residency opportunity: Carbondale Clay Center
12-month Residency Program
The primary goal of the Carbondale Clay Center’s Residency Program is to provide emerging ceramic artists time and space to develop a body of work that will take them to the next level in their careers while gaining important technical skills and teaching experience. The focus is on creative development and defining one’s artistic voice and individual statement.
There are three residency programs that run for a 12-month period of time (September 1–August 31). A residents will have opportunity to apply for a second year based on their first year of participation. Residents will share a semi-private studio space and 24/7 access to the Carbondale Clay Center. Residents can expect to be mentored by experienced, talented ceramic artists who are part of the vibrant Carbondale Arts community. Please download and read a copy of the Resident Artist Handbook prior to applying for this residency. It will give you a greater understanding of the experience, expectations and requirements of a CCC artist resident.
Application for Residency
Application Deadline(not postmarked): April 7, 2017
Applicants advised by May 1, 2017
Email materials to [email protected] or send to:
Carbondale Clay Center
Residency Application
135 Main St.
Carbondale, CO 81623
Please send:
- Application form including the outlined list of materials (click here to download)
- $30 application fee (checks payable to the Carbondale Clay Center, or click our Buy Now button below to pay online)
Feel free to call or email with questions: 970-963-2529 or [email protected]
www.carbondaleclay.org/residency-program/
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call for submissions: OAG SHOP & Commercial Gallery
The doors to the new Ottawa Art Gallery are scheduled to open in the fall of 2017! The expansion of the Ottawa Art Gallery is a moment for the arts and culture sector in Ottawa-Gatineau to celebrate this purpose-built gallery which will increase the vitality and focus on the arts in the region. As we move into our exciting new space, we are planning the expansion of many departments, including our Commercial Gallery as well as a new OAG SHOP. This is a collective opportunity for both the gallery and regional artists to showcase the unique excellence of local arts.
With the inaugural opening of the new building, we are looking for artists and makers to submit unique, handmade and one-of-a-kind pieces to both our Commercial Gallery as well as our OAG SHOP. These products can range in price points and be ceramics, jewellery, textiles, sculptures, prints or one-offs. We would love to hear from our local makers and see what you are doing. If you have any special one-off products that reflect the image of the Ottawa Art Gallery, or ideas specific to our commercial spaces, we would love to hear from you.
The Commercial Gallery and the OAG SHOP are two distinct spaces and each have a different set of qualifications and instructions for submissions. Please refer to the detailed submission processes below.
Any additional questions can be directed to Stephanie Germano, manager, either by phone at 613-233-8699 x234 or by email at [email protected].
Commercial Gallery
This is a gallery space, previously known as our ART Rental and Sales, promotes artists working within the Ottawa/Gatineau region, through the rental, sale and exhibition of their work. Artists must live or work within 150km of the Gallery to be considered. Artworks selected by the jury will be consigned to the gallery for approximately 12 months.
The submission will be juried by both gallery staff and selected representatives from the local arts community. We will be accepting submissions now, up until 30 April, 2017. Artists will be informed in June of the jury’s decision.
About the Gallery:
You must live or be working within 150km from the Gallery.
We are looking for artists working with a variety of mediums, including painting, sculpture,
photography, mixed media, and numbered edition prints.
We welcome prints and illustrations unframed as long as they are edition prints and are enclosed
in a plastic sleeve with a backing board.
The works must be for both sale and rental, unless the works are sculptural or unframed.
We determine the rental cost; it is based on the purchase price of the artwork.
The gallery receives a sales commission of 40% and a rental commission of 50%.
If the work has not sold by the end of the 12 month consignment, it is returned to the artist.
Please note that we only accept artwork submissions directly from the artist, their representation,
or their estate. We do not re-sell from private collections.
We do accept student artwork.
How to submit?
Please email [email protected] and include “Submission: Commercial Gallery” in the
subject line NO LATER THAN 30 April, 2017. No more than 5 artworks can be submitted per jury.
Please include:
Digital images of the artworks submitted.
A detailed list of works that include title, date of creation, medium, size and
purchase price.
An artist statement, a CV or both.
OAG Boutique
The submission will be juried by both gallery staff and selected representatives from the local arts community. The deadline for submissions is no later than 30 April, 2017 and applicants will be informed in April of the jury’s decision.
About the Gallery Boutique:
The products in the boutique will be either purchased or consigned by the Ottawa Art Gallery.
Pieces that are consigned are done so for a 12 month period. If sold, the Gallery boutique receives
a 40% sales commission.
We are looking for handmade items such as: jewellery, ceramics, greeting cards, children’s toys,
stationery (notebooks, zines, etc.), fashion accessories (scarves, hats, etc.) as well as any other
handmade goods.
How to submit:
Please email the following to [email protected] and include “Submission: Gallery
Boutique” in the subject line no later than 30 April, 2017. Please include:
Digital images of your products
Your company website
A brief description of you and your products which includes the wholesale/retail
costs.
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residency opportunity: Tyler School of Art Ceramics Program
We are accepting applications for the 2017-2018 Resident Artist. Application deadline: April 15, 2017.
Make your work and gain valuable teaching experience.
Resident Artists receive:
- Private studio space
- Ceramic materials and access to kilns, tools, and digital fabrication resources
- Teach two classes each semester as a paid adjunct instructor
The ideal candidate will have an MFA, either in ceramics or with significant experience in ceramics, a strong studio practice, and excellent studio work.
writer seeking research leads: Vietnam era Resistors and their impact on Canadian Ceramics
Writer and researcher Mary Ann Steggles is reaching out for assistance in collecting names of Ceramic Artists for a project.The project is as outlined below. Please assist if you can.
“The impact of Vietnam Era Resistors, Dodgers, COs, and social and political activists on Canadian ceramics: Can you help?
My name is Mary Ann Steggles and I arrived in Canada on June 4, 1969, as a social and political activist from Oklahoma due to the Vietnam Conflict. I have been awarded a small Canada Council Jean A Chalmers grant to research the impact of the Vietnam era resistors, dodgers, COs, and/or social and political activists on Canadian ceramics. I need help in locating individuals who set up studios and who might have taught or exhibited – women or men – if they still reside in Canada or not. Many have died but they will still be of interest. If you know of someone, please have them contact me: [email protected]
This research will be presented in its early stages at a conference in Dublin in late April 2017 celebrating Canada’s 150th anniversary and her ‘lost’ history. Eventually, all will form a book and an exhibition of the work of these marvelous individuals. Please see below for a summary of the project.
It has now been more than five decades since the United States escalated its war in Vietnam. From the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963 to the fall of Saigon in 1975, between 40,000 and 100,000 Americans came to Canada as an act of resistance. These men and women, mostly white, urban, middle class and educated, whose average age was twenty-five, were leaving a country that was engulfed in political and social unrest with no promise to be able to return. They settled across Canada from British Columbia’s Vancouver and Gulf Islands to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. The Resisters, as many called them, consciously embraced new life styles, ways of earning a living, while, at the same time, being environmentally and politically pro-active. These countercultural youth recycled decades before it became mainstream. The mantra was always to cause as little damage to the environment as possible. They planted organic gardens and began food coops and day care centers. Some managed to live entirely off the proceeds of their food production while others found that they needed part time work to survive. A number learned how to make ceramics, if they had not had previous training, while others turned to glass blowing, textiles, or wood and leather working. The purpose was to create not only something useful and beautiful but also to acquire a source of income, which was not controlled by a large corporation. Indeed, it is now more than four decades since the first of the youth migrated to Canada. Most of them are now in their 70s and 80s. In the Foreword to Hell NO, We Won’t GO. Vietnam Draft Resisters in Canada, Pierre Berton states: “It is to the credit of this country that we accepted the American draft resisters in spite of pressure from the United States and in spite of efforts by some of our own authorities to send them back. That they have enriched our culture goes without saying” (Haig-Brown, 1996, p. ix-x).”
Please contact Mary Ann Steggles at [email protected]
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