Pitchers – Pre-NCECA workshop

by | Feb 1, 2016 | Uncategorized

Pitchers
Functional Form / Sculptural Presence 
Pre-NCECA Workshop

Monday and Tuesday, March 14 – 15, 2016
 
Pitchers
. . . an eminently functional form that potters have made through the
centuries. In addition to defining its function, the spout and handle
animate a pitcher to give it sculptural presence. In this workshop, four
prominent potters will demonstrate their unique aesthetic and technical
approach to this timeless form.
 
Join
323CLAY’s Steven Hill and his three talented guest artists at this
special Pre-NCECA Workshop. This Workshop will include demonstrations,
discussions, slides and a question and answer session. 

 http://323clay.com/product/pitchers-workshop/

residency opportunity: CRAFT ACT

by | Jan 29, 2016 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, technical tuesday

Artist-in-Residence program 2016

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Placement: One
residency placement is available to:

  • a Craft ACT member or national craft practitioner/designer-maker and

  • an international craft practitioner/designer-maker
Submissions close 5.00pm Friday 8 April 2016

 

Applicants notified by Friday 29
April 2016

Location: The residency is undertaken at Gudgenby
Ready-Cut Cottage, Namadgi National Park, Australian Capital Territory (ACT).
The research period will be conducted in Canberra, ACT.
Residency period:  Total
residency period of one month per artist (a two week residency in Namadgi
National Park and a two week research period in Canberra), as per the dates
offered below by Craft ACT: Craft + Design Centre:

International craft practitioner/designer-maker:

Research period, Canberra:
From Thursday 15 September 2016
to Thursday 29 September 2016                       

Residency, Namadgi
National Park: From Friday 30 September 2016
to Friday 14 October 2016

Craft ACT member or national craft
practitioner/designer-maker:
Research period, Canberra:
From Friday 30 September 2016
to Friday 14 October 2016        

Residency, Namadgi
National Park:
From Monday 17 October 2016
to Monday 31 October 2016

Applications
must be received no later than 5.00pm Friday 8 April 2016. Incomplete applications will not be
accepted. For enquiries, further information or artist contract specifics, please contact Gwenyth Macnamara at
gwenyth.macnamara[at]craftact.org.au or on 02 6262 9333.

Full guidelines and information can be found here: https://craftact.submittable.com/submit/51074

via the LA Times: Harrison McIntosh, Southland artist who pushed ceramics’ boundaries, dies at 101

by | Jan 23, 2016 | Uncategorized

“While fellow artists Peter Voulkos and John Mason pushed clay to its
limits by making massive walls and muscular abstractions, McIntosh
gently nudged the boundaries of traditional studio pottery by elevating
functional objects to a rarefied state of art. Over the next 50 years,
he produced an internationally revered body of work that exemplifies a
classical vein of the postwar crafts movement.”

Read the full obituary here.