by Carole Epp | Jun 19, 2014 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
Yeah! NCECA released the video of the first part of our Virtual Clay presentation at NCECA. Check out our introductions on you tube and then head over to The Tales of the Red Clay Rambler for a special podcast of the question and answer portion of our panel.
I hope you enjoy it. It was a blast to work with the amazing creative and professional minds of Adam Field, Ben Carter and Michael Kline. Ben did a great little write up over on his blog so head on over and check it out please. Would love to hear your thoughts on the panel.
by Carole Epp | Jun 17, 2014 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
I posted these images on instagram yesturday and received a bunch of questions so I thought I’d included them here today for technical tuesday. Basically what I’m trying to do is add more depth to my functional work, and rather then return to stamps that I had used in the past I wanted to incorporate something that had a less precise or “refined” look to it. A technique that could be used from dish to dish but with different variations complementing how my dishes have unique hand drawn images rather than decals. Stamps to me equate to the same rigid repeativeness of decals. Not that I’m against either, I’m just looking for a different quality for this body of work.
Anyhow what I’m doing in cutting designs into thin sheets of foam (bought at Micheals here in Canada). I like how I can push and pull the images, use them on flat or rounded surfaces, layer them and ideally my aim is to incorporate them more and more into my work. It’s a technique I’ve seen many other artists use. It’s definitely not my idea, but hopefully I can develop my own spin on it.
by Carole Epp | May 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
A Craft Talk with Carole Epp, the force behind the popular ceramics blog Musing
about Mud
May 29, 7 pm
La maison des artistes
219 Provencher Blvd
Winnipeg MB
Saskatchewan artist and blogger Carole Epp will take the audience on a
journey through her professional development as an artist, stopping to
examine the ways in which her ceramic work has intertwined with social
media along the way. She’ll also reflect on
the question: How do you maintain a vibrant studio practice, get into
the big shows, travel, give talks, host a blog that’s the go-to place
for ceramics-related news world-wide, all while raising a young family?
All will be revealed on May 29! Free public
lecture. All welcome.
Studio visits with Carole Epp are available to MCC members, by application.
by Carole Epp | May 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
Recently I was contacted by Paul Blais who is starting a new podcast for potters. My first thought of course was yeah more stuff to listen to in the studio. Then he asked me to be one of the first three interviewees and I got nervous. I love podcasts, but being on them is, well, a bit frightening. I always second guess everything I say and hope that there is at least one trinket of wisdom I can impart.
Paul made it easy. He’s super fun to chat with and the podcast ended up being really relaxed like a cup of coffee between friends, as it should be.
I hope you can find some time to have a listen, either to my podcast or to the others that Paul has and will be producing. So exciting to add another podcast to the mix just for ceramics! Maybe our own reality tv show isn’t that far off after all : )
Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-potters-cast/id869539792
Direct Download:
http://traffic.libsyn.com/thepotterscast/Episode_3_Carol_Epp.mp3
or visit:
thepotterscast.com/caroleepp/
Oh and stay tuned for next week as Musing About Mud will be launching a new bi-weekly special guest post all about podcasts! It’s gonna be super exciting…..
