call for entry: Zanesville Prize for Contemporary Ceramics

Zanesville Prize for Contemporary Ceramics

Total Prizes: $30,000
Best of Show: $20,000
1st Place: $5,000
2nd Place: $3,000
3rd Place: $1,000
Honorable Mention: $500 (2)
Zanesville Ohio Ceramic Arts (ZOCA) in
cooperation with the Muskingum County Community Foundation (MCCF), the
Potters Council, and the Artist Colony of Zanesville (ART COZ), is
seeking entries in functional, sculptural, and tile ceramics.

There are two ways you may submit entries to the Zanesville Prize:

1. You may submit your entries online.

OR

2. You may download a PDF version of the Zanesville Prize Call for Entries that includes the Entry Form and use that to submit your entries by mail.

No slides, prints or entry submissions will be accepted by email.

JURORS

Three jurors will jury the competition:
Sherman Hall (Editor of Ceramics Monthly) (Columbus)
Brad Schwieger (Professor of Art at Ohio University) (Athens)
Angelica Pozo (Ceramic Artist) (Cleveland)

ENTRY QUALIFICATIONS

Entrants: Open to all ceramic artists worldwide.

There will be up to 100 pieces chosen.
The recommended size of work is a base of no more than 16’’ wide or deep
and a height of not more than 31’’ tall. Works may be larger than the
recommended size, but the artist must pay for return shipping if the
larger piece does not sell. Shipping costs of international works to be
returned to a destination other than an address in the United States
must be paid by the artist.
No ceiling-suspended works will be
accepted. Only very limited on-site assembly of multi-part works will be
possible. Works must be made primarily of ceramic materials and be
predominantly the work of the artist. The artwork must be no more than
two years old on the date of entry.
CALENDAR
     Opening date for submissions: January 15, 2014
     Deadline for receipt of entries: July 15, 2014
     Notification of acceptances: August 15, 2014
     Delivery of accepted works: September 15-22, 2014 (including hand delivery)
     Exhibition Dates: September 27 – October 12, 2014
A fee of $40 covers up to three (3) entries. You may submit your entries online.
If you submit your entries by mail, checks or money orders are to be
made out to MCCF and must be drawn on a US bank payable in US funds.

Artists of entries selected for the competition will be notified by
e-mail, so be sure to include your e-mail address. If you wish to be
notified by regular mail, please include a self-addressed stamped
envelope.

Find all the details here: zanesvilleprize.org/call-for-entries/

call for entry: Reclaimed: Installation, Performance and Site-Specific Works Exhibition

 
Application deadline: May 18, 2014
Entry Fee: $15

Show Date: July 1, 2014-July 1, 2015
Open to: the use of clay must be included in the works in some amount, whether through material, imagery, or concept.

Contact details:
One Wall Gallery
[email protected]
www.one-wall-gallery.com

call for entry: Shapes of Influence/Contemporary Ceramics

Application deadline: May 10, 2014
Entry Fee: $30 for up to 3 entries
Location: Illinois, Springfield
Show Date: July 18-September 6
Open to: all and must include ceramic components, floor, wall and non-traditional forms of various sizes.

Contact details:
Springfield Art Association
700 N. 4th St.
[email protected]
www.springfieldart.org
Phone: 217-523-2631

call for entry: SPOON ME! @Medalta


This year we thought we’d switch things up. It all started in September 2013 with our SExSE invitational residency (South East Alberta by South East Asia) and the talented Vipoo Srivilasa.
Vipoo challenged all of our residents to a spoon competition and we
were all hooked. The spoons created during this competition travelled
with Vipoo’s work to the Ceramic Top 40 exhibition at Red Star Studios
and are now off to Boston with his project OBJECT:SPOON.

As all this was happening we started seeing spoons everywhere. With
this object – that has gone in and out of fashion – making a serious
comeback in studio ceramics, we decided to extend the challenge to our
international invitational exhibition. Spoons are the New Cup!

DETAILS & IMPORTANT DATES

  • Application Deadline: Monday, June 30, 2014
  • Exhibition: September 1 – November 29, 2014
  • Email Notification Begins July 15th, 2014
  • Accepted Work Due August 15th, 2014
  • Up to five entries accepted
  • Submission Fee: $20.00 (CAD)
  • All artists payments & sold/unsold work will be shipped in December 2014
  • Opening reception TBA

So this year send us your SPOONS, your ladles, your scoops and your
servers. If a spoon is the feature of an object such as a soup tureen or
a larger set, send us your soup tureens and sets too. We want to see
what you come up with.

Not working in ceramics? No problem – this year we are opening it up
to our friends in other craft mediums too … clay, metal, glass, wood
& fibre.

We are very happy to be working again with the talented Musing About Mud
blogger and Canadian ceramic rockstar, Carole Epp. She will have the
hard task of Juror, narrowing down the entries and selecting the prize
winners.

Speaking of Prizes! Last year we partnered up with Medicine Hat
College, and together we gave away a free month long residency at
Medalta with accommodation to the Grand Prize winner KyoungHwa Oh. We can’t wait to have her in the studios this June … she makes some pretty great spoons too.

This year we will have purchases prizes for the Medalta contemporary
collection and several selected artists will be featured on the Musing
About Mud blog. For last years featured artists & Carole’s fabulous
coverage of the previous years show click here.

We’re cooking up even more prizes this year, we’ll update you here as
soon as they’re cemented.. but we’re definitely offering a June 2015
residency at Medalta as our grand prize!

The entry can be done completely online below by uploading your images and information.

JUROR

Carole Epp is likely best known for her work on Musing About Mud,
(www.musingaboutmud.blogspot.com) an online resource of ceramic related
content. She is a graduate of the Australian National University,
produces two distinct lines of functional and sculptural ceramics,
exhibits internationally, and at the end of the day is a mother to two
charming young boys.

ELIGIBILITY

The exhibition is open to all international artists. Work can be
either functional or sculptural so long as it addresses the idea of “the
spoon”. Please submit only original work that has been completed in the
last two years.

You can submit up to five entries, with the $20 (CAD entry fee).
Entries could include 5 separate spoons, or any of the entries can be a
set.  If the entry is to be juried as a set, please put set in one
photo, all sets will be priced as a set and sold together.

Front and back views are not required, but if you feel it’s necessary
to properly convey your piece using a front and back view then using a
side by side shot as one of the entries/uploads is recommended.

Work must not exceed 2 feet in width.

All work must be properly prepared for exhibition, be durable enough
to survive shipping and display, and come with exhibition/assemblage
instructions and hardware if applicable.

Medalta reserves the right to reject any work that is not suitably
prepared for exhibition or that differs from the original submission.
Medalta reserves the right to use images and photographs of accepted
works for the purposes of promotional materials, including postcards,
calendars, local media as well as online promotion.

SHIPMENT OF WORK

All artwork must arrive at Medalta no later than August 15th. Artists
are responsible for all shipping and insurance costs to the gallery.

SALES

  • All entries must be for sale, (priced in Canadian Dollars).
  • Medalta will receive a commission of 40% on all sales.
  • All work will be available online.

AWARDS & PRIZES

GRAND PRIZE! One lucky artist will win one month in Medalta’s June 2015 residency!
We’re cooking up even more prizes this year, we’ll update you here (and Facebook & Twitter) as soon as we have more to report. So check back often!
Purchases Prizes will be awarded for Medalta’s Contemporary Ceramics collection.
Several of the selected artists will be featured on the Musing About Mud blog.
Awards will be determined by the juror and announced at the opening reception. Artists do not need to be present to win.

Visit their website to apply.
medalta.org/spoonme

Any questions regarding this show can be directed to Medalta’s fabulous Exhibitions & Collections Curator …
Jenna Stanton
[email protected]
Curator, Exhibitions & Collections
Medalta
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada