by Carole Epp | Jun 29, 2011 | Uncategorized
This month’s Newsletter from Craft Australia is packed full of ceramic goodness you won’t want to miss. Truly reminds me of the vitality and progressive spirit of craft in Australia. (Makes me want to move back!)
Enjoy a read of:
prue venables, ceramics – sustainability, movement and possibility, interview
gwyn hanssen pigott, pottery and presence, interview
fiona fell, ceramics in collaboration – ceramics, plastic and digital media
Tale of Adventure – Cathy Franzi, Porcelain seed boxes
and that’s just for starters. Find it all here.
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by Carole Epp | Jun 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
To view more amazing work please visit Coralie’s website here.
Today’s eye candy has been brought to you thanks to Quercy Glosse.
by Carole Epp | Jun 23, 2011 | Uncategorized
BEIJING: After 81 days in detention, China’s best-known artist, Ai Weiwei, has returned home a considerably thinner and noticeably quieter man. ”I’m fine. I’m out,” the 54-year-old artist said by telephone shortly after his release on bail. ”I’m back with my family. I’m very happy.” The state news agency, Xinhua, said police had released him on Tuesday ”because of his good attitude in confessing his crimes” and a chronic illness. Speaking from his home in north Beijing, the usually outspoken artist said he could not comment any further, adding: ”I’m on bail. Please understand.” Ai’s sister, Gao Ge, said: ”I’m very, very happy … we thank everyone, including our media friends, for all their help and support so far.” His mother, Gao Ying, told America’s National Public Radio that the family ”won’t sleep tonight”. The artist’s disappearance on April 3 sparked international condemnation, with political leaders calling for his release and sustained protests throughout the art world. He vanished after he was stopped by officials at Beijing Airport, where he was due to board a flight to Hong Kong.Please read the rest of the article here.
by Carole Epp | Jun 23, 2011 | Uncategorized
Exhibitions run until July 5th.
Kerrie Lowe Gallery
49 – 51 King Street, Newtown NSW 2042 Australia
Phone + 61 2 9550 4433 / Fax + 61 2 9550 1996
Email [email protected]
Hours 10am – 5.30pm Mon-Sat / Thurs till 7pm
The Kerrie Lowe Gallery specialises in contemporary ceramics as well as painting, printmaking, jewellery and sculpture. We also support the ceramic community by providing Sydney’s only inner city outlet for ceramic supplies.
Located at the Sydney University end of King Street, our usual schedule features two concurrent exhibitions; one in the Shopfront Gallery and one in the Small Gallery.
For more info please visit their website.
by Carole Epp | Jun 21, 2011 | Uncategorized
Series Summer School of the Arts, Red Deer College, Alberta Canada
July 4-8 2011
| Exuberant Clay Form & Surface |
Creating interesting, exuberant hand-built forms in clay does not have to be hard. In this 5-day workshop, Carol will show her method for constructing some of the unusual ceramic forms she uses in her sculpture and vessels. Our process will include paper templates, carving solid clay forms, and creating a simple 1/4 segment plaster mold. From this press mold we will make numerous forms and variations quickly by connecting, altering, stacking, piercing into and re-combining the component parts. Colour, pattern and texture are important elements in creating a rich ceramic surface and using Carol’s layered approach we will explore many ways to enliven and embellish form. Surface design techniques covered will include stamping, bas relief clay molds, slips, hand-painting wax resist coloured patterns, scraffito, weathering and staining.
Some prior experience with clay is recommended.
Instructor: Carol Gouthro |
For more info check out the following:
http://www.carolgouthro.com/
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=199562920071261
http://www.rdc.ab.ca/continuing_education/Pages/CourseInformation.aspx?SUBJ_CODE=ESER&CRSE_NUMB=6084
by Carole Epp | Jun 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
July 28, Thursday, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard
219 Western Ave
Allston, Massachusetts
This workshop will combine traditional printmaking techniques on clay including mono-printing on plaster with slip-cast clay, silk screening, stencils, laser-transfer decals, embossing, and relief printing. Areas to be explored will be creating a vocabulary of imagery, narrative and composition onto both hand-built and wheel-thrown forms. All techniques can be applied to work within any ceramic firing range and will be presented in a way that is easy to replicate in one’s own studio. Historic and contemporary examples of artists who combine printmaking with ceramics will shown.
Fees: Enrolled in Course: $50, not enrolled: $100
Registration form:
http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/courses/reg.php
Email [email protected] completed registration form, or for questions.
Biography: Upon her return from the Penland School of Crafts in Penland, NC, instructor Kathy King is eager to share techniques featured in the course “Print Buffet” that she co-taught with Paul Andrew Wandless, author of Image Transfer on Clay: Screen, Relief, Decal & Monoprint Techniques (A Lark Ceramics Book). King is currently an active studio artist, instructor and Assistant to the Acting Director of the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard. A former Associate Professor at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA, she has been an instructor at Connecticut College, New London, CT, School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA and UMASS – Dartmouth in New Bedford, MA. She has given workshops and lectures at over fifty colleges, schools and art centers through out the USA. Her exhibition record includes solo shows from across the US. She was featured as both an Emerging Artist in 1999 and a Demonstrator in 2002 at the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts conferences.
Her work has been published in Sexpots by Paul Mathieu, The Art of Contemporary American Pottery by Kevin A. Hulch, Teapots Transformed by Leslie Ferrin, Handbuilt Tableware by Kathy Triplett and The Glaze Handbook by Mark Burleson. Her work can also be found in numerous periodicals including Ceramics: Art and Perception, Studio Potter, Clay Times, Art Papers and Ceramics Monthly. She can be contacted via her website.
For all the details please visit website.
For more images of Kathy’s work please visit her website.
