job posting: ACAD

The
School of Craft + Emerging Media at ACAD welcomes applications for the
following nine (9) month limited term faculty appointment commencing in
August 2017:

 

Visiting Faculty, Ceramics

 

 

Why ACAD?

 

The
Alberta College of Art + Design (ACAD), founded in 1926, is one of
Canada’s most distinguished training grounds in art, craft, and design.  ACAD
offers a broad and dynamic spectrum of study at the undergraduate and
graduate levels. Its 14 academic departments offer courses in diverse
disciplines including art history, theory, and criticism; ceramics;
fibre; glass; jewellery and metals; painting and drawing; performance;
photography; printmaking; sculpture; sound; media arts; graphic design;
advertising; character design and illustration. In addition to
studio-based education and training, a strong program in liberal studies
emphasizes the critical role that the humanities and social sciences
can play in students’ development.

 

Innovation
and renewal in our curriculum is an ongoing process that responds to
cultural and technological shifts in arts, crafts and design practice on
students’ curricular needs. Our faculty comprises renowned
professionals who are first-class instructors as well as active
practitioners. As leaders in their fields, they are committed to
building a diverse, stimulating environment for the exchange of ideas
and the acquisition of technical skills and crafts.

 

ACAD
is located in Calgary, Alberta in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
Calgary is a cosmopolitan urban centre, with a diverse population of
over 1.2 million people. This vibrant city has outstanding
post-secondary and cultural institutions as well many varied
recreational opportunities.

 

 

About the School of Craft + Emerging Media, Ceramics Program

 

ACAD’s
Ceramics faculty is a diverse, engaged group of notable teachers and
practitioners connected to the field at home and abroad. Each year, a
new visiting artist complements the energy and expertise of ceramics
faculty, teaching and working alongside students in the studio. The
visiting artist contributes a fresh and diverse perspective, enhancing
the learning experience and serving as a catalyst for critical dialogue
within the college.

 

In
the Ceramics program students explore the role of function, sculptural
approaches, emerging technologies, historical precedents, and
contemporary practice within a comprehensive, studio-based and
theoretical program of study.

 

 

 

The Opportunity

 

(Competition # 1617-FE-FT-28)

 

To
complement existing instructional resources, this position will
instruct four (4) 4.5 hour-long studio courses at all levels of the
undergraduate BFA in Ceramics program. Salary will be commensurate with
experience and education. In addition, the successful candidate will
receive a research grant of $5,000.00 towards research and studio
practice and will be required to report and present on research
activities as well as mount an exhibition of their studio practice and
research at the College while in residence at the College.

 

The
successful candidate will be capable of teaching all forms of Ceramic
practice through core courses and studio supervision, including vessel,
sculptural, figurative, installation and performance.  The
candidate will possess an active studio practice that will contribute
to the breadth of the program and demonstrate a critical and creative
engagement with contemporary discourse on Craft and Ceramics.  In
combination with a collaborative spirit and professional commitment to
the field, experience in academic service, curricular innovation and
Ceramics’ studio management will be considered an asset.

 

Responsibilities include:

  • Teaching four (4) x 4.5 hour long studio courses at all levels of ACAD’s Ceramics program
  • Maintaining
    a research/studio practice, and contributing to research and
    scholarship in the field of contemporary Craft, specifically Ceramics
  • Creating and exhibiting a new body of work
  • Reporting and presenting on research activities in the form of artist talks and/or workshops
  • Demonstrating a commitment to pedagogical and academic excellence
  •   

     

The successful candidate will have:

  • An MFA or an equivalent degree or combination of education and professional experience in Ceramics
  • Previous post-secondary teaching experience
  • A professional exhibition record as a Ceramist
  • Excellent
    technical skills, and a wide knowledge of all aspects of the
    discipline, with a particular regard for international practice in
    Ceramics
  • Be
    community-oriented; comfortable interacting with students, faculty,
    artists, and the public, and demonstrate a balanced approach between
    research, practice, and pedagogy

     

Preference will be given to applicants with a strong studio practice and teaching experience in pottery.

 

 

How to Apply

 

>>> Please
submit applications by clicking on the Apply Now tab at the bottom of
this page. The application must cover letter, a current CV, and the
following:

  • Artist statements outlining philosophies and practices regarding teaching and studio practice
  • A
    digital portfolio of your recent studio work containing twenty (20)
    images accompanied by a corresponding numbered list including titles,
    medium and size
  • A
    statement on your proposed research topic (topics can include
    explorations in creative practice, technical process, content
    development, etc.)

     

Letters
of recommendation are not required with application but will be
requested at a later stage, if application is successful.

 

Applications must be submitted in a single PDF document.

 

Once you have created an account, choose the “Upload Resume” option.  You will only be able to upload one file, so make sure all required material is combined into a single PDF document. Incomplete submissions may not be considered. Once you have submitted your application, you will not be able to make changes or add additional documents. Please visit ACAD’s How to Apply page to ensure your application is complete prior to submission.

 

Review of applications will begin on April 8th, 2017 and will continue until the position is filled or the search is closed.

 

Further information about the College is available on our website at www.acad.ca.

 

ACAD is an equal opportunity employer and is
strongly committed to fostering diversity within our community. We
welcome those who would contribute to the further diversification of the
College. We encourage expressions of interest from all qualified applicants for consideration for this or other suitable vacancies.

 

The
collection of personal information is for the purpose of determining
eligibility and suitability for employment as authorized by the Freedom
of Information and Protection of Privacy (FOIP) Act, section 33(c). If
you have any questions about the collection of your information, please
contact Human Resources at [email protected] or (403) 284-7683.

 

While we thank all candidates for their interest, only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

call for entry: Manninggham Victorian Ceramic Art Award 2017

The
Manningham Victorian Ceramic Art Award was established by Manningham
Council in 2009 to support Victorian studio ceramics and acknowledge the
special place that ceramics has in the Manningham region.
The
biennial acquisitive award and accompanying exhibition celebrates the
best in contemporary Victorian ceramic art practice from across the
state. Works acquired through the award form part of the Manningham Art
Collection and are subsequently displayed in public buildings throughout
the municipality, as well as regularly featuring in Manningham Art
Gallery exhibitions.

Manningham Victorian Ceramic Art Award 2017

Major Award $10,000
Merit Award Acquisitions up to $4,000
Entries for the 2017 award will open soon.
The 2017 award will be judged by Janet DeBoos.
You may enter up to three individual artworks. Each artwork entry costs $30.
Entrants
are required to submit up to three high resolution images per artwork
entry (min. recommended – jpg or tiff; 300dpi; 1920 x 1080pixels).

Key Dates:

Entries Open: Soon
Entries Close: Monday 26 June
Finalists Notified and Announced: Friday 14 July
Finalists Exhibition Opening: Wednesday 16 August
Finalists Exhibition Closes: Saturday 23 September

Past Winners and Acquisitions

The
Manningham Art Collection includes almost thirty ceramic artworks
acquired through the Award since 2009, representing some of the best
contemporary ceramic work in Victoria. View a full list of past winners and acquisitions.

www.manningham.vic.gov.au/manningham-victorian-ceramic-art-awards

call for entry: Cryin’ Out Loud

About:

Cryin’ Out Loud is a juried exhibition that examines the
role of women’s and femmes’ voices as expressed in art about politics,
activism, and emotion. Considering both the metaphoric and literal
voice, Cryin’ Out Loud explores and celebrates the use of art
as a form of speaking up and out. A large group exhibition of works by
selected artists will take place in CCA’s Muñoz Waxman Gallery.

Juror’s Statement:

Cryin’ Out Loud takes each word of this maxim seriously –
Crying. Out. Loud. – and navigates the various implications of the
phrase, wheter exasperated and fed up (“Oh, for crying out loud!”) or
literal, as one who does not hide her desperation or emotion while she
is actually “crying out loud”. Similarly, “living out loud” has
associations with survivors of abuse, with activism in the LGBTQ
community, and with anyone refusing to “be quiet” about issues of
oppression, identity and authorship. It is time to speak loudly with our
voices and our art; with our intellect and our emotion; with our
politics and our personhood.

Throughout history women’s voices, perspectives, and innovations have
been undermined by those in power. In order to have their voices heard
or published, many women artists and writers have adopted gender neutral
or male pseudonyms. Women have fought for their right to vote, are
still fighting for wage-equity, and to have equal representation in
congress. Speaking and acting out is complicated for women and femmes
because of common double standards like the label “hysterical,” for
simply speaking her mind. Women have learned to work within these
oppressive structures often at the expense of their rights and humanity,
and frankly, we are ready for change.

Cryin’ Out Loud proposes that to unabashedly express emotion is a political act. To live out loud
is a necessary political gesture and that women’s experience needs to
be seen, heard, and cherished. The exhibition will consist of work in
all media that embraces emotion as statement; that broadcasts social and
political concerns, and that reacts to and resists the structures that
continue to oppress us.

How it Works:

Eligible artists can enter up to 5 images ($35 application fee),
statement, CV and web link. All works must be made within the last 2
years. The juror will review the submissions online and make selections A
large group exhibition will feature these selections, of which three
participants will recieve cash prizes (totaling $1,500.) All artists
will be responsible for shipping artwork both ways.

Where: Center for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM 87501; www.ccasantafe.org

  • Applications Available: January 18, 2017
  • Application Deadline: March 5, 2017
  • Winners Announced: March 24, 2017
  • Exhibition Dates: April 21 – July 9, 2017

Eligibility: Nation Wide (United States)

Application Requirements:

  • Applicants can submit up to 5 images
  • Current CV
  • A brief statement on how your work addresses the themes of the exhibition
  • Payment of a $35 submission fee
  • Shipping artwork to and from CCA.

http://ccasantafe.org/visual-arts/call-for-artists-cryin-out-loud

upcoming exhibition – Annabeth Rosen


Tie Me to the Mast 
February 16

March 18, 2017
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 16, 6-8 PM
P•P•O•W is pleased to present
Tie Me to the Mast,
a solo exhibition by Annabeth Rosen, a distinguished sculptor in the
community of West Coast ceramicists. Her work explores the fundamental
properties of
ceramics by directly confronting the aesthetic and chemical
relationships between sculptural form and painterly surface. Rosen’s
formally intuitive process is enabled by a complex understanding of
historical conventions, composite materials, and chemical properties,
placing her work in the tradition of experimental ceramicists including
Peter Voulkos, Betty Woodman, Linda Benglis, and Martin Puryear.
 
The
exhibition, her first with the gallery, will feature a series of
small-scale ceramic sculptures, elaborate organic forms that reveal
layer upon layer of clay,
glaze, and salt, fired using a ‘salt flux’ technique, which triggers a
self-glazing reaction. A signature innovation to this centuries-old
technique, through this process Rosen mixes surface chemistry into the
body of her work, creating a solid mass whose
glaze rises to the fore during the firing process. Rejecting historical
standards that distinguish decorative arts as ‘perfect’, Rosen’s
practice can be described as an effort to undermine established
conventions about an object’s merit, resulting in an extensive
body of work that embraces the challenges of a robust studio practice:
precarious balance, fissured surfaces, and accumulated fragments.
 
Among the works on view will be
Roil,
a large-scale sculptural work of individual ceramic forms, piled on top
of one another like layered gestures. Each individual piece is painted,
and together the work takes
on the effect of an abstract painting, ‘framed’ in a custom pedestal
made of metal. Pieced together, the work appears as if in motion, a
swirling, cascading form, seemingly driven by an inner velocity.
 
Rosen
describes the ceramic process for her as breaking down the barrier
between the visual and sensual. Her works invite not only an aesthetic
evaluation, but a
physical one as well. Creating works that appear as if caught in a
state of motion, the sculptures evoke a visceral response in the viewer,
inviting them to investigate the cracks and cervices visible on the
work’s surface. Interested in the way in which the
clay changes through being worked and formed, Rosen pushes the limits
of the material, building up works, firing them, adding new elements,
firing them again, and so on, exploiting the clay to create cracks in
the surface of the finished work that exposes
the nature of the materials.
 
“My
work represents a tally of touches that are informed by years of
deliberate working experience,” said Rosen. “My process may allude to a
desire to blur contemporary
experience into something timeless and familiar, like ceramics itself. I
engage in both recklessness and thoughtfulness at the same time,
embracing the awkward and the unfinished, the partial and the raw.”
 
Though
her works appear organic, found, or formed, masses of clay
un-heroically yielding to the weight of their material, Rosen’s work is
deliberate. Through the
process of creating her ceramic works, Rosen often breaks them, a
practice that she finds as interesting as the creation itself, as it
reveals the possibility and potency of a shard. She fires and re-fires
her work, interested in both the change in material
as the work accumulates mass, as well as the way the physical material
can be negotiated – its limits pushed, while simultaneously pushing the
limits of what a sculpture can be.
 
Born
in Brooklyn, New York, Rosen received her BFA from NYS State College of
Ceramics at Alfred University and her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of
Art. She was recently
announced as a 2016 recipient of a United States Artists fellowship.
She has been the Robert Arneson Endowed Chair at the University of
California Davis since 1997.  Rosen has taught at School of the Art
Institute of Chicago, Rhode Island School of Design,
Tyler School of Art and Bennington College. Rosen has received multiple
grants and awards, a Pew Fellowship, two National Endowment for the
Arts Fellowships, several UC Davis Research Grants, and a Joan Mitchell
Award for Painting and Sculpture. Rosen’s work
is in the collection of the LA County Museum of Art, The Oakland Museum
of Art, The Denver Art Museum, and The Everson Museum, as well as
public and private collections throughout the country.
Annabeth Rosen: Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped, Rosen’s first
major survey chronicling 20 years of her work in ceramics and drawing,
will open at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in August of 2017. She
is represented by Anglim Gilbert Gallery
in San Francisco.
For images or additional information, please email Trey Hollis at
[email protected].
P•P•O•W
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SUMMER 2017 RESIDENCIES AT C.R.E.T.A. ROME APPLICATION DEADLINE 1 MARCH 2017!!

CITY OR COUNTRYSIDE!!

 

Choose our city residency and live and work in the historical center of Rome,
just a few blocks from the Roman forum, Pantheon or Colosseum.
Bramante’s Tempietto pictured here is just a stroll across the Tiber to
Trastevere.

Or opt for our countryside residency near the Lake of Bracciano and the
Medieval town of Anguillara. The house and studio in a tranquil garden
setting is just a half-hour walk from the train station where you can
catch a train into the center of Rome.

 

We
offer artist residencies for ceramic artists, visual artists and
writers for periods of 4 or 5 weeks. The residency periods can be
combined, but the residency cannot exceed 90 days (for non-EU
citizens). Both residencies conclude with a final group show in our Rome center gallery space.

To apply, please submit the following by e-mail to [email protected] by 1 March for summer 2017 residencies. We also consider applications on a rolling basis on the 1st of every month:
 

  •  
  • application form https://cretarome.wufoo.com/forms/m18h6lh10iwgpi5/
  • curriculum vitae   
  • artist statement (250 words max)
  • project proposal (500 words max)
  • preferred residency period
  • 10 images (jpeg or pdf), image list with year, materials & dimensions
  • 4 short writing samples (writers and poets)

YOU CAN ALSO APPLY FOR THE FALL 2017 residency periods:
deadline 1 May 2017 (5 weeks unless noted)

10 AUGUST-13 SEPTEMBER

14 SEPTEMBER-18 OCTOBER

19 OCTOBER-22 NOVEMBER

23 NOVEMBER-20 DECEMBER (4 weeks)

www.cretarome.com