Call for 2013 NCECA PROGRAM PROPOSALS

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NCECA 2013 – 47th Annual Conference

Houston, Texas
March 20-23, 2013
THE THEME: Earth/Energy
Ceramics and Ceramic Process bring together two essential elements:
EARTH and ENERGY. The theme of NCECA’s 2013 Conference in Houston,
Earth/Energy pays tribute to the places we live and create, the
materials we use, and the ENERGY that drives our process as ceramic
artists, educators and enthusiasts.

The ENERGY of creation and transformation culminates in work
with ENERGIZED forms and surfaces, work that ENERGIZES space and
ultimately this ENERGIZES our imaginations.
New ENERGY sources and innovations may result in work that is
EARTH friendly and, in this global era, we often aim to make work that
is EARTH conscious. 

NCECA invites proposals for programming including lectures,
panels and topical discussions that explore the synthesis and
multi-faceted nature Earth/Energy may inspire, as well as proposals that
relate to the region of Houston as relevant to our field.

 

TOPICS FOR PROPOSALS

For the 47th annual meeting of NCECA in Houston, Texas we call
for proposals of lectures and panel discussions relating to issues of
earth and energy, as well as issues specific to this region and
location.  As always, we also welcome proposals on all subjects
relevant to our field. Submissions will be evaluated in regard to
merit, the presenter’s expertise in the area, and a general interest in
providing a balanced and inclusive program for the members.  The
general categories for proposals are as follows:

    ∙   Aesthetics, Critical Theory and Practice,
including presentations about concepts of beauty and value, art
attitudes, art in society, content and interpretation, analysis and
evaluation.
    ∙   Art History, including presentations about
traditional and non-traditional artists and movements, styles, surveys
of regional, national and international art in clay.
    ∙   Education, presentations about traditional
and non-traditional curricula, goals, standards, methods and pedagogy
including but not limited to those that advance knowledge and awareness
of environmental concerns.
    ∙   Professionalism, including presentations
about working standards, goals, methods, and attitudes or, the
professional working relationships of guilds, co-ops and other ceramic
centers.
    ∙   Technology and Sustainability,
presentations about traditional and non-traditional materials,
processes, kilns, equipment, including but not limited to those that
mitigate adverse environmental impact through innovations in
sustainable systems and practices.
    ∙   New Work, is a category of proposals for up
to four artists to present a 15-minute visual presentation on the
subject of a body of their own work completed within the last three
years.  Artists 30 years and older who have been working professionally
for at least five years since completing their training are eligible to
submit.

For full details visit their website here.

The deadline for your proposal is May 15, 2012, 11:59 pm MST.

Call for papers: Crafting the Future

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The organizing committee of the 10th
European Academy of Design Conference – Crafting the Future – is
pleased to invite proposals for papers to the following tracks:

Tracks

1. Designing Future Mobility
2. Design Development of Future Homes for Future Cities
3. Design and Innovation
4. MAKING TOGETHER – Open, Connected, Collaborative
5. The craft of design in design of service
6. Fashion Design for Sustainability
7. Design history as a tool for better design
8. Power to the People: Practices of Empowerment through Craft
9. Design & Craft (Crafting the Education of Design)

Full academic papers

We expect papers of 3000-5000 words.
If you wish to submit a full paper to the conference, please send in a short abstract.

Important Dates

Registration of abstract: Until May 15, 2012
Submission of full paper: September 15, 2012
*Notification of acceptance or revision: November 1, 2012
Notification of acceptance: December 15, 2012
Conference date: April 17-19, 2013

*Full papers are: Accepted / Accepted with revision / Not Accepted

Submission period for full papers, 10th European Academy of Design Conference – Crafting the Future:
Start: May 15, 2012
End: September 15, 2012 



http://www.craftingthefuture.se/

The 2nd China Changchun International Ceramics Symposium Call for Ceramics Proposals

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Distinguished Ceramists,
Sincere
greetings from Changchun, the sculpture capital of China﹗
In order to vigorously flourish the world ceramics art
and promote the development of urban ceramics construction, Changchun Municipal
People’s Government has successfully held the 1st Changchun International Ceramics
symposium in 2011, and 12 noted ceramists from 10 countries were accepted and
invited to participate in it and created excellent ceramic works for the city
Changchun, a well-known cultural city in northeast China.
From next late July to mid-August, 2012, Changchun Municipal
People’s Government will hold the 2nd China Changchun International Ceramics
Symposium, with the theme of “Eternal and classic—traveling across history and future”, for further promoting
international cultural exchanges, improving the cultural taste of the city as
well as increasing the city’s international influence and popularity. About 20
ceramists will be accepted to participate in this event.
We sincerely invite you to submit proposals to the 2nd
China Changchun International Ceramics Symposium. We’d like you to:
1. Deliver at
least 3 or more ceramic proposals based on the Symposium’s theme, which are
requested to reflect the theme and the distinctive ethical and regional characteristics
of your country or region. Two of the ceramic proposals should be no less than
80cm (in length) ×80cm(in width) ×80cm (in height)  in order to achieve the exhibition effect of the ceramics
symposium.
2.
Specify the materials’ dimensions and colors of the proposed works. Please
deliver A4 size colored design drafts or photographs of maquettes of your
proposals and their digital files in JPEG, BMP or TIF format. The digital photo
should be no less than 1 megabytes.
3.
Fill in the attached registration form and enclose your passport photo, your recent
daily photo and your resume. The digital photo is no less than 1 megabytes. Your
ceramics portfolio is also appreciated.
4.
Send proposals by express mail or e-mail before May 30th, 2012 to:
The Culture Section
Changchun Municipal
Foreign Affairs Office
No. 2626 Renmin Street, Jilin Province, P. R. China
Postcode: 130041
E-mail: [email protected]
All the proposals will be carefully reviewed by the
Organizing Committee, extensively evaluated by the public and finally appraised
by celebrated masters.
If any of your proposals gets approved by the Organizing
Committee, you will receive an official invitation to Changchun for creating it
on site from late July to the mid-August, 2012. We will provide you with round-trip
economic flight tickets (only from your residential city to Changchun), an
allowance of 8000 yuan (RMB), free accommodation in Changchun, common
processing tools, assistants and interpreters, as well as honor diplomas. Besides,
some seminars on ceramists’ creation concept and some tours around the city
will be arranged. All the completed ceramics works will be permanently owned
and collected by the institution of Changchun Municipal People’s Government.
The organizing committee will provide ceramists with worksite and following equipments
and materials:
A. Three gas shuttle kilns (1m³/ 0.5m³/ 0.15m³), two electrical kilns (0.35m³/ 0.1m³), and one wood-burning kiln.
B. Potter’s wheels, slab roller,
stoving chest, pugmill.
C. Jilin crock clay, Zibo
earthware clay, Zibo porcelain clay.
D. More than thirty types of
slips, twenty types of glaze and ten types of chemical reagent.
The Organizing Committee is responsible for interpretation of the content
above.
We highly appreciate your submitting ceramics
proposals.
Contact
us:
Miss Liu Shuang, Liaison of the 2nd Ceramics Symposium
Changchun Municipal Foreign Affairs Office
Tel: +86-431-88776734   15948333800
E-mail:
[email protected]   [email protected]
The 2nd China Changchun International Ceramics Symposium

Registration
Form

Name
Gender
photo
DOB
Nationality
Mobile
phone
Tel.
Occupation
E-Mail
Website
Detailed mailing
address：
Resume：
Proposal 1  
Title:
Dimensions:                     
Material:                 
Color
Concept:
Proposal 2  
Title:
Dimensions:                     
Material:                 
Color
Concept:
Proposal3  
Title:
Dimensions:                      Material:                 
Color
Concept:

Call for Submissions: Slow Craft 2012 Juried Exhibition

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May 3

SLOW CRAFT is the theme of the MCC’s 2012 Juried Exhibition

SLOW CRAFT takes as its starting point the issues emerging from the
broader Slow Movement that developed as a response to our increasingly
fast-paced Western lifestyles and our unsustainable consumer culture. 
Slowness is often associated with craft.  Craft skills take time to
learn; craft processes cannot be rushed.  Many makers today are
developing critical positions in response to our consumer behavior,
questioning modes of production through new processes, looking at issues
of stewardship and sustainability as well as collective making and the
reworking of everyday objects. *
*Quote credits to artist, curator, and academic Helen Carnac, from her project description at http://www.craftspace.co.uk/page.asp?fn=2&id=57&stp=1&grp=3.

SLOW CRAFT will represent approximately 15 craft
artists who reside in Manitoba and whose work pushes the boundaries of
their media and reflects fresh approaches to diverse cultural and
material traditions. Works will be chosen based upon artistic merit
(technical skill, formal effect, and conceptual success), with a
particular interest in pieces that connect to our exhibition’s SLOW
CRAFT theme.  Original works (ie. not derived from a pattern or kit)
rooted in traditional approaches to craft and those that encompass new
technologies, are performative, reflect a d-i-y ethic or challenge
preconceived notions of craft are equally welcome.

Exhibition dates and venues
June 2012, Gallery 1C03, University of Winnipeg
Rural venue TBA

Jurors
Dr. Sandra Alfoldy, curator and professor in Craft History at NSCAD
University.  Alan Lacovestsky, ceramics artist and educator.  Jennifre
Gibson, curator at Gallery 1C03, University of Winnipeg.

Eligible works
Works will be selected based on artistic merit, skill, design,
innovation and relationship to the exhibition’s theme. Original work
(functional, decorative, conceptual) in any craft-based media are
welcome (e.g.ceramic, fibre, metal, paper, recycled material, stone,
glass and wood). In addition, mixed media and interdisciplinary works
that are primarily craft-based in material and/or technique are
welcome.  Eligible works must have ben completed after July 2009 and may
not have been exhibited in previous Manitoba Craft Council exhibitions.
 Three entries per person, maximum.  Entrants must be current Manitoba
Craft Council members.  See www.manitobacraft.ca/join/

Images
The jurors will select work based on digital images with the final
selection subject to viewing actual work.  MCC urges applicants to
consider using a professional photographer to document your work. 
Please submit images by email or on one CD marked with your name.  Use
jpeg files with a resolution of 300 dpi, with images’ size approximately
4 x 6″.   For each work, submit one image with a full view of the work
and one or two detail views.  Please title each image file as follows: 
artist’s last name_title_full/detail (eg. Poirier_Moonscape_detail2) The
maximum number of images allowed is nine (9).  Discs will not be
returned.

Application
Please include the following information along with your images:
– Your name, mailing address, phone number and email address
– Image list including the title, date, media, dimensions and price/value of each work submitted (3 works max.)
– Artist statement (100 words max.) Please include 2-3 sentences about how your work relates to the exhibition’s theme.

All applicants will be notified of initial results by May 15, 2012. 
Final selection will be based on viewing the actual work.   Artist fees
will be paid for works selected for the exhibition.

Applications will be accepted via email at [email protected]. 
Submission deadline of May 3.  Please put “SLOWCRAFT Application-Your
Last Name” in the subject line and attach images.  Applications may be
mailed (in protective mailer) or hand delivered during business hours
(M-F, 9-5) to the Manitoba Craft Council, c/o ACI (Arts & Cultural
Industries Assoc of MB), 501–62 Albert Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B
1E9.  Please include images on CD.

Questions about the exhibition or MCC membership?
Contact MCC’s Programme Coordinator at 927-2787 or [email protected].