Apply Now! Red Lodge Clay Center Long Term Residency

by | Oct 27, 2012 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

Long Term Residency Application Deadline: February 1st, 2013  Apply Online!

The Long-Term Residency (September 1 – July 31)
is ideal for committed individuals in transition from post
baccalaureate studies to graduate school, as well as those pursuing the
development of professional artistic careers. Self-directed ceramic
artists searching for the time, space and resources needed to explore
new ideas and create new work will enjoy the rural mountainous setting.
Accepted residents will be provided with studio space, housing,
utilities, and a monthly stipend in exchange for twenty hours of work
per week at the Clay Center. Responsibilities will include assisting in
the retail operation of the gallery, teaching community clay classes, as
well as cleaning and maintenance of the studio and gallery. Residents
will be responsible for personal living expenses, as well as all
material and firing expenses. The application deadline is February 1st annually.

The
Red Lodge Clay Center welcomes applications from ceramic artists who
will thrive working as a team, in a community minded atmosphere.

Application Fee:  $40.00

Apply Online at Slideroom

For more information:

406-446-3993

Email Us

[email protected]

www.redlodgeclaycenter.com

technical tuesday: a bit of history on Lusterware

by | Oct 23, 2012 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

English: Deep Dish, Spain
After 1475 Tin-glazed earthenware with lustred decoration V&A Museum no. 1680-1855

Source: http://www.vam.ac.uk/images/image/33766-popup.html

via Wikipedia:

“Lusterware or Lustreware (respectively the US and all other English spellings) is a type of pottery or porcelain with a metallic glaze that gives the effect of iridescence, produced by metallic oxides in an overglaze finish, which is given a second firing at a lower temperature in a “muffle kiln“, reduction kiln, which excludes oxygen.”

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