movie day: A Good Life, Too: Alonzo Clemons

by | Jul 22, 2015 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

A Good Life, Too: Alonzo Clemons from The Good Line on Vimeo.

You can learn more about Alonzo Clemons’ work at alonzoclemons.com

When he was a toddler, Alonzo Clemons suffered a brain injury. It
forever changed the way he learns and communicates but also the way he
interprets the world around him. Very early it became clear to Alonzo
that he had to sculpt. He was institutionalized for ten years in a state
hospital which wasn’t a pleasant experience, but he continued to find
ways to make delicate figures with his hands. When they wouldn’t give
him clay, he would scrape warm tar from the parking lot.

Despite his limitations Alonzo continues to sculpt outside of Boulder, Colorado.

The film was produced in partnership with What I Thought I Saw, a
photo-story traveling exhibit and book that tells stories of people we
may have otherwise over-looked.

Director of Photography: Travis Pitcher
Directed by Joseph LeBaron
Additional shooters, Johua Brandt and Micah Dahl Anderson
Sound Capture by Micah Dahl Anderson
Song licensed from Kishi Bashi, “I Am The AntiChrist” kishibashi.com/

Thank you to whatithoughtisaw.org for production assistance
To see a new great story every week visit videowest.kuer.org/

Live streamed panel discussion online this sunday!

by | Jul 17, 2015 | Uncategorized

Join Adam Field (@adamfieldpottery), Michael Kline (@klineola), Paul Blais (@pdblais),
Joseph Travis (@redfoxpottery), and myself – Carole
Epp (@musingaboutmud) for an
international live-streamed panel discussion on social media in the clay
world.

This Sunday, July 19th, 5pm EST. 

There are a few tiny hoops to
jump through to view and join the conversation; go to www.Nurph.com/redfoxpottery for info. This event is free and open to the public. Tell a friend and we hope to see you there!!!

Please send us your questions before hand as well to [email protected]

Play, Precarity and Survival @ aceartinc

by | Jul 16, 2015 | Uncategorized

 Jul 30 – Aug 22

Opening reception July 30, 2015 7pm
aceartinc, 290 McDermot Avenue
Exhibition continues July 31-August 22, 2015
Curated by Sigrid Dahle, featuring work by Marcel Dzama, Seema Goel, Rachael Kroeker, Jeannie Mah, Monica Mercedes Martinez, and Brendan Tang.
This group exhibition includes artists who consciously use ceramic
history, material properties and studio and/or commercial production
processes to playfully and incisively explore, resist and/or perform
unmoored contemporary identities. How are ever-evolving,
cross-generational im/migrant experiences, colonial narratives and
hybridized identities – what we customarily call ‘globalization’ –
enacted in and through the vibrant discourse that is 21st century
ceramics? What is it about this medium that renders it so amenable to
supporting these timely and compelling investigations? Explore these
questions and more when Play, Precarity and Survival opens this July.

Above image:
Brendan Lee Tang
Untitled (Ming 2) 2012
Inkjet Print (limited edition)
29.06cm x 17.78cm (11.44” x 7”) 

This exhibition was made possible through generous funding from the
Winnipeg Arts Council, Manitoba Arts Council, Canada Council for the
Arts and the Arts Branch, Province of Manitoba.

http://manitobacraft.ca/2015/06/play-precarity-and-survival/