by Carole Epp | Mar 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
Sorry guys, sometimes I just don’t get the information on time. You still have a few hours left to get in on this one. There is some absolutely gorgeous work up for auction check it out here.
An Exhibition and Online Auction to honor a man who gave to so many through his friendship, his teaching, and his art. All the work for this event has been donated by artists who in someway have experienced Tom’s presence in their lives.
Money raised by this event will be used to help establish the Tom Rohr Memorial Scholarship Fund. This will be one of several fundraising events this year. Please watch for an auction later this year, which will include Tom’s work.
Auction will run from Feb. 22nd to March 11th.Highest bid placed by 5:00 pm on March 11th will be the winning bid.
by Carole Epp | Mar 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
As I may have mentioned earlier in the year, I’m spending more time focusing on developing a new line of functional tableware. It’s going okay, I guess. Lots of self doubt and wondering if I’m just making the same old boring thing that seems fashionable now a days. There isn’t much of a lineage in this new work from my previous streamlined, wheelthrown, porcelain, clean cut work. This new stuff is dirtier, less refined, more organic (perhaps…i’m not sure, maybe organic is just a nice way of saying sloppy!)
I’ve been trying to focus my energy on the making part of the process, yet the marketing aspect seems to be screaming at me most days…will this sell? whose your target audience? this isn’t gallery standard work so where will you sell it? Does that even matter as you have the sculptural stuff for gallery shows? where is the concept? the research component? can work just be fun to make and not have to have layers of theory and technique to justify it’s existence?
What are you thinking – go back to what you we’re doing before!!! But alas that wasn’t paying the bills either. hmmm. So in the midst of this whole marketing dilemma i spent a day not caring and playing out in the studio making some pots for my kid since it’s time to put the melamine plates and plastic bowls aside for the ‘real” stuff, the clay. As a kid my folks got us each a set of Bunnykins dishware which i still have to this day. So i thought to myself that there must be an audience for ceramic dishware made just for the little ones – although i guess it’s their parents that are the ultimate suckers that dole out the cash for them. Anyway, I’m not sure where I’m going with this thought, but I sure had a ton of fun making them, and you know some days that’s really all that matters, right?
Etsy link to the kids pots.
And here’s a few other examples of those making ceramics for the young ones:
Heath Ceramics
Shenzhen Effort Trading
Tigware
Studiotto
Scott McCarthy
Moorefeild Pottery
Brooklyn Rehab
Pumphouse Studios
Ema Zuma
Silvia Howes
by Carole Epp | Mar 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
examining the origins of today’s
most common / popular design objects
and asking how we can improve them
or how they have been re-interpreted.
from its packaging to the surroundings in which it’s consumed and everything in between. this course gives you a good taste of design in the food sector…
youth and middle age are for fulfilling
desires and duties, when a person is spiritually ready, they allow the young to
replace them, in power positions. it means
the person spends more time in
philosophical pursuits and begin an inward
journey, a cultural practice of moving to greater truth.
lesson list online soon
enrollment for will be available
one month prior to course start date.
For more info check out the website here.
by Carole Epp | Mar 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
‘drip-dry’ dishes by american design studio giffin’ termeer (jess giffin and jim termeer)
for more info and process pics check out designboom here.
by Carole Epp | Mar 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
FLOW by Tanis Saxby
March 3 – April 25, 2010
Opening reception with the artist in attendance: March 6, Saturday, 4 – 6 pm at Numen Gallery, 1058 Mainland St., Yaletown, Vancouver.
Gallery hours: Tue-Sat 11-6, Sun 12-5. Other times by appointment.
Numen Gallery is located inside the Mainland Street Court, between Nelson and Helmcken. One block north of the Yaletown-Roundhouse Station on the new Canada Line.
For more information, contact 604.630.6927 or [email protected] or go to www.numengallery.com
Images: detail of porcelain form by Tanis Saxby
Tanis Saxby apprenticed as a carver and stone sculptor on B.C.’s Saltspring Island before studying ceramics at the Kootenay School of Arts. In 2005, she was awarded the International Residency in Ceramics in Vallauris, France, through a Canada-wide selection. Since returning to Vancouver, she has studied photography at Focal Point Photography School and continues her clay studio practice.
Tanis’ ceramic forms embody tranquility, sensuality, and stillness-in-motion. Shadows play an important role in her creative process, from conception through to the final form and presentation of her works. In FLOW, lines and shadows are further interpreted through the synthesis of her photography and her porcelain work. The effect is a composition of form within form, of interpretation within interpretation.
