1000 miles apart conference 2010

by | Sep 20, 2010 | Uncategorized

RDC Ceramics is pleased to host 1000 MA in the New Centre for Visual Art

FEATURED ARTISTS
JULIA GALLOWAY is a potter who creates utilitarian work, and is a professor and Director of the School of Art at the University of Montana – Missoula. www.juliagalloway.com
TERI FRAME received a BFA from Kansas City Art Institute in 2005 and MFA from Pennsylvania State University in 2008. She is the Visiting Artist/Instructor in Ceramics at ACAD this year.
ROBERT HARRISON will install one of his brick sculptures that he is famous for over the week of the September 27 to October 3rd. Robert lives and works in Helena, Montana.
DAVID BIAN is a Chinese ceramic artist who works at the Pottery Workshop in Shanghai and will be at RDC as an artist-in-residence for September -October. www.potteryworkshop.org

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Silent Auction
1000 Miles apart is a student run and supported conference that is free to all the attendees. Please help support the students by donating one of your ceramic pieces for a silent auction that will be held over the duration of the conference. Student reps will be on hand to receive your works and put them on display when you arrive to the event.

Exhibition
Students and instructors from the participating institutions are invited to send works for an exhibition of ceramics that will be up for the duration of the conference. Please send the details for the labels in advance to: [email protected]

Ceramics Program Showcase
a representative from each institution is invited to give a short presentation on their program. Please burn the presentation to a CD in PowerPoint format.

Food on Campus
Beverages and food are available on Campus on Friday, there are various locations but the closest is ‘The Patch’ just outside the doors to Ceramics. The Library Cafe serves Starbucks coffee and will be open Friday and Saturday to ensure that you can get your Lattes and Cappuccinos.

Itinerary
Friday October 1st
9:00-12:00 and 1:00-4:00 Throwing Demonstrations with Julia Galloway (Room 944B) 4:00 Ceramics Performance by Teri Frame (Room 944A)
6:00 Exhibition Reception and mixer.

Saturday October 2nd
9:00-12:00 Demo Julia Galloway 12:00 1:00 Lunch provided 1:00 to 5:00 School Presentation, and Lectures
5:00 to 7:00 Pizza Party Ceramics Studio 944B 9:00 FarSide Pub Live Band

Sunday October 2nd
10:00-12:00 Exhibition Takedown and Farewell.

1000 MILES APART
A LITTLE HISTORY
The Red Deer College Ceramics Program is hosting the annual 1000 Miles Apart conference October 1st, 2nd and 3rd, 2010. This conference was first organized in 1989 by faculty and students from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg and Red Deer College, Alberta. The distance between the institutions was the origin of the name 1000 Miles Apart. Participating institutions later included the University of Regina and Alberta College of Art + Design. Each year the conference is organized collectively and rotates to a new host institution for that year. It provides an excellent opportunity for students and faculty to meet and network, and creates a valuable forum to develop and strengthen the ceramics community in Western Canada. Members of the public, along with University of Regina, Red Deer College, and University of Manitoba, students and faculty from nearby Ceramics Programs are also invited to attend the conference events.

Upcoming exhibition and events at the Gardiner Musuem

by | Sep 18, 2010 | Uncategorized

FROM OCTOBER 7

UNTIL JANUARY 30, 2011,
AT TORONTO’S GARDINER MUSEUM

BREAKING BOUNDARIES presents four young Canadian artists whose work challenges our perceptions and expectations about materials, form, function and meaning. The four artists – Shary Boyle, Marc Courtemanche, Carmela Laganse, and Brendan Tang – create works that are both accessible and ambiguous. They are accessible because they draw on objects and images familiar to us from our popular culture. They are ambiguous because it is not always clear what the works are made of, what their forms and functions are, and what stories or meanings they convey.


This combination of accessibility and ambiguity requires viewers to engage actively with the works of art in order to appreciate them fully. The works are not merely demonstrations of technical skill, expressions of the artists’ personalities, or didactic statements about specific aspects of our culture. Rather, they are catalysts that encourage viewers to draw on their own memories, experiences, assumptions and imaginations to create meaning and significance.
In this way, the works in the exhibition break down the boundaries between artist and audience, and transform the gallery visit into a truly democratic experience. In keeping with the dynamic quality of the art, Breaking Boundaries will include spaces in the installation and on the Museum’s website where visitors will have opportunities to respond to the artworks, to create their own artworks, and to engage with each other through the artworks. Come and be part of this exciting exhibition. Breaking Boundaries is curated by Gardiner Museum Chief Curator Charles Mason. It is complemented by a 56-page catalogue of the exhibition published in 2010 by the Gardiner Museum.

Exhibition Partner
Partners in Art

 Catalogue Partners
Hal Jackman Foundation

EXHIBITION-RELATED EVENTS

Members’ Preview
Lunch with Curator Charles Mason
Wednesday October 6
12 – 1:30 pm
BUY TICKETS – LIMITED SEATING, REQUIRES ADVANCE BOOKING
A special Members’-only lunchtime sneak peak at Breaking Boundaries with Chief
Curator Charles Mason including a delicious lunch from Jamie Kennedy Kitchens.
$35 Limited Seating
Brendan Tang
Talk and Demonstration
Wednesday October 6
6 – 8 pm
BUY TICKETS – LIMITED SEATING, REQUIRES ADVANCE BOOKING
Exhibition artist Brendan Tang demonstrates his working methods and reveals his artistic influences – from manga-influenced comics, Ming dynasty ceramics, European decorative ormolu and post-modern theory.
$10 / $8.50 for Gardiner Members, seniors and students
Shary Boyle
Tuesday October 26
8 – 10:30 pm
BUY TICKETS – LIMITED SEATING, REQUIRES ADVANCE BOOKING
One of Canada’s most celebrated contemporary artists conjures visual magic in this piece of performance art. Shary will create “live drawings” with the help of vintage overhead projectors and music.
$25

A sneak peek…

by | Sep 15, 2010 | Uncategorized

Some of these pieces will be in the show next month. More images to come in the next week or so. Thoughts, critiques as always greatly appreciated.


as yet untitled (ideas??)

ass kissing angels

She should have seen the warning signs.

as yet untitled (ideas??)


set adrift in a ship of fools.


they appropriated their identity.

Alberta Arts Days Fundraiser at Historic Clay District

by | Sep 14, 2010 | Uncategorized

@font-face { font-family: “Calibri”; }@font-face { font-family: “HelveticaNeue Condensed”; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: “Times New Roman”; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } Medicine Hat – From 11:00am – 3:00pm on Saturday, September 18, the Historic Clay District is holding a fundraiser while making the museum, Squared Gallery and Shaw Centre open to the public at no charge. All proceeds from this event will go directly to Friends of Medalta Society. Food and refreshments will also be available. For Alberta Arts Days 2010, some of Medicine Hat’s potters have come together to create bowls and figurines which visitors will be able to glaze before being fired in a raku kiln. Raku is a historical pottery technique that originated in Japan. The pots are heated up to 1,000 degrees celsius relatively quickly (45 minutes). Once the pots reach this temperature they are taken from the kiln and plunged into combustible material such as sawdust. This produces smoke that reacts with the glaze to create truly unique surfaces that highlight the mysterious marks of the fire. The costs of this event have been generously covered by Cancarb Ltd. and Crescent Heights Safeway. Historic Clay District Marketing & Fundraising Coordinator is pleased with the community support. “Events like this really showcase the support we have in the community. Whether it is Medicine Hat’s potters coming together to volunteer their time to create pots or organizations like Cancarb and Safeway who are happy to help us with our fundraisers, we have a strong network of people dedicated to seeing the Historic Clay District come to life.” Alberta Arts Days also marks the final weekend of ceramic artist Jim Etzkorn’s exhibition in Medalta’s Squared Gallery. The show is a culmination of Etzkorn’s one year residency at Medalta’s Shaw Centre, where he focused on the salt and soda firing processes. Free half-day pottery classes will be taught by one of Medalta’s new resident artists to people who have pre-registered. Everyone is welcome to participate in the Historic Clay District’s festivities. The Historic Clay District is one of eight tourism attractors in the Canadian Badlands, featured in AMA’s “Alberta 100 Journeys” and is Western Canada’s largest National Historic Site. The museum – in the Medalta Potteries National Historic Site – provides visitors a unique opportunity to visit a restored 1912 pottery factory, which once produced three-quarters of all stoneware in Canada. It is operated under the stewardship of the Friends of Medalta Society. For more information, interviews or visuals, contact:

Quentin Randall
403.529.1070
[email protected]
www.medalta.org