Image of Jeremy Brooks’ work.
The 2008 Ceramic Monthly emerging artists have been announced! Check out a sneak preview and vote for your favorite before the issue hits stands at the Ceramic Monthly website. There’s pots and sculptures, installations and design work, a little something for most peoples tastes. I’ll be curious to find out the peoples choice…
Selling Yarns 2: Innovation for sustainability
Presented by The Australian National University, Craft Australia and the National Museum of Australia
Venue: National Museum of Australia, Canberra
When: 6 – 8 March, 2009
* Deadline for abstracts and workshop proposals: 1 July, 2008
* Notification of acceptance: 1 August, 2008
* Deadline for biography (on acceptance): 1 September, 2008
* Deadline for full papers: 15 January, 2009
for more information check out the website.
The New Hampshire Institute of Art is pleased to announce Ceramics Biennial Exhibition 2008, a national juried exhibition for clay artists.
Entries accepted will be made predominantly of clay. A maximum of two entries
may be submitted by each artist. Images, registration forms and entry fees must
be postmarked August 1, 2008.
Check out the website for more info or contact:
Ceramics Biennial
Attn: Alison Williams, Gallery Director
New Hampshire Institute of Art,
148 Concord Street
Manchester, NH 03101
ASU Art Museum Ceramics Research Center is currently hosting an exhibition of work by SUSAN BEINER titled: SYNTHETIC REALITY. Runs until August 2nd.
Just to entice you here is a bit from the gallery statement:
“What you see is not always what you get. In our digitized, photo-shopped world, reality is often altered and manipulated. Reality television shows seem unreal. With today’s technology, many products we use daily are manufactured with artificial materials or manipulated DNA aided by scientific processes, reshaping what was once all natural. Biotechnology allows for genetically altered foods grown in controlled environments, gene splicing produces cloned animals and hybridization of consumer products has changed our lives forever. Ethical issues continue to challenge these advancements. What are the costs of scientific efficiency versus environmental and health concerns?”
I’m always interested in ceramics that explore beyond the material properties yet use and subvert that material and its history to enrich a contemporary context/issue/discussion, and/or political stance.
You should also check out her amazing work on her website. I particularly love the images of the works before bisque, always nice to see work before and after, first as a neutral palette and then as the artist envisioned it in their minds eye.
Tye River Pottery will be hosting an international conference May 30 – June 1, 2008. The conference will be an opportunity to hear eight internationally renowned wood-fire potters discuss their experience firing together. The following potters will be on the panel: Robert Compton, Kevin Crowe, Stephen Driver, Vicki Hansen, Mark Hewitt, Micki Schloessingk, and Jack Troy.
If you have questions regarding this conference, please email at [email protected]. Or speak with Kevin Crowe or Krista Loomans at Tye River Pottery: 434-263-4065.
Kevin Crowe
1289 Falling Rock Drive
Amherst, VA 24521
Check out the website for all the conference details and registration forms.
Quick addition to the previous post about Vipoo is that he has joined the blogging world. So do make sure to add his blog found here to your list of reading!
