Residency Opportunity: Sturt Craft Centre

by | Oct 10, 2013 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

Sturt Craft Centre
invites applications from experienced craft practitioners to the Sturt
Artist-in-Residence program.  Residencies occur in the craft disciplines
of ceramics, jewellery/metalwork, textiles and woodwork. Four to six
residencies occur at Sturt each year.
Sturt encourages small scale production and individually designed work which may be promoted through Sturt Gallery. 
Each year
professional residencies may be awarded specifically to develop a body
of work which can be produced and made, at Sturt, during the Residency
time.
Sturt sees the
residency program as an important adjunct to its overall aim of
providing support for Australian contemporary craft and design through a
program of teaching, retail, exhibition and residencies. The emphasis
of the residency program will be to support craftspeople and
designer-makers who are sympathetic to this philosophy.
Three categories of residency are available:
• Professional Residency
• Self Directed Residency
• Graduate Residency
All applicants should fill out the Application form and include:
  • A short written proposal, briefly describing type of work to be carried out.
  • Current CV.
  • Images of work relating to your proposal (digital, prints or slides).
  • Any other relevant promotional material.
  • Graduate residents must include a letter of support from a tutor or supervisor.
Applications
for all categories close on the 31 October for positions in the
following year. Successful applicants will be notified in mid December
for positions to take place in the following year.
www.sturt.nsw.edu.au/get-involved/artist-in-residence

movie day: ENCAIX (FITTING)

by | Oct 9, 2013 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

ENCAIX (FITTING) from Eva Rodriguez and Ignasi Llobet on Vimeo.
ENCAIX (FITTING) a film by Ignasi Llobet and Eva Rodríguez about the work of contemporary ceramics artists Jordi Marcet and Rosa Vila-Abadal (www.terracroma.net)

The pieces fit. Tones attract. Not fit all in harmony, some accept the company, others turn away. Place the appropriate fragment, but you know that this will mark the passage towards the end. Fragments escape, slip, fall down and many are broken. One by one. One plus one. Fitting. Fitting. Fitting. Feel the pleasure of the fit, agile and fast. A magic moment: everything fits. everything flows..

technical tuesday: workshop with Michael Kline

by | Oct 8, 2013 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

 
Well I for one just had an incredibly inspiring weekend! It’s not often that Saskatoon is visited by such caliber of artist as Michael Kline. There was no way I was going to miss this workshop, hosted by the Saskatoon Potters Guild, and it definetly didn’t disappoint.
Michael lives up to the online persona that I’ve come to know in the past few years through his blog and extensive social media outreach. It was great to finally meet him in person. He is generous and incredibly gifted as an artist and teacher; technically flawless and humble as well as humorous. The weekend was filled with great technical insights into his work alongside tales of historical and contemporary aspects of working in North Carolina. To offer you a play by play of what transpired would take too long so instead I’ll leave you with some images from the weekend as well as the encouragement to attend one of his future workshops or to visit Michael should you find yourself in North Carolina. 
Thanks Michael!

Make sure to find out more about Michael Kline on his blog Sawdust and Dirt
or facebook, 
or follow him on twitter and instagram.