Tisdale Figurative Invitational @ Red Lodge Clay Center
When I saw this I just about lost my mind and jumped in the car and drove straight there to see it. Then I remembered how far away I am and that we’re expecting a winter storm today….maybe another day. Thank goodness all the images are online.
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| Patti Warashina |
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| Claire Curneen |
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| Janis Mars Wunderlich |
curatorial statement for Tisdale Figurative Invitational
“James Tisdale is a Resident Artist and Ceramic Education Coordinator at the Austin Museum of Art. His position with AMOA has allowed him to participate in several residency programs in the US and across the globe, even teaching at the International Ceramic Studio in Kecskemet, Hungary. His allegorical, biographically inspired figures have been exhibited internationally and most recently his work was featured at SOFA Chicago. Red Lodge Clay Center is proud to welcome Tisdale back to Montana after twenty years. We are also excited to have the opportunity to collaborate with him on this exhibition. “Silhouettes” presents an intimate, yet diverse display of contemporary, figurative ceramic sculpture.
The figure has had a pretty interesting run throughout the history of art. More than once this icon has been declared “DEAD”, only to rise again thanks to the undeniable hubris of the human condition. We will always grapple with ourselves and so we will always have need to view ourselves through the varied, external, interpretive lens of the maker. Some of the artists in the exhibit honor the classical rendering of the figure to explore the human condition, while others abstract surface and form to exploit psychological underpinnings or to celebrate frozen moment narratives. Humor, history, mythology, and anthropomorphism inform these objects in a melange that is only possible in modernity. It’s easy to forget that the salon once vilified deviations from the representational figure. Now such deviations are not only accepted, they are the exemplar. Debates between protectors of tradition and those reaching for innovation are applicable to many fields and it is an opportunity to examine our own boundaries.
Humanity has primordial ties with the material of ceramics and a seemingly primordial impulse to recreate our likeness in the plastic mud. The figure serves as human proxy and as divine proxy. The figure functions as icon and catharsis. It is a way for us to try catching lightening in a bottle. The collective “we” can redefine ourselves through the figure. Through the figure we can be immortal. “
Artists in the show: Sunkoo Yuh, Kensuke Yamada, Janis Mars Wunderlich, Paige Wright, Patti Warashina, James Tisdale, Zachary Tate, Richard Swanson, Nan Smith, Esther Shimazu, Deborah Rogers, Gabriel Parque, Richard Nickel, Meg Murch, Melissa Mencini, Tammy Marinuzzi, Beth Lo, Clayton Keyes, Margaret Keelan, Magdalene Gluszek, Debra Fritts, Diana Farfan, Thaddeus Erdahl, Claire Curneen, Andrea Keys Connell, Tom Bartel, Wesley Anderegg, Pavel Amromin
Show runs until April 26th
Red Lodge, MT 59068 Ph. 406.446.3993
redlodgeclaycenter.com/lists.php?eid=181&type=exhibit
monday morning eye candy: Jenna Turner
Great Bowls of Fire – tickets still available – don’t miss your chance to support a great cause.
Fire tickets to offer you, and they are now being sold in three
locations, $45 each. Cash please! This is the 8th year that the Ottawa
Guild of Potters volunteers are oganizing this event with proceeds going
to the Ottawa Food Bank.
Il Primo Ristorante, 371 Preston St.
Allium Restaurant, 87 Holland Ave.
Thyme and Again, 1255 Wellington St. W.
Remember
the action takes place this Saturday, March 2nd at the Glebe Community
Centre, 175 Third Ave. starting at 5pm. Check our blog for the 14
delicious soups and fresh baked breads that are in store for you. And
admire the variety of handcrafted pieces that will be auctioned during
the evening.
Also, don’t forget that after you have tasted these wonderful soups, you keep your handcrafted bowl for future dining.
Ayumi Horie and Brendan Tang @ The University of Manitoba
Please join us for the visiting artists workshops taking place in
Ceramics at the U of M from March 5 to March 9
For more info contact:
Professor E. Grace Nickel, Ceramics
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2
(204)474-8318
[email protected]
http://gracenickel.ca/
a site 2 see friday: Crooked Pot Gallery
Parkland Potters Guild was established in 1976 and is a non-profit
organization run by volunteers to promote and foster an education in
clay throughout our community. Our membership is made up of 65 members
from Stony Plain, Spruce Grove and The County of Parkland. We offer member led classes for adults, teens and children.
have completed 3 murals on the building adjacent to the guild and have
completed mural projects for the Alberta Summer and Winter Games. One can be found on the gazebo at Rotary Park in Stony Plain and the latest one on the facade of our gallery. Stony Plain is well known for the town murals and we are pleased to be active in mural making.
Guest Writer: Melissa Monroe – Taking Handmade Pottery to Wholesale Markets
was easy to grow my business one local show at a time. I started out with farmers markets and
grew into doing larger juried shows around the Chicago area. These shows have
been great and I have been very happy to be successful and profitable. While attending the art shows, my work
was seen by various store owners who were interested in selling my
pottery. When I was first
approached for a wholesale order, I was completely unprepared and unsure of how
to handle this type of marketing. After
a year of thinking and planning I decided to attend my first wholesale show
last January.
Mart in down town Chicago. This is a market runs in conjunction with the other
wholesale shows within the Merchandise mart. I was excited to wholesale and also completely nervous. I really wanted to have a successful
show.
theme. I knew I had to limit my
selection of pottery for a whole sale event. I selected pieces from my most popular sellers on my Etsy
site and best sellers at my shows. I then I started narrowing down my color combinations and creating
sets for ordering. I needed to make
things that I would be able to reproduce easily with consistent results. After settling on the pieces to bring
to whole sale, I made a catalog of the work to hand out. Then I created the
hardest part, a price sheet.
idea of what price point my pieces will sell and I knew doubling my retail
would not work. When I consider
show fees and time spent and fairs (rain or shine), I knew I could accept half
of the retail cost and still make a profit.
from a regular art show. The
crowds are smaller and the pace is much slower. Buyers want you to be ready to
point out best sellers and write up the order (bring a clip board). Payment for work is usually collected
when the items are shipped out, not when ordered. Some artists take half up front and collect credit card
numbers at the show. It is up to the artist how they choose to take payments.
retail stores that want to sell my work.
I feel comfortable that I can fill these orders within reasonable amount
of time. I am hoping reorders will continue to help me grow my business and
maintain a steady income throughout the year. Wholesale may not be for every artist, but for myself, I am
glad that I tried this method of selling my work.
You can see her work at www.melissazmonroe.com
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