by Carole Epp | May 21, 2013 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
STUDIO MANAGER
Temporary Position (1 year Maternity Leave)
This is a leadership position responsible for facilitating the
operation of the Shaw International Centre for Contemporary Ceramics.
This position is a parental leave position and will end in July of 2014.
The Studio Manager is responsible for the day to day running of
Medalta’s contemporary ceramics studio. This includes facilitating
cleaning and maintenance of the studio, inventory management, and all
logistics associated with our international residency program.
Successful candidates will have a BFA or equivalent and experience in a similar environment.
The studio manager will be provided with a fully equipped studio.
APPLY
Apply by 4:00pm May 28th, 2013
Attention: Aaron Nelson, Artistic Director, Friends of Medalta Society
713 Medalta Avenue SE, Medicine Hat, AB T1A 3K9
Or email to [email protected]
Only candidates granted an interview will be contacted.
Thank you for your interest!
medalta.org/museum/employment
by Carole Epp | Apr 15, 2013 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
Artist In Residence (one year minimum)
Midwestern State University
Ceramics Department
Dates
of Residency: September 1, 2013 through August 31, 2014 (the beginning date is
flexible from now until September 1)
Application
deadline: April 15 or until position is filled
This self-directed residency is designed
to provide a ceramic artist with studio access, as they make the transition
from or between academic settings. Furthermore, the program is intended to
allow a resident the time and space to pursue a body of work in a creative and
energetic environment, while enhancing the art program at Midwestern State
University. The accepted artist will participate within the ceramics area as an
informal collaborator and mentor for students, while working in the common
studio space. To see images of the ceramics studio at Midwestern, go to:
Midwestern will provide:
• All materials and firing
• Small office with internet
access and storage space
• Studio space in the common 4000 square
foot studio area
• 24-hour/7 days per week access
• Most university privileges
as given to full time faculty (free access to workout facility, reserved
parking, library access, etc.)
• A small furnished apartment
located at a private residence three miles from MSU (details to be discussed during
the interview process)
• A minimum stipend of $6000 (to
be discussed during the interview process)
The
Resident Artist:
• Will be responsible for 10 hours
per week of studio management and maintenance (including but not limited to the
following: loading and unloading kilns, clay inventory, mixing clay, mixing
glaze and firing kilns, Wichita Falls empty bowls)
• Will teach one continuing education
wheel-throwing course per semester
• Will attend opening
receptions and special events
• Will be responsible for all non-ceramic
related expenses aside from accommodation
• Will give one public lecture on her/his
work
• Will donate one piece for
the permanent collection of MSU
Equipment
available to Resident:
• Three large electric kilns
• Two smaller electric kilns
• Large Brent slab roller
• Two extruders
• Three pugmills
• Soldner mixer
• Separate well equipped glaze room
• Two station spray booth
• Materials and clay mixing/storage room
• 18 electric wheels
• One wheelchair accessible wheel
• A 5,000 square foot covered kiln yard
furnished with the following:
• Two 40 cubic foot Geil car kilns
• A 30 cubic foot “fast fire” wood kiln
• Two older updraft kilns
• A 30 cubic foot downdraft soda kiln
• A 3 cubic foot cone 10 test kiln
Requirements
and application:
A BFA in ceramics is required, an MFA
is preferred. All applicant reviews will be based on portfolio review and
individual merit.
For initial consideration, please
e-mail or make the following available
by website/blog by April 15 (we will
continue to accept applications until position is filled):
• Letter of interest with a paragraph on
what you would like to accomplish while at MSU
• Resume or CV
• Artist’s statement
• 15-20 jpegs of recent work
• If available, 10 jpegs of student work
• Contact information (email
and phone) for 3 references . . . Please make one a former professor
Steve Hilton
[email protected]
Midwestern State University
Juanita and Ralph Harvey School of Visual
Arts
3410 Taft Blvd
Wichita Falls, TX 76308
(940) 613.7041
by Carole Epp | Apr 1, 2013 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
Residency Description:
The
Genesee Pottery is looking for two committed, community-minded clay
artists to be a part of our dynamic studio. Residents responsibilities
include glaze mixing, clay reclaim, studio maintenance, help with load
in/load out and sales in the Firehouse Gallery, and teaching classes.
The Residents are expected to contribute bowls to the Pottery’s annual Great Bowls of Fire Chili Fundraiser,
and to produce a cohesive body of work for a two-person show in the
Firehouse Gallery. While BFA or MFA candidates are preferred,
applicants are juried by a staff panel and emphsis is put on the
portfolio’s quality of work and the candidates expressed desire to be a
part of a community studio. There is no bias or preference for
functional work over sculptural or vice-versa.
Residents are
given materials at cost, and free firing, as well as studio space and
24/7 access. The Residents agree to a combined 15 hours of
studio/gallery/teaching per week. The residency begins September, 2012
and runs through August, 2013
To apply:
Send a cd with 15-20 images of recent (within a year) work. (300dpi jpeg).
Hardcopy of image descriptions, size, materials, titles
CV/Resume
Artist’s statement
Letter of Intent
Mail to:
Kate Whorton
Genesee Pottery
713 Monroe Ave
Rochester, NY 14607
Application Deadline: April 15, 2013
Questions? Email Kate or give her a call at (585) 271-5183
(view full prospectus here)
Genesee Center for the Arts & Education
Main Office
713 Monroe Avenue
Rochester, NY 14607
585 – 244 -1730
Email the main office
by Carole Epp | Mar 17, 2013 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
About the Lormina Salter Fellowship
Realizing the need to enrich the existing collective studio with
creative, energetic and artistically diverse ceramists, Baltimore
Clayworks is offering a one-year residency fellowship as a memorial to
one of our founders, Lormina Salter. “Nina,” as she was fondly known to
us, was a gifted teacher and respected artist who handbuilt large
stoneware vessels and sculpture. Her initiative, energy and insistence
on artistic excellence were instrumental in setting direction for
Clayworks in its critical early years.
The residency fellowship runs from September 1st to August 31st of
the following year. Applications will be juried by select artists in
residence, the Residency Program Coordinator, the Executive Director and
an outside curator or artist.
Former and current affiliates of Baltimore Clayworks are not eligible.
The Residency Fellowship Includes
- Individual production area (approximately 120 square feet)
- $100 monthly materials and firing stipend
- A solo exhibition in our main gallery at the end of the residency
- Common area (2000 square feet) including storage Consignment
- Gallery (60/40 –2002 gross sales – $65,758)
- Kilns: 60 cu ft and 45 cu ft downdraft natural gas kilns, 30 cu
ft propane kiln, raku propane kiln, a newly constructed two-chamber
climbing type woodkiln, 8 electric kilns, electric test kiln
- Equipment: 2 slab rollers, Alpine spray booth with 1 hp compressor, ball mill, extruder
- Teaching opportunities, both onsite and through our Community Arts program, networking with Artists-In-Schools
Residency Fellowship Requirements
- At least 24 hours weekly on the premises (doing your own work)
- Up to 10 hours annually of community outreach (slide lectures or demonstrations)
- Participation in the collective life of the studio Willingness to abide by environmental concerns
- Solo exhibition
- Residence established in Baltimore
Application
Download an application and mail it to
Lormina Salter Fellowship
Baltimore Clayworks
5707 Smith Ave
Baltimore, MD 21209
For questions, please contact Jim Dugan at 410 578-4408 or email [email protected].
For consideration all applications MUST include the following:
- Completed application A list of 3 references and their
affiliations with phone numbers (letters of recommendation are not
necessary)
- Artist’s Statement
- Resume
- 10 jpg images (300 dpi, exactly 1200 x 900 pixels) on a CD readable by Macintosh and PC computers
- Image info sheet, including title, date, materials, and processes
http://www.baltimoreclayworks.org/artists/become_fellowship_artists.html
by Carole Epp | Mar 10, 2013 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
Roswell, New Mexico
Length: one year
Time periods: for residencies beginning winter 2013 to spring 2014
Application deadline: April 1, 2013
Open to studio-based visual artists since 1968!
