call for entry: The Clay Studio National 2020

by | May 4, 2020 | call for entry

Application Deadline

May 25, 2020 (midnight)

About the Exhibition

The Clay Studio National is a biannual exhibition that showcases the wide range of ceramic art being made in the United States today.

Exhibition Dates: June 20th – August 2, 2020 – Reception, June 20th

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Due to the current situation we have made some changes to this year’s exhibition in order to best benefit artists.

Guest Juror

Lauren Sandler is the Assistant Professor and Program Head of Ceramics at Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.

Sandler is an artist and educator whose work deconstructs mythologies and investigates narratives of power and perspective. With fragmented forms, allegorical vessels and mundane assemblages, Sandler amplifies interdependence, highlights stories obfuscated or erased and implicates our assumptions of normal and worth. With a background in anthropology, she examines the myriad chronicles told by objects and develops work where the visceral and structural meet a shared intersection of body, culture and history.

Full Details and Application HERE.

Critical Function exhibition online.

by | May 1, 2020 | Uncategorized

Critical Function 2: Shop the Exhibition

Thank you for visiting Critical Function 2, an online gallery hosted by the Visual Arts of Richmond that features one of NCECA’s concurrent exhibitions for the 2020 conference year. Curated by Alex Kraft and Melanie Shaw and juried by Carole Epp, Jill Foote-Hutton, Garth Johnson, Bernadette and Neil Mansfield, Critical Function 2 interprets functional ceramics through the works of almost 40 artists spanning across 3 continents. Although this exhibition was originally a part of NCECA’s Annual Conference for 2020 in Richmond, VisArts and the organizers of Critical Function 2 felt that it was important to feature this diverse exhibition online to support artists and NCECA’s efforts. Works are available for purchase online and will help support both VisArts and the artists directly. Thank you for your support!

Images above: Ashley Kim, Japneet Kaur and Marney McDiarmid.

See the whole show HERE.

Starts Today!!! CCACA Is Online

by | May 1, 2020 | Uncategorized

This year, the Ceramics Conference will be happening May 1st – 3rd online!

We will be holding a free, larger scheduled event with more participants than ever. Instead of six artists, there will be 15 from all around the world. You will receive an online, live experience of artists giving lectures, demonstrations and tours of their own studios via Zoom.

Our staff has been working tirelessly to bring all of us together during this difficult time. We are eager to maintain the original dates of the conference and continue the ceramics conference after 32 years of tradition.

For updates, please follow us on Facebook here and Instagram here.

We send all of our love to the ceramic community and hope everyone stays healthy and safe. We encourage this time for artists to be creative and create beautiful work. Upward and onward.

Full details and links can be found HERE.