residency opportunity: WOOD/SODA/FIRE/BANFF

by | Jan 12, 2015 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

 

Ceramics Thematic Residency

Program dates: April 27, 2015 – May 22, 2015

Application deadline: January 28, 2015
 

 
Faculty:

Robin DuPont – Faculty,

Dan Murphy

 

Wood……pots..….ideas……bricks.……fire……collaboration.…..inspiration….mountains…..

As technological changes have gradually infiltrated most aspects of
modern life, both for benefit and detriment, some things remain robustly
human and process-based and fast-tracking is counter-productive. In the
world of ceramics, already a very time-centric occupation, wood firing
remains a bastion of thoughtful, concentrated, measured activity.  Go
too quickly in any part of the journey and the results will underwhelm.
Focusing too much on outcome without proper attention to process can
lead to disappointment, if not disaster. Deep learning and satisfaction
are just two of the results of such engagement – not to mention the
comradery, collaborative spirit and decision making which fuel it.

This residency is an opportunity to work alongside other wood and
soda fire enthusiasts; to create, share ideas, techniques and
inspirations, and in turn, be inspired by the stunning surroundings of
the Rocky Mountains which we will take time to discover and explore. We
will fire The Banff Centre’s venerable Noborigama kiln –
designed and built three decades ago -around which a host of memorable
conversations, art work, challenges and celebrations have emerged and
occurred.

The residency is best suited to emerging and established artists with
wood and/or soda firing experience who want to push their work in new
creative directions.

Program structure and benefits:

  • Shared studio with 24-hour access 
  • A community of artists working together 
  • Studio visit with faculty
  • Public lectures by faculty, visiting artists, and guests
  • Technical assistance for wood and salt kiln usage
  • Access to The Banff Centre Paul D. Fleck Library and Archives
  • Plus membership at the Sally Borden Fitness and Recreation Centre 
  • Artist rates for Banff Centre events

http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=1556

LAND ART at Arte Laguna Prize: Call for Submissions through January 20th, 2015

by | Jan 8, 2015 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

Through January 20th, 2015, Arte Laguna Prize is open for
entries for a new contest section, Land Art, conceived in
collaboration with Thetis Spa from Venice. Artists
worldwide are eligible, with no restrictions to creativity
in investigating the landscape and in putting nature in the
spotlight.

Artists can submit projects of environmental and
land art featuring the interaction of the artistic
intervention with the environment it was designed for. There
are no restrictions in the choice of the place of
intervention. Projects are expected to enhance nature and
its characteristics, and more generally the environmental
space or the landscape they are inserted into.
The best 10 projects will

be exhibited at the Arsenale of Venice during the finalists
exhibition of the Arte Laguna Prize
in March 2015 and the overall
winner will be awarded € 7,000 euro
prize money and announced during the opening
ceremony on March
21st, 2015.

The jury selecting the 10
best

projects
includes Roberto

Zancan, chief curator of Inside the Academy
Program at BE OPEN Foundation and Claudio

Bertorelli, landscape designer and Director
of Fabbri Foundation, besides the Prize curator
Igor Zanti and the representatives of Thetis.

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