by Carole Epp | Feb 23, 2011 | Uncategorized
As a kid growing up on an apple orchard in Southwestern Ontario, mom’s homemade play dough was my favorite thing to play with. I loved the stuff. My poor mother sacrificed her dining room table for years so that I had somewhere to create. I was always a pretty creative kid and enjoyed art classes in school.
Until high school, that is. In high school we were given the opportunity to take either art or music. I chose music. Not because I didn’t want to take art, but rather, because I was horrible at drawing and couldn’t paint to save my life. For some reason, I had always just assumed that art class in high school was all about painting and drawing, and so I avoided it like the plague. I suffered all through high school taking music classes and focusing on science, all the while wishing I could take pottery classes. Once graduation rolled around, I was off to university to persue sciences but pottery was always a lingering thought. I didn’t last long in sciences. I was horribly unhappy and knew that something had to change. I made the switch to social sciences for all of one semester but there was still something missing. I decided that if I was going to be
happy, I needed to go to school for something I always wanted to do. Pottery.
Much to the horror of my parents, I dropped out, moved back home and put together a portfolio to apply to art school. Within 6 months I was on my way to Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver where I completed a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts, Visual Arts Degree in 2002.
I have never looked back. I have been a full time potter since 2005 and am currently working in functional porcelain. I have absolutely no regrets about the path I have chosen – though really, it feels more like the path chose me.
www.ragingbowlpottery.com
www.ragingbowl.etsy.com
www.ragingbowl.blogspot.com
by Carole Epp | Feb 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
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by Carole Epp | Feb 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
Clayworks Studio-Link and the Edmonton Potters Guild invite you to learn a variety of printing techniques to create new surfaces on your finished work.
Cathy will demonstrate water-based printing techniques, from basic transfers with rubber stamps, and introduce participants to screen printing with slips and underglazes. She will demonstrate printing onto tissue-paper as well as more direct methods of printing onto clay. She will also teach you how to make decals using laser printers and photocopiers. Her range of techniques can be readily used by both beginner and advanced ceramic artists, in any type of kiln.
When: Friday March 25, 6-9 & Saturday March 26, 9-4
Where: 10125-81 Avenue (Studio-link)
Cost: $95
(payment made at either the EPG or at Studio-link by March 11)
Cathy Terepocki graduated from Alberta College of Art and Design in 2004 with a BFA in ceramics. Since then she has been selling and exhibiting her work at galleries and shops across Canada. Her pieces have been featured in major exhibitions such as Canada’s Unity and Diversity Exhibition at the Cheongju International Craft Biennale and at the Vancouver Museum as part of the 2010 Cultural Olympiad.
Contact: Alethea ([email protected]) or Elly (413-0118)
by Carole Epp | Feb 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
Today there are no words with the images, just beautiful thought provoking images. Enjoy.
To see more please visit:
www.pelladi.blogspot.com
by Carole Epp | Feb 21, 2011 | Uncategorized
1:00-6:00 pm Saturday March 5, 2011
You are invited to attend an exciting event for ceramic artists, collectors, museum professionals, and clay art lovers in the Tri-state (NY, NJ, CT) area. This year’s forum will feature presentations by leaders in the field and all proceeds will benefit Watershed.
When: Saturday, March 5, 1pm 6pm
Where: NYU Department of Art and Art Professions
The Barney Building, Einstein Auditorium
34 Stuyvesant Street (between E. 9th and 10th Streets and 2nd and 3rd Avenues)
New York, New York 10003
Admission/Donation: $60 (tax deductable donation to Watershed)
Schedule Highlights include:
• Lecture and Book Signing with Janet Koplos – co-author of Makers: A History of American Studio Craft
• Artist Demonstrations by Kathy King & Elizabeth Kendall
• 5 Minutes of Fame (a chance to present information about yourself, your work, your program, or any other Ceramic related subjects for 5 minutes of stage time)
For Questions/Further Info contact:
Matt Nolen
[email protected]
To Register please visit the Watershed website.
by Carole Epp | Feb 21, 2011 | Uncategorized
“One Pretty Flower For Mr. Rabbit Man”, 2006, earthenware, 3′ x 3′ x 7′
“Happy Little Men”, 2003 earthenware , 4’ x 6’ x 7’
“Girl On The Grasshopper”, 2009, earthenware, 20” x 35” x 52”
“All The Girls Behind”, 2007 ,earthenware, 24″ x 28″ x 56″
Koi Neng Liew is originally from Singapore, where studied at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. In 2001 he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, and in 2005 received his Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Liew is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, most recently the Roswell Artist in Residence grant in 2008, and was a Taunt Fellow at the Archie Bray Foundation in 2005. He is a featured artist in the Clay Art International Yearbook published in Athens, Greece, and has exhibited both nationally and internationally in the Uniited States and China over the past 10 years. Currently, he is a Year Long Artist in Residence at the Medalta International Artists in Residence program in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada.
www.koinengliew.com/
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