Ontario Craft Council Awards Ceremony

by | Sep 20, 2012 | Uncategorized

 

The Awards & Scholarships is an OCC flagship program
that celebrates excellence in making, allows for peer recognition, and
provides opportunity for promotion.

Its days of accompanying the Annual General Meeting are
gone – instead, the 2012 Award & Scholarships recipients will be
honoured with a special event. As such, we are very excited to introduce
you to the inaugural Craft Awards Ceremony – a night
dedicated to makers and objects, and to celebrating the very best of
contemporary craft. As part of the evening we will be announcing the
award recipients of the prestigious John Mather Award for Lifetime Achievement, as well as the Volunteer Committee Outstanding Service Award.

In order to build anticipation and excitement, we will be
withholding the announcement of which award each recipient has won
until the Ceremony on Thursday, October 4, 2012. We invite you to join
us in celebrating the award winners with friends, family, patrons,
donors, collectors, and the OCC board, staff and volunteers.

Awards Ceremony

  • Thursday, October 4, 7:00 – 9:00 pm
  • Gladstone Hotel Ballroom
  • 1214 Queen Street W, Toronto
  • Tickets $15, or $10 for Students
  • Light refreshments will be served with a cash bar
  • Dress: Business/formal

Followed by a reception at the OCC Gallery for the Award Winners 2012 exhibition

  • Thursday, October 4, 9:00 – 11:00 pm
  • OCC Gallery
  • 990 Queen Street W, Toronto
  • Free
  • Light refreshments served

Special thanks to the 2012 Awards & Scholarships jury,
Kai Chan, Heidi Earnshaw, Melanie Egan, Karl Schantz, Chiho Tokita, and
John Wiggers.
Thanks also to the many donors and supporters that
continue to sustain this program, as well as the OCC Volunteer Committee
for their long term commitment to creating awards that make a
difference.

For more information please contact Janna Hiemstra at [email protected] or 416-925-4222 x 225.
For a full list of awards and scholarhips see: www.craft.on.ca/Programs/Award_List

Fragile in Transit

by | Sep 20, 2012 | Uncategorized

Fragile In Transit the Doodle bar, 33 Parkgate Road, London. 18th – 23rd October 2012


An exciting new journey has begun; Fragile in Transit, a travelling exhibition, offers an opportunity to see exciting new work by emerging international ceramic artists at the Doodle bar, London this October.
This exhibition is curated by Project Network 3(three) a collective of nine ceramicists. The pieces which all reference ‘balance’ in some way will travel between each of the artists’ hometowns, visiting Helsinki, Vilnius and Milan, amongst others.

After a successful opening exhibition in Belfast’s Maxwell Street Studios as part of Northern Ireland’s Craft Month, the show will travel to Bornholm, Denmark and then onto London where the work can be seen in the Doodle bar; an old Victorian dairy warehouse in Battersea. The show opens at 6pm on Thursday 18th October 2012 and runs for six days.

The group met at six week symposium for recent ceramic graduates at Guldagergaard International Ceramic Centre in Denmark earlier this year.

For more information and to follow the journey of the pieces please visit:
 http://projectnetwork3.tumblr.com/
 http://www.facebook.com/FragileInTransit 

For further information and images contact:
Katie Spragg [email protected] 07756467319

London Exhibition opening:
18th October 2012 6 – 11pm the Doodle bar 33 Parkgate Road, London, SW11 4NP
Exhibition runs 18th – 23rd October 2012
Exhibiting artists:
// Elodie Alexandre. France/India // Roberta Giussani. Italy // Joseph Hopkinson. Wales // Katja Kotikoski. Finland // Claire Muckian. Northern Ireland // Egle Paksyte. Lithuania// Jill Shaddock. Manchester // Helene Søs Schjødts. Denmark // Katie Spragg. London//


Denmark Exhibition:
14th – 21st of September 2012 Monday to Friday from 11-17 Saturday from 10-13 Designer souvenirs, Postgade 21, 3740 Svaneke. Denmark, Telephone +45 56-494021

Earth & Alchemy @ Stephen D. Paine Gallery

by | Sep 19, 2012 | Uncategorized

 
Earth & Alchemy
September 24 – December 24, 2012
Stephen D. Paine Gallery
Reception: Monday, September 24, 6:00-8:00PM
Panel Discussion: Wednesday, November 14, 6:00PM
With artists Syd Carpenter, Annabeth Rosen, Paul Swenbeck, and MFA curator Emily Zilber
621 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 
Participating artists: Yo
Akiyama, Syd Carpenter, Sam Chung, Mark Cooper, Laurent Craste, Bean
Finneran, Klara Kristalova, Kate MacDowell, Warren Mather, Naoko
Matsumoto, Megumi Naitoh, J.J. McCracken, Valéria Nascimento, Kamio
Ogata, Elizabeth Orleans, Annabeth Rosen, Takayuki Sakiyama, Linda
Swanson, Paul Swenbeck, Akio Takamori, Xavier Toubes, Eugene Von
Bruenchenhein, Jason Walker
Earth & Alchemy celebrates
contemporary ceramic sculpture and showcases a cross-generational
selection of nearly two dozen influential artists. Exploring a range of
ideas encompassing conceptualism, social activism, materiality, and
humor, this exhibition presents a survey of approaches to ceramics that
often push the boundaries of one of the world’s oldest media. Whether
through expansive sculptures, extraterrestrial installations, or
fantastical vessels, the artists included in the exhibition have
developed novel techniques—such as using oven-baked backyard clay
covered with house paints, layering slip over glaze to create richly
textured and encrusted surfaces, or silk-screening digital imagery onto
porcelain. Earth & Alchemyexamines the depth and range of ceramic practice today—a macrocosm of clay.

movie day – TateShots: Grayson Perry studio visit

by | Sep 19, 2012 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

“Grayson Perry afforded us the rare opportunity of a visit to his studio
in Walthamstow, north-east London. Describing pottery as his gimmick,
Perry goes on to show us his process before explaining why he wants
people to be able to just enjoy art, rather than having to interpret it.”