by Carole Epp | Aug 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
Ceramic art show opens in Medalta’s Squared Gallery, August 13
Medicine Hat – On Friday, Aug. 13, 2010 at 7:00pm, an exhibit of new work by ceramic artist Jim Etzkorn will open in Medalta’s Squared Gallery. The show is named SaltLik.
Etzkorn initially arrived in Medicine Hat to take part in a four month ceramic art residency in fall 2009. He quickly grew to enjoy the city and expanded his time here from four months to twelve, with plans to become a permanent resident.
Etzkorn’s primary focus during his residency was to explore the salt glazing process, which inspired the show’s name. Salt glazing is an atmospheric process, which produces unique effects on clay. When the kiln reaches its maximum temperature, salt is introduced, which turns to a vapour and reacts with the silica in the clay. In many cases, it produces an uneven, orange peel-like effect. Etzkorn prefers to use glazes which react with the atmospheric salt to produce subtle variations in colour and texture, producing pots with extraordinary visual and tactile depth.
The most prominent historical use of salt glazing in Medicine Hat lies with the Alberta Clay Products factory, which was a major clay sewer pipe manufacturer prior to a devastating fire in the early 1960’s.
The show will be the last in the current Squared Gallery. In the fall, the Historic Clay District will undergo a major excavation of Medalta’s former Kiln Room, which currently houses the gallery.
Anyone who wishes to attend the show should contact Medalta and ask to be added to the invitation list. Attendance to the event is free of charge, with all donations going to the continued restoration of the Historic Clay District.
The Historic Clay District is one of eight tourism attractors in the Canadian Badlands, featured in AMA’s “Alberta 100 Journeys” and is Western Canada’s largest National Historic Site. The museum – in the Medalta Potteries National Historic Site – provides visitors a unique opportunity to visit a restored 1912 pottery factory, which once produced three-quarters of all stoneware in Canada. It is operated under the stewardship of the Friends of Medalta Society.
For more information, interviews or visuals, contact:
Quentin Randall 403.529.1070 [email protected]
www.medalta.org
www.etzkornpottery.com
by Carole Epp | Aug 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
9th August 2010 – 1st September 2010
Craft NI is providing support for designer-makers living and working in Northern Ireland wishing to take part in Top Drawer Spring and Ceramic Art London.
If you are a professional craft business wishing to reach buyers, curators, interior designers and collectors to expand your business Craft NI will be coordinating a group presence of makers from Northern Ireland at the following events:
For further details please download an application pack. Closing date: 4pm, 30th August 2010.
Start: 9th August, 2010 15:00
End: 31st August, 2010 15:00
by Carole Epp | Aug 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
The Faculty of Fine Arts at York University (Toronto – Canada) invites proposals for papers for
Staging Sustainability: Arts, Community, Culture, Environment , a conference taking place April 20 – 22, 2011. The conference will provide an opportunity for artists and those who support the arts in a myriad of ways – from scholars, critics, producers and designers to policy-makers, industry and government – to engage in interdisciplinary dialogue about issues associated with the creation of environmentally sustainable arts practice and performance. The conference committee welcomes proposals for papers that consider the relationship between the cultural and ecological aspects of sustainability in the arts, and may encompass aspects of subjectivity with respect to community and identity. Proposals should include:
-a 250-word abstract
-presenter’s name & affiliation
-mailing & email addresses Please forward proposals to: Ina Agastra, Executive Assistant to the Dean
Faculty of Fine Arts, York University,
4700 Keele St., Toronto, ON, Canada M3J 1P3
[email protected] Submission deadline: September 1, 2010 More information: http://www.yorku.ca/finearts/stagingsustainability/call-for-papers.htm
by Carole Epp | Aug 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
Today’s yummy eye candy is the artist Dryden Wells.
Please find some time to check out more incredible work here.
by Carole Epp | Aug 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
International Deadline: Ongoing – The Pollock-Krasner Foundation‘s dual criteria for grants are recognizable artistic merit and demonstrable financial need, whether professional, personal or both. The Foundation‘s mission is to aid, internationally, those individuals who have worked as professional artists over a significant period of time. Application Guidelines: The Foundation welcomes, throughout the year, applications from visual artists who are painters, sculptors and artists who work on paper, including printmakers. There are no deadlines. The Foundation encourages applications from artists who have genuine financial needs that are not necessarily catastrophic. Grants are intended for a one-year period of time. The Foundation will consider need on the part of an applicant for all legitimate expenditures relating to his or her professional work and personal living, including medical expenses. The size and length of the grant is determined by the individual circumstances of the artist. Grant Restrictions: The Foundation does not accept applications from commercial artists, photographers, video artists, performance artists, filmmakers, crafts-makers or any artist whose work primarily falls into these categories. The Foundation does not make grants to students or fund academic study. READ MORE >>
by Carole Epp | Aug 6, 2010 | Uncategorized
August 14, 2010 9am to 5pm
24 potteries will hold a sale of specially signed vessels to help Greg Mortenson build schools in impoverished areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan as a long-term solution to terrorism. (Sorry – no early sales!) Each pottery will produce a unique item, specially signed for this event. The pottery will be for sale at the individual shops on Saturday, August 14 from 9am to 5pm. There will be no early sales, but any remaining items can be ordered by email or telephone on Monday, August 16. Some potteries will also have copies of Mortenson’s books for sale. See a complete list of our potters and their donations.
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