by Carole Epp | Dec 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
51st ANNUAL NCECA CONFERENCE
Wednesday March 22 – Saturday, March 25, 2017
Portland, Oregon
Overview
NCECA is committed to the exhibition and expansion of contemporary
ceramic practice including diverse approaches that range from
utilitarian and designed objects to sculpture, installations,
site-specific works and performative events.
A member driven organization, NCECA is enriched by the innovation and
vision that emerges from our community to present ceramic art of the
highest caliber in the form of Concurrent Exhibitions (CEs). These
exhibitions represent an important feature of NCECA’s Annual Conference
experience bringing high visibility to the work of participating
artists. Moreover, NCECA’s efforts to site and promote Concurrent
Exhibitions expand awareness of and engagement with ceramic art for
audiences that travel to and reside throughout the conference’s host
region.
NCECA promotes CEs through the print conference guide, app, website,
Blog and social media. While NCECA makes efforts to cluster the shows
within art/ cultural districts to maximize viewer attendance, it is not
able to guarantee that all exhibition venues will be included on tour
routes.
2017 Exhibitions Focus
NCECA seeks exhibition proposals that have conceptual resonance with the theme of its 51st annual conference, Future Flux. The
conference will take place in Portland, Oregon and NCECA specifically
seeks Concurrent Exhibition proposals that resonate with our theme. As
journey’s end for Lewis and Clark in the early 18th century, expedition and discovery have
framed our imagination of the Pacific Northwest. As we pass beyond
NCECA’s first fifty years, the interconnection of mind, materials, and
transformation at the heart of ceramic process, art and education can
serve as trail heads to our future. Our creative work in the 21st century increasingly engages with hybrid practices, issues of diversity, notions of community and dynamic change. How
will more sustainable models of ceramic art and education continue to
evolve? What are the essential competencies and capacities for ceramic
artists and educators today and for the future? How can we continue to
draw from rich historic traditions while reinvigorating their relevance
in rapidly changing global societies? Portland, Oregon, a city of
rivers, makers, and entrepreneurs is an ideal vantage point from which
to investigate these questions and others. NCECA seeks Concurrent
Exhibition proposals that will help transport us to the ways that
ceramic art and education will continue to matter going forward.
All proposals and accompanying support materials must be submitted online by midnight Wednesday, February 3, 2016 (EDT).
Full details here: http://nceca.net/concurrent-exhibition-proposals/
by Carole Epp | Dec 12, 2015 | Uncategorized
Application Deadline February 3, 2016
Overview
In the spirit of a community barn raising, this residency will bring
together emerging and established ceramic artists to create new work and
explore kiln construction, culminating in the building and firing of
The Banff Centre’s first wood fire Train Kiln.
The use of wood to “fire” clay is a continuity of technology and
tradition from ancient history into contemporary practice. The
characteristic earthen tones, ash deposits, burnt sienna flashings,
natural glaze surfaces, and spontaneous effects, are sought after in
atmospheric firing processes. The Train Kiln, named after its elongated
rectangular shape reminiscent of a rail car, epitomizes these effects.
Soda firing techniques, surfaces, textures, and processes will also be
explored.
What does the program offer?
Participating artist will delve into wood kiln history, theory,
principles of design, construction and firing process with the goal of
understanding and maximizing the nuances of wood firing and its
relationship to form and surface. Discussions and workshops addressing
clay-body formulation, wheel and hand building processes, loading and
firing strategies for atmospheric kilns, are also part of this
residency. As well, artists will have time to explore independent
projects and push their work in new creative directions through studio
visits with faculty mentors and feedback from peers.
Who should apply?
This residency is for emerging and experienced ceramic-based artists
with an exhibition record and formal training in visual arts, or
equivalent experience and recognition from their peers.
Full details and application requirements: www.banffcentre.ca/programs/kiln-raising
by Carole Epp | Dec 5, 2015 | Uncategorized
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Apply for the Arts Center’s world-renowned Arts/Industry residency
program! Up to sixteen exceptional artists from around the world are
chosen each year for two- to six-month residencies in the Pottery or
Iron/Brass Foundry and Enamel shop in Kohler Co.’s Kohler, Wisconsin,
plant. With the guidance of an excellent staff, artists of all
disciplines can explore new ideas and technologies in order to create a
body of work impossible in their own studio as well as new ways of
thinking and working. Previous experience with clay or metal sculpture
is not required.
Artists
accepted into the program receive housing, transportation, materials,
use of equipment, studio space, photography services, and a small
stipend. Artists-in-residence may work in the Kohler Co. Pottery, Iron
and Brass Foundries, and Enamel Shop to develop a wide variety of work
in clay, enameled cast iron, and brass including but not limited to
murals and reliefs, temporary or permanent site-specific installations,
and functional and sculptural forms.
Applications for the 2017 residencies are now being accepted from December 1, 2015 through April 1, 2016. Click here for the online application.
Required Application Materials
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20 images of your strongest work
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A resume or CV
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Project proposal of 200 words or less accompanied by proposal images
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List of four professional references
For more information on the application process, please contact the Arts/Industry coordinator at (920) 694-4548.
http://www.jmkac.org/index.php/artsindustry-residency/application-process
by Carole Epp | Nov 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
Antler
Gallery is excited to bring you a new series of works by Crystal Morey.
Crystal first showed with our gallery in 2014 when her ceramic
sculptures of human figures within animals received an overwhelming
response. Since then she has graduated to making her pieces in porcelain
and expanded her concept.
There will be an opening reception
on November 27th, as one of three shows commencing on the same night,
from 6pm-9pm and Crystal will be in attendance.
Here is the artist’s interpretation of her newest works:
Humankind has become the driving influence and force behind natural
evolution. We are able to alter life from a single cell all the way up
to entire ecosystems. Intentionally or
unintentionally, we are rapidly affecting changes to the environment
that would have taken natural processes millennia. Through these actions
we are leaving many vulnerable species and habitats frantic, facing
disruptions and uncertain outcomes. In my work I investigate these
actions while also creating an evocative and mysterious narrative that
shows our interdependence with the land and animals around us.
As a
species, we sit “At the Edge of Time”, faced with monumental questions
leading to difficult, uncertain answers. My figures exist on this
frontier, absorbed in their own feelings of stress, anxiety and
ambivalence. Sculpted from the silken white earth of porcelain, I see
these delicate figures as containing power – as modern talismans and
precious telling objects. They are here to remind us of our current
trajectory and potential for destruction and downfall.
www.antlerpdx.com
by Carole Epp | Nov 19, 2015 | Uncategorized
Americano is bigger than Demitasse but smaller than mug, with a handle and room for cream
and sweetener. Like a Yunomi for informal tea drinking, the Americano
is made for daily informal coffee drinking at home and work.
Participating Artists: Posey Bacopoulos, Ben Bates, Karl
Borgeson, Robert Briscoe, Billy Cho, Bede Clarke, David Crane, Josh
DeWeese, Mark Digeros, Carole Epp, Mike Gesiakowski, Bruce Gholson,
Steve Hansen, Samantha Henneke, Autumn Higgins, Meredith Host, Michael
Hunt and Naomi Dalglish, Matt Kelleher, Kristen Kieffer, Michael Kline,
Justin Lambert, Simon Levin, Brenda Lichman, Lorna Meaden, Matthew Metz,
Jeff Oestreich, Shoko Teruyama, Bill Wilkey, Tara Wilson.
