monday morning eye candy: Alex Anderson

by | Jun 8, 2020 | monday morning eye candy

From the Press Release for the exhibition:

“At the core of Anderson’s current body of work is a philosophical, existential examination of identity politics; based in Los Angeles, the 30-year old gay, Asian-African American sculptor is an artist working against stereotype and racialism rampant in today’s society. By working in an unexpected medium and channeling methodologies surrounding artistic production in ceramic arts, Anderson manages to create fantastic, multifaceted sculptures that are both subversive and whimsical at the same time. Alex Anderson uses the classical aesthetics of western power, which ironically share space with the aesthetics of queer camp cultural production, to translate the structures that govern his lived experience in society and others’ social perceptions of his identities into form. While his work engages with the ceramic canon and draws from the western art historical canon at large, it primarily operates at the core of Post-Blackness. Anderson’s method of production directly corresponds with current aesthetic and artistic practices and ideologies surrounding theories of Post-Black art. Working at the intersection of identity politics and aesthetic empowerment, Anderson’s ceramic creations appear charming and playful, but their frivolity is only glaze-deep. The artist’s work layers conceptions about blackness, masculinity, and perception, folding them onto one another until they become inextricably fused together, reciprocating the merging of his own personal lived experiences, historical inheritance, and conscious self-awareness as his artistic point of departure.” continued HERE.

Please view all works from the exhibition HERE.

And follow Alex Anderson on Instagram.

www.alexandersonceramics.com

Black Lives Matter Raffle

by | Jun 6, 2020 | Uncategorized

From Brett Kern’s Instagram. Please head over to his feed for more information.

ENDS TODAY!

“Here we are… The raffle ends in 12 hours (midnight Pacific time) and we’re sitting at $49,643. I can’t believe it….We’re gonna hit $50k!!! Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine these posts would encourage 50 thousand dollars in donations. Thank you for blowing my mind and making me believe that humanity actually may have a shot at fixing this shit.
If you haven’t donated yet, or you’re still on the fence, this last set of incentives is GUARANTEED to knock you right off of it! So lets see how high this number can go!! Remember…all you have to do to enter the raffle, is donate to any charity supporting the Black Lives Matter movement and send your receipt to [email protected]. All NEW entries must have receipts with today’s date of 6/6. Anything that had already been submitted before today is still eligible to win any of the prizes.”

 

Studio Potter Online Event Calendar!

by | Jun 4, 2020 | Uncategorized

Do you have a Virtual Ceramics event or are you looking for one?  Introducing the SP Events Calendar.  In reaction to the multitude of ways our Ceramics community has come together virtually, we have created a common place for online lectures, openings, and events to be listed.  Please share your event on the SP Events Calendar, and use it to find events to attend. It’s completely free to list and view for everyone.

 

job posting: Emily Carr Assistant or Associate Professor in Ceramics

by | Jun 4, 2020 | job posting

Emily Carr University of Art + Design invites applications for a full-time tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor position in Ceramics within the Audain Faculty of Art. Situated on unceded, traditional and ancestral xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) territories in Vancouver, Canada, Emily Carr University is a world-renowned learning and research community dedicated to the education of artists and designers.

The Ceramics area at Emily Carr University focuses on developing critically engaged and contextually aware ceramic work. Situated within the interdisciplinary Visual Arts BFA in the Audain Faculty of Art, the Ceramics area fosters the development of student practice within the context of contemporary art discourse, with a strong technical and conceptual foundation, and a keen awareness of the relationship between ceramics and a range of disciplines and practices.

SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILTIES

Candidates should be able to teach ceramics at multiple levels, from Foundation to Graduate Studies, and will be expected to contribute to developing curriculum in an institution that is committed to the interrelation of theory and practice. The successful candidate will join a rigorous and committed team of Art faculty that also includes the following curriculum areas: Ceramics, Painting, Photography, Illustration, Drawing, Print Media, Sculpture + Expanded Practices, New Media + Sound Arts, Performance, Interdisciplinary Visual Art and Praxis, as well as minors in Curatorial Practices and Art + Text. Candidates should be equally fluent in contemporary ceramics discourse and studio practice and in balancing the conceptual, aesthetic and technical demands of the discipline. Additionally, faculty are expected to participate in portfolio reviews, upper-level critiques, provide graduate student supervision, serve on administrative committees, engage in research, and to be an active member of the Emily Carr community. The successful candidate will have an active artistic research practice and a substantial exhibition and/or publication record with a solid, demonstrable foundation in ceramics. The successful candidate will have an established career profile and be active in national and international contexts.

QUALIFICATIONS

The ideal candidate will have

    • • Master of Fine Arts degree (or terminal degree in related discipline);
      • minimum of two years of related post-secondary teaching experience that includes proven experience in curriculum development;
      • strong evidence of excellence in ceramics practice;
      • expertise in a range of traditional and contemporary methods of making; and
      • significant evidence of active engagement with discourse within contemporary ceramics practices, histories and theories of ceramics, and more broadly in contemporary art discourse.

Candidates will have:
• expertise in a range of traditional and experimental ceramics techniques, which may include non-Western and/or Indigenous approaches;
• knowledge and ability to teach a range of material processes, including substantial knowledge of ceramic materials and glaze chemistry;
• the ability and interest in developing contemporary and innovative forms of curriculum and enthusiasm for planning and the participation in area responsibilities;
• a practice that may include hybrid and/or expanded ceramics-based work intersecting with other areas such as: sculpture, site-specificity and installation, performance, socially-engaged practice, public art, and other areas of enquiry.

Expertise in the following areas will be considered an asset:
• the ability to integrate new tools, media and methods into ceramics curriculum, including new and emerging technologies, digital 3-D prototyping software and output methods;
• demonstrated ability in advanced model making and mold making, design methodologies and production methods.

Full details HERE.