by Carole Epp | Oct 23, 2012 | Uncategorized
October 26 through October 28, fifteen nationally-recognized ceramic
artists bring recently-fired, colorful and durable creations to Hill
Center for show and sale.
This Friday evening’s reception party with these artists assures
first choice among their freshly-fired creations. This one-on-one time
with these artists begins at 6:30 p.m. through 9 p.m. Reserve tickets $25 online.
If you haven’t discovered their pottery, this is your unique
opportunity to talk with them about finding a place in your home for
their quality dinner plates, mugs, platters, vases and pots. These are
one-of-a-kind, shaped by hand and finished by fire in time for this
intimate venue at Hill Center.
Many in the Washington, D.C. region who over the years have traveled
far to find these artists, will drive the short distance to be at Hill
Center to purchase the plates, mugs, cookware and collectables they have
made a part of their lives.
The public show and sale continues during the weekend with free admission both Saturday morning October 27 at 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. and Sunday October 28 at noon until 4 p.m.
Louise Allison Cort, the Curator for Ceramics at the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, will deliver a free talk entitled “Pots and People” at 11:00 am and 2:00 pm on Saturday.
Participating artists:
www.potteryonthehillside.com
by Carole Epp | Oct 23, 2012 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
via Wikipedia:
“Lusterware or Lustreware (respectively the US and all other English spellings) is a type of pottery or porcelain with a metallic glaze that gives the effect of iridescence, produced by metallic oxides in an overglaze finish, which is given a second firing at a lower temperature in a “muffle kiln“, reduction kiln, which excludes oxygen.”
Read the rest here.
Or find out more here or here.
by Carole Epp | Oct 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
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Opening Reception:
Sunday, October 28 from 1 to 5 pm
Welcome and Remarks: 1:30 pm
Artist Remarks:
Susan Shantz at 2:30 pm
Claire Brunet at 3:00 pm
Guillaume Lachapelle at 3:30 pm
This exhibition explores object scanning, computer-generated form
manipulation and 3-D printing, all of which embody Rapid Prototyping
technology. While some artists switch back and forth between analogue
and digital tools, others work exclusively in digital formats. Coming
from both Canada and the USA, the artists in this exhibition are at the
forefront of creating new forms and inventing a new relationship to art
and art-making.
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Don’t Miss It. A MakerBot Replicator will print 3-D objects right before your eyes.
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by Carole Epp | Oct 22, 2012 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
(*thanks to
Brenda Wolf for the heads up about Marie’s amazing work.)
by Carole Epp | Oct 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
Bradley Keys – Grounded
Reception, November 3, 3 to 5 pm
Artist Talk 3:30
Banff, Alberta:
November is once again the month to
focus on ceramics at the Willock & Sax Gallery. This year we
feature Bradley Keys, who explores the geography of Western Canada in Grounded. Our group show The Makings III
includes artists such as Ed Bamiling, Neil Liske, Robin Dupont, Emily
Schroeder Willis, Do-Hee Sung and many other ceramics artists. Join us
for Grounded and The Makings III at the Willock & Sax Gallery starting November 1 through to 30th.
Bradley Keys enjoys the interplay of his work with clay and the 3D
aspects of our surrounding geography. As we move within our
environment, so we interact with his works, taking in all the various
viewpoints and responses that involvement in place offers. The forms
and glazes of Bradley’s hand-built ceramic pieces incorporate the
rhythms and colors of the prairie and the mountains. This artist loves
the land and offers us opportunities to take a bit of it home to enjoy
and cherish.
Join us for the Reception at the Willock & Sax Gallery, 210 Bear St, in Banff on Saturday, November 3 from 3-5 pm.
November 1 – 30 and continuing through until Christmas
lores the geography of Western Canada in Grounded. Our group show The Makings III
includes artists such as Ed Bamiling, Neil Liske, Robin Dupont, Emily
Schroeder Willis, Do-Hee Sung and many other ceramics artists. Join us
for Grounded and The Makings III at the Willock & Sax Gallery starting November 1 through to 30th.
Bradley Keys enjoys the interplay of his work with clay and the 3D
aspects of our surrounding geography. As we move within our
environment, so we interact with his works, taking in all the various
viewpoints and responses that involvement in place offers. The forms
and glazes of Bradley’s hand-built ceramic pieces incorporate the
rhythms and colors of the prairie and the mountains. This artist loves
the land and offers us opportunities to take a bit of it home to enjoy
and cherish.
Join us for the Reception at the Willock & Sax Gallery, 210 Bear St, in Banff on Saturday, November 3 from 3-5 pm.
November 1 – 30 and continuing through until Christmas
November 1 – 30
Reception, Saturday, November 3, 3-5 pm
Artist Talks: 3:30
The Makings III continues our annual gallery’s focus on ceramics
during the month of November. Once again we offer a wide variety of
sculptural and functional ceramic works from a wide range of artists
from across Alberta and other parts. Works by young artists and
significant pieces from some of Canadian most senior artists make up the
exhibition this year, including a number of historic exhibits by Luke
Lindoe RCA.
Gallery Talks
The Artist and The Curator
Saturday, November 24, 3-5 pm
As part of our Month of Ceramics and coinciding with the November
24 reception for the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies exhibition
“Les Manning Common/Opposite“
(November 7-December 5),
we are pleased to have Les Manning and Joanne Marion (curator, Esplanade) speaking about the exhibition and ceramics in general at our gallery.
Continue the discussion down Bear Street at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies reception at 7 pm.
Manning’s new works show a rich emotional and metaphorical register
while drawing deeply upon his personal experiences and knowledge of
Canada’s lands. Juxtaposing forms, textures and colours, Manning evokes
the monumental reach of modernism as an artistic endeavour. Playful
references to the humble objects of everyday lighten his sophisticated
and contemporary appreciation of the more base aspects of nature, to
reveal the rich and contradictory poetry of our ordinary world.
