by Carole Epp | Apr 2, 2020 | call for entry
2018 Warren MacKenzie Advancement Award Recipient, Isaac Logsdon
The Warren MacKenzie Advancement Award (WMAA), founded in 2014, provides an opportunity for students and emerging artists to continue their ceramic research and education for a period of up to twelve consecutive months within the grant year, further expanding their professional development. This award is available to current undergraduate or graduate students, recent graduates (within one year), or those who have completed a university-equivalent training in ceramics (including apprenticeships) within the year prior to the application deadline.
During the grant year, the recipients can research a new technique or process, study with a mentor or in an apprenticeship setting, travel to other ceramic art centers or institutions for classes and workshops, collaborate with artists of another media, and travel. Proposals to fund large capital equipment purchases will not be accepted. One or two cash awards will be made in 2020, up to $3,000 each, for projects taking place between May 1, 2020, and April 30, 2021. Recipients contribute project updates to NCC’s social media and are required to give a public presentation at their school or other institution. See updates from past recipients at northernclaycenter.blogspot.com.
This award is made possible through the support of generous individual and institutional donors in honor of MacKenzie’s legacy of ceramic education, both traditional and non-traditional.
The deadline for the Warren MacKenzie Advancement Award application is Friday, April 17, 2020, by 5 pm.
Find out more and apply here: https://www.northernclaycenter.org/artist-services/artist-grants/warren-mackenzie-advancement-award
by Carole Epp | Mar 31, 2020 | call for entry
Summer is Served: Plates call for submissions
This summer Charlie Cummings Gallery will host Summer is Served: Plates, an exhibition exploring the dinner plate, one of the vessels most closely associated with cooking and serving in the home or dining out and with celebrating with family and guests. This exhibition will be via both invitations and submissions showing four individual plates from each participant and will be online only. We are pleased to invite artists to submit plates for consideration for this exhibition celebrating this vital functional ceramic object.
Deadline: midnight Eastern, May 31st, 2020
Exhibition calendar and details:
May 31 – Submission deadline
June 19 – Notifications sent
July 9 – Plates Ship-by Deadline
July 16 – Plates due at gallery
August 1-27 – Summer is Served: Plates online
May 2022 – Unsold plates returned
Cup: The Intimate Object XVI call for submissions
This fall Charlie Cummings Gallery will host Cup: The Intimate Object XVI, the sixteenth installment of our iconic annual cup show. This year the exhibition will once again be via both invitations and submissions showing five individual cups from each participant and will be online and installed in our brick-and-mortar gallery. We are pleased to invite artists to submit cups for consideration for this exhibition celebrating the most intimate and beloved of functional ceramic objects.
Deadline: midnight Eastern, June 28th, 2020
Exhibition calendar and details:
July 5 – Submission deadline
July 20 – Notifications sent
August 21 – Cups Ship-by Deadline
August 24-September 4 – Cups due at gallery
October 5-October 31 – Cup: The Intimate Object XVI online
February 2021 – Cups returned
Our Lives in Clay call for submissions
In December Charlie Cummings Gallery will host Our Lives in Clay, exhibition exploring the iconography of the ceramist and a life immersed in the culture of handmade ceramics. The kiln, the potter’s wheel, the warm cat on your lap, the faithful studio dog at your feet, and a favorite cup on the studio table are symbols of a clay artist’s life. The neatly arranged rows of cups on the shelves of a beloved cup collection are immediately recognizable to collectors who choose to fill their lives with handmade ceramics. Tables full of gorgeous wares and sculpture the speak of ceramist’s booths at art festivals and the bountiful collections found at ceramics galleries. These images describe a life lived in appreciation of enduring things produced by human hands with great time investment and skill to be used an enjoyed intimately in the home and proudly shared with all who will touch them and all who will listen. This exhibition will focus on self-referential ceramics that celebrate and examine the life we’ve chosen working with clay.. The exhibition will be via both invitations and submissions showing three individual ceramic works from each participant and will be online only. Pottery, sculpture, and clay prints are welcome. We are pleased to invite artists to submit works celebrating Our Lives in Clay.
Deadline: midnight Eastern, September 13, 2020
Exhibition calendar and details:
September 13 – Submission deadline
October 23 – Notifications sent
November 11 – Work Ship-by Deadline
November 18 – Work due at gallery
December 12-January 7 – Our Lives in Clay online
July 2021 – Cups returned
Send questions (not submissions) to [email protected], or call 352-514-8821.
Full submission details are posted HERE.
by Carole Epp | Mar 20, 2020 | call for entry
Please email submissions to [email protected]
The Caudill College Department of Art & Design at Morehead State University located in Morehead, Kentucky is seeking exhibition submissions from interested solo and group artists. Exhibitions will be held in Fall 2020 during the months of October and November. All media are eligible for consideration. Artists will be chosen in early May by the Gallery Director and the faculty of the Art & Design department.
The recently renovated three-level gallery features approximately 2500 square feet of quality exhibition space with a screening room to display new media.
Artists are responsible for the cost of delivery to and from the Golding-Yang Art Gallery. Some promotional expenses are covered depending on the needs of the artist.
Your submission should include the following:
- Up to 10 high-quality images (NOTE: 1mb max per image)
- ID List of Images: Title(s) of work, year completed, medium, size, retail price
- Artist Statement
- Current CV or Resume
- Exhibition Proposal
The deadline for submissions is Thursday, April 30th
For questions and more information please contact Melissa Yungbluth, Gallery Director, at [email protected]
by Carole Epp | Mar 14, 2020 | events
“Women ceramicists, she said, struggled for recognition, not only because they were female artists, but also because their chosen medium wasn’t as accepted [as fine art] as it is today.
The struggles of women ceramicists over the last four decades, she said, have opened up opportunities — unavailable to/for women in the past — for a new, rising group of female and female-identifying artists.”
Read the full article by Jennifer Huberdeau of the The Berkshire Eagle and find out more about the exhibition and upcoming symposium on Women in the Visual Arts HERE.
by Carole Epp | Mar 14, 2020 | call for entry
Social Distance Gallery will be posting BFA and MFA thesis exhibitions that are canceled or limited in access due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The digital exhibitions will be hosted on Instagram at @socialdistancegallery
Here is what we need from you:
Gather all of the students in a show. There are hundreds of exhibitions being canceled and posting shows as a group will make things a little smoother. I understand it might be difficult to gather everything from everyone. These are unprecedented times, and this is a one-person operation. Please help me out by gathering all the info before sending it to me. Thanks and stay well.
Take and send multiple photos of the installation. Try to get photos that showcase the whole space. If the show is not being installed, you can skip this step.
Send up to 3 documentation photos of works for each student exhibiting. Please edit the photos so the color and light are correct. Please send files in .jpg format. Name each file with artists name, and image number (Example: JaneDoe_1.jpg) Along with each image, please include the following:
Name of institution
Is this a BFA or MFA thesis exhibition
Title of exhibition (if applicable)
Artists name / corresponding image number (example: JaneDoe_1.jpg or JaneDoe_2.jpg)
Title of work
Medium / size / date
Artists Instagram handle (if applicable)
Send all material to [email protected]
socialdistancegall.wixsite.com/socialdistance
by Carole Epp | Feb 27, 2020 | call for entry
Studio welcomes article pitches from both emerging and established writers, academics, scholars, and journalists writing about contemporary Canadian craft and design and related stories. We are interested in original ideas, unique voices and perspectives, little-known histories, and anything that challenges the status quo of craft and design and the ideas around making.
Studio Magazine is a national publication committed to thoughtful, careful, and engaging writing about contemporary Canadian craft and design. We also have an ongoing commitment to supporting and mentoring writers.
Please send pitches to [email protected]. We review all pitches, and those that are accepted for publication will be contacted by email. Payment is upon publication.
