by Carole Epp | Mar 8, 2009 | Uncategorized
Gallery Aloft Call for Submissions
Deadlines : Open Call,
Rozelle NSW
Gallery Aloft is situated on Darling Street, Rozelle amidst the artistic hub that is quickly defining the area as Sydney’s newest gallery district. Artists are invited to submit proposals for the 2009 exhibition program.
Gallery Aloft prides itself on showing high quality, contemporary art and design across a range of styles from both emerging and established artists. For exhibiting details and proposal submissions please go to the website http://www.galleryaloft.com/
by Carole Epp | Mar 7, 2009 | Uncategorized
The Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) will host its third biennial Art History Symposium, Africa on My Mind: Contemporary Art, Home and Abroad, February 26-27, 2010.
Deadline: May 15, 2009
The goal of this symposium is to encourage representation by a variety of media and cultural and geographical areas in Africa and the African Diaspora. Possible topics could address the role of contemporary African and African Diaspora art in shaping regional, ethnic and individual identity; the gendered responses to the colonization of the body and mind; contributions of technology and international art fairs to shaping identity and careers; questions of interpreting and exhibiting contemporary work; pedagogic theories and methods addressing African and African Diaspora art; the vitality of African traditions in coastal South Carolina and Georgia.
Open to scholars and graduate students. The editors of CriticalInterventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture have agreed to consider papers by symposium participants for publication. The symposium will feature a keynote address by Simon Njami (lecturer, art critic, novelist and essayist).
Deadline for abstract submission: May 15, 2009. Please submit an abstract (300 words max) and a CV, including complete contact information (address, phone, and email).
Submit to: [email protected]
Notification of acceptance: September 30, 2009 via email
For information on the 2008 symposium:http://www.scad.edu/events/arthsymposium/2008/index.cfm
by Carole Epp | Mar 7, 2009 | Uncategorized
Deadline April 15
Fall 2009 semester September-January Summer 09 may be possible
Who Is Eligible: Artists who have finished their terminal degree (MFA) within the last 2 years or by the time of the residency. We prefer that some relevant part of artistic practice involves ceramic materials & process.
What is Provided
• Private Studio Space approx, 200 sq ft
• Access to fully equipped studio (30+ kilns)
• *Material Budget (to be determined)
• *Stipend (to be determined)
• Exhibition opportunity at the end of the residency
• Public Lecture on work (optional)
• *Possibility of teaching 1 class
To Submit Please send the following:
1) 20 images of work digital or slide
2) Two letters of recommendation that attest to your artistic ability, track record of following through and finishing projects started, ability to get along with others.
3) A letter of application that generally tells us about your artistic history & plans for the residency.
4) Resume SASE to: Tony Marsh / Ceramics Department of Art CSULB 1250 Bellflower Blvd Long Beach CA 90840
All materials due by April 15th All budgetary decisions are made based on need and available funds
Questions? [email protected] (562) 985-4359
Ceramic Arts CSULB
http://www.art.csulb.edu/
Ceramics at CSULB was initiated in 1949 and is currently housed in a fully equipped facility designed specifically for ceramics. It has grown to be in excess of 17,000 square feet with indoor and outdoor work spaces as well as 2 gallery spaces in our facility. We have approximately 30 operational gas & electric kilns, clay & slip mixing equipment. We believe that we have one of the finest ceramic arts facilities in the United States. Our undergraduate program currently supports approximately 25 students majoring in ceramics, our graduate program 6. Proximity to Los Angeles and an extremely active arts environment provides access to over 100 professional galleries and many world class museums as well as alternative university museum spaces. Current full-time faculty in Ceramic Arts include: Kristen Morgin & Tony Marsh
by Carole Epp | Mar 5, 2009 | Uncategorized
Well it must be a dreary day outside here today because I feel so compelled to have lots of beautiful images to look at in todays post. So as I’m left here trying to figure out what happened to the glimpse of spring we saw yesturday let me introduce you to the work of Jasna Sokolovic.
Photo: Cindy Blazevic Artists: Jasna Sokolovic and Laura McKibbon
I’ve long been a fan of the work of Jasna Sokolovic and lately she seems to be everywhere I turn. From an installation with Laura McKibbon as part of the Come up to my Room project at the
Gladstone Hotel that everyone is talking about (a must if you find yourself in Toronto), to a residency at the
International Ceramic Research Centre in Denmark, to here and there in shops and galleries, on etsy and soon to be in CEBIKO (congrats Jasna!) I’m particularly interested in a direction of her work which incorporates architecture and ceramics and site specific installations.
It reminds me of Rory MacDonald’s street repair series where he would cast broken areas of sidewalks and beautifully repair them with new blue and white ceramic “band-aids” or Honor Freeman’s power point series, installing ceramic power points in outdoor spaces, making a twist on the familiar.(Here’s a link to a great article on Honor’s work.) I’m completely intrugued by the process and posibilities of taking ceramics to the streets in such ways as to subtly change our environments, giving us the opportunity to rethink and evaluate the everyday and how we live within the moment.
Jasna also makes gorgeous jewelery and tile works for the home.
Want to see more of Jasna’s work? Check out her site, (which even includes a sneak peek into her studio and process) or her shops here and here, or the following galleries that show her work:
BC Ceramics Gallery Vancouver, BC
Gaia, Montreal, QC
Or if you happen to find yourself on Granville Island in Vancouver stop in at her beautiful studio and shop front which she shares with a textile artist.
by Carole Epp | Mar 1, 2009 | Uncategorized
Don’t forget that the deadline for residency applications at the Archie Bray Foundation is Mon. Mar 2nd at midnight MST. The good news is that artists can apply online right up until midnight so there is still time for anyone considering applying. The application is for both long term (1-2 years) and summer residencies and there are fellowships offered as well.
Information is available at
www.archiebray.org.
Oh and make sure you check out the online images from the Beyond the Brickyard exhibition. Looks like an amazing show!
by Carole Epp | Feb 25, 2009 | Uncategorized
So as I began my day on Sunday, charged with a list of tasks to try to get completed on one of the few days I have my husband home to help watch the little munchkin, I got entirely sidetracked…It all started with our charming new kitten exploring in the dark depths of our basement storage only to find my packing materials and a goldmine of a bag of styrofoam popcorn. Needless to say the new game that began involved bringing the popcorn upstairs piece by piece to present to my son as a toy. We discovered them both playing away (luckily my son had his pacifier in mouth!) covered in styrofoam bits…sigh. So began the task of ridding the basement of these tiny horrors before it was too late. In the process I did manage to run across a box that had been sadly water damaged months before when our tub had leaked and to my delight and surprise I had stumbled across a bunch of old pictures from my college days. List of tasks for the day completely out of mind I spent the next while going through old memories, rediscovering old friends and handling cherished momentoes. In the midst of the pile of pictures I found the following which brought a smile to my face and reminded me of how far I’ve come (even if it doesn’t feel like it everyday).
These pictures are of the first kiln I ever tried to build, must have been over ten years ago now. It’s embarrassing to even show you (and now I question why I even am?) The first shows our pathetic attempt at working with the worst of discarded kiln bricks to build the floor of our raku kiln. Wobbly much? It makes me laugh out loud!
The second shows the floor after our probably 4th or 5th attempt. A little more stable.
In the end it wasn’t the worst kiln ever, but it might have gotten an honorable mention. We did fire it quite a few times, enough for me to decide I really didn’t care much for the raku process for my work, but I did enjoy the challenge of kiln building. And I also really enjoyed the atmosphere around the raku firings. Being that we were on the university campus we often had to fire at night when there were less students around (or maybe it just took that long for the sad little kiln to reach temperature?!) Often students from the surrounding dorms would come by to see what was going on as they could see the smoke and fire from their dorm windows. We’d often find ourselves with great company, pizza delivery and beer….aww college life! It was good times all round, not that we ever fully appreciate them at the time. I’m also reminded of this by the photos I found of the late, and oh so great, Marilyn Levine giving studio visits and critiques with us students. An opportunity I’d die for now…I wonder what she told me…I’d also take the good company, pizza and beer any day!
