Socially Engaged Craft Collective: Artists and Depression

by | Apr 20, 2020 | workshops

How does depression interfere or interact with creating? What happens when mental illness overlaps with being an artist? How do artists with depression cope? These are questions that’ll be up for discussion during this Clay Conversation. The aim is to develop a better understanding of and help those with mental illness in general and now as we go through and unfamiliar and uncertain time. Come join us in conversation with: Undine Brod, Jill Foote-Hutton, Seana Higgins, Michael Lorsung, Roberto Lugo, Mariko Paterson, and Alex Thullen.

2 PM Pacific, 3 PM Mountain, 4 PM Central, 5 PM Eastern

Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/154014914

Studio Potter: Funding Apprenticeships

by | Apr 17, 2020 | workshops

Interested in becoming an apprentice? Or have you considered taking on an apprentice? Curious about funding for sustaining or building your apprenticeship? Come hear the recipients of Studio Potter’s Grants for Apprenticeships Program talk about their experiences together in the inaugural year of this program. Jon McMillan will lead a dialogue touching on the highs, lows, complications, and nuances of this important and unique relationship in the ceramic art world. Viewers are invited to particpate in the chat during the talk and ask questions of panelists.

Click here to see the 2019 grant recipients. 

To join us, you will need the Zoom application on your computer, tablet or phone, and you will need a zoom account (making a zoom account is free and very quick!) Viewers will be able to see & hear our panelists, but will not have their video or audio enabled.
On Thursday, April 23rd at 7pm, click this link to join our zoom meeting:
Meeting ID: 991 0134 9960
Password: 301909

A recording of this discussion will be posted on our site. So, if you can’t make the live talk, you’ll still get a chance to watch. If you have questions or concerns, contact Jess Detweiler at [email protected].

 

Virtual Clay Real Time Online Class with Adrienne Spinozzi

by | Apr 13, 2020 | workshops

 

This program is taking place remotely. If you have signed up, you will receive an email with details of how to access the program.

Adrienne Spinozzi, Assistant Research Curator of American Decorative Arts in the American Wing, is currently engaged in research and exhibition development for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s upcoming show, Stories in Clay: Stoneware from Old Edgefield District, South Carolina (scheduled to open February 2022).

This exhibition will present new interpretations of Edgefield stoneware with a focus on the enslaved African Americans whose labor enabled this industry to prosper in the nineteenth-century American South. It will highlight a range of utilitarian forms produced and used throughout the region—from the large plantation storage jars bearing verses by enslaved potter and poet David Drake and the ubiquitous functional wares of everyday life to the face vessels that continue to fascinate and confound scholars and collectors alike. Adrienne will share some of the challenges and opportunities of the project including some of her research efforts and goals for the exhibition.

Tickets must be purchased by noon of the day of the event.

Please Note: All times are Eastern Standard. An email with login instructions will be sent to all participants prior to the event.

System Requirements: High speed Internet connection, internal or external computer speaker and internal or external computer mic. For PC: Windows 7 SP1, 8, 8.1, 10 or later For MAC: OS X 10.9, 10.10, 10.11 or later.

Register HERE.

American Craft Forum presents Innovation in the Face of Adversity – ONLINE THIS FRIDAY!

by | Apr 2, 2020 | workshops

REGISTER HERE!!!

We may be in the house, but it’s time we think outside the box. This FREE three-part online series is meant to be an inspiring, refreshing, pragmatic, and safe conversation space. We’ll explore innovations in our craft communities in the face of adversities and challenges during the COVID-19 outbreak. We want to hear from you about ways artists, writers, and organizations are creating unique solutions in a time of crisis.

Produced and presented in collaboration with American Craft Council, CERF+, Springboard for the Arts, and the Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG).

Part 1: Vulnerabilities, Disruptions, and Opportunities in the Marketplace

April 3, 2020, 2 – 3:15 p.m. CDT

Americans for the Arts is reporting a $3.6 billion impact on the arts sector due to the effect of the outbreak on operations through canceled events, lost wages, and other expenses. The business of craft has been disrupted at every level – from marketplace events to supply chains to retail and gallery outlets to small manufacturing production. What solutions are we seeing? How are artists and businesses adapting? What alternatives might we consider? Can we use craft thinking to design our way out of this?

Program Outline:

What have we learned?

  • Guest: Jackson Schwartz, co-founder of Hennepin Made, a glass lighting fixture company launched in response to the last economic recession @hennepinmade
  • Moderated Q&A: Where have we been and what have we experienced in the past and how did we overcome it?

What’s new about this scenario and what does innovation look like?

  • Guest: Ayumi Horie, founder of Pots In Action lauded for her pioneering use of digital marketing and social media within contemporary ceramics @ayumihorie
  • Moderated Q&A: Who else is innovating, changing, refocusing?

How do we coordinate new ways of working?

How can we take care of one another, ourselves and our community?

Part 2: Understanding the Impact and Pursuing Relief

April 10, 2020, 2 – 3:15 p.m. CDT

The nation’s arts and culture industry is experiencing devastating economic losses with closed venues and cancelled performances, exhibitions, and events as a result of the pandemic. With the passing of the $2 trillion emergency stimulus package that includes important provisions supporting the arts sector and creative workforce, there is still a lot to sort out for independent artists, entrepreneurs, and organization leaders. This series of online forums continues with this session devoted to helping you navigate what all this means for the craft sector and practical advice for pursuing relief.

Program Outline

What are we finding and why is this work important?

  • Guest: Ruby Lopez Harper, Mexican, mother, wife, dancer, photographer, poet, and social justice warrior. Ruby is also the senior director of local arts advancement for Americans for the Arts @americans4arts
  • Moderated Q&A: What other studies should we be staying focused on?

How has the craft field specifically been impacted and what sources of relief are out there – for artists, for businesses, for organizations?

  • Guest: Carrie Cleveland, artists advocate and assistant extraordinaire and education and outreach coordinator at CERF+ The Artists Safety Net @cerfplus
  • Moderated Q&A: What other needs should we be focussed on getting relief for?

How can we take care of one another, ourselves and our community?

  • Guest: Carl Atiya Swanson, manager of Springboard for the Arts’ Creative Exchange program, a national platform sharing stories of artists with impact and toolkits for change @springboardarts
  • Moderated Q&A: How else can we take care of one another, ourselves, our community during this time?

Part 3: Education Disruptions and Opportunities

April 17, 2020, 2 – 3:15 p.m. CDT

Our series continues by turning to the impacts COVID-19 has had on the education field. From residencies to education centers to higher education, the way we learn, teach, and educate has been turned on its head. We close our first round of the American Craft Forum by hearing from the education field – students, educators, and administrators – about new directions the field is turning to and what we’ve learned from this most recent disruption.

Program Outline

What impasses, roadblocks and challenges have our craft education systems faced in the past and how have we responded?

  • Moderated Q&A: Other examples?

How are education systems innovating and changing and moving forward with this?

Garth Johnson live object study class this friday online!

by | Mar 26, 2020 | workshops

Join Garth Johnson tomorrow (Friday, March 27th) at 1pm EST for a live experiment (link below).

“This semester, I FINALLY got to teach my dream class… an object study class for Syracuse University, taught at the Everson with objects from the collection. Thanks to Covid-19, I no longer have access to the museum, so I’m having to lean on special guest scholars, artists, and collectors. Syracuse University and the Everson Museum of Art are making the session available live via Blackboard Collaborate Ultra to anyone who would like to join. This week, we’ll be talking ’70s studio pottery. I’ll keep doing this throughout the quarantine, even if it lasts longer than our class”

To join, just click this link at 1pm on Friday. You don’t need to install any software or sign up for any accounts. See you on the interwebs! https://us.bbcollab.com/gu…/414564fc1a1040b7a1efebe381d1d4f6