Potters’ Retreat with Matt Long, Kristen Kieffer and Adam Field @ Mary Anderson Center for the Arts

by | May 13, 2014 | Uncategorized

My
name is Steven Cheek and I am the current Director of the Mary Anderson
Center for the Arts located on the grounds of Mt. St. Francis, IN. We
are just across the river from Louisville, KY and a short 25 minute
drive from the Louisville airport on 450 acres of beautiful woods,
fields and a lake.
 

The
Mary Anderson Center for the Arts is holding our first Potters’ Retreat
this summer, June 11-14, with Adam Field, Kristen Kieffer and Matt Long
as our inaugural presenters. This three day demonstration based
workshop will showcase three highly regarded ceramic artists. To see
more information on this event, check out our new website.
I am very excited about this workshop and I would love to have a great turnout. I have created a facebook event for
this and I am in the process of the final big push for this event. I
have extended the early registration out to May 15. If you have any
questions feel free to contact me.

Steven G Cheek
Director/Artist in Residence
Mary Anderson Center for the Arts
[email protected]

podcast thursdays: Radio Lab – Sleep

by | May 8, 2014 | Uncategorized

I’m almost ridiculous excited to introduce a new repeating feature to musing. I’m sure you all know of Ben Carter and his podcast Tales of a Red Clay Rambler. It is one the best arts and culture podcasts out there and as a bonus it is focused on ceramics. I’m sure for many of us it is the soundtrack to our studios. With podcasts such as Ben’s and Brian Jones (www.brianrjones.com), and a new up and coming podcast – The Potters Cast by Paul Blais (thepotterscast.com), there are hours of inspiring stories to go through. But what if (dare I say it?) we want to listen to some other podcasts that are equally as interesting but maybe not about clay? Well I’ve enlisted Ben’s help to start compiling a listening list for you of some of his favorite episodes from other podcasts. I hope you’ll join me in welcoming Ben to musing about mud as a regular bi-weekly feature. Ben’s extensive knowledge and experience will surely make this new feature one to look forward to. 
Thanks Ben!
Radio Lab- Sleep-
Episode 2 of Season 3
Radio Lab’s unique brand of story telling is candy for my
brain. It was one of the first podcasts that I became addicted to and after
only a few episodes I set upon a quest to listen to every episode. One of my favorite
early episodes, Sleep, looks at what
happens to humans, and all the world’s creatures, when they fall asleep. Visit http://www.radiolab.org/story/91528-sleep/
to download the episode or find the podcast on iTunes.
“Radiolab is a show about
curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between
science, philosophy, and human experience.”

When Virtual Meets Material

by | May 6, 2014 | Uncategorized

A Craft Talk with Carole Epp, the force behind the popular ceramics blog Musing
about Mud

May 29, 7 pm
La maison des artistes
219 Provencher Blvd
Winnipeg MB
Saskatchewan artist and blogger Carole Epp will take the audience on a
journey through her professional development as an artist, stopping to
examine the ways in which her ceramic work has intertwined with social
media along the way. She’ll also reflect on
the question:  How do you maintain a vibrant studio practice, get into
the big shows, travel, give talks, host a blog that’s the go-to place
for ceramics-related news world-wide, all while raising a young family? 
All will be revealed on May 29!  Free public
lecture.  All welcome.

Studio visits with Carole Epp are available to MCC members, by application.  

Email [email protected] for
more info.
  

Jocelyn Reid: Half Grown @ the Stride Gallery

by | May 6, 2014 | Uncategorized

The exhibition Half-Grown talks about the unnamed space between adulthood and childhood. This melange of drawings with incorporated ceramic components refers to the parts of youth that are always held on to, and asks when exactly we decided to trade out our playthings for the grown-up world. Distorted versions of household objects are instigators for the recognition of things seen and touched every day, while simultaneously bringing up memories of long-lost toys. This exhibition glorifies the significance of the quiet objects that we are forever surrounding ourselves with, and addresses that, in a way, everyone is still waiting to grow up.

Half-Grown is in Stride Gallery’s +15 Space in Calgary, Alberta. The exhibition is up for April and May of 2013, with a reception on May 15th from 6-7 PM. 

Jocelyn Reid is a ceramic and mixed media artist based out of Calgary, Alberta. In the Spring of 2013 she received her BFA with Distinction from the Alberta College of Art + Design. Reid hopes to continue expanding her career over Canada and the USA, and is an upcoming Summer Resident at the Archie Bray Foundation.

Art of the Pot 2014

by | May 5, 2014 | Uncategorized

Are you ready….The
AotP Studio Tour is this week!  As artists around the country are
finishing up their work for our tour we wanted to give you a few more
details about our busy week ahead.
Lecture & Demonstration Added-  
NCECA Emerging Artist and Art of the Pot guest Renee Brown will be in Austin to present a lecture and demonstration to Greater Austin Clay Artists (GACA).
Thursday May 8, 2014 from 7-9pm
Location:
 St Edwards Ceramics Studio.  She will recap her lecture given at this
year’s national conference, and demonstrate her soft forming process as
well as the application of her colorful marbleized engobe.  Free and
open to the public.  
VIP Collector’s Preview Tour-
We have a few tickets left for the always popular Bus Tour on Friday May 9th from 5:30-10pm.  Info and tickets here.
AotP Studio Tour- 
As always, the Studio Tour is free and open to the public on Saturday May 10th from 10am-5pm and Sunday May 11th from 1pm-5pm. AotP Host artists will be opening up their studios at 4 destinations across Austin.  Delicious food and beverage companion events are returning to each studio location throughout the weekend!  

  

Hosted by-
Chris Campbell, Keith Kreeger, Ryan McKerley, Melissa Mencini, Lisa Orr & Claudia Reese
Guest Artists-
Kurt
Anderson, Birdie Boone, Renee Brown, Sunshine Cobb, Bruce Dehnert,
Martina Lantin, Gaye Lynn & Michael Hodgson, Lisa Naples, Peter
Pincus & Adam Posnak.
The full brochure and tour map are available for download here: 2014 AotP Brochure.