monday morning eye candy: Ian Thomas

by | Jun 23, 2014 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

“Utopia: through the gaze of a cereal box”, hand-­‐built earthenware, underglaze, acrylic, wood, bronze, 80in length

“Utopia: through the gaze of a cereal box”, hand-­‐built earthenware, underglaze, acrylic, wood, bronze, 80in length

“Boy’s Club: We asked for Fred”, slipcast porcelain, underglaze, wood, 7in ht.

“Cereal Colonialism: The Patriarch of Mascots” hand-­‐built earthenware, underglaze, wood, 27in ht.

emerging artist: Randi Obrien

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

 


The artist statement addresses my Clay-Animation.

ARTIST STATEMENT
The
images of fables are reflections of the potentialities within every one
of us. Through contemplating fables, we evoke their powers in our own
lives. The narrative intention of a fable is the moral fiber of my work.
I cherish the cycles of yearning and atonement, which reveal the
radiance of a characters personal discovery. It is within this cycle
that an audience can see a characters ability to navigate the struggles
beyond a visible plain of existence. To simply exist is, of course, a
part of the characters role. Though, I’ve selected clay-animation as a
means to manipulate clay as a material, wherein I can indicate a greater
life value for my ceramic objects.
In other words, through clay-animation my characters act-out beyond their vitrified existence.
Jarring
that frozen sense of existence, I am able to jolt a characters
narrative awake and document their existence through short film. Though
it’s for a gnat’s-breath of a moment, my characters experience life.
They relate and understand the world beyond physical objects. The
characters become bearers of messages, beasts of burdens, and ultimately
allow us to contemplate the potential within their fable.

 

 
 
Check out a few more videos here:

website: http://www.randiobrien.com

movie day: Virtual Clay @ NCECA

by | Jun 19, 2014 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

Yeah! NCECA released the video of the first part of our Virtual Clay presentation at NCECA. Check out our introductions on you tube and then head over to The Tales of the Red Clay Rambler for a special podcast of the question and answer portion of our panel.

I hope you enjoy it. It was a blast to work with the amazing creative and professional minds of Adam Field, Ben Carter and Michael Kline. Ben did a great little write up over on his blog so head on over and check it out please. Would love to hear your thoughts on the panel.

residency opportunity: The DO GOOD-MJ Wood Memorial Short-Term Residency

by | Jun 19, 2014 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

Red Lodge Clay Center | Deadline: September 2, 2014 | Fee (USD): $10.00

The DO GOOD-MJ Wood Memorial Short-Term Residency is an
underwritten residency intended to support ceramic artists who wish to
develop a body of work with a socially-conscious spirit and a strong sense
of community engagement. Through a competitive application process one
candidate per year will be selected to work at the Red Lodge Clay Center
Studios with a full waiver of the residency fee. An additional stipend may
be available for selected projects to assist with travel and/or production
costs during residency.

Dates of residency: Any time between December 1, 2014 and May 31, 2015

www.redlodgeclaycenter.com

technical tuesday: surface decoration with foam cut outs

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

I posted these images on instagram yesturday and received a bunch of questions so I thought I’d included them here today for technical tuesday. Basically what I’m trying to do is add more depth to my functional work, and rather then return to stamps that I had used in the past I wanted to incorporate something that had a less precise or “refined” look to it. A technique that could be used from dish to dish but with different variations complementing how my dishes have unique hand drawn images rather than decals. Stamps to me equate to the same rigid repeativeness of decals. Not that I’m against either, I’m just looking for a different quality for this body of work.

Anyhow what I’m doing in cutting designs into thin sheets of foam (bought at Micheals here in Canada). I like how I can push and pull the images, use them on flat or rounded surfaces, layer them and ideally my aim is to incorporate them more and more into my work. It’s a technique I’ve seen many other artists use. It’s definitely not my idea, but hopefully I can develop my own spin on it.

Job posting: Ceramics Tech at Red Deer College

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

Just a reminder…..Applications for the Ceramics tech job at Red Deer
College Visual Art must be in by 5:00 pm today, June 17th!
We
have posted a call for applications for the Ceramics Technician position
at RDC on the RDC website. To make an application on line follow this
link: employment.rdc.ab.ca/applicants/Central?quickFind=52159