Residency Opportunity: Sturt Craft Centre

by | Oct 10, 2013 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

Sturt Craft Centre
invites applications from experienced craft practitioners to the Sturt
Artist-in-Residence program.  Residencies occur in the craft disciplines
of ceramics, jewellery/metalwork, textiles and woodwork. Four to six
residencies occur at Sturt each year.
Sturt encourages small scale production and individually designed work which may be promoted through Sturt Gallery. 
Each year
professional residencies may be awarded specifically to develop a body
of work which can be produced and made, at Sturt, during the Residency
time.
Sturt sees the
residency program as an important adjunct to its overall aim of
providing support for Australian contemporary craft and design through a
program of teaching, retail, exhibition and residencies. The emphasis
of the residency program will be to support craftspeople and
designer-makers who are sympathetic to this philosophy.
Three categories of residency are available:
• Professional Residency
• Self Directed Residency
• Graduate Residency
All applicants should fill out the Application form and include:
  • A short written proposal, briefly describing type of work to be carried out.
  • Current CV.
  • Images of work relating to your proposal (digital, prints or slides).
  • Any other relevant promotional material.
  • Graduate residents must include a letter of support from a tutor or supervisor.
Applications
for all categories close on the 31 October for positions in the
following year. Successful applicants will be notified in mid December
for positions to take place in the following year.
www.sturt.nsw.edu.au/get-involved/artist-in-residence

residency opportunity: New Spring Artist Residencies at c.r.e.t.a. Rome

by | Sep 23, 2013 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

Closing date:1 Oct 2013

Contact details
c.r.e.t.a. rome
via dei Delfini 17
Rome
Italy
00186

Tel: +393478024581

Email:
[email protected]

Website:
http://www.cretarome.com/

c.r.e.t.a. rome offers self-funded residencies to ceramicists and
visual artists for periods ranging from 6-12 weeks. The residency
includes a semi-private equipped studio, private/shared apartments in
the historical center of Rome, and a final show for the exhibition of
work produced during the residency.
Artists will
have the opportunity to focus on their art, whether it be creating a new
body of work, expanding a well-established oeuvre or allowing
themselves to draw inspiration from their surroundings and the centuries
of culture that define the eternal city. In addition, artists will have
access to the wealth of galleries and exhibitions in Rome and beyond.
Each resident will have an opportunity to present a proposal to exhibit
the work produced during the residency period in a final show.

A
selection committee composed of artists, art critics and historians
carefully evaluates applicants based on their artistic experience, merit
and project proposal. Applications should be sent electronically to
[email protected] and should include the following by 1 October 2013:

curriculum vitae
artist statement (250 words max)
project proposal (500 words max)

10 images (jpeg or pdf) and an image list with year, materials and dimensions
preferred residency period

Just let us know if you have any questions!

Lori-Ann Touchette & Paolo Porelli
c.r.e.t.a. rome
via dei Delfini 17
00186 Rome
Italy
tel. +393478024581, +390689827701
www.cretarome.com

www.facebook.com/CretaRome

residency opportunity: NCECA and Kohler Arts Center

by | Aug 21, 2013 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

New Opportunity for Emerging Artist Applicants! Arts/Industry Residency at John Michael Kohler Arts Center

NCECA has partnered with the John
Michael Kohler Arts Center’s Arts/Industry residency program to offer a
2-3 month ceramics residency for one Emerging Artist applicant! This
opportunity arose from the concurrent timing of our 2014 conference in
Milwaukee, WI and the Arts Center’s 40th anniversary for their
Arts/Industry residency program in Sheboygen, WI.  What better way to
celebrate than to bring our organizations together and create this
amazing opportunity for the best and brightest in our field!

The application for the Arts Center’s Arts/Industry residency will be
incorporated into the Emerging Artist application. All 2014 Emerging
Artist applicants are eligible but must indicate on the application form
if they want to be considered for this opportunity. A 250-word (or
less) project proposal will be required so you can begin thinking about
that now. The John Michael Kohler Arts Center will make the final
selection, and their selection process is independent of NCECA’s
Emerging Artist selection process. This means that while one may not be
selected as an NCECA Emerging Artist, one could still be selected by the
Arts Center for this residency.

The lucky artist selected for this honor will do a 2-3 month
residency during 2014, which will be coordinated between the artist and
the Arts Center.  The Arts Center will provide housing, studio space
with 24-hour access, materials, firing, technical assistance and a
modest weekly stipend for food. NCECA will provide up to $1500 to defer
costs for traveling and shipping expenses.  We’re so happy to have The
John Michael Kohler Arts Center on board for this partnership during
their milestone year and our 2014 NCECA conference in Milwaukee. This is
a golden opportunity for our NCECA Emerging Artist applicants and one
that is not to be missed!

blog.nceca.net/kohlerresidency

a site 2 see and a guest post (and maybe a technical tuesday?) all rolled into one

by | May 31, 2013 | Uncategorized

 

If you follow Medalta on Facebook, twitter or Instagram (which you should) you’d have seen some pretty cool images lately of the 3D printing they’ve been doing. I was so intrigued that I bugged Aaron Nelson and Quentin Randall to send me some info and images to share with you guys. Below are some thoughts about the relevancy of the residency process for an artist and the integration of 3D printing technology. 


“The value of art and artists
 

Artists
are experimenters, looking at new ways of using existing technologies
or developing new technologies to solve their own technical problems.
Artists today are not primarily focused on the final product. For every
piece in an art gallery, there are 100 piled in the corners of studios.
It is about the process; the experiments which yield new information.
Artist
residencies are the creative equivalent to scientific laboratories –
ideas come together and are explored to their natural end. Sometimes
it’s as a heap in the corner. In other times – exciting times – an idea
produces something revolutionary. When that happens, change happens.
Art
and Craft 3D printing is at the edge of our understanding and
development. By putting it in the hands of artists – people who make
careers out of pushing forward – their experiments will leave invaluable
and meaningful amounts of new information in their wake.
In
Medalta’s artists’ studios, 3D ceramic printing experiments are quietly
being conducted by many creative minds. The goal here is not to solve
the  problems In fact, more problems are often created. The goal is to
push these two newly-convergent technologies (ceramics and 3D printing)
to their absolute limit in order to see further into the future. By
pushing further than before, artists at Medalta are able to help others
see the future. By experimenting and sharing, progress can (and will)
happen in positive, unexpected ways.
That
is the relevance of an artists’ work. To endlessly experiment, share
ideas, build on ideas, combine ideas and move this world forward.
Medalta’s artist residency program is devoted to that cause and
understands its role in the world. Medalta respects the process of
making and understands that process based learning produces new
knowledge that expands the definition of ‘possible.’”

Well if you’re like me I’m sure you’re dying to know more and if you’re lucky enough to be in the Alberta area you should make sure to check out their 3D printing demo and exhibition this weekend. 

Historic Clay District logo  

CERAMIC 3D PRINTING

Over 125 years of Ceramic technology in Medicine Hat

Exhibition & Demonstration

Saturday, June 1 
7:00pm – 10:00pm   
Yuill Family Gallery (Medalta)
No Charge
  
Artists 

Steve Grimmer

Medalta is pleased to host Ceramic 3D Printing,
a company from Omaha, Nebraska, who are using the methodologies
associated with contemporary art production in order to conduct research
into 3D printing. This company is at the leading edge of printing in
ceramics and organic material for the medical industry.
Artists
are experimenters, looking at new ways of using existing technologies
or developing new technologies to solve their own technical problems.
Artists today are not primarily focused on the final product. For every
piece in an art gallery, there are 100 piled in the corners of studios.
It is about the process, the experiments which yield new information.
Please
join us for a short demonstration of the process and to hear our five
feature artists discuss their involvement with this cutting edge
technology.