by Carole Epp | Jun 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
Kaabo Clay Collective has generated $6,000 from its pottery sale to fund an award for a Black ceramicist of any skill level or educational background who demonstrates a desire to grow and a commitment to the field. The award may be split or kept whole depending on the needs of the applicants.
Deadline to apply is June 25, 2021. Please spread the word!
Kaabo Clay Collective connects African diasporic ceramicists worldwide and supports its members with resources, and opportunities generated through the group itself.
www.kaaboclaycollective.com
by Carole Epp | Jun 19, 2021 | call for entry
All ceramic artists, both US and international, making functional, sculptural, installation, performance, and social practice-based work are invited to apply to Ceramics Monthly‘s annual readership-wide contest! This year’s theme is “(Im)Balance.” Whether you employ one or both of these concepts in your forms and surfaces or in the way a final piece is used, we can’t wait to see your work!
Selected artists will have their work published in the September 2021 issue of the magazine.
To be considered for the “(Im)Balance” competition, please submit the following materials and a $10 processing fee via Submittable by June 22, 2021:
Up to five high-resolution (300 ppi) digital images that are at least 2500 pixels in the largest dimension (or at least 5×7 inches in print size at 300 dpi resolution). The images can show five different works, or they can be a combination of overall and detail shots of fewer than 5 works.
Complete caption information for each image including materials, processes used, firing temperature, dimensions, and date completed
Contact information (including email)
Current artist statement and résumé saved as a PDF, Word, or .txt document.
ceramics.submittable.com/submit/194592/ceramics-monthly-2021-september-issue-contest
by Carole Epp | Jun 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
Bridget Fairbank has created the Ceramic Literacy Bookclub open to all. She was inspired to make this long-time goal come true by a talk at the recent Ceramic Congress online conference.
Ceramists are rigorous passionate researchers but as always, more minds are better than one. If you need to make space in your studio practice to connect with written works, join up for a book a month at www.bpracticalpottery.com and you will automatically receive a zoom link (50 Participants Max). Four months are scheduled already and spaces are filling up.
June 30th 6pm MST
Live Form: Women, Ceramics and Community by Jenni Sorkin.
Jenni herself will be joining us on zoom!
“Ceramics had a far-reaching impact in the second half of the twentieth century, as its artists worked through the same ideas regarding abstraction and form as those for other creative mediums. Live Form shines new light on the relation of ceramics to the artistic avant-garde by looking at the central role of women in the field: potters who popularized ceramics as they worked with or taught male counterparts like John Cage, Peter Voulkos, and Ken Price.
Sorkin focuses on three Americans who promoted ceramics as an advanced artistic medium: Marguerite Wildenhain, a Bauhaus-trained potter and writer; Mary Caroline (M. C.) Richards, who renounced formalism at Black Mountain College to pursue new performative methods; and Susan Peterson, best known for her live throwing demonstrations on public television. Together, these women pioneered a hands-on teaching style and led educational and therapeutic activities for war veterans, students, the elderly, and many others. Far from being an isolated field, ceramics offered a sense of community and social engagement, which, Sorkin argues, crucially set the stage for later participatory forms of art and feminist collectivism.”
July 25th 6pm MST
The White Road by Edmund de Waal
“Extraordinary new non-fiction, a gripping blend of history and memoir, by the author of the award-winning and bestselling international sensation, The Hare with Amber Eyes’.
In The White Road, bestselling author and artist Edmund de Waal gives us an intimate narrative history of his lifelong obsession with porcelain, or “white gold.” A potter who has been working with porcelain for more than forty years, de Waal describes how he set out on five journeys to places where porcelain was dreamed about, refined, collected and coveted – and that would help him understand the clay’s mysterious allure. From his studio in London, he starts by travelling to three “white hills” – sites in China, Germany and England that are key to porcelain’s creation. But his search eventually takes him around the globe and reveals more than a history of cups and figurines; rather, he is forced to confront some of the darkest moments of twentieth-century history.
Part memoir, part history, part detective story, The White Road chronicles a global obsession with alchemy, art, wealth, craft and purity. In a sweeping yet intimate style that recalls The Hare with Amber Eyes, de Waal gives us a singular understanding of “the spectrum of porcelain” and the mapping of desire.”
August 30th 7:15 MST
Vote on your choice by July 1.
Sign up for an August read and rate your top three choices for what to read in the sign up form comments or email me your choice.
1) Fewer, Better Things by Glenn Adamson
2) How to See: Looking Talking, and Thinking about Art by David Sell
3) New Wave Clay by Tom Morris
4) Betty Woodman: Theatre of the Domestic By (artist) Betty Woodman
5) Paul Mathieu Art of the Future
Published Online Here: http://www.paulmathieu.ca/theartofthefuture/The%20Art%20of%20the%20Future.pdf
September 30th 7:15 MST
Good Earth: The Pots of Walter Ostrom
Naomi Clement, author of an article on Walter Ostrom in Sept’s Ceramic Review Magazine will be joining us!
“Walter Ostrom has been described as an “innovative traditionalist,” a disruptive force shaking up ceramic conventions while simultaneously enriching them. Hired to teach studio and Asian art history at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1969, Ostrom was one of many American artists who moved north to Canada in the fallout from the Vietnam War.
Ostrom’s work, from his embrace of conceptual art in the 1970s to his current exploration of the vast history, hybridization, and social foundation of ceramics, marks him as a major force in the development of contemporary ceramics. As Ray Cronin writes, Ostrom’s works “declare themselves to be art and craft at once, tradition and innovation merged, beauty and function reconciled, thought and action combined. What more could one ask from any work of art?”
Accompanying a major retrospective exhibition at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia opening in May 2020, Good Earth features essays by leading scholars and curators along with full-colour reproductions of over fifty examples of Ostrom’s works.”
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Please email Bridget at [email protected] with any comments or questions.
Remember to sign up via www.bpracticalpottery.com to get a zoom link!
by Carole Epp | Jun 9, 2021 | residency opportunity
It is the intent of the our Artist-in-Residence program to provide a space for emerging artists, including recent graduates, to enable them to develop and enhance their practice in their chosen medium. Applications will be reviewed and selections awarded by a committee comprised of directors of our School. The program will host two artists each year, one in each of our two terms:
Winter Term: February 14, 2022 to May 20, 2022
Application Deadline: August 31, 2021
All winter term applicants will receive notice on their application status by September 30, 2020.
The Artist-in-Residence will have 24-hour access to an independent studio space at the Lunenburg School of the Arts located in the heart of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, a UNESCO World Heritage site and hub for arts, culture, and music.
The Artist-in-Residence will receive a stipend of $500.00 (CDN) per month and is responsible for her/his own material costs and sourcing. This program is a studio only residency; the Artist-in-Residence is responsible for her/his own living and travel arrangements and expenses.
A public exhibition of the work completed here by the Artist-in-Residence will be held at the end of the term at the School, together with a reception hosted by the School. At this event the Artist-in-Residence is expected to give an ‘Artist Talk’ in relation to the work she/he has completed during the term. The School also asks that the Artist-in-Residence provide our School with one piece of art created during the residency period, which artwork will become a part of our School’s archives and may be used for fundraising.
To apply, please submit the following in a single email to [email protected], subject line: “Artist-in-Residence Application”.
- A current résumé/curriculum vitae
- Artist Biography
- Project Brief and Timeline (300 words maximum)
- Describe materials and process that may be used for this project.
- Five to ten Digital Images of your work (image format: JPEG)
- Include respective titles, dates, dimensions, and material/medium
Application Deadlines: Fall Term: March 31, 2021, Winter Term: August 31, 2021.
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic our School adheres to the safe health guidelines and directives of the Nova Scotia Public Health Authority. |
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