call for artists: American Craft Exposition (ACE)

by | Jan 21, 2014 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

The deadline for the American Craft Exposition (ACE)
is only 6 weeks away! Don’t miss the opportunity to apply for this
nationally ranked show. ACE will be held August 21-24, 2014 in Evanston,
IL on Chicago’s prosperous North Shore. The online application deadline
is Friday, February 28. 
The application fee is $50.00. For more information, visit www.americancraftexpo.org
One
of the country’s premier fine craft shows, the American Craft
Exposition, presented by The Auxiliary of NorthShore University
HealthSystem at Evanston & Glenbrook Hospitals, brings together over
150 superior artisans exhibiting one-of-a-kind, museum quality work.
This important art event is also a major fundraiser supporting critical
ovarian cancer research at NorthShore University HealthSystem. A highly
competitive juried show, ACE features hand-crafted work in 12
media—baskets, ceramics, fiber decorative, fiber wearable, furniture,
glass, jewelry, leather, metal, mixed media, paper and wood – and draws
approximately 6,000 patrons annually.

call for artists: 2014 Chilkoot Trail Artist Residency Program

by | Jan 20, 2014 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

Together
Yukon Arts Centre, Parks Canada and the US National Park Service are
seeking three visual artists – one from Canada, one from the United
States and one regional (Yukon or Alaska) – to participate in a
cross-border creative journey.
The Chilkoot Trail Artist Residency Program invites artists to hike the
famous Chilkoot Trail, passing through Klondike Gold Rush National
Historic Park (Alaska) and Chilkoot Trail National Historic Site
(northern British Columbia). Entering its fourth consecutive
year, this one-of-a-kind program is a unique opportunity for artists to
practice and promote their work in a spectacular setting!
                        
Some details about the program:
  • each artist will individually spend a two week period (between late June
    and early August) hiking the historic trail once traversed by Tlingit
    First Nation traders and Klondike Gold Rush Stampeders, spending one to
    three days at each campsite
  • selected artists are expected to interact with hikers, make art and engage with site’s natural and historic heritage
  • each artist must provide and carry all of their backpacking gear, food
    and art supplies for the journey;  artists should be accompanied by a
    friend or family member as support during their trek

  • during and following the residencies, artists will present public
    outreach programs through artist talks, workshops and/or demonstrations

  • a $1000 CAD honorarium will be provided by the Yukon Arts Centre, as
    well as up to $400 USD for travel expenses from Alaska Geographic and
    $100 USD for art supplies from Skagway Arts Council
Deadline for submission is February 1st, 2014. Program information and application forms are available at

http://yukonartscentre.com/programs/chilkoot_trail_artist_residency_program. For more information, please email
[email protected].
Sincerely,
Angharad Wenz
Gallery Intern

emerging artist: Chris Hudson

by | Jan 18, 2014 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

 

Each of us has a personal history that we carry
with us. We also share a social history. These histories are a direct
reflection and response to our surroundings. I am interested in the way our
memories of our personal past and social past impact our attitudes, and how
they manifest into different
feelings. I am directly inspired by the people around me in my everyday life. I
often use them as direct characters in my work. I dress them up as bears and
use them as my actors to play out specific scenes that have affected me and
stuck in my mind. I like to believe that the legacy of
the people I feature in my work will carry on through time. Each of my objects
represents a single picture of a single story. The story may be short or long,
simple or complex, but each story interweaves with every other.  The
meaning of the single frame I represent may be understood, or lost, depending
on the viewer’s own memories, both social and personal. Together I hope the
frames will weave new stories, with new links to the viewer’s worlds. Thus expanding their knowledge
or emotional response to their own lives and symbolically their surroundings.

call for entry: International Triennial of Silicate Arts

by | Jan 17, 2014 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

In
March 2005 the 1st International Triennial of Silicate Arts was
held in the Hungarian town of Kecskemét. Organised by the
International Ceramics Studio, a world famous ceramic art centre
and the Foundation for Contemporary Ceramic Arts. From an idea originated
by János Probstner, founder and director of the ICS, this
is a new internatinal exhibition and competition focussing on the
silicate arts of ceramics, porcelain, glass and concrete.
The
aims of the International Silicate Triennial are to stimulate both
fine and applied artists to create interesting and innovative objects
and to give scope to the industrial and artistic application of
new materials and technologies, encouraging the widening of directions
in 21st century silicate arts. 
We
would like to take this opportunity to inform you that the 4th
International Silicate Arts Triennial will again take place
in Kecskemét, Hungary in August 2014 and we hope it will build
on the success of this first competition and become a major part
of the international exhibition forum. Information and application
forms for the 4th Triennial will be available on our website from
December 2013 and the application deadline will be 31st March 2014.
Organised
by the Foundation for Contemporary Ceramic Arts and the International
Ceramics Studio.
Details
will be available on this website as they are confirmed. Application forms are available for download on the conditions page