Art of the Pot is One Week Away!

Joan Bruneau

10th Annual AotP Studio Tour: May 11th &12

Chris Campbell & Ryan McKerley Hosting: Bryan Hopkins & Joan Bruneau

Keith Kreeger Hosting Dan Anderson & Courtney Murphy *NEW LOCATION*

Claudia Reese Hosting Cynthia Bringle, Daniel Teran & Forrest Middleton

Lisa Orr Hosting Kyle Carpenter & Jim Smith

Plus the Artstream Nomadic Gallery at SnackBar Austin!!!

Studio Tour Hours: Saturday May 11th: 10-5 • Sunday May 12th: 11-5

Companion events at each studio during the tour:

Saturday AM: Lisa Orr will have coffee and breakfast treats at Lisa’s courtesy of SnackBar Austin.

Saturday PM: Keith Kreeger is hosting his annual
“Shots & Pots” party.  Stop by for a Mezcal Tasting with Wahaka
Mezcal, food from Paul Qui’s East Side King and music from DJ Hear No
Evil.

Sunday AM: Claudia will be serving delectable brunch bites for Mother’s Day Brunch, made by the inestimable Mary Francaes DesPres!

Sunday PM: Ryan and Chris will have a pizza party courtesy of East Side Pies.

Download a Brochure: AotPBrochure2013

2013 AotP Studio Tour Google Map here.

VIP Collector’s Preview Tour: Friday May 10th: 6pm-10pm: Details and Tickets available here.

All of the info and details is on the AotP website: www.artofthepot.com

Art of the Pot is a collective of Austin-based potters committed to expanding the reach of contemporary studio pottery through studio tours, public lectures and gallery exhibitions. Funding is provided in part by the Texas Commission on the Arts and the City of Austin Cultural arts Division

a site 2 see friday: Your Favorite Bowls by the NY Times

image via http://www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org/exhibitions/5412/

“Consider the bowl, the most common of household
objects. It is celebrated in a new exhibition at the Museum of
Contemporary Craft in Portland, Ore. We asked readers to send images of
their favorite bowls and tell us what makes them special. ” (via NY Times)

Check out the interactive article here.
There is also a corresponding article: Finally, The Bowl Gets Its Due. by Julie Lasky

And don’t miss Object Focus: The Bowl @ the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, Ore.
Curated by: Namita Gupta Wiggers

www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org/exhibitions/5412/

Museum of Contemporary Craft
in partnership with Pacific Northwest College of Art

724 Northwest Davis Street
Portland, Oregon 97209

Tel. | 503.223.2654
Fax | 503.223.0190
[email protected]

The Gallery at Museum of Contemporary Craft
Tel. | 503.546.2654
Fax | 503.546.2610
[email protected]

call for entry: The 8th Cheongju International Craft Competition

Application deadline: May 30, 2013
Republic of Korea, Cheongju-si

Dates: September 11–October 20

Contact details:
Cheongju International Craft Biennale Organizing Committee
314 Sangdang-ro, Sangdang-gu
[email protected]
www.okcj.org
Phone: 82-43-219-1022

technical tuesday: Hand Building Handles with Bill van Gilder

There are many ways to make handles, here I’ll show you a few hand built
methods. To purchase the corrugated boards used in my video or any
other Bill van Gilder tools and dvds, please visit my webstore http://vangilderpottery.com/vgp_store…. Please comment here if there are other demos you would like to see. I
will be able to read the comments and use them to come up with future
videos. Thanks for watching and please subscribe to be notified of new
vids!

Visions In Clay – National Call for Entries (American)

Deadline: 06/17/13

US Residents. Ceramic works of any thematic and stylistic presentation
will be accepted for entry. Clay must be the primary medium. Works may
be functional, decorative or sculptural. Assembled works may not exceed
4ft. in any direction, and 50lbs in weight.

Juror: Peter Held, curator of ceramics at the ASU Art Museum Ceramics
Research Center at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona.

Awards: Best of Show – $1,000, 2nd Place – $600, 3rd Place – $350

LH Horton Jr Gallery Exhibition: August 22 – September 19, 2013

On-Line Exhibition: August 2013 – June 2014

On-Line Entry / Fee $30 for first 3 entries and $3 for each additional
entry, limited to a total of 6 entries. Alternate view images of 3D
entries are unlimited and cost $3 for each image.

Enter on-line: http://www.deltacollege.edu/div/finearts/dept/dca/gallery/call.htm