by Carole Epp | Dec 2, 2010 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
In case you didn’t know, musing is 100% me volunteering my time. And I’m not complaining! It’s a great love of mine. But if I may, I’d like to ask for your help in finding content to post. I spend a lot of my time trying to find great artists to showcase, must see exhibitions, calls for entry, job postings, residency opportunities, workshops, conferences and all round fun clay related stuff. And I’d love to share more with my readers. So if you have something you’d like to share drop me a line at
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Any content is applicable so long as it’s got some clay in there somewhere. International submissions are encouraged. Artists, galleries, writers, collectors, you name it, you can all help out by sending me some cool stuff to post and share with my readers.
I thank you in advance!
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by Carole Epp | Nov 29, 2010 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE 2010The International Prize “Arte Laguna” starts the new edition with the goal to promote young contemporary art. Remaining consistent to the original purposes of its two creators, Laura Gallon and Beatrice Susa, Arte Laguna Prize continues its course as “incubator of Italian and international young art”, with the will to discover new talent, to support emerging artists in promoting their creativity and to develop their careers.
Continuing the path opened in 2006, the Prize, organized by the Cultural Association MoCA and Arte Laguna, highlights the peculiar ability to innovate and renew itself. It gained importance an value in a few years in the contemporary art system and it achieved a great success in the 2009 edition, with 5.500 participants from more than 90 different countries, and almost 5,000 visitors for the main exhibition of the 180 Prize finalists, which was successfully completed in Venice on 31st March. This collective exhibition was the first of a series of events involving most of the finalists in personal and group exhibitions organized by galleries and partners held in Italy and abroad during all the 2010.
The next edition of the Prize is enriched with two new sections – Video Art and Performing Art – which are additional to those established: Painting, Sculpture and Photographic Art.
The final exhibition – which displays the 110 finalists selected by judges – is scheduled in March 2011, involving again the prestigious venue of the Arsenal of Venice.
In particular, the Prize presents three main innovations. The first one is represented by a special prize, the Press award, whose jury is composed of seven journalists from the art field: Daniele Capra (Exibart), Elisa Delle Noci (Artkey/Teknemedia), Lorella Pagnucco Salvemini (ArteIn), Cristiano Seganfreddo(Innov(e)tion Valley), Chiara Somajni (IL Sole 24 Ore), Gloria Vallese (Arte), Maurizio Zuccari (Insideart). The second one is the Special Prize “Artist in Residence”, assigned to the artists choosen between finalist ones and it provides three artist’s residencies with the specific intent to promote and encourage the creativity of young artists. Finally, there is the Special Prize “Tina B”, in collaboration with the same festival in Prague, dedicated to performance. Moreover the Special Prize “Open Arte Communication” that offers the partecipation to the XIV edition of the International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations that will take place in Lide of Venice during the Venice International Film Festival.
Surrounding the figure of the main curator of the Prize, the art critic Igor Zanti, the Jury presents new important art professionals for increasing new perspectives in the selection of works: Gianfranco Maraniello – Museum Director MAMbo Bologna; Chiara Barbieri – the Guggenheim Foundation in Venice; Matteo Zauli – Director of the Museum Zauli in Faenza; Luca Panaro – art critic; Ludovico Pratesi –
Director Visual Arts Center Pescheria in Pesaro; Rossella Bertolazzi – Director European Institute of Design in Milan; Maja Skerbot – art critic and curator; Valentina Tanni – art critic and one of the founders of Exibart; Monika Burian – Director of the International Festival of Contemporary Art Tina B in Prague.
Also for its fifth edition, the Prize offers Special Prizes in collaboration with the Galleries Partners, a network of more than 30 Italian and foreign galleries, that host personal exhibitions for the selected artists among the finalist ones.
Moreover the Prize can start new and unexpected synergies between the contemporary art world and the companies through the Special Prize “Business for Art”. In this new edition it will start a new collaboration with RE-IL enterprise, in the real estate field, that offers the Special Prize “Reil for young talents”, a stay in Brazil for one artist that will work in a resort for making it an unique artistic space.
The deadline for apply is the 10th December 2010, for online applications.
More information on www.artelagunaprize.com
by Carole Epp | Nov 29, 2010 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
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by Carole Epp | Nov 25, 2010 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
The Crucible, an educational non-profit collaboration of arts, industry and community located in Oakland, CA, is accepting applications from talented individuals with excellent skills to help expand their curriculum and faculty base. Some previous teaching experience is a plus, but more important is a passion for your work and for sharing it with others. They are looking for enthusiastic individuals with top skills in the industrial and sculptural arts: welding, metalsmithing, jewelry, blacksmithing, claymation, kinetics, neon, woodworking, glass, foundry, ceramics, stoneworking, fire performance and more. The Crucible faculty is comprised of Bay Area artists, tradespeople, artisans and educators teaching innovative classes to students of all ages, experience levels and areas of interest. The Crucible seeks a staff of broad diversity and strongly encourages women and people of color to apply. The Crucible is an equal opportunity employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, age, gender, national or ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation or physical disability. To learn more about our vibrant community visit www.thecrucible.org. If you can see yourself teaching a class at The Crucible, click here to download an application form and apply today! http://www.thecrucible.org/about/jobopp.php Deadline: December 31st, 2010 Contact: Email:[email protected]
Phone:510-444-0919
Address: 1260 7th Street; Oakland, CA
Website: www.thecrucible.org
by Carole Epp | Nov 23, 2010 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
The Two by Two: Small-Scale Ceramic Sculpture Biennial is open to all artists eighteen years of age and older. Artworks must be original, completed within the last three years, and not have been previously exhibited at Eastern Washington University. Entry fee. Media: Small-scale ceramic sculptures. The height, width and depth of a work may not exceed two feet in any direction, and the weight may not exceed 100 pounds. All work must be received ready to install. Wall hung sculpture must have proper hanging devices attached. If you have any questions regarding your entry, contact the gallery. Juror
: Rain Harris received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics from Rhode Island School of Design and a Master of Fine Arts from Ohio State University. Harris has exhibited in numerous national and international exhibitions including eleven solo exhibitions. For more details on the call, information on entry and entry form, see prospectus: prospectus Deadline: December 10th, 2010 http://www.ewu.edu/CALE/Programs/Art/Gallery/Prospectus.xml
by Carole Epp | Nov 22, 2010 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
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In her words:
“I was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on 22nd of march, 1975. I discovered love for ceramics early in my childhood, as I was digging clay from a stream nearby, making animal figures and then firing them in our heating kiln. Unsuccessfully, of course. I was 7 years old. Then later, after some courses in primary school, drawing in secondary school, real ceramic study started with experimenting in ceramic studio on Academy of educational art in Ljubljana , where finally I graduated from ceramics. Now, I am working mainly with porcelain and stoneware. I make my own plaster moulds and I am slip casting. In my studio in Ljubljana you can find fine porcelain for everyday use, porcelain installations from numerous exhibitions, both Slovene and international, and also beloved jewellery, also made of porcelain and silver. My love for porcelain is because of its whiteness, translucency and seeming fragility, sometimes it does not need any colour or even glaze. Because ceramics is sum of different fields, such as art, design, physics, chemistry and technology, is so complex I can never stop learning about new techniques and materials. We can never say that we are at the end of ceramics.”
Find out more about Nika’s gorgeous work here.
