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Would you like your work and website showcased as part of Monday morning eye candy? All types of clay work considered. Drop me a line at [email protected] with musing: eye candy as the subject.
Closing date: 1 October 2010
Talente Germany
Entries are being accepted for Talente 2011, annual international competition for young people involved in craft, design or technology. Talente’s aim is to promote young people with a particular manual talent and show something new and exceptional that has been made by hand. Entries are judged and the best are awarded the highly sought after Talente prize.
Visit their Call for Entries to register.
“The Journal of Modern Craft covers all aspects of craft as its exists within the condition of modernity (conceived as roughly from the mid-19th century to the present day) without geographical or disciplinary boundary. The journal is published 3 times a year by Berg Publishers. This website features responses, notices and short contributions relevant to the journal.”
While your there make sure to read the feature article Virtual Guilds: Collective Intelligence and the Future of Craft by Leonardo Bonanni and Amanda Parkes from issue 3.2A great website to stay current on the contemporary climate of craft disciplines and relevant theory and context. Check them out here.
Oh seriously who am I kidding, I think it’s only been my family that’s been wondering what’s up. And no, I would not announce on my blog the news of new additions to the family or similar such things…so rest assured it’s nothing that thrilling.
The news is sadly shameless self promotion, yup even I have to pay the bills sometimes folks. The glamorous life of a blog writer is just not all it’s cracked up to be : )
So here’s the deal: I’ve got a show coming up at the Sask Craft Council that I’m super excited about. Not only am I showing in my hometown, I’m also showing with two artists whose work I greatly admire – Jody Greenman-Barber and Robin Lambert – but on top of all that lately it’s also been a bit of a private anniversary for me. It’s silly really but in August of 2005 I graduated from Grad school, so this year is my 5 year anniversary of living in the ‘real’ world as an artist. Maybe it’s silly, but maybe it’s not. Sometimes we have to take note of our achievements, and not belittle the trials, risks and challenges that we’ve undertaken to get to where we are. Sure I would like my career to be further along at this point. But realistically i’d say it’s not so bad. I’m not working a crappy job instead, so I must be doing something right.
Oops I’m steering off course so before I go too over the top sentimental and lose you all, if I haven’t already (mom and dad I know you’re still here reading) my big announcement today is that in celebration of the last five years that I’ve been working on my Collection of Small Miseries series, I’m putting together a small self-produced publication highlighting pieces from the last few years. This publication will be launched at the upcoming exhibition.
Now I know some of you know about this already from the blog, facebook, etc., but what you don’t know is that for the rest of the month I’m going to be offering pre-orders of the publication at a discount of 20%.
As it sits right now (i’m in the final stages of editing) the publication will be a lovely 30 page full color, soft cover book. There will be over 70 color images of pieces from the collection from 2005 to 2010, plus a bit of text and quotes taken from my thesis/artist statement.
In fact here’s a sneak peek!
Of course two lucky people who contributed their opinion of their favorite will be randomly selected to win a free copy. You still have a chance to be one of these people – find out more here.
So if you’re interested in a copy you can purchase pre-orders here. The books will ship in early October.
So i’m working away on the computer as usual. Why am I never in the studio? Why? Sigh. Anyway…there’s good news. I’m working on a small self-published publication (read iphoto book) that I’m going to be launching at my next gallery exhibition (october) and selling online (asap).
Here’s the problem, I’ve been making figurines since 2005 and there are too many to chose from. So I’m calling on all of you for help! I’ve got my favorites narrowed down, but my favorites and everyone else’s favorites sometimes differ. So you now have the opportunity to have your say.
Vote for your favorite (or favorites) figurine by checking out www.caroleepp.com and browsing through the many years of figurines and then simply drop me a line at [email protected] or in the comments of this post telling me your favorite piece and you could be well on your way to winning a copy of the publication once it is released.
Sound good? 2 readers will be randomly selected and contacted for contact details (or feel free to include those in your email). Post this far and wide, I need some help! Too many to chose from!
DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES is September 5th 2010
Seriously, who doesn’t love free stuff?
