socially distanced (but engaged!) craft collective presents…..

by | Mar 23, 2020 | workshops

In light of current events, SECC will be hosting a Zoom video chat series to support educators, craft artists, and everyone else through this unprecedented time!  We are putting an emphasis on the “social” in this series and basing our work around the guiding principles of Connection, Creativity and Access.  SECC will be using our Zoom account as a “virtual art center” by hosting a series of free, interactive programs over the next few weeks as we all do our part to curb the goal pandemic by practicing “social distancing”.

We would love for you (yes, you!) to participate by sharing your skills and/or tuning in and participating in the programs. SECC’s plan is to transfer the content (in most cases) to a forthcoming YouTube channel so that it can be viewed anytime. To give some structure to our offerings and get everyone thinking, we’ve decided to organize our programming by theme. Activities, lessons, and ideas in any medium for any age group are welcome- after all, we are all in this together!

Please submit your idea here!

We will continue to update this page as our plans solidify so keep checking back for new information and opportunities!

Zoom Etiquette: Your microphone and video will be off when you enter the Zoom meeting.  We encourage you to turn on your video for a more interactive experience (but feel free not to if you’re not comfortable).  Please keep yourself muted when you’re not speaking. This helps keep the audio quality good.

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

Monday: “Teaching” Topics

Monday, March 23, 2020
Lauren Karle Demonstration
2 PM Pacific, 3 PM Mountain, 4 PM Central, 5 PM Eastern
Link to Zoom Chat: https://zoom.us/j/962436819 

Monday, March 30, 2020
Erin Shafkind: Sock Puppets!
2 PM Pacific, 3 PM Mountain, 4 PM Central, 5 PM Eastern
Link to Zoom Chat: https://zoom.us/j/953705255

Wednesday: “Talking” Topics

Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Anna Metcalfe and Casey Whitter
8:30 AM Pacific, 9:30 Mountain, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eastern
Link to Zoom Chat coming soon.

Wednesday April 1, 2020

Friday: “Playing” Topics

Friday, March 27, 2020

Friday April 3, 2020

Visit their website HERE: sociallyengagedcraftcollective.org/socially-distanced-but-engaged-craft-collective-presents/

Ceramic Review Free Online This Week!

by | Mar 21, 2020 | workshops

Staying at home? We’ve got you sorted!

For one week only, we are giving everybody FREE access to our entire digital archive of over 300 issues of Ceramic Review. Head to ceramicartlondon.com to browse hundreds of articles, ranging from technical Masterclasses to in-depth profiles on some of the world’s top potters! What’s more – you will have the opportunity to select features on the makers who were due to exhibit at Ceramic Art London this weekend.

Pictured:
Tessa Eastman – featured in CR297 May/June 2019
Jennifer Lee – featured in CR293 September/October 2018
Lisa Hammond – featured in CR 283 January/February 2017
Richard Miller – featured in CR296 March/April 2019

Photography by Layton Thompson

Ideas for teaching clay online – google doc

by | Mar 11, 2020 | workshops

Huge thanks to Stephanie Rozene for setting up IDEAS FOR TEACHING CLAY ONLINE; a resource during this difficult time for teachers.

Read and contribute to the google document HERE

Here’s other resources for teachers :

Teaching Effectively During Times of Disruption, for SIS and PWR – Google Doc

Resources for Online Instruction // VISUAL+STUDIO Arts Courses

Please email me ([email protected]) if you have other suggestions I can add to this list.

 

 

ClayShare Online ClayCon

by | Mar 11, 2020 | workshops

In light of the recent cancellation of NCECA ClayShare will be doing an online ClayCon!

Join ClayShare every day for 5 days at noon eastern time on ClayShare.com, our Facebook page and on Jessica Putnam Phillips YouTube channel for a series of amazing, fun, educational and free demos. All demos will be available for replay after the live broadcast ends.

There will be great discount offers from vendors that would have been at NCECA and tutorials on how to use their products!

March 21st
Handbuilding slab plates and platters with texture and underglaze decals

March 22nd
Sgraffito carving techniques with underglazes

March 23rd
Modern Mishima with wax and underglaze
Layered watercolor pottery with underglazes

March 24th
Wheel throwing demo

March 25th
Glazing Pottery
How to fire and maintain electric kilns
Pottery Q&A

We will be adding more info daily so follow us to find out what’s new.

Craft Ways Symposium

by | Feb 27, 2020 | workshops

Craft Ways 2020: Tending to Craft
July 30 – August 1, 2020
Asheville, North Carolina

Craft Ways 2020: Tending to Craft is a symposium focusing on issues in contemporary craft surrounding the intentional care of craft. Using the theme of Tending, this inaugural gathering will engage multiple approaches to the embodied study and practice of craft. Together, participants will work to understand how artists, craftspeople, curators, and scholars explore histories of craft. Learning from individual work in the collective context of a symposium, we aim to reveal the multiplicities of craft studies.

By mixing work by established and emerging researchers and craftspeople, Craft Ways 2020 aims towards intergenerational exchanges of knowledge and information embedded in craft, while simultaneously engaging dynamism and shifts in contemporary discourse.

Through a variety of modes of sharing research—from individual to group formats—Craft Ways 2020 centers interdisciplinary collaboration and intersectional thinking through a merger of form and content. Sessions may include skill-building workshops, breakout brainstorming sessions, participatory discussions, research presentations, readings, and more.

For more information, please contact Craft Research and Innovation Manager Lola Clairmont at lclairmont@centerforcraft.org

About the Partnership

Craft Ways 2020 is co-presented by the Center for Craft and the MA in Critical Craft Studies program at Warren Wilson College. As program partners, this gathering exemplifies the type of generative collaboration that builds intergenerational networks to recognize and support future craft practice, research, and scholarship.

The Center for Craft is the leading national nonprofit working at the intersection of culture and higher education to advance the understanding of craft. Located in Asheville, NC, the Center offers quality arts programming and exhibitions free to the public, in addition to a nationally recognized grant program that serves artists, curators, and scholars throughout the United States.

Warren Wilson College’s Masters in Critical Craft Studies is the first and only low-residency graduate program in craft history and theory. Warren Wilson College, a private four-year liberal arts college in the Swannanoa Valley, North Carolina, provides a distinctive undergraduate and graduate education that combines academics, work, and service.