by Carole Epp | Jun 9, 2016 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, technical tuesday
The UNF
Cermics Guild is pleased to host The UNF International Ceramics
Exhibition.
This show will highlight ceramic excellence, according to juror McKenzie
Smith. Participation is open to all artists 18 years of age or
older. Work submitted must be original, must use
clay as the primary material, and must have been completed within the
last 3
years.
Awards:
Purchase
Award
Best of
Show
Honorable
Mentions
Calendar:
Application Deadline: Wednesday, July 20th, 2016 by Midnight Pacific Time
Exhibition Dates: September 1, 2016 – October 14, 2016
Email Notification Begins: July 27th, 2016
Accepted Works Due: August 19th, 2016
Juror:
McKenzie
Smith is a potter working in Florida. McKenzie worked as a Core Student
at the Penland School of Crafts. He received his BFA from the
University of South Florida and his MFA from the University of Florida.
Residencies include the Archie Bray Foundation, Banff Center For The
Arts, Baltimore Clayworks, and the University of Miami. Smith has
exhibited widely and taught numerous workshops.
Gallery:
UNF Gallery of Art
Founders Hall
Building 2 • Room 1001
1
UNF Drive
Jacksonville, FL 32224
http://unfceramics.webs.com/
by Carole Epp | Jun 9, 2016 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, technical tuesday
This international event is scheduled for September 1 – October 2 in
the historic City of Auburn located in the California, Sierra Nevada
foothills, heart of Gold Country.
This juried clay show celebrates visionary artists from around the
world with only 100 entries allowed in the Exposition. Online
applications will be accepted beginning April 1, 2016.
More than $25,000 in cash prizes and awards will be offered to the winning entries. The Exposition will be judged by Susannah Israel, the only American to win the New Zealand Fletcher Challenge.
This Exposition is held in conjunction with a Throw-a-Thon, exciting
workshops and a Street Fair (organized by General Gomez Gallery and the
ClayArts Studio). The exposition features a grand finale Beer &
Brats Fete, complete with local beer, food, music and commemorative beer
stein.
The North American Clay Challenge is offering $25,000
in cash prize money and purchase awards. 2016 is our inaugural year,
the not so modest beginnings of many more years to come for the North American Clay Challenge.
We started with an idea for a two-day clay throw-a-thon, and soon our
enthusiasm heightened and our ideas propagated more ideas, and the North American Clay Challenge was born.
One goal early on, was to join the ranks of Auburn’s many prestigious
events. In keeping with the true “Auburn, Endurance Capital of the
World” spirit, we soon realized that what was needed was not simply a
single clay event, but a month long, pull out all the stops,
International Clay Challenge!
With the expertise of clay artists Larry Ortiz and Ray Gonzales, we
soon had internationally known artist Susannah Israel on board as juror
for the show. The Clay Challenge exhibit will be located in the General Gomez Arts building at 808 Lincoln Way in Auburn, California, USA.
The exposition includes challenges in the following four categories:
Figure Sculpture, Sculpture, Functional (Thrown), and Tile/Wall Hanging.
September begins with an exclusive invitational VIP reception, followed
workshops, the clay throw-a-thon, the General reception along with a
street fair with demonstrations, live music, and vendors.
October 1st wraps up the month with a Beer and Brats festival.
TAKE THE CHALLENGE!
www.northamericanclaychallenge.com/entry_page/
by Carole Epp | May 24, 2016 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, technical tuesday
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| McKenzie Smith |
Description of Show:
The
UNF Cermics Guild is pleased to host The UNF International Ceramics
Exhibition. This show will highlight ceramic excellence, according to
juror McKenzie Smith. Participation is open to all artists 18 years of
age or older. Work submitted must be original, must use clay as the
primary material, and must have been completed within the last 3 years.
Awards:
Purchase Award
Best of Show
Honorable Mentions
Calendar:
Application Deadline: Wednesday, July 20th, 2016 by Midnight Pacific Time
Exhibition Dates: September 1, 2016 – October 14, 2016
Email Notification Begins: July 27th, 2016
Accepted Works Due: August 19th, 2016
Juror:
McKenzie
Smith is a potter working in Florida. McKenzie worked as a Core Student
at the Penland School of Crafts. He received his BFA from the
University of South Florida and his MFA from the University of Florida.
Residencies include the Archie Bray Foundation, Banff Center For The
Arts, Baltimore Clayworks, and the University of Miami. Smith has
exhibited widely and taught numerous workshops.
Gallery:
UNF Gallery of Art
Founders Hall
Building 2 • Room 1001
1 UNF Drive
Jacksonville, FL 32224
by Carole Epp | May 20, 2016 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, technical tuesday
THEME: The Evocative Garden
DEADLINE: Wednesday, JUNE 15, 2016 (11:59pm Mountain time)
The Evocative Garden FULL prospectus(pdf)
If you encounter problems and require technical assistance with submission contact [email protected]
Location:
Disjecta Contemporary Art Center
8371 N Interstate Avenue
Portland, OR 97217
www.disjecta.org
March 4- April 1, 2017
JUROR/ CURATOR: Gail M. Brown, curator will select works for the
exhibition in coordination with NCECA Exhibitions Director Leigh Taylor
Mickelson.
ABOUT THE NEW NCECA ANNUAL
In 2017 NCECA launches a new annual exhibition platform that will
replace the Biennial and Invitational, which have been produced in
alternating years since 2010. The refreshed NCECA Annual exhibition
format is being developed in response to feedback from members. The
new model seeks to blend impactful attributes of each of the previous
models while also cultivating opportunity for curatorial practice in
regard to ceramic art.
NCECA’s aspiration is to evolve the exhibition model in a manner that
will enable exceptional work to be represented in a way that celebrates
concerns of materiality and conceptual rigor. One outcome that NCECA
will remain committed to will be that comparatively under-exposed
artists will have an opportunity to present their work with that of
established and important emerging creators in the field.
The NCECA Annual will enable the vision of a single curator to frame
an organizing concept and to support the exhibition’s foundational ideas
through the inclusion of works by up to five invited artists making
important contributions to the field. The remainder of the exhibition
will be selected through an open submission, blind review and selection
process. The single curator model will provide an annually recurring
opportunity for a particular point of view on the field to emerge as the
result of a unique, informed, and thoughtful vision.
ABOUT THE EVOCATIVE GARDEN
The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts is pleased to
announce that in 2017, esteemed curator of contemporary craft Gail M. Brown
will launch this new series with The Evocative Garden, an international
juried and invitational exhibition exploring natural and cultivated
worlds. Invited artists include Megan Bogonovich, Jess Riva Cooper, Kim Dickey, Linda Sormin and Dirk Staschke.
A breadth of implied and articulated dramas will be staged as a
personally defined natural landscape or more formalized garden scenario.
In works of ceramic sculpture, installation, object and vessel format,
each participant will offer a new or recent work- some potent
objects-as-metaphors, with sub-text and, others as choreographed scenes
with figuration or the figure/s implied in a verdant location, in
vocabularies from nuanced realism to personal symbolism. Each will be
designed to reference an array of issues- nature’s fragility and
sustainability, the wild and the tame, life’s appetites and dilemmas,
conflict and resolution, the everlasting and the temporal- social and
historic events, of the natural world and the human condition.
Artists remind us that nature and the articulated garden, as context,
stimulation and tactile allure, is a seductive, universal, ever present
enticement.
~Gail M. Brown, Curator
Portland identifies itself as The City of Roses. It abounds with lush
public and private gardens and the climate to nurture them. For The
Evocative Garden, the curator seeks submissions that visually define a
garden allusion, as subject, context or setting, according to their own
narrative and ceramic vocabulary.
http://nceca.net/annual-exhibition/
by Carole Epp | Apr 15, 2016 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, technical tuesday
OPEN TO ART
International Art and Design Ceramics Competition
Created and promoted by Officine Saffi, Open to Art
confirms its status as a tool for enhancing and promoting the use of
ceramics in contemporary art, design and furnishing. The competition
also represents an opportunity for reflecting on the latest developments
in visual design and technology.
Open to Art is a competition open to artists of any age, without any limits on subject matter, and with the only requirement that ceramic has to be the principal material used in the work. There are two sections in which artists can take part: Art Ceramics, and Design Ceramics. The complete competition rules can be downloaded from the website www.officinesaffi.com. Applications are accepted up until 30 June 2016.
The Jury
An international jury will assess the works submitted, according to criteria of quality, research, originality and contemporaneity. The jurors are:
- Laura Borghi, creator and promoter of the prize, Officine Saffi, Milan
- Aileesh Carew, Project Director of the National Craft Gallery, Ireland
- Carlotta de Bevilacqua, vice-president of Artemide and President of Danese Milano
- Paolo Dell’Elce, designer
- Flaminio Gualdoni, art critic and historian, editor of the magazine La Ceramica in Italia e nel Mondo
- Franco Marrocco, Director of the Brera Fine Arts Academy
- Shozo Michikawa, artist
- Museo del Design 1880-1980, Milan
- Kristina Riska, designer and artist
Prizes
For the winners, the prize money available is 10,000 euro, shared between two first prizes, one for the Art category and one for the Design category, so that each has a value of 5,000 euro.
As well as the first prizes in the two categories, there are 5 additional prizes, two of which comprise artists’ residencies, one in Japan during the International Ceramic Art Festival, Sasama, and one in Finland.
The Museo del Design 1880-1980, Milano will offer to a selected artist the Solo Show Prize, a solo exhibition in the museum spaces. A special Production Prize will be offered by FABLAB Milano. As in the previous edition, Open to Art dedicates particular attention to young artists, by means of an Under 30 Prize with support from the Brera Fine Arts Academy, which will select a work by a young artist to be exhibited at the Academy.
Finalist’s Exhibition
All the finalist works in Open to Art will be presented in a special exhibition that will open in January 2017 at Officine Saffi in Milan. The winners will be announced at the exhibition inauguration.
OFFICINE SAFFI
Officine Saffi, an organization based in Milan, is an experimental hub dedicated to contemporary ceramics.
Its audience comprises artists, designers, architects, ceramists and
everyone interested in ceramics and art. The project consists of the Art gallery, for exhibitions with works by international artists, the Workshop for courses, also used for artists’ residencies and production by artists and designers, and the Publishing Company that produces art catalogues and the quarterly magazine La Ceramica in Italia e nel mondo (www.laceramicainitalia.com).
Part of Officine Saffi’s mission is the Open to Art International Competition,
dedicated to Art Ceramics and Design Ceramics. Through its operations,
Officine Saffi represents a point of reference for international
ceramics, with a mission to enhancing the significance of ceramics in
the areas of art, design and architecture.
Useful information:
Competition: Open to Art, International Art and Design Ceramics Competition
Applications can be submitted from 31 March 2016
Deadline: 30 June 2016
Prize-giving and exhibition inauguration: January 2017
Location: Officine Saffi Ceramic Arts Gallery, Via Aurelio Saffi 7 – Milan.
Tel: +39 02 36 68 56 96
E-mail: [email protected]
Info: www.officinesaffi.com
