by Carole Epp | Oct 4, 2010 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
Artist on Cover: Jason Kishell, “Smug Mug”
People of all ages and cultures respond to humor enthusiastically and craft artwork definitely can be very funny! Often, the work exudes a sense of the absurd due to exaggerated size or by being executed in unusual materials. Craft artwork can be highly ironic, political, sarcastic, or just plain amusing, and it comes in a variety of media, such as metals, wood, fibers, ceramics, glass, mixed media, etc.
Brigitte Martin has started to develop a book about the role humor plays in contemporary craft and is looking for submissions for initial consideration:
– Images of humorous artwork,
– Texts/essays by the contributing artists, commenting about humorous aspects in their artwork,
– Audio art,
– Video art (the book will contain a CD of audio/video art depending on qualifying submissions,)
– Essays by writers about the role of humor and fun in craft.
Can you show us humor in all its shades expressed through craft artwork and text? Who decides what’s funny and what isn’t? What topics are off-limits? Is irony funny? Sarcasm? Are politics funny? Religion?
This planned book aims to provide the viewer with entertainment, commentary, and of course, many fine craft pieces by makers from all over the world. Humor has no borders. Or does it? It might be interesting to learn how a piece will be hilarious in China, but only garner mild astonishment in Sweden and vice versa.
This call is open to craft artists working in all craft media. crafthaus membership is not required. International entries are particularly welcome and encouraged to participate!
Final deadline: March 1, 2011 .
Click HERE for submission information !
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Starting today, please spread the word on fb, etsy and wherever else you are. If you know of funny pieces, please ask the artist(s) to be in touch with Brigitte, or send his/her information so that they can be considered.
THANK YOU !
Feel free to sign up for this group to get updates on this “fun” project. Email anytime regarding questions, and artwork suggestions !
Email for questions and submissions: [email protected]
Artists: You can start emailing your low res images to the above email.
Writers: You can start emailing your brief essay outlines to the above email.
by Carole Epp | Oct 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
Closing date: 31 October 2010
Sturt Workshop Mittagong
Sturt Craft Centre invites applications from experienced craft practitioners to the Sturt 2011 Artist – in – Residence program. Residencies occur in the disciplines of ceramics, jewellery, textiles, wood, photography and writing. Four to six residencies occur at Sturt each year. From late 2009, Sturt widened the focus of its residency program to encourage small scale production and individually designed work which will be promoted through Sturt Gallery.
More details here.
by Carole Epp | Oct 1, 2010 | Uncategorized
For all wonderful things design from a Canadian perspective:
(click on images for the link)
And for all your indie shopping needs (or a new market to sell your own work):
Poppytalk is a Canadian design blog collecting inspiration and promoting emerging design talent. For more information click here.
by Carole Epp | Sep 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
And with only hours left for you to take advantage of my pre-order deal.
You’ve got until the end of the day thursday the 30th of September to get your copy with the discount. I’ll be shipping them out early next week.
by Carole Epp | Sep 29, 2010 | Uncategorized
There is so much to talk about this week I hardly know where to start and hopefully I won’t forget any details. To begin with, yesturday was the install day for my exhibition here in Saskatoon (woohoo hometown show!) with Robin Lambert and Jody Greenman-Barber. You’ll likely remember Robin from my tales of the residency at Medalta this summer. We both spent the month working on this exhibition in studios side by side and blogging the process simultaneously. A curious process indeed. Very public…very vulnerable.
I’ve long wanted to show with these two artist so yesturday was a very exciting day indeed. The show boasts three very different bodies of work, each in their own way exploring the current climate of craft practice, technique and installation. I think it came together quite well despite my initial fears that the install of three such different styles within one space would be problematic and disjointed.
But i reckon the install was a success and as always for a stay at home mom, a day out and about with a fellow artist, chatting about art and even getting to eat lunch in an old favorite pub was quite the treat.
Here’s some of the work in progress at the end. Days of glueing out enjoying the beautiful fall we’re having here lately.
Contemplative Robin with some of his work.
A gallery shot, i’ll show some better ones once the show is lit properly.
Some of Jody’s incredible dancing pots.
But this isn’t the only instance of blogs colliding this week. I am also very pleased to announce the opening of the Clay and Blogs exhibition I was invited to participate in.
From the Website:
Curated by Meredith Heywood of Whynot Pottery
Take a glimpse into a unique community of 50 working potters who are separated by distance, but brought together through the common language of clay and the written word in a digital world. These potters share their lives, skills, thoughts, triumphs and defeats through an on-line medium called a blog or web log. Plan to join us for an exciting show in October as we bring their diverse styles of individual work together. For a list of the potters and their blogs, scroll down. In addition, most of the Clay and Blogs potters are offering a piece for sale exclusively online. Click here to view our very first online gallery. Opening Reception: Friday, October 1, 2010, 6 to 8 p.m.
Exhibition Dates: October 1-29, 2010
Weekday Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Online Gallery Dates: September 1-October 29, 2010 Online Gallery Hours: Everyday, All day.”If you go to the website (here) you’ll find a comprehensive list of the participating artists plus links to each of their blogs. So many amazing artists…Meredith in particular has just been amazing organizing all of this, so if you live anywhere nearby please do take the time to go and check out the show. I sooo wish I could be there. So many bloggers out there become good friends through the sharing of their lives, art, practice with others. Would be an honor to meet them in person.
Here’s some images of the pieces I sent:
Okay that’s enough for now. Back to the studio, but more news to come…
