Red Deer College: Series Summer School of the Arts

RDC invites you to participate in a fabulous art experience this summer. With some of the best facilities in the country and incredible instructors from across the globe, Series is an experience like no other. And it’s not just about classes! We’ve got plenty of other events planned, including demos, dinners, receptions, evening model sessions and more. So take a week for yourself and let your creative juices flow – you deserve it!
Our program includes classes in glassblowing, ceramics, painting, drawing, animation, flameworking, welding, bronze casting, mold making, polymer clay, jewellery, felting, calligraphy, photography, and more. New this year: cooking classes! We’ve recently opened the doors on a new, state-of-the-art professional cooking facility and are offering themed weekend workshops in July. For more information on our 2011 program please visit www.rdc.ab.ca/series or
contact us at 403.356.4900 or [email protected]. Series is on Facebook! “Like” our page to have instant access to all the
events we have planned for this year.

Spots still available: Visiting Artist Workshop: Kevin Snipes


Presented by Ceramics Program

Location: Ceramics Studio, 219 Western Ave, Allston
On Sale Date: Null
How to get tickets: Please see details below for reservations
Tuesday 4/26 10:00 AM Ticket Prices:
Performance Detail: Fees: FREE for Harvard Students and studio participants, $125 for all others

To register, email completed registration form to [email protected] and send check and/or registration to 219 Western Ave. Allston, MA 02134

Kevin Snipes will offer a 1-day workshop, April 26, 2011, 10 – 4 pm with a 6 pm Visual Presentation

Fees: FREE for Harvard Students and studio participants, $125 for all others

To register, email completed registration form to [email protected] and send check and/or registration to 219 Western Ave. Allston, MA 02134

Registration form: http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/courses/reg.php

Preceding his solo exhibition at Society of Arts and Crafts on Friday, April 29th, Snipes will demonstrate his construction methods: combining both hand built and thrown and altered forms in porcelain. His narrative based ceramic vessels present imagery with social relevance, using mishima, sgraffito and slip decoration techniques to produce intricate, layered surfaces.

Snipes’ artwork is a combination of atypical pottery forms and quirky figurative drawings. His pieces are influenced by an array of traditional and nontraditional art forms, including street art, architecture, contemporary painting, the avid love of art history and even children’s drawings. His work has an underlying sophistication, which is based in existentialist thought.

Bio: Kevin Snipes was born in Philadelphia, but grew up mostly in Cleveland. He holds a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and did MFA work at the University of Florida, in Gainesville, Florida. From there he participated in several artist residency programs, including the Clay Studio, in Philadelphia and Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, in New Castle, Maine he was also a visiting artist at Louisiana State University, in Baton Rouge. Kevin was the recipient of the Taunt Fellowship from the Archie Bray Foundation in 2008, in Helena, Montana and was recently awarded a 2010 McKnight Residency Fellowship through the Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota where he currently resides. Kevin combines his love of making unconventional pottery with an obsessive need to draw on everything that he produces, creating a uniquely dynamic body of work.

About the SAC Show:
Childhood Lost: Current work by Kevin Snipes
April 29 – July 23, 2011
reception on Friday, April 29th 6-8pm

The Society of Arts and Crafts
175 Newbury Street
Boston, MA 02116
(617) 266-1810 tel
www.societyofcrafts.org

Lillstreet Art Center: 35th Anniversary Show

Jason Walker : Cup

Maren Kloppman : Oval Platter

Sam Chung : Cloud Bowl

Kari Radasch : Sugar Jar

Featured Artists: Dan Anderson, Mary Barringer, Sam Chung, Jim Connell, David Crane, Josh DeWeese, Kathryn Finnerty, Delores Fortuna, Julia Galloway, Silvie Granatelli, Jason Hess, Charles Jahn, Eric Jensen, Gail Kendall, Suze Lindsay, Maren Kloppmann, Ron Kovatch, Steve Young Lee,Andrew Martin, Matthew Metz, Ron Meyers, Emily Murphy, Jeff Oestereich, Kari Radasch, Laurie Shaman, Ellen Shankin, Mark Shapiro, Linda Sikora, Margaret Park Smith, Jason Trebs, Jason Walker and Michael Wisner.

April 8 – May 1

View the full exhibition

RECEPTION April 29, 6-9pm

ARTIST WORKSHOP

Gestural Pots with Ron Meyers
April 30 & May 1, 10am – 5pm Cost: $200 if registered by April 8th / $250 after April 8th

Woodfire Tasmania

28 April – 1 May 2011 Deloraine

Woodfire Tasmania 2011 is an event for potters, sculptors, students, educators, collectors, curators, and anyone else with an interest in the ceramic arts. The program will grow from the interests and offerings of makers from around Australia and overseas and be a revelation and celebration of the visions, prophesies and imaginings of a variety of clay and fire practitioners. There will be exhibitions, demonstrations, guest speakers, forums, individual presentations, films, and pre and post program offerings.

All the details can be found here on their website.