European Ceramic Context 2010


Well the website doesn’t have all the info yet, but I could wait to share the news of an amazing ceramic opportunity in 2010. Three extensive exhibitions with the best of European contemporary ceramics, workshops, lectures, masterclasses and artist residencies will take place on the island of Bornholm September 2010! Could it get much better?
From their website:
European Ceramic Context 2010 forms part of a biennial symposium for European contemporary glass and ceramics on the island of Bornholm in Denmark. Through comprehensive exhibitions, workshops, master classes, lectures and an artist in residence program, an opportunity will arise to discuss and present the best of contemporary European ceramics today. All 27 members of the European Union as well as Iceland, Norway and Switzerland will be participating.European Ceramic Context 2010 is organizing a conference that will spotlight and discuss current themes in contemporary European ceramics. Lecturers and speakers will be among the leading theorists, curators and artists within the field of ceramics. The conference will take place at the Glass and Ceramic School on Bornholm.European Ceramic Context 2010 is organizing a number of Master Classes, that will be open for enrollment to all professional ceramic artists who wishes to extend their knowledge or seek inspiration and challenge for their daily studio-practice. Master classes will be taught by accomplished instructors and professional artists.
European Ceramic Context is organizing a series of artist residencies in collaboration with Res Artis, a world wide network of artist-residencies and residential art centers. Selected artists will be given the time and space to develop a new project or body of work in ceramics. Artists will be working at Svaneke Gaarden, Møbelfabrikken and The Glass and Ceramic School for a period of approx. 6 weeks. During the residency artist will be asked to work on a given theme, to be presented at the ECC2010 conference at the end of their AiR session.
More details will be forth coming so bookmark the site and start booking your time off and flights!

Residency opportunity – Montreal Canada

Artist Residency at Creative Boost, Montreal

Emerging and established artists, as well as artist sponsors and organizations, are invited to apply for artist residency at Creative Boost. Situated in the heart of downtown Montreal, Creative Boost is surrounded by a thriving cultural scene, offering artists a stimulating space in which to realize their artistic vision.

The facility consists of both private and communal studios, a fully equipped clay studio, and an art gallery. Creative Boost also offers a unique language immersion program where students improve their English or French through planned learning activities where art in all its forms plays an important role.

For all applications, please visit our website, www.creativeboost.ca.

Clay Studio Philidelphia – calls for artists

Clay Studio – calls for artists

Check out the Clay Studio in Philadelphia’s website for a bunch of opportunities such as:
Calls for exhibition proposals – deadline May 31st
Call for resident artists – deadline March 27th (postmarked)
Call for associate artists, guest artist in residence, Evelyn Shapiro Foundation Fellowship, Graduate student exhibition, curatorial call for entries and the clay studio shop.

Wow quite the list, should be something for everyone! And since there’s far too much information to list here, if you’re interested make your way over to their website for all the details and deadlines.

Contact: Jeff Guido.
Or Send proposals to:
Juried Solo Exhibition,
The Clay Studio,
139 N. Second Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106.
P: 215-925-3453.
E: [email protected].
W: www.theclaystudio.org/artist/.

Artist residency program – Italy

La Macina di San Cresci is an independent non-profit association based in Greve in Chianti (Florence), Italy. They are offering an Artist-in-Residency program, open to international artists, writers, poets, actors and other art & culture professionals.

La Macina di San Cresci 2008 residency in Italy Artist residency consists of sojourning from 7 to 90 days . This period covers a program based on the personal project proposal presented by the artist and includes the attendance to the workshops in several disciplines (when scheduled).
Fellow artists are expected to pursue work independently, taking full advantage of the rich cultural backdrop offered by the ancient place and its surroundings .

Artists work full-time in their studios, and take weekly trips to study and draw from the great art of Italy. Students and residents live and work in Greve in Chianti , a hill town in Tuscany, one of Italy’s most beautiful regions.

The centre, open to artists, writers, poets, actors and to other art and culture professionals from around the world, and having no racial, age or any other kind of discrimination, offers the opportunity to work alone, or together with other creative people from other countries, developing and interchanging concise ideas on contemporary art and culture.

More information and application form on www.chianticom.com