NCECA/crafthaus scholarship recipient Kala Stein has started to blog her experience at the upcoming NCECA conference! Read it here.
“This blog profiles emerging ceramic artists and their approaches to establish themselves as successful artists. I will explores notions of success, entrepreneurship, and the validity of ceramics in contemporary culture. “
The Cub Creek Foundation will be hosting a wood firing workshop led by Dale Huffman on May 18th-25th 2012. A workshop fee of $375 covers all meals for the week, glazes and firing fees. Participants should bring work to fire and will have the opportunity to load and participate in the firing of Cub Creek’s anagama, wood soda, and wood salt. Camping space available on our 100 acre property in beautiful rural Virginia.
Space is limited to 10 participants.
Please contact [email protected] and visit our webpage for more information at www.cubcreek.org.
Curated by Ben Bates.A diverse showcase of functional and non-functional cups handcrafted by invited contemporary ceramic artists from around the United States, Canada and the UK.
To view the exhibition online and purchase visit:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25518844/OnlineCatalogueUSETHIS.pdf
Featuring new works by: Doug Jeck, Judy Fox, Cristina Cordova, Tip Toland, Arthur Gonzalez, Tom Bartel, Roxanne Jackson, Thaddeus Erdahl, Tanya Batura, and Jacob Foran
A Concurrent Independent Exhibition on the occasion of the 46th annual conference of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts.
When: March 26th- March 31, 2012
Reception Friday March 30th 6-9pm
Hours: M, W, Th 9am-5p
Tues, Friday 9am-9p
Sat. 10am-5p
Where: Seattle Design Center
Suite 292
5701 6th Ave S
Seattle, WA 98101
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The human head provides the obvious link between the work of 10 prominent ceramic sculptors featured in “A Show of Heads II” at the Seattle Design Center, in Seattle, WA, March 26th – March 31st, 2012. A more subtle unifying factor is the way in which these artists employ the head in their sculptures: essentially as a departure point for inquiry into thorny issues of human social identity, psychology and, ultimately, mortality. Where beauty arises in the exhibition it is tempered by frank acknowledgment of the liabilities inherent in the human condition. Where humor emerges, it tends to be black. Works by Tom Bartel, Tanya Batura, Roxanne Jackson and Tip Toland invoke the vulnerability of the physical body to aging, disease and arrest of such vital processes as hearing. Arthur Gonzales, Jacob Foran, and Thaddeus Erdahl reflect upon the psychological struggle fundamental to self-inquiry and the attempt to know other human beings. Cristina Cordova and Doug Jeck ponder the pathos of idealism undermined by reality, and Judy Fox insinuates the elusiveness of the inner peace promised by spiritual enlightenment. In this exhibition, curator Jacob Foran has succeeded in summarizing a deeply contemplative, psychologically introspective current in contemporary figural ceramic sculpture.
~ Glen R. Brown
For more information please contact:
Name: Jacob Foran
Phone: 217.520.2852
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.jacobforan.com
What happens when professional craft artists are allowed to let loose, when they get to explore their mischievous and irreverent sides? Find out in this groundbreaking book, which, for the very first time, reveals an entirely different side of serious craft. Hundreds of images and essays from all over the world allow you to gain insight into the creative minds of contemporary artists like never before.
A variety of traditional craft media are shown in this book, such as furniture, ceramics, glass, fiber, jewelry, and metal, as well as a number of unique, nontraditional techniques. Even a bus shelter in London gets a creative make-over that’s sure to make you smile!
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With a foreword by Andrew Wagner.
Essays:
Gail M. Brown: “You must be kidding…”,
Garth Johnson: “Funk’s Not Dead”,
Kathryn A. Lichti-Harriman: “Taking the Piss: Mistakes and Irony in Scottish Craft Groups”,
Marjorie Simon: “Wandering Thoughts: What’s so funny?”
Fun for all!
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