monday morning eye candy: Thaddeus Erdahl

by Carole Epp | Feb 13, 2017 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, technical tuesday

When considering the murky reservoir of human history, it is
difficult to separate legend from reality. Through my work, I examine
human myth in the modern age, specifically on characters that emerge
from our society’s underbelly; the less popular folk. Using their
“legends”, I feel compelled to tell stories that illustrate analogies in
life; blending together archetypes, shared experiences, and my own
personal mythology. Who we are in the world is a kaleidoscope of
interpretations, biased memories, and personal connections.

Ceramic sculpture and portraiture, in particular, are
forms of a visual narration that I use to satisfy my urge for
documenting what I see in human nature. Evocative of well-loved toys and
obsolete artifacts, I use the implied history of these objects to
encourage the viewer to disconnect from the present situation and
conjure their own individual narratives from my sculptures.

Working with concepts that are personal and sometimes
narcissistic perceptions of the gloomy side of life, dark humor is my
buffer. Dry or irreverent, it is humor that mystifies the tragic. – Thaddeus Erdahl

www.thaddeuserdahl.com

technical tuesday: Japanse Teabowl Feet

by Carole Epp | Feb 7, 2017 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, technical tuesday

call for entry: Manninggham Victorian Ceramic Art Award 2017

by Carole Epp | Feb 6, 2017 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, technical tuesday

The
Manningham Victorian Ceramic Art Award was established by Manningham
Council in 2009 to support Victorian studio ceramics and acknowledge the
special place that ceramics has in the Manningham region.
The
biennial acquisitive award and accompanying exhibition celebrates the
best in contemporary Victorian ceramic art practice from across the
state. Works acquired through the award form part of the Manningham Art
Collection and are subsequently displayed in public buildings throughout
the municipality, as well as regularly featuring in Manningham Art
Gallery exhibitions.

Manningham Victorian Ceramic Art Award 2017

Major Award $10,000
Merit Award Acquisitions up to $4,000
Entries for the 2017 award will open soon.
The 2017 award will be judged by Janet DeBoos.
You may enter up to three individual artworks. Each artwork entry costs $30.
Entrants
are required to submit up to three high resolution images per artwork
entry (min. recommended – jpg or tiff; 300dpi; 1920 x 1080pixels).

Key Dates:

Entries Open: Soon
Entries Close: Monday 26 June
Finalists Notified and Announced: Friday 14 July
Finalists Exhibition Opening: Wednesday 16 August
Finalists Exhibition Closes: Saturday 23 September

Past Winners and Acquisitions

The
Manningham Art Collection includes almost thirty ceramic artworks
acquired through the Award since 2009, representing some of the best
contemporary ceramic work in Victoria. View a full list of past winners and acquisitions.

www.manningham.vic.gov.au/manningham-victorian-ceramic-art-awards

call for entry: Cryin’ Out Loud

by Carole Epp | Feb 6, 2017 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, technical tuesday

About:

Cryin’ Out Loud is a juried exhibition that examines the
role of women’s and femmes’ voices as expressed in art about politics,
activism, and emotion. Considering both the metaphoric and literal
voice, Cryin’ Out Loud explores and celebrates the use of art
as a form of speaking up and out. A large group exhibition of works by
selected artists will take place in CCA’s Muñoz Waxman Gallery.

Juror’s Statement:

Cryin’ Out Loud takes each word of this maxim seriously –
Crying. Out. Loud. – and navigates the various implications of the
phrase, wheter exasperated and fed up (“Oh, for crying out loud!”) or
literal, as one who does not hide her desperation or emotion while she
is actually “crying out loud”. Similarly, “living out loud” has
associations with survivors of abuse, with activism in the LGBTQ
community, and with anyone refusing to “be quiet” about issues of
oppression, identity and authorship. It is time to speak loudly with our
voices and our art; with our intellect and our emotion; with our
politics and our personhood.

Throughout history women’s voices, perspectives, and innovations have
been undermined by those in power. In order to have their voices heard
or published, many women artists and writers have adopted gender neutral
or male pseudonyms. Women have fought for their right to vote, are
still fighting for wage-equity, and to have equal representation in
congress. Speaking and acting out is complicated for women and femmes
because of common double standards like the label “hysterical,” for
simply speaking her mind. Women have learned to work within these
oppressive structures often at the expense of their rights and humanity,
and frankly, we are ready for change.

Cryin’ Out Loud proposes that to unabashedly express emotion is a political act. To live out loud
is a necessary political gesture and that women’s experience needs to
be seen, heard, and cherished. The exhibition will consist of work in
all media that embraces emotion as statement; that broadcasts social and
political concerns, and that reacts to and resists the structures that
continue to oppress us.

How it Works:

Eligible artists can enter up to 5 images ($35 application fee),
statement, CV and web link. All works must be made within the last 2
years. The juror will review the submissions online and make selections A
large group exhibition will feature these selections, of which three
participants will recieve cash prizes (totaling $1,500.) All artists
will be responsible for shipping artwork both ways.

Where: Center for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM 87501; www.ccasantafe.org

Applications Available: January 18, 2017
Application Deadline: March 5, 2017
Winners Announced: March 24, 2017
Exhibition Dates: April 21 – July 9, 2017

Eligibility: Nation Wide (United States)

Application Requirements:

Applicants can submit up to 5 images
Current CV
A brief statement on how your work addresses the themes of the exhibition
Payment of a $35 submission fee
Shipping artwork to and from CCA.

http://ccasantafe.org/visual-arts/call-for-artists-cryin-out-loud

SUMMER 2017 RESIDENCIES AT C.R.E.T.A. ROME APPLICATION DEADLINE 1 MARCH 2017!!

by Carole Epp | Feb 6, 2017 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, technical tuesday

CITY OR COUNTRYSIDE!!

Choose our city residency and live and work in the historical center of Rome,
just a few blocks from the Roman forum, Pantheon or Colosseum.
Bramante’s Tempietto pictured here is just a stroll across the Tiber to
Trastevere.

Or opt for our countryside residency near the Lake of Bracciano and the
Medieval town of Anguillara. The house and studio in a tranquil garden
setting is just a half-hour walk from the train station where you can
catch a train into the center of Rome.

We
offer artist residencies for ceramic artists, visual artists and
writers for periods of 4 or 5 weeks. The residency periods can be
combined, but the residency cannot exceed 90 days (for non-EU
citizens). Both residencies conclude with a final group show in our Rome center gallery space.

To apply, please submit the following by e-mail to [email protected] by 1 March for summer 2017 residencies. We also consider applications on a rolling basis on the 1st of every month: