residency opportunity: Medalta 3 different residency options

The application deadline for all residencies is April 15th, 2014.
Download the AIR Application Form 2014.

For more information, flip through our online Blurb Book.

At
its core, Medalta’s residency program is about bringing artists together
in an environment that promotes creativity through community. The
residency concept creates an opportunity for ceramists – who, for the
most part, work individually – to re-enter a community atmosphere and
take part in a rejuvenating dialogue, while working with like-minded
artists. Our program seeks to benefit artists at all stages of their
career, from students, to established artists. Each resident brings a
wide variety of technical and aesthetic skills to the experience.

2014 Long-Term Residency @Medalta

Here’s a chance to really engage in your studio practice.

Un-interrupted time, access to amazing resources, a creative
atmosphere, fully appointed studio, a museum, a decommissioned brick
yard and a decommissioned china factory. All located in the 150 acre
Historic Clay District in Medicine Hat.

Seriously, a whole part of town dedicated to both, ceramics (the materials) and ceramics (the practice).

$345/month (CAD)
Apply now

Fee includes:

  • 24 hour studio access
  • Full access to the entire Historic Clay District site
  • All firings included
  • Glaze materials in test quantities
  • Use of shop glazes
  • Teaching and employment opportunities
  • Exhibition opportunities in our on site contemporary art galleries

Artist responsible for:

  • Materials and clay
  • Accommodations

Availability:

6 spaces
Application deadline April 15, 2014

2014 FLEX @ Medalta

No, this isn’t some kind of Atlas Gym-sponsored weightlifting competition …

If you aren’t able to take a year for a residency and our summer
residencies don’t fit your schedule or you have a special project you
want to focus son, our Flex Residencies are probably what you’re looking
for.

The idea is pretty simple – if you have an idea and simply need the
space to create (whether it’s for two months or eleven), apply for a
Flex Residency and come create at Medalta.

$475/month (CAD)
Apply now

Application deadline April 15, 2014

Summer 2014 @ Medalta

What are you doing this July and August? Another great short-term
opportunity for someone who has the drive to create amongst the
rattlesnakes, tumble weeds and amazing industrial heritage in Medicine
Hat.

Whether you’re a student, professional or anyone who wants to further
explore your ceramic art practice, this two-month residency is a great
opportunity to fully immerse yourself in ideas and process.

As always, you will be joining our  full-year resident artists so the
creative buzz is in the studio and you can actualize your ideas the
minute you arrive.

$975 for two months (CAD)
Apply now

Fee includes:

  • 24 hour studio access
  • Full access to the entire Historic Clay District site
  • All firings included
  • Glaze materials in test quantities
  • Use of shop glazes
  • Exhibition opportunities in our on site contemporary art galleries

Artist responsible for:

  • Materials and clay
  • Accommodations

Availability:

7 spaces
Application deadline April 15, 2014

Still have questions? We’d love to answer them for you. Contact us.
[email protected]
403.504.4653

All material must be submitted in hard copy and arrive by mail, courier, or submitted in person to:

Medalta International Artists in Residence
713 Medalta Ave SE
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
T1A 3K9
NOTE: All application materials need to arrive on or before the application due date. Late applications will not be processed.

Your application package must include each of the following items. Incomplete packages will not be considered.

1. Completed application form.
2. $25 non-refundable application fee.
3. Ten images of recent work in jpeg format on a CD. (images must be
high-resolution (300 dpi). Do not submit images embedded in a program
such as PowerPoint or Microsoft Word.
4. Image List stating Title, Medium and Size.
5. Bio (100 words max.)
6. Artist Statement (100 words max.)
7. Curriculum Vitae
8. Two references with name and contact information.
9. Residency proposal letter stating your intended course of exploration during your residency.

NOTE: Please include a hard copy as well as a digital file of all documents on a CD.

If accepted, you will be notified within two weeks of the application closing date.

Find out more about Medalta here

Opening tonight! Ian Johnston: Reinventing Consumption @ the Dunlop Art Gallery

Image: Ian Johnston, Between the Lines (Light) (detail), 2010. silkscreened stoneware. Photo: Serge Hagemeier.

Ian Johnston: Reinventing Consumption
Organized by Dunlop Art Gallery in partnership with Access Gallery,
Art Gallery of Swift Current, Esplanade Art Gallery, McMaster University
Art Gallery, and The Robert McLaughlin Gallery.

January 31 to April 3, 2014
Curated by Wendy Peart

Artist Talk: Friday, January 31, 6:00 pm, RPL Film Theatre 
Opening Reception: Friday, January 31, 7:00 pm, Central Gallery

Reinventing Consumption is a three-room installation by
sculptor Ian Johnston, whose work investigates object production while
questioning the cycles that eventually see the castoffs of the material
world enter sensitive biological ecospheres. The first space, The Inventor’s Room, provides a glimpse into the glorious creative process of making. The Antechamber enlists the tropes of mass production and considers the scale at which we create and consume. The Chamber provides a space to contemplate the environmental impact of mass production through the forces of breath, fire, and water.

Ian Johnston is an architect-turned-sculptor based in Nelson, BC. He
has exhibited his sculptural ceramic work internationally since the
mid-nineties. Johnston studied architecture at Algonquin College and
Carleton University in Ottawa, and with the University of Toronto at
Paris, France. Prior to opening his Nelson studio in 1996, he spent five
years working at the Bauhaus Academy in post-Berlin Wall East Germany.
At the Bauhaus, together with two architects, he developed and
facilitated a series of semester-long international, interdisciplinary
workshops around themes of urban renewal and public intervention in a
tumultuous time of cultural transformation. His current work examines
our relationship with the environment in installations that use ceramic
and mixed media and appeal to multiple senses of the viewer.

Dunlop Art Gallery
Regina Public Library
2311 12th Avenue
Regina SK
Canada S4P 3Z5  

www.dunlopartgallery.org/exhibitions/upcoming.html
www.ianjohnstonstudio.com/work/2010-2013-reinventing-consumption/


PATCHWORKED IN CANADA by Dear Human

Funded by Canada Council for the Arts, Dear Human’s “Patchworked In Canada” is
a two stage project: First, as a mural made from 1200 reworked vintage
Portuguese tiles, exhibited this month at the Toronto Design Offsite Festival’s
hub. Then it takes to the streets as an interactive urban art project. Throughout
select areas of Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver, the tiles will be tagged as
individual installations, to be found and taken home by lucky and observant
finders. 
Dear Human <www.dearhuman.ca> is the creative studio of ceramic, architect, sculpture, design duo Jasna Sokolovic and Noel O’Connell. 
A
flower growing in a crack of the concrete. This project is like that;
finding unanticipated beauty in the urban landscape, inviting a moment
of pause and response. The search for these small offerings is an open invitation to explore and play. 
Press Releases in French and English: http://www.dearhuman.ca/?page_id=2315&preview_id=2315
High Res Images: Email [email protected]
EVENT
DETAILS
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Exhibition
Hosted at the hub of Toronto Design
Offsite Festival at:
Bosley Real
Estate Ltd.
1108 Queen
Street West
Toronto,
Ontario
M6J 1H9
January 20th
to the 26th
Hours of
Operation: Mon-Fri: 3-7pm, Sat: 12-7pm, Sun: 12-5pm
Tagging
Toronto: Queen West area, January 27th-28th
Montreal: Le Plateau – Laurier area,
January 30th-31st 
Vancouver: Mount Pleasant – Main Street
area, February 7th-8th