by Carole Epp | Jan 11, 2021 | call for entry
ARTIST CALL NOW OPEN!
January 1 – May 31, 2021
The Salt Spring National Art Prize Offering 10 prize awards totalling $41,000
The first prize totalling $20,000
($15,000 and a $5,000 Salt Spring Island artist residency)
Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada who are 18 years of age and older as of January 1, 2020, are invited to submit their two-dimensional and three-dimensional work for consideration. SSNAP will showcase approximately 50 finalists chosen by a national jury. An exhibition of the finalists’ work will take place in Sept/Oct 2021 at Mahon Hall on Salt Spring Island, B.C.
All artists’ identity in the Finalist selection process will be anonymous to the jury.
Visit our website www.saltspringartprize.ca for details
by Carole Epp | Jan 4, 2021 | call for entry
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About the Exhibition
Small Favors engages artists’ creativity in new and exciting ways with the challenge of making pieces on a very small scale. For some artists, the work they create is similar to what they normally make, but at a reduced scale. Others use it as an opportunity to break away from what they create in their daily studio practice. The works exhibited are incredibly varied in material, form, and aesthetics. Though small in scale the artworks created for this exhibition are huge in impact.
Exhibition Dates: March 5, 2021 – May 9, 2021.
Preview Reception: Thursday, March 5, 6-7pm
Guest Juror – Kensuke Yamada
All you need to apply can be found HERE.
Also make sure not to miss:
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on Thursday at noon in conversation with ceramic artist Kensuke Yamada, a former Resident Artist and our Guest Juror for Small Favors 2021, opening March 5 at The Clay Studio.
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by Carole Epp | Nov 18, 2020 | call for entry
A national juried exhibition of functional & Decorative works
by clay artists who play with fire
juried by Mark Shapiro
March 13 – April 24, 2021
Deadline for Entry: December 4, 2020
CALL FOR ENTRY
Saratoga Clay Arts Center seeks submissions of functional and decorative works by clay artists who play with fire. These works are plucked from altered atmospheres – those changed by wood, smoke, salt or the like. Juror and Massachusetts potter Mark Shapiro writes, “The extent to which firing demands and engages the potter varies broadly, depending on type of kiln, its design, how it is loaded, fired, and even cooled. The continuum from computer-programmed electric top-loaders to gas kilns (in their heating and cooling and reduction cycles), and the many configurations of wood kilns from small “fast-fire” to subway-car length anagamas that fire for a week or more, demand increasing preparation and commitment. Before pots even go into the kiln, there is wood to split, stack, and season, as well as teams of stokers to recruit and organize.
“In physically building the fire and manipulating it as it unfolds—adjusting burners and dampers, varying stoking rhythms and wood types, and playing with the atmosphere—we come closer to the impossible: we stand at the mouth of the forbidden chamber of the glowing kiln and actively alter the surface of our hardening wares. Physically engaging the firing at its source (the burner and stoke ports that make the heat), at the primary and secondary air vents that mix the combustion, and at its exit (manipulating passive and active dampers that control the flow), not to mention introducing sodium or building charcoal, we become palpably connected to the un-survivable interior of the kiln. Our fiddling, stoking, adjusting, and throwing stuff into the fire touches something transgressive, elemental, and essential. These firings perhaps enact the universal myth—Promethean and global—of stealing fire from the gods. We potters are really trying to get away with something.”
Those of you are trying to get away with something, playing with fire, or embracing the unknown gifts of the kiln gods, this exhibition is for you.
FULL DETAILS HERE
by Carole Epp | Nov 18, 2020 | call for entry
Breakfast
Exhibition dates: April 10 – August 28, 2021
Opening reception Saturday April 10, 2021, 1 – 4 p.m.
Location: Museum on Main Street
Part of the Washtenaw County Historical Society
500 N. Main St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Entry Deadline: January 31, 2021
Entry Fee: $35 per entry/piece (with a maximum of 3 images per entry) payable by check or PayPal
This exhibition is about celebrating the first meal of the day, breakfast. The intention of this juried exhibition is to showcase the best in contemporary dinnerware as it relates to the theme Breakfast, either functional cereal bowls, toast racks, batter bowls, syrups, toasters, egg cups, shirred egg servers, juicers, butter dishes, coffee pots, tea pots, or related breakfast paraphernalia, or a sculptural work relating to breakfast, no larger than 18” in all dimensions, as created by artists and designers in all media from the United States and Canada. Accepted design drawings should be no larger than 18” x 24” drymounted ready for installation. The International Museum of Dinnerware Design is the only museum in the world devoted to the subject of dinnerware, international in scope, no material limitations, including functional ware, ancient to futuristic, and fine art referencing dinnerware.
Eligibility and Rules:
No media restrictions. Open to all artists and designers in the U.S. and Canada. Each entry must demonstrate the artist’s/designer’s personal interpretation of the theme “breakfast” whether that be in the form of a functional piece or sculpture or design concept model or drawing. Work should be no larger than 18” in all directions (except in the case of design drawings). Entries will be juried on creativity/innovation and artistic merit/aesthetics. If an entry is a functional piece, then one of the images must include actual breakfast food in or on the work. No wall pieces will be accepted except in the case of accepted design drawings, which must arrive drymounted and ready for installation and should not exceed 18” x 24.” All work must have been completed in the last two years. Work submitted may not include perishable materials. Please include the dimensions of the work, as well as materials, along with a brief biography and artist’s/designer’s statement about this particular work. The work does not need to be for sale; however, the the International Museum of Dinnerware Design will retain a 30% commission on any work sold during exhibition.
Juror: Ursula Hargens
About the Juror: Ursula Hargens is a ceramic artist and educator based in Minneapolis. She received an MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University; an MA in Art & Art Education from Columbia University, Teachers College; and studied ceramics at Nova Scotia College of Art & Design. She is a three-time McKnight Artist Fellow, has received additional awards from the Jerome Foundation and the Minnesota State Arts Board. Most recently, she was named 2020 Ceramic Artist of the Year. Ursula has been teaching art for many years and is co-founder and Program Head of Minnesota New Institute for Ceramic Education (MN NICE), an advanced certificate program in ceramics, developed in 2014 in partnership with Northern Clay Center.
Application deadline and fees:
Application forms (which include information such as artist/designer name, contact information, description of the work, materials, dimensions, and whether it’s for sale) can be submitted via mail or scanned into an email. Get Entry Form. Submit with (a) high resolution digital image(s) (via email) and include information about each image. Also include an artist’s/designer’s statement and brief biography. Artists/designers will be notified of acceptance of work by February 15, 2021. Accepted work must be received no later than March 1, 2021. Design drawings accepted into the exhibition must be received drymounted on foam core ready for installation.
Juried from digital image(s) (email [email protected]) Images must be high resolution.
Entry fee: $35 per entry
FULL DETAILS HERE
