call for entry: Material Mugs VI: UNDERGLAZE
Open to Coffee Mugs, Cups, Goblets, Tumblers and other drinking vessels which use UNDERGLAZE.
2021 Juror: Michelle Ettrick
“I was a non-English speaking 13-year old when I arrived in the United States in 1982. Life in Brooklyn, New York was a stark contrast to my early memories of Panama and the simple joys of climbing trees and playing with my friends while my mom was nearby hanging clothes on the line. As an Afro-Latina, I struggled to find a community that would accept me and where I felt I belonged. My own identity was regularly challenged by others who judged me by the texture of my hair or the fact that I spoke Spanish fluently and struggled to communicate in English. When judged by adults and my peers, my hair was “too good” to be considered black and the color of my skin was too dark to be speaking Spanish. In addition to the hardships, I have many fond memories of my time in New York. Brooklyn is where I learned about double dutch and cooling off from the New York summer heat in the open fire hydrants.
I love being a maker and clay is my medium of choice. Clay is a very personal material to me. When I put my hands in the clay and my fingers get lost in the mixture, for the moment, we become one. I stretch pull, pinch and form shapes where I leave evidence of my having been there. I follow up by drawing on my work where I embrace my natural curly hair, heritage, womanhood and at times current worldly struggles. My artwork is a record of my experiences as an Afro-Latina American.”
-Michelle Ettrick
Material Mugs is our annual material based cups show and this year we will again be featuring underglazes! Our hope is to exhibit cups which express the full range of surface possibilities- underglazes that are trailed, painted, sprayed, transferred, washed, globbed on, inlayed etc.
Now in its sixth year, Material Mugs is one of the most anticipated juried ceramics exhibitions by makers and collectors alike. This will be the 3rd juried exhibition at our new location.
The exhibition is open to cups using every type of clay, temperature, and atmosphere, just as long as underglazes are used in the process.
Companion Gallery will be printing custom t-shirts designed by Michelle Ettrick and the entire exhibition will be available for sale online.
The exhibition opening will be held at our new location on Friday September 10th
Companion Gallery 3600 East Mitchell Street, Humboldt, TN, as well as ONLINE at companiongallery.com.
Participating artists will each receive a complimentary t-shirt designed by 2021 juror Michelle Ettrick.
monday morning eye candy: Scott Duncan
call for entry: International Cup 2022 juried by Courtney Murphy
Exhibit dates: February 4-25, 2022. Entries due by November 12, 2021
The Clay Studio of Missoula’s International Cup 2022 is an exhibition showcasing ceramic work that explores the infinite possibilities of the idea of a cup.
Applications must be submitted no later than November 12, 2021.
Learn about exhibition parameters and enter online starting July 1, 2021 on our submittable call for entry site:
call for entry: Craftforms 2021
CraftForms 2021” (December 3, 2021–January 29, 2022) open to all artists 18 years of age and older. Work must be original. Accepting various mediums, including ceramics. All work must be for sale and cannot have previously been on exhibit at Wayne Art Center. Selected works will be on display in the Davenport Gallery of the Wayne Art Center in Wayne, Pennsylvania.
Fee: $45.
Juried from digital. Juror: Carol Sauvion.
Contact Wayne Art Center, 413 Maplewood Ave., Wayne, PA 19087; [email protected]; 610-688-3553; www.wayneart.org.
movie day: Ceramics in the World and the World in Ceramics.
a collaboration between the RISD Museum and the Center for Complexity
Filmed Wednesday, June 16
3-4:30pm EST
RISD faculty members Alero Akporiaye, Jean Blackburn, Anina Major, Christopher Roberts, and Clement Valla, with Elizabeth Williams of the RISD Museum, will explore a selection of ceramic objects from the RISD Museum collection. Join these scholars and makers from a variety of disciplines as they consider the human creative expression carried via ceramics and discuss aesthetic characteristics as well as their significance as bearers and symbols of history, culture, commerce, and meaning. Both exploratory and investigative, critical and generative, this multidisciplinary dialogue will benefit scholars and art lovers alike. Unscripted and unrehearsed, this dynamic conversation will explore how to look at these objects more closely and broadly, and engage with them in new ways to find both the beauty and truth in earthen materials shaped by human hands, which, as Keats wrote, continue to “tease us out of thought, As doth eternity.” The discussion aims to inspire a deep consideration of how these objects can provide insight into the practices, mindsets and values that we should carry forward—or leave behind.
This collaboration will be introduced by Elizabeth Williams, the Museum’s David and Peggy Rockefeller Curator of Decorative Arts and Design, and is in preparation for the January 2022 exhibition Trading Earth: Ceramics, Commodities, and Commerce. The production of ceramics by global communities—whether as staples or luxuries—is inextricably linked to issues of consumption and commodification. Williams writes:
These commodities and goods are employed and enjoyed gastronomically, aesthetically, socially, artistically, and culturally by many types of markets and consumers. They are also frequently cultivated, harvested, and produced by enslaved, indentured, or exploitative labor of human beings, damaging or endangering the wellbeing of their person, communities, and environments. Drawing from the museum’s nearly 8,900 ceramic objects, this exhibition centers the intersection of global trade and ceramics through the exploration of a dozen commodities.
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