call for entry: CLUJ INTERNATIONAL CERAMICS BIENNALE (CICB 2013)
Cluj International Ceramics Biennale is the first contemporary
ceramics biennale organized in Romania, and is aiming to become an
international meeting place for ceramic artists.
Expressing artistic sensibilities using the means of ceramic art is
on a growing scale amongst artists all over the world, and in the last
years the contemporary ceramics field started to be seen as a
contribution to the major arts. The first edition of the biennale has
the potential to change old mentalities, focusing on the contemporary
context and presenting the diversity of concepts and techniques in the
innovative field of contemporary ceramics.
Cluj International Ceramics Biennale (CICB 2013) is organized by
Ceramart Foundation and Ceramics Now Association, in partnership with
Cluj-Napoca Art Museum, the University of Arts and Design Cluj-Napoca,
and The Romanian Fine Artists Union. The ceramics biennale will be held
in several locations in the city of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, during October
9 – November 3, 2013.
Artists
from all over the world are invited to apply and participate at the
biennale with their ceramic works. Apply now (Deadline: May 30, 2013).
The CICB’s goal is to act as a contemporary meeting point for ceramic
artists from all over the world. This artistic event will introduce the
Romanian public to contemporary ceramic artists, practices and new
concepts in the field. The biennale will also get round national and
international institutions to work together with the aim of creating a
living environment for ceramics in the city of Cluj-Napoca.
The profound changes in the world today, whether socio-economic,
political or techno-scientific, have strongly influenced the artists’
search for new ways of expression, and engendered a change in how the
creative act is viewed, both in terms of means of expression and in
terms of message. Sensitive to the slightest changes of artistic canon in the global
Agora of contemporary arts, ceramic art evolves toward an
interdisciplinary and integrative strategy. The new concepts that are
gaining ground in the field attest to an aesthetic simbiosis with forms
of expressivity specific to other artistic fields, while at the same
time, retaining and accentuating – an experimental development specific
to the field. The outcome could form an ingenious and resourceful
alchemy.
Find out all you need to know here: www.ceramicsbiennale.com
Sweet Life: A More Environmentally Friendly Line of Pottery by Lori Watts
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Lori K. Watts
Fine Mess Pottery and Clayworks
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Charlie Cummings Workshop – Digital Clay – May 3-5, 2013
Charlie Cummings will lead this three-day, hands-on workshop breaking
down the boundaries between photography, digital image manipulation,
printmaking, and clay. Charlie will expanding participant’s creative
horizon to create artworks that utilize techniques and ideas from all
these mediums.
While computers and clay may seem worlds apart, Charlie will discuss how
advances in digital software and home printer technology have made
computers an important bridge between clay and image-based art forms.
Participants in this workshop will learn to use Photoshop to create
digital collages, prepare images (photographs, drawings, paintings, or
digital) for screen printing, and to fine tune the images to get the
best possible results from the print processes used to transfer the
images to ceramic objects.
Charlie will teach how to print your photographs in full color using
common underglazes and stains. He has developed a method which avoids
the use of expensive decals, fragile photographic materials or
monochrome ceramic images.
This class will cover image manipulation and cutting-edge ceramic
techniques in a way that is accessible to all levels. Participants will
learn techniques that can be used on wet clay, leather hard clay, bone
dry clay, bisque, and glaze-fired work. Charlie will teach image
transfer techniques for every step in the ceramic process, including
photo emulsion-based screen printing to print slip and underglaze for
transfer to pots and handbuilt forms, single and multiple color
overglaze decals, and full color photographic transfers.
Participants should bring a laptop with Photoshop if possible, as well
as digital images, graphics and photographs to print. Please bring a
wide collection of images you own, or that are copyright free. Email Charlie if you have questions about what type of images to bring.
All levels are welcome, but basic knowledge of Photoshop and clay is suggested. Class size 16.
Full details here: http://www.mudfire.com/charlie-cummings-workshop-20130503.htm
Call for Entry: the American Craft Exposition
One of the country’s premier fine craft shows, the American
Craft Exposition, presented by The Auxiliary of NorthShore University
HealthSystem at Evanston and Glenbrook Hospitals, brings together 164
superior artisans exhibiting one-of-a-kind, museum quality work.
This important art event is also a major fundraiser supporting critical breast and ovarian cancer research and care
at NorthShore University HealthSystem. Artists support ACE’s funding
goal by participating in the voluntary Craft for a Cure program and
donating a percentage of a designated sale.
A highly competitive juried show, ACE features hand-crafted work in
12 media—baskets, ceramics, fiber decorative, fiber wearable, furniture,
glass, jewelry, leather, metal, mixed media, paper and wood.
The 29th annual American Craft Exposition (ACE),
a juried exhibition and sale presented by The Auxiliary of NorthShore
University HealthSystem (NorthShore) at Evanston and Glenbrook
Hospitals, will be held at the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion on
Northwestern University’s campus in Evanston, Illinois. The jury will
accept approximately 150 craft artists.
Show: August 23 through August 25, 2013
Deadline for Late Applications: March 15, 2013
APPLICATIONS AND FEES
use the electronic application system to submit their information and
five (5) digital images. A nonrefundable fee of $50 for applying
electronically is payable online by American Express, Discover,
MasterCard or VISA from December 1, 2012 through March 1, 2013. The fee
will increase to $75 for applications submitted March 2 through March 15, 2013.
To encourage the participation of craftsmen who are beginning their
careers, an Emerging Artist category is available. This option is open
only to those who have been practicing
their craft for less than six years and who have never exhibited at
ACE. If you choose to apply as an emerging artist, you must do so
exclusively. The application procedure and fees are the same as for
other applicants. However, those who check the emerging artist category
will be juried separately from the other applicants. Those who are
accepted will share a large booth space with other emerging artists, thereby reducing their booth expenses.
Find out more: http://americancraftexpo.org
Remnants @ Santa Fe Clay
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March 8 – April 20, 2013
Peter
Christian Johnson and Todd Volz will share Santa Fe Clay’s gallery this spring. Both employ the skills of an engineer or an inventor, as much as those of a traditional artist. Their industrial architectural artwork makes a complementary pairing.
Peter
Christian Johnson’s work “is meant to straddle the present, simultaneously looking back to the past and toward the future. It catalogs the act of making, of constructing, of inventing, and reinventing.” He begins his work by drafting pieces in a 3-D computer modeling program. Complex armatures and paper templates aid him in building his work. His pieces are composites of thrown, press molded and slab-built sections. Peter has a BS in Environmental Science from Wheaton College, and an MFA from Pennsylvania State University. He has currently been awarded a long term residency at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT. When not in MT, he is an associate professor at Eastern Oregon University. Todd
Opening Reception:
Friday, March 8
5:00 – 7:00 pm
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movie day with Charan Sachar
Short video showing the madness behind his slip decoration. — with Charan Sachar at Creative with Clay, Federal way, WA.
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