by Carole Epp | Mar 19, 2013 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
If you’ve ever met me, you’ll know that I speak very highly of the Medalta Artist in Residence program. These are some amazing folks doing great stuff and its so nice to see an internationally recognized residency program so close to my home. So of course I jump at any opportunity to work with them and thus I am beyond excited to announce the first ever Medalta International Cup Show. How thrilling to see an international cup show taking place in Canada.
Show us your mugs (or cups, yunomis, steins, etc) and be a part of Medalta’s first annual International Cup Show!
This show – August 23 to September 28 – is being juried by (yours truly!) Musing About Mud blogger and Canadian ceramic artist, Carole Epp.
The submission deadline is Thursday, May 30 so if
you’re interested, have a look at the eligibility requirements,
important dates and other information on this page and fill out the
handy-dandy form (along with payment). Thanks for your interest
and good luck!
JUROR
Carole Epp is likely best known for her work on Musing About Mud, (www.musingaboutmud.blogspot.com)
an online resource of ceramic related content. She is a graduate of the
Australian National University, produces two distinct lines of
functional and sculptural ceramics, exhibits internationally, and at the
end of the day is a mother to two charming young boys.
ELIGIBILITY
The exhibition is open to all international artists. Identify yourself as a student to be entered into the right competition. Work can be either
functional or sculptural so long as it addresses the idea of “the cup”.
Please submit only original work that has been completed in the last
two years. All work must use at least 50% fired clay as the primary
medium.
Work must not exceed 2 feet in width.
All work must be properly prepared for exhibition, be durable enough
to survive shipping and display, and come with exhibition/assemblage
instructions if applicable. Medalta reserves the right to reject any
work that is not suitably prepared for exhibition or that differs from
the original submission.
Medalta reserves the right to use images and photographs of accepted
works for the purposes of promotional materials, including postcards,
calendars, local media as well as online promotion.
All entries must be for sale, (priced in Canadian Dollars).
IMPORTANT DATES
Applications Due May 30th
Email Notification Begins June 15th 2013
Accepted Work Due July 20th 2013
Show Dates August 23rd to September 28th 2013.
Opening reception TBA
All sold and unsold work shipped back October 2013
SHIPMENT OF WORK
All artwork must arrive at Medalta no later than July 20th. Artists
are responsible for all shipping and insurance costs to the gallery.
COMMISSION
All entries must be for sale, (priced in Canadian Dollars). Medalta will receive commission of 40% on all sales.
AWARDS
Several of the selected artists will be featured on the Musing About Mud blog.
And we’re wrangling more prizes as we speak!
Awards will be determined by the juror and announced at the opening reception. Artists do not need to be present to win.
Find out everything you need to know and the application form here: http://medalta.org/showusyourmugs
Make sure to apply – because you know if you don’t you’ll never hear the end of it from me : )
by Carole Epp | Mar 19, 2013 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
A Câmara Municipal de
Aveiro informa da abertura do período de inscrições para a participação
na décima primeira edição da Bienal Internacional de Cerâmica Artística
de Aveiro. Os artistas interessados em participar deverão efetuar a sua
inscrição até 12 de abril de 2013 para o secretariado da Bienal que irá
funcionar na Divisão de Ação Cultural, Casa Municipal da Cultura –
Edifício Fernando Távora, Praça da República, 3810-156 Aveiro.
Na Bienal poderão
participar os artistas, nacionais ou estrangeiros, com um máximo de duas
obras que serão selecionadas pelos membros do júri. As obras poderão
ser trabalhos individuais ou coletivos.
A XI Bienal
Internacional de Cerâmica Artística, a exemplo de anos anteriores,
pretende contribuir, de forma efetiva, para o desenvolvimento
sociocultural e estimular a experimentação e a criatividade; procura ser
um espaço aberto ao diálogo, à divulgação e ao confronto de tendências e
de contacto com os conceitos atuais de cerâmica artística; tem ainda
como objetivo essencial divulgar os caminhos mais significativos da
cerâmica artística contemporânea que se faz pelos cinco continentes;
mostrar a diversidade formal e a renovação estética que se vem
processando, bem como as capacidades dos novos materiais e técnicas
postas ao serviço da arte.
Following via google translate. My apologies for any errors in translation.
The Municipality of Aveiro informs the opening of the registration period for participation in the eleventh edition of the International Biennial of Artistic Ceramics Aveiro. Artists interested in participating should make their registration until April 12, 2013 to the Secretariat of the Biennale that will work in the Division of Cultural Action, Municipal House of Culture – Fernando Távora Building, Republic Square, 3810-156 Aveiro.
May participate in the Biennial artists, domestic or foreign, with a maximum of two works that will be selected by the jury. The works may be individual or collective.
The Eleventh International Biennial of Artistic Ceramics, like previous years, intends to contribute effectively to the socio-cultural development and encourage experimentation and creativity; seeks to be an open dialogue, disclosure and comparison of trends and contact with current concepts of artistic ceramics, has yet to disclose the essential objective ways most significant contemporary artistic pottery that is made by the five continents, showing the diversity and formal aesthetic renewal that comes from processing, as well as the capabilities of new materials and techniques put at the service of art.
Find out more on their website here.
by Carole Epp | Mar 18, 2013 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
Artist Statement
Clay as a material itself is soil and if you
were to step in it with your boots the first thing you would do is to
wash it off, but by transforming this mud through the ceramic process,
it’s inherent value forces us to stop and pay attention. By exploiting
the possibilities of a material I always try to find or release the
hidden beauty from something that may normally be overlooked.
It
is very difficult these days to create something unique and innovative,
so by using the ‘usual’ in an unusual way I hope to make people see
ordinary objects in a different light.
I am driven by a force to
create, innovate and experiment. I see my work pushing and challenging
the perceived boundaries of creative processes, techniques and
materials.
I always try to use unconventional materials and tools
in an unexpected way or try to push the boundaries of that material or
tool’s properties, and stretch its potential to the next level. By doing
this I always find something new which drives me further. For instance,
prior to my studies, I worked as a chef and I sometimes bring this
previous experience and its tools into my ceramics.
I try to keep my work as minimal as possible. I believe less is more.
I
love the purity and the translucence of bone china and much of my
recent work centres on this. In my degree exhibition I married the
ancient craft of ceramics with 21 st century technology, by applying QR
code ceramic transfers on to bone china. My QR codes carried messages
from Greek superstitions and songs. The key to unlock the QR codes is
your own smart phone device.
As bone china contains bone ash it
symbolises the fact that as something dies something new is born just
like the ancient Greek Phoenix that rose from the ashes.
www.madebymanos.com
by Carole Epp | Mar 17, 2013 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
I began working in clay for the
first time about a year ago having never touched it before then. On a
whim I decided to take a Ceramics class at a community college and from
the first day I was felt as if I had been doing it my whole life. It
just clicked! Ever since then I have been working non stop and am
finally getting a “studio” set up and just this week ordered my first
kiln. I
am extremely excited to see what the future holds for me and am
grateful that I have found this life changing medium.
www.facebook.com/amandasullivanpottery
by Carole Epp | Mar 17, 2013 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
About the Lormina Salter Fellowship
Realizing the need to enrich the existing collective studio with
creative, energetic and artistically diverse ceramists, Baltimore
Clayworks is offering a one-year residency fellowship as a memorial to
one of our founders, Lormina Salter. “Nina,” as she was fondly known to
us, was a gifted teacher and respected artist who handbuilt large
stoneware vessels and sculpture. Her initiative, energy and insistence
on artistic excellence were instrumental in setting direction for
Clayworks in its critical early years.
The residency fellowship runs from September 1st to August 31st of
the following year. Applications will be juried by select artists in
residence, the Residency Program Coordinator, the Executive Director and
an outside curator or artist.
Former and current affiliates of Baltimore Clayworks are not eligible.
The Residency Fellowship Includes
- Individual production area (approximately 120 square feet)
- $100 monthly materials and firing stipend
- A solo exhibition in our main gallery at the end of the residency
- Common area (2000 square feet) including storage Consignment
- Gallery (60/40 –2002 gross sales – $65,758)
- Kilns: 60 cu ft and 45 cu ft downdraft natural gas kilns, 30 cu
ft propane kiln, raku propane kiln, a newly constructed two-chamber
climbing type woodkiln, 8 electric kilns, electric test kiln
- Equipment: 2 slab rollers, Alpine spray booth with 1 hp compressor, ball mill, extruder
- Teaching opportunities, both onsite and through our Community Arts program, networking with Artists-In-Schools
Residency Fellowship Requirements
- At least 24 hours weekly on the premises (doing your own work)
- Up to 10 hours annually of community outreach (slide lectures or demonstrations)
- Participation in the collective life of the studio Willingness to abide by environmental concerns
- Solo exhibition
- Residence established in Baltimore
Application
Download an application and mail it to
Lormina Salter Fellowship
Baltimore Clayworks
5707 Smith Ave
Baltimore, MD 21209
For questions, please contact Jim Dugan at 410 578-4408 or email [email protected].
For consideration all applications MUST include the following:
- Completed application A list of 3 references and their
affiliations with phone numbers (letters of recommendation are not
necessary)
- Artist’s Statement
- Resume
- 10 jpg images (300 dpi, exactly 1200 x 900 pixels) on a CD readable by Macintosh and PC computers
- Image info sheet, including title, date, materials, and processes
http://www.baltimoreclayworks.org/artists/become_fellowship_artists.html
by Carole Epp | Mar 16, 2013 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
“The
work I am currently creating stems from a long time fascination with the
teapot. When I began working in clay in 2008, all I wished to create
was an aesthetically pleasing and well functioning vessel for tea.
However, this form proved too challenging, and in frustration I set it
aside. Only recently (and after a number of years learning to work with
clay) have I began to readdress the teapot, and pouring vessels in
general.”
If you’ve ever met me, you’ll know that I speak very highly of the Medalta Artist in Residence program. These are some amazing folks doing great stuff and its so nice to see an internationally recognized residency program so close to my home. So of course I jump at any opportunity to work with them and thus I am beyond excited to announce the first ever Medalta International Cup Show. How thrilling to see an international cup show taking place in Canada. 
