by Carole Epp | Jan 31, 2012 | Uncategorized
ANDREW MARTIN WORKSHOP: MOLD MAKING AND SLIP CASTING -DISCOVERING NEW WORK (5 DAYS)
Monday, March 19, 2012 to Friday, March 23, 2012Level: Visiting Artist WorkshopsPrice: LAC Members $600.00 / Non-Members $600.00Lab Fee: $30.00
CLASS DESCRIPTION
Students should come ready to try something new, or with a latent idea that is yet to manifest. Dinnerware, teapots, vases, platters, and cups and saucers are but a few possibilities to explore. This five-day workshop will give participants the opportunity to explore and expand their knowledge of form and utility through the use of molds and slip casting. Andrew will discuss different approaches for designing prototypes and making molds, how to formulate slip specific to your needs, and explore how the workshop can initiate new directions in your work. Students should come with questions and ready to stretch their skill, knowledge, and experience.It will be possible to accomplish making one complex mold and/or several small molds. Because of the brevity of the workshop we will cast the molds but the pieces will not be fired.
For more info and to register please visit their
website.
Lillstreet Art Center
4401 North Ravenswood Avenue
Chicago, IL 60640
(773) 769-4226
by Carole Epp | Jan 31, 2012 | Uncategorized
Exhibition runs February 4th to March 11thIntriguing and haunting, this solo show of porcelain sculpture by Michael Flaherty is a sober examination of resettlement in Newfoundland and Labrador.
During his three months alone in the resettled community of French Cove on the Grey Islands off Newfoundland’s Northern Peninsula, Michael Flaherty became fascinated with the remnants of the island’s inhabitants–gravestones, pottery shards and antlers. Flaherty’s porcelain sculptures are a fusion of caribou antler and pottery shard with an interesting twist. The shard portion resembles the decomposing bone while the antler section is surfaced with pottery decoration and pattern. A graduate of NSCAD and University of Regina, Michael Flaherty has maintained an active and diverse ceramics practice for the past ten years. Currently he resides in Corner Brook where he is the sculpture technician at Grenfell Campus, Memorial University.
View more of the work online at Michael
website or see the show in person at:
Craft Council of
Newfoundland and LabradorDevon House Craft Centre
59 Duckworth Street
St. John’s NL, Canada
A1C 1E6
Tel: (709) 753-2749
Fax: (709) 753-2766
Email:
[email protected] by Carole Epp | Jan 26, 2012 | Uncategorized
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This Friday we will be showing Jeff Oestreich. Jeff is a full-time studio potter who followed his formal education at Bemidji State University and the University of Minnesota with an apprenticeship with Bernard Leach. His utilitarian pottery has strong visual ties to Art Deco Architecture. Soda fired with minimal use of colored glaze, Jeff’s work is thrown and altered, either by faceting, stretching, or cutting and rejoining. The main subject matter of his work is function and he is concerned with how his pottery will work in a domestic setting.
Accompanying Jeff we’ll be showing New Work by Susan Dewsnap and Jim Gottuso.
The show opens this Friday, January 27, at 9:30 AM CST in the Iowa City gallery and online at 10:00 AM CST.
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by Carole Epp | Jan 25, 2012 | Uncategorized
Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC), Dawson City, Yukon
1. EXHIBITION PROPOSALS
2. ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
DEADLINE: APRIL 1, 2012
www.kiac.ca
1. EXHIBITION PROPOSALS – ODD Gallery, Dawson City, Yukon
We invite professional artists and curators of all experience to submit proposals for exhibitions of contemporary visual art. The ODD Gallery is housed in the main Klondike Institute of Art & Culture building. We are accepting proposals for general exhibitions in 2013 as well as proposals towards our yearly thematic project The Natural & The Manufactured. The ODD Gallery supports CARFAC-recommended exhibition and artist talk fee rates, and offers shipping support. Please visit http://www.kiac.ca/oddgallery/submissions/ for more information.
2. ARTIST IN RESIDENCE – Klondike Institute of Art & Culture, Dawson City, Yukon
We invite artists of all experience to submit proposals for a work-creation, development or research tenure of 4 to 12 weeks in our Macaulay House residence in 2013. The residence accommodates two artists at a time, and features private studios and bedrooms, as well as a shared living space and kitchen. We are accepting proposals for general residencies, as well as two specific residencies: our Dawson City International Short Film Festival Residency and our yearly thematic The Natural & The Manufactured Residency. Please visit: http://www.kiac.ca/artistinresidence/ for more information.
Klondike Institute of Art & Culture
Box 8000, Dawson City, YT, Y0B 1G0
867.993.5005
[email protected]
www.kiac.ca
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Contact: Tara Rudnickas, ODD Gallery and Residency Program Director
[email protected]
(867) 993 5005
by Carole Epp | Jan 25, 2012 | Uncategorized
Andy Brayman: New Work
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Jason Green: Recovered Geometries
Opening Reception
Thursday, January 26th, 4 to 7pm
Artists’ Gallery Talk: 6pm
Exhibition: January 26th to February 23rdHarvey / Meadows Gallery is open from 11AM to 5PM, Tuesday through Sunday, and all other times by appointment. Please call 970-920-7721 or visit their website:
www.harveymeadows.com to view the exhibition online and to view the other artists they represent.
by Carole Epp | Jan 24, 2012 | Uncategorized
Find it here.
Welcome to Issue 13 of Interpreting Ceramics. We are pleased to publish two articles that focus on aspects of ceramics in Wales. The first of these is entitled ‘Llanelly Pottery – A Welsh Metonym’. The author, Kathy Talbot, discusses the ways that the pottery manufactured in this South Wales town during the nineteenth and early twentieth century came to stand not just for the town itself, but also for a particular kind of Welsh identity which drew on a strong sense of nostalgia for its past. The second article on ‘Gaudy Welsh China’, draws on textual and visual evidence to explore aspects of the history, technology, design, decoration and interpretation of a ware that is also known as ‘Swansea Cottage’. Lewis’ account makes a major contribution to an understanding of a distinctive type of ceramics that is still better known and more widely collected in the USA than in the UK. The third article in this Issue is by Laura Gray and is an exploration of the ways that contemporary ceramicists have made and displayed work in response to what the author calls ‘the distinctive hybrid domestic-museum environment offered by former homes such as Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge, High Cross House in Devon and Blackwell Arts and Craft House in the Lake District.
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Llanelly Pottery: A Welsh Metonym by Kathy Talbot |
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Gaudy Welsh China:
History, Technology, Design and Decoration by Jennifer Lewis |
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Museums and the ‘Interstices of Domestic Life’:
Re-articulating Domestic Space in Contemporary Ceramics Practice by Laura Gray |
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Book Review by Martina Margetts Makers: a history of American studio craft
Author: Janet Koplos and Bruce Metcalf |
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Book Reviews by Moira Vincentelli A Chosen Path, the Ceramic Art of Karen Karnes
Editors: Mark Shapiro with foreword by Garth Clark and
contributions by Peter Held, Christopher Benfey, Jody Clowes, Janet Koplos,
Edward Lebow and Karen Karnes In the Language of Silence, the Art of Toshiko Takaezu
Editor: Peter Held with foreword by Jack Larsen and contributions by Paul Smith, Janet Koplos, Donal Fletcher, Jeff Schlanger |
