call for submissions: Working Art Grant/Purchase Awards

We offer small monthly art purchase awards to help serious artists keep working.
Open to all visual artists including sculptors, installation, digital, mixed media,
film/video from all countries.
Deadline for the $1000.00 Working Art Grant / Purchase Award is August 31, 2013

The Working Art Grant/Purchase Award is a meager one-time purchase award intended to disperse small but vitalizing bursts of funding to support an artist’s ongoing art making process.

The Working Art Grant/Purchase Award is available to all domestic and international artists working in all media. As a stipulation for eligibility to receive the Working Art Grant/Purchase Award, we ask that each prospective recipient be willing to exchange one of their works of our later mutual agreement in return. We reimburse the artist’s shipping costs.

If you are interested in being considered for one of these awards, please send 5 digital images/files of recent available work (total mail size no larger than 2 MB please) via email. No written proposals or CV’s are required unless the artist would like to include them. Instead, please simply include in the body of your email current contact information and a link to an artist’s website if available, and send to: [email protected]. There is no application form.

For application guidelines please see: http://www.workingartist.org/art-grant-guidelines.html

Deadline: August 31, 2013

[email protected]

The 2013 Iowa Clay Conference

September 20-22, 2013

$135/person – $95/student – $95/TCC student

Recharge your batteries at the 2nd biennial Iowa Clay Conference, which kicks off Friday September 20 with akeynote talk by Peter Pinnell. “Peter is a very entertaining speaker,” says Clary Illian, the keynote speaker at the 2011 conference, “so it’ll be fabulous.”

Enjoy break-out sessions with Pinnell, Don Pilcher, Bede Clarke, Margaret Bohls, JoAnn Schnabel, TJ Erdahl, Israel Davis, Mat Rude and Mike Gesiakowski. Clarke, Davis, Bohls and Erdahl will also offer demonstrations.

There’ll be plenty of time to talk with presenters informally – plus a mug/cup exchange, a vendor fair and a bus tour of seven ceramics exhibition sites, including the River 2 River juried Exhibition.

Find everything you need to know here: www.theceramicscenter.org/iowaclayconference.htm