting wall text and labels.
- Routine tasks will involve hosting the Information Desk, handling
sales and invoices for the Museum Store, recording and acknowledging
memberships, entering database information, coordinating mailings, and
generating routine correspondence.
- Understanding museum collection policies will include an
orientation on object accession, numbering and tagging items,
photography, and condition reports – all information that is entered
into the museum’s database. Attendance at one board meeting will be
arranged so as to understand the museum’s infrastructure and strategies.
To gain a sense of AMOCA’s role in the community, the intern will have
an opportunity to visit some of the approximately twenty Pomona Art
Colony venues, and others in the surrounding area. Other miscellaneous
topics will include familiarization with museum terminology, how to
properly present oneself in a museum setting, and how to interface with
other institutions for the purpose of networking
Getty Education Internship Job Description
The Education Internship with the American Museum of Ceramic Art,
Pomona, CA, is designed to provide an overview of the skills and
responsibilities required to develop educational programs and
activities to enhance visitor enjoyment and understanding. The intern
will assist in developing resources for public schools, colleges and
other visitors, making use of wall text, brochures, interactive
experiences, lectures, tours, and hands-on workshops. In order to
ensure that the educational programs are on par with current educational
standards, the intern will be introduced to the California State
Department of Education’s Content Standards.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Under the direction of AMOCA’s Education Manager, the intern will
be directly involved in all aspects of researching, documenting, and
preparing age-appropriate educational material.
- Participate in the development and assessment of school tour
curricula including docent training, outreach workshops, and summer
camp.
- Undertake the development of art kits that not only elucidate
past and current exhibitions, but also enhance current public school
learning requirements such as world cultures, arithmetic, reading and
writing.
- Contact schools, colleges, teachers, and community groups to
promote tours activities, and speaking engagements. Follow-up with
mailings and personal contact to schedule visits to the exhibition.
- Execute summer workshops for community groups such as the Boys and Girls Club of Pomona and more.
- Plan educational public events for adults and children through a
range of mediums that include lectures, workshops story-telling,
hands-on activities, games, quizzes, etc.
- Attend conferences and field trips as appropriate.
- Understanding museum education policies will include a general
orientation on developing a learning and education strategy that meets
the aims of our museum. Attendance at one board meeting will be
arranged so as to understand the museum’s infrastructure and
strategies. To gain a sense of AMOCA’s role in the community, the intern
will have an opportunity to visit some of the approximately twenty
Pomona Art Colony venues, and others in the surrounding area. Other
miscellaneous topics will include familiarization with museum
terminology, how to properly present oneself in a museum setting, and
how to interface with similar institutions for the purpose of
networking.
- Routine tasks will involve hosting the Information Desk, handling
sales and invoices for the museum gift shop, recording and
acknowledging memberships, entering database information, coordinating
mailings, and generating routine correspondence.
http://www.amoca.org/getinvolved/internships
by Carole Epp | Apr 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
Saturday, May 25th, 2013 10am – 4pm $85 ($65 for AMOCA members)
Gerit Grimm Bio
Gerit Grimm was born, and grew up in Halle, German Democratic
Republic. In 1995, she finished her apprenticeship, learning the
traditional German trade as a potter at the “Altbürgeler blau-weiss
GmbH” in Bürgel, Germany and worked as a Journeyman for Joachim Jung in
Glashagen, Germany. She earned an Art and Design Diploma in 2001
studying ceramics at Burg Giebichenstein, Halle, Germany. In 2002, she
was awarded with the German DAAD Government Grant for the University of
Michigan School of Art and Design, where she graduated with an MA in
2002. She received her MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics
at Alfred University in 2004. She has taught at CSULB, Pitzer College,
Doane College and MSU Bozeman and has worked at major residencies like
Mc Coll Center, Bemis Center, Kohler Arts & Industry Program and
Archie Bray Foundation. In 2009 NET Television created “Fantasia in
Clay” a Nebraska Story about artist Gerit Grimm. Grimm now lives and
works in Los Angeles, California. www.geritgrimm.com
More Info
The central idea for my newest artwork is to transgress the
boundaries of folk art and fine art by means of the following method:
appropriate historically significant folk art and theatrical
genres—such as the characters from the commedia dell’arte; and
interpret them through visual idioms of contemporary sculpture. My work
appropriates historical narrative subjects deriving from fables, myths
and interprets them in forms that have visual and conceptual affinities
with contemporary fine art—affinities that allow me to further explore
and question the boundaries between pop art, kitsch and high art. This
new direction of my work would be a hybrid between ceramics and these
traditions within contemporary sculpture. By risking technical failure
in the process of creating the forms, I am able to attain a complexity,
dynamism, and litheness of form. The technical risks are a corollary
to another type of risk—one that reinterprets a folk figurine tradition
and pushes it to its limits. My reinterpretation of this tradition
combines both narrative and form—synthesizing pots with fairytales in a
way that tests the boundaries of each. The result is often an uncanny
union—one that evokes all manner of stories about dolls, puppets and
statues coming to life. It is a union at once wonderful, elegant and
fanciful but also at times uncomfortable and awkward.
To illustrate the manner in which I work, I will describe my recent
exhibitions in New York City and Los Angeles, in which I reinterpreted
folk traditions as well as a series of autobiographical recollections
of my childhood in the German Democratic Republic. In Gerit Grimm:
Beyond the Figurine, Contemporary Inspirations from the Museum’s
Collection at the Long Beach Museum of Art, each piece formed one part
in a whole scene—an imaginary European market square, set in the
Baroque era, as if the sculptures were magically conveyed from the Old
World into the New. This series of artworks was inspired by the history
of Baroque art and ceramics, especially Staffordshire figurines and
French ceramics from the 17th and 18th centuries. The increase in scale
highlight the sculptural forms of my ceramic figures. To date, I have
been quite successful in building life-size and larger-than-life
ceramic with some exceptions. I use reduction kiln-firing techniques to
produce a highly austere (a subtle metallic sheen or bronze- looking)
surface, which leads to the stone-like appearance of my work. This
surface reinforces its sculptural qualities and conveys an appearance of
moments frozen in stone and in time.
Schedule:
10am – Introduction, Lecture & Discussion
11am – Demonstration
12pm – Lunch Break
1pm – Demonstration
4pm – Wrap up & closing remarks
List of materials and tools to bring:
- Since this is a demonstration workshop, you’ll not really need
anything. If you want to take notes, bring supplies for that. If you
want to take photos, bring supplies for that. We will have
chairs/benches and standing room, however because of the popularity of
these workshops, you might be more comfortable if you bring your own
‘camp chair’ to sit in.
by Carole Epp | Apr 15, 2013 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
Artist In Residence (one year minimum)
Midwestern State University
Ceramics Department
Dates
of Residency: September 1, 2013 through August 31, 2014 (the beginning date is
flexible from now until September 1)
Application
deadline: April 15 or until position is filled
This self-directed residency is designed
to provide a ceramic artist with studio access, as they make the transition
from or between academic settings. Furthermore, the program is intended to
allow a resident the time and space to pursue a body of work in a creative and
energetic environment, while enhancing the art program at Midwestern State
University. The accepted artist will participate within the ceramics area as an
informal collaborator and mentor for students, while working in the common
studio space. To see images of the ceramics studio at Midwestern, go to:
Midwestern will provide:
• All materials and firing
• Small office with internet
access and storage space
• Studio space in the common 4000 square
foot studio area
• 24-hour/7 days per week access
• Most university privileges
as given to full time faculty (free access to workout facility, reserved
parking, library access, etc.)
• A small furnished apartment
located at a private residence three miles from MSU (details to be discussed during
the interview process)
• A minimum stipend of $6000 (to
be discussed during the interview process)
The
Resident Artist:
• Will be responsible for 10 hours
per week of studio management and maintenance (including but not limited to the
following: loading and unloading kilns, clay inventory, mixing clay, mixing
glaze and firing kilns, Wichita Falls empty bowls)
• Will teach one continuing education
wheel-throwing course per semester
• Will attend opening
receptions and special events
• Will be responsible for all non-ceramic
related expenses aside from accommodation
• Will give one public lecture on her/his
work
• Will donate one piece for
the permanent collection of MSU
Equipment
available to Resident:
• Three large electric kilns
• Two smaller electric kilns
• Large Brent slab roller
• Two extruders
• Three pugmills
• Soldner mixer
• Separate well equipped glaze room
• Two station spray booth
• Materials and clay mixing/storage room
• 18 electric wheels
• One wheelchair accessible wheel
• A 5,000 square foot covered kiln yard
furnished with the following:
• Two 40 cubic foot Geil car kilns
• A 30 cubic foot “fast fire” wood kiln
• Two older updraft kilns
• A 30 cubic foot downdraft soda kiln
• A 3 cubic foot cone 10 test kiln
Requirements
and application:
A BFA in ceramics is required, an MFA
is preferred. All applicant reviews will be based on portfolio review and
individual merit.
For initial consideration, please
e-mail or make the following available
by website/blog by April 15 (we will
continue to accept applications until position is filled):
• Letter of interest with a paragraph on
what you would like to accomplish while at MSU
• Resume or CV
• Artist’s statement
• 15-20 jpegs of recent work
• If available, 10 jpegs of student work
• Contact information (email
and phone) for 3 references . . . Please make one a former professor
Steve Hilton
[email protected]
Midwestern State University
Juanita and Ralph Harvey School of Visual
Arts
3410 Taft Blvd
Wichita Falls, TX 76308
(940) 613.7041
by Carole Epp | Apr 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
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International Ceramics
Festival
28th-30th June 2013
The International Ceramics Festival is a fantastic event which attracts
about 1000 people who attend a jam-packed programme of lectures,
practical demonstrations, special exhibitions, spectacular firings and
trade stalls, over the weekend. Since it began in 1987 it has grown to
become the UK’s leading ceramics event, offering teachers, students,
ceramic artists, collectors, working potters and amateurs the chance to
meet and study the work of distinguished, internationally known potters
and ceramicists from Wales, the UK and around the world.
Guest Artists for 2013 include:
Beth Cavener Stichter (USA), Richard Notkin (USA), Doug Fitch (UK),
Sung Jae Choi (Korea), Rafael Perez (Spain), Takeshi Yasuda (China),
Virginia Scotchie (USA), Monika Patuszynska (Poland), Jitka Palmer (UK),
Peter Lange (New Zealand), Duncan Shearer (New Zealand), Jeremy
Steward (UK), Mick Morgan (UK), Steve Dixon (UK) and Conor Wilson (UK).
The International Ceramics Festival is organised by Aberystwyth Arts Centre and North and South Wales Potters Associations.
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