job posting: Instructor, Fine Arts, Ceramics

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Temporary Part-Time (1/2 of Full Time)
Department/Program:                 FINE ARTS

Subject Area:                              

FINA 2111 – Ceramic Surface and Decoration
FINA 1111 – Foundation Ceramics

Description of Position:             
The
applicant should have an MFA with a major in studio ceramics. The
Surface and Decoration course (FINA 2111) incorporates the use of a wide
range of drawing, painting and printmaking surface treatments and how
they relate to 3-D form in clay.  The applicant should have a working
knowledge of slips, transfer printing, underglazes/overglazes and
maiolica painting techniques and glazes at cone 04. Teaching foundation
level ceramics (FINA 1111) requires experience with various handbuilding
techniques and knowledge of wheel throwing as well as a technical
understanding of glaze composition/making and loading and firing kilns. 
The applicant should be able to discuss with students historical and
critical ways of thinking about ceramics as it relates to contemporary
issues.

Required Qualifications:             Master’s degree, demonstrated post-secondary teaching ability

Length of appointment: December 1, 2014 – April 30, 2015
 
Start Date:  December 1, 2014

Salary Range: Salary placement is on Langara instructors’ salary scale in accordance with qualifications and experience.
 
Employee Group: LFA

Application Information: To apply, please submit your cover letter and resume.

Deadline: November 7, 2014

Langara College
100 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, BC
Canada V5Y 2Z6

Apply here. 

call for entry: Graphic Clay: A Survey of Illustrated, Printed and Innovative Surfaces.

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Jason Burnett – Juror

This
exhibition will highlight what is happening now in studio ceramics. It
will showcase new talent and highlight known experts in the field. All
forms will be considered that include graphic and illustrative surfaces
including, but not limited to: sgraffito, mishima, china paint, and
print processes on clay; image transfers and decals. Professional,
novice, emerging, all artists highlighting these processes are
encouraged to apply! It will be an exhibit that’s vibrant in content and
surface.

Additionally, the Baltimore Museum of
Art will have a print show on exhibit and Graphic Clay will be one of
many exhibits on the collector’s tour they are organizing. This will be
an exciting time in Baltimore! Lark Books will also be releasing in the
Spring of 2015 Graphic Clay: Ceramic Surfaces and Printed Image Transfer
Techniques, a book highlighting traditional and current surface methods
and filled with many interviews of artists. 

DEADLINES:
January 16, 2015:  Application submission deadline
February 13, 2015:  Notification on Website
March 6, 2015:  Work due at Gallery
March 14, 2015,  6-8PM:  Opening Reception
May 9, 2015: Exhibition Closes

For more information regarding the exhibit click here:
Click here to apply:
Juror Biography:
Jason Bige Burnett graduated from Western Kentucky University
with a BFA in ceramics and BA’s in both printmaking and graphic design.
He continued his education as a core fellowship student at Penland
School of Crafts in western North Carolina. Since then he has exhibited
nationally, been featured in Ceramics Monthly, American Craft Magazine,
and regional magazines Carolina Home + Garden and WNC Magazine.
Jason’s work is featured in 500 Prints on Clay (Lark Books) and he’s
the author of Graphic Clay (Lark Books, 2015). A recent
Artist-In-Residence at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts Burnett now
lives and works as a studio artist in Bakersville, North Carolina with
his husband and two dogs.

emerging artist: Rickie Barnett

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Artist Statement
Rickie Barnett
“ I have these two friends that pull on my heart in separate directions, so when examined it looks bigger than it really is.”
                                                  -Elliot Maldonado
My
work is an internal look at the preeminent  issues of being bound to
another and the effects it has on individuals. In the struggle of trust
and loyalty love is present and a greater understanding of friendship is
found. Connectedness and the inner struggle to stay honest to myself
and to my loved ones is significant in my work. In the confines of a
conscientious head and heart, strength and integrity are born and
encourage continuity.
I
work figuratively creating characters based on the struggle of
balancing relationships, placing them in an open narrative where they
can revisit emotions experienced but not quite understood. Striving to
weave a web of connectedness based on internal reflections of my
relationships to the world around me
Literary,
visual storytelling and the art of songwriting play a large role in my
inspiration to create due to storytelling’s ability to allow an endless
yet controlled method of delivering feelings and emotions. The medium is
the apparatus; a means to an end. It is the vehicle which conveys
individual temperaments via storytelling.
Working
with clay lends to the idea of creation in and of itself. It gives the
opportunity to be more connected with the work. Pinching, coiling, and
slab building, I move the earth between my hands until a form starts to
take shape, changing with every movement of my fingers.  As I watch it
go through the stages of drying i ponder it’s creation before I put them
through temperatures that a human could not withstand. Using oxides,
slips, underglazes and glazes I treat the surface in a painterly fashion
with brushes and washes before putting it through a series of firings.
Firing them again and again until the surface becomes rich and desirable
and the piece can speak for itself. Striving to provide a sympathetic
relation to narrative in the restlessness of living in one’s head space,
a sickness through which ideas are made. 
Rickie Barnett graduated from California State University, Chico in 2013 with a BFA is studio art. He is currently the long term artist in residence at Taos Clay in Taos, NM