by Carole Epp | Jan 26, 2012 | Uncategorized
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This Friday we will be showing Jeff Oestreich. Jeff is a full-time studio potter who followed his formal education at Bemidji State University and the University of Minnesota with an apprenticeship with Bernard Leach. His utilitarian pottery has strong visual ties to Art Deco Architecture. Soda fired with minimal use of colored glaze, Jeff’s work is thrown and altered, either by faceting, stretching, or cutting and rejoining. The main subject matter of his work is function and he is concerned with how his pottery will work in a domestic setting.
Accompanying Jeff we’ll be showing New Work by Susan Dewsnap and Jim Gottuso.
The show opens this Friday, January 27, at 9:30 AM CST in the Iowa City gallery and online at 10:00 AM CST.
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by Carole Epp | Jan 21, 2012 | Uncategorized
Medicine Hat – The Potters’ Guild of British Columbia (PGBC) and Alberta Potters Association (APA) have developed a new collaborative travelling art exhibition. The show, titled “Alberta / BC in a Box,” is on display at Medalta’s Yuill Family Gallery from January 17 – February 16 with a public reception on Saturday, February 4 from 2:00 – 4:00pm.
The idea of two clay exhibitions traveling simultaneously in Alberta and BC began to take shape in 2010. The works would be of reduced size (boxed at 6”x6”x6”) so that it can be transported with ease. This constraint presented challenges to some of the artists, many of whom are comfortable working on a much larger scale. The artists, for their part, met the challenge head-on and created work which shows a deep connection to the rich culture, heritage and landscape of the artists’ home. Although the PGBC is presenting its third manifestation of its travelling exhibition, this is the first to be developed in collaboration with the APA. BC-in-a-Box 3: The Edge of Here is the British Columbia contribution to the project while the APA theme is Wide Open.
The exhibition at Medalta marks the only time that all artwork will be in the same place. With ceramics on the move across two provinces, viewers will be exposed to a wider variety of artists than can normally be seen. Everyone is welcome to attend the public reception on Saturday, February 4 from 2:00 – 4:00pm.
The Historic Clay District is a 150-acre National Historic Site in Medicine Hat, Alberta which encompasses a number of historically significant clay factory sites. One of the centerpieces of the Historic Clay District is the Medalta Potteries National Historic Site, which features an industrial history museum, major industrial archaeological excavation, contemporary ceramic artists-in-residence program and working pottery. It is one of eight major attractors within the Canadian Badlands and receives significant support from the Government of Canada, Government of Alberta and City of Medicine Hat.
For more information, visuals or interviews, contact:
Quentin Randall
Marketing & Fundraising Coordinator
Medalta, in the Historic Clay District
403.529.1070
[email protected]
medalta.org
by Carole Epp | Jan 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
Christina West
What a Doll: The Human Object as Toy , 2010
Slip-cast and glazed ceramic cone 6 oxidation
January 19 – June 17, 2012
Want to play? In conjunction with the 46th Annual Conference of NCECA (The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts), taking place in Seattle March 26 – 31, 2012, Bellevue Arts Museum is pleased to present Push Play: The 2012 NCECA Invitational. Both in life and in art, play is not all fun and games. It is also serious business, teaching essential life skills and developing healthy, well-balanced lives through the pleasure of participation. Not relegated to the world of children, it continues to cultivate enlightenment and enjoyment through informed, creative activity into maturity. Imaginative, engaging and at times challenging, Push Play showcases the work of more than 35 important and emerging ceramic artists from across the globe, exploring how the act of play effortlessly expands human potential while also entertaining us.View works from the show online here.
by Carole Epp | Jan 15, 2012 | Uncategorized
View the work online here.
Read a write up from artdaily.org here.
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by Carole Epp | Jan 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
Pairings: A Conversation
Sat 14 Jan 2012 – Sun 26 Feb 2012
Cross-disciplinary collaborations in craft and design. A touring exhibition from Manchester Metropolitan University showcasing the work created over the last eighteen months by artists working in partnerships across their different specialist fields within craft, art and design. Having to engage with new technologies and techniques unfamiliar to them, this exciting exhibition displays and interprets the processes and documents the ‘conversations’ as sketches, tests and experiments, as well as the finished outcomes. The exhibition itself becomes a discussion between all the makers and between the makers and the audience.
Artist Talks: Wednesday 1st February at Craft in the Bay An opportunity to hear some of the exhibiting artists discuss their work and the collaborative process. Full details will be available shortly. Talks will be held in the conference room and within the exhibition area. Advance booking required. Cost: £5
Artist pairings: David Gates, Alice Kettle & Jane Webb Helen Felcey & Dave Grimshaw Louise Adkins & Inge Panneels Kirsteen Aubrey & David Crow Sally Morfill & Sylvie Vandenhoucke Melanie Miller & Jenny Walker Jane McKeating & Andrew Livingstone Alice Kettle & CJ O’Neill Vanessa Cutler & Kate Egan Alice Kettle & Alex McErlain Sharon Blakey & Jenny Walker Claire Curneen & Alison Welsh Kirsteen Aubrey, Vicki Brown & Jane McFadyen Helen Felcey & Liz Wheeldon Wyatt Sharon Blakey & Ismini Samanidou Heather Belcher & Duncan Ayscough Jessamy Kelly & Steve Dixon Cate Watkinson & Clinton Cahill
