Residency Fellowship Opportunity – Baltimore Clayworks

by | Mar 17, 2013 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

About the Lormina Salter Fellowship

Realizing the need to enrich the existing collective studio with
creative, energetic and artistically diverse ceramists, Baltimore
Clayworks is offering a one-year residency fellowship as a memorial to
one of our founders, Lormina Salter. “Nina,” as she was fondly known to
us, was a gifted teacher and respected artist who handbuilt large
stoneware vessels and sculpture. Her initiative, energy and insistence
on artistic excellence were instrumental in setting direction for
Clayworks in its critical early years.

The residency fellowship runs from September 1st to August 31st of
the following year. Applications will be juried by select artists in
residence, the Residency Program Coordinator, the Executive Director and
an outside curator or artist.

Former and current affiliates of Baltimore Clayworks are not eligible.

The Residency Fellowship Includes

  • Individual production area (approximately 120 square feet)
  • $100 monthly materials and firing stipend
  • A solo exhibition in our main gallery at the end of the residency
  • Common area (2000 square feet) including storage Consignment
  • Gallery (60/40 –2002 gross sales – $65,758)
  • Kilns: 60 cu ft and 45 cu ft downdraft natural gas kilns, 30 cu
    ft propane kiln, raku propane kiln, a newly constructed two-chamber
    climbing type woodkiln, 8 electric kilns, electric test kiln
  • Equipment: 2 slab rollers, Alpine spray booth with 1 hp compressor, ball mill, extruder
  • Teaching opportunities, both onsite and through our Community Arts program, networking with Artists-In-Schools

Residency Fellowship Requirements

  • At least 24 hours weekly on the premises (doing your own work)
  • Up to 10 hours annually of community outreach (slide lectures or demonstrations)
  • Participation in the collective life of the studio Willingness to abide by environmental concerns
  • Solo exhibition
  • Residence established in Baltimore

Application

Download an application and mail it to

Lormina Salter Fellowship
Baltimore Clayworks
5707 Smith Ave
Baltimore, MD 21209

For questions, please contact Jim Dugan at 410 578-4408 or email [email protected].

For consideration all applications MUST include the following:

  • Completed application A list of 3 references and their
    affiliations with phone numbers (letters of recommendation are not
    necessary)
  • Artist’s Statement
  • Resume
  • 10 jpg images (300 dpi, exactly 1200 x 900 pixels) on a CD readable by Macintosh and PC computers
  • Image info sheet, including title, date, materials, and processes

http://www.baltimoreclayworks.org/artists/become_fellowship_artists.html

emerging artist: Leah Spagrud

by | Mar 16, 2013 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

 

“The
work I am currently creating stems from a long time fascination with the
teapot. When I began working in clay in 2008, all I wished to create
was an aesthetically pleasing and well functioning vessel for tea.
However, this form proved too challenging, and in frustration I set it
aside. Only recently (and after a number of years learning to work with
clay) have I began to readdress the teapot, and pouring vessels in
general.”

Calling all Emerging Artists and Students

by | Mar 16, 2013 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

So one of the new changes around musing that I wanted to implement this year (yeah a realize it’s already March, give me a break) is a new feature focusing on student and emerging artist work. Most of the eye candy monday features showcase artists who have gained a level of recognition already within our field and community. I would like to start to support the more emerging artists out there in gaining exposure, and hopefully feedback on their work.

Starting today I’ll be presenting two emerging artists each weekend. Now this is going to be a regular feature so long as you all help me spread the word and help search out these fresh new artists. I can’t do it without you as most of this work is going to be off the radar and not the kind of thing you can just run across in an afternoon on Pinterest. So teachers, guild members, fellow students, each of you – nominate a friend or spread the word that I’m on the lookout for some new talent.

What qualifies? Well I think the term student is obvious enough, but emerging, well it can be a grey area.  I really just want to be inclusive of emerging artists young and old. So doesn’t matter if you are 20 and have no formal training or 65 and have just fallen in love with clay.

What am I looking for?

  • A few images, they don’t have to be professional or on a grey background. So long as we can clearly see the work that’s fine.
  • If you’ve got a website, facebook page, etc, please send me the link to share. If you don’t have a website don’t worry about it. 
  • A little write up would also be nice. Tells us about yourself, about your work. Include an artist statement if you have one. Again though no pressure. Sometimes the images can speak for themselves. 

Where to send it? Just drop me a line at [email protected] with “emerging mud” in the subject.

Thanks everyone!