What!?! Repair Cracked China with Milk!

by | Jan 11, 2011 | Uncategorized

Okay seriously I just read the following:

“You place your cracked piece in a pot and cover it with two cups of milk (or more if needed). Next, heat over low for an hour. Allow to cool in milk and then remove and rinse. Your piece, if the crack wasn’t too far gone, should now have resealed itself! The idea is that the protein in the milk expands when heated and fills in the cracks. It then bonds with the surfaces and as it cools, becomes one with your china. Cool right? It’s a simple trick that’s well worth trying before you toss your good pieces or wait for them to crack apart at the most inconvenient of times!”Is this not the most insane joke? I know I failed science but really? Does this work? Someone? Anyone?
Read the post here on Apartment Therapy.

Call for submissions – From the Ground Up XXV

by | Jan 11, 2011 | Uncategorized

The Potters’ Guild of Las Cruces and the Las Cruces Museum of Art are seeking submissions for the regional juried ceramic exhibition, “From the Ground Up XXV.”

The call for submissions is open to ceramic artists from the Rocky Mountain region of the United States (New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Montana and Idaho) and the deadline for submission is April 8.

Artists may submit up to four entries that were completed within the past three years.
The submission fee for one to four entries is $30 and is payable to “Potters’ Guild of Las Cruces.”

Submission forms can be downloaded from the museum’s Web site and mailed to Museum of Art, P.O. Box 20000, Las Cruces, N.M. 88004, attn: “From the Ground Up.” Info: (575) 541-2137 or las-cruces.org/museums.

7th International Biennale of Ceramics, Inside Out, presented by the City of Kapfenberg, Austria

by | Jan 10, 2011 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

Open to all artistic forms of expression concerning the use of ceramics – with the exclusion of china, serially manufactured objects and ceramic design. A maximum of three works are allowed to be entered to the competition. The works must not exceed the age limit of two years and they have to correspond to the motto of the Biennale of Ceramics 2011. Only works that have never been entered to take part at any other competition are accepted. The dimensions of the objects entered have to be of reasonable size, height and weight. In other words, an exhibition at the gallery of the Cultural Center should not take extraordinary efforts for the should not take extraordinary efforts for the organizers. Digital photographs of the works are required. Please take the pictures in front of neutral background. The photographs have to be sent via CD ROM, DVD or USB Stick. A resolution of at least 300dpi is required. Please take the pictures of each work from at least two different angles and name it with the exact title. To enter the competition/exhibition of the 7th Biennale of Ceramics the Cultural Center of Kapfenberg requires a package of the following data:

  • The filled out application form.
  • The list of works entered.
  • The digital photographs of the works entered.

Please write the password “Keramikbiennale” (Biennale of Ceramics) on your package and send it to the following address: KUlturZentrum Kapfenberg
Mürzgasse 3,
A – 8605 Kapfenberg All entries have to reach the Cultural Center before June 15th, 2011. The data/documents entered will remain with the organizer and will hence not be returned. Artists will be responsible for shipping. For more information: http://www.keramik-biennale-kapfenberg.at/en/anmeldung_ausschreibung.htm# Prospectus: invitation