by Carole Epp | Sep 2, 2020 | call for entry
Starting in 1999 and producing 1,700 award-winning works from 47 countries,
we are presenting the competition guidelines for <2021 Cheongju International Craft Competition>, a representative event of the Cheongju Craft Biennale
The total prize for this competition is KRW146,000,000.
– Competition 1: Craft Competition
– Competition 2: Craft City Lab Competition
In both competition, you can apply for any age and nationality, and winners will receive awards, including a certificate and a plaque.
The application period is
from May 1st to 31st, 2022.
For details, visit the official website
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by Carole Epp | Sep 2, 2020 | residency opportunity
Taoxichuan Art Center – International Studio located in the city of porcelain – Jingdezhen, China is now open for the application of Artist-in-residency for the calendar year 2021 & 2022.
The mission of Taoxichuan Art Center is to provide a platform for artists to work at the well-supportive studio environment and explore a thousand-year history of porcelain in Jingdezhen.
For the past 5 years, over 100 artists coming from 30 countries took part in our artist-in-residence. We held more than 50 solo and group exhibitions, 30 workshops, 5 Spring and Autumn Art Fairs, and 2 Ceramic Film Weeks.
In 2021 and 2022, Taoxichuan Art Centre will continuously enrich our existing artist-in-residence program by adding 2 new locations in two of the famous Celadon historical kiln sites. One is in Longquan, Zhejiang Province. The other one is in Tongchuan, Yaozhou Kiln, outside of Xian in Shanxi Province.
We expand and designate the goal of the artist-in-residence program in four categories.
1. create and exhibit
2. masterclass teaching and research
3. design prototype for a line of industrial production
work
4. film production about ceramic art, design, craft, culture and history.
For further information please contact:
by Carole Epp | Aug 28, 2020 | call for entry
Curated by Shannon Rae Stratton
Hosted by:
Weston Art Gallery
Aronoff Center for the Arts
650 Walnut Street
Cincinnati, Oh 45202
513-977- 4166
www.westonartgallery.com
ENTRY DEADLINE: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 (11:59pm MDT)
EXHIBITION DATES: February 5 – March 28, 2021
ABOUT THE NCECA ANNUAL
The NCECA Annual blends impactful attributes of invitational and open juried models of exhibition development. Exhibition curator Shannon Rae Stratton’s organizing concept is brought to life through the work of three invited artists. The curator will select additional works and artists for the exhibition through an open call for submissions.
Stratton shares the following about her vision for the exhibition:
According to physician’s Vivek H. Murthy and Alice Chen’s March article for the Atlantic, the corona virus could cause what is being called a “social recession.” They speak about how the longer we go without personal contact, the more social bonds fray and unravel, leading to harmful effects on mood, health, our ability to learn and work, and our overall sense of community. Their concern stems from an already growing body of national and global research on the epidemic of loneliness that reports, at the lowest 22% of American adults, and at the highest 50%, are struggling with loneliness. That is more adults than smoke or have diabetes.
Many artists working in craft value the field for its history of peer-to-peer exchange, mentorship, functionality and proximity to the body. It’s a field that identifies itself with connection and touch, with craft objects – whether functional design or conceptual art – often serving social functions.
While Murthy and Chen were concerned with fraying social bonds based on enforced separation, the legacy of settler colonialism and white suprematism that has shaped capitalism, Western culture and specifically the United States, has long disrupted social bonds, destroying communities, histories and traditions in its wake.
This call for artwork for the NCECA Annual invites artists to consider the tension between together and apart, interdependence, belonging, hospitality and modes of support that allow people to extend themselves with mindfulness and compassion towards each other and to the non-human world. As the list of untenable and ailing structures that have caused harm begin to crumble, what change can be supported through connection, compassion and empathy?
Living in a culture that places a high value on individuality has obscured the reality of interdependence – the fact that nobody thinks or creates in a vacuum. If anything, people are all vectors for one thing or another, transmitting ideas that have coalesced in and around us at any given time. Empathy is the nourishment required to sustain a tender “us” now and in the future.
Interested artists are encouraged to submit works that draw on their personal and cultural experience to explore themes of the social and how social connection, as a renewable resource, is a means for addressing the challenges we face both individually and as a society. We encourage submissions that deal with collective grief and mourning, rage, empowerment, joy, care and compassion – but all through work grounded in connection, interdependence and the social.
Full Details HERE.
by Carole Epp | Aug 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
POT is a full-service pottery studio owned and operated by people of color, a majority of which are women and Los Angeles natives. We are devoted to celebrating the cultures and communities surrounding us through an ancient art form that connects so many of us. We felt a need for a space that felt accessible and empowering for those that felt marginalized in ceramic spaces – namely persons of color, the queer community, and millennials. Plus, we are huge pottery lovers who admire the craft for all its creative, therapeutic, and cultural elements.
We’ve been getting weird since July 2017, and we’ve thus developed a community of kind, radical, funny, and incredibly supportive people. Our staff consists of and is run by our members. We are outsiders to the institution of art, do everything in house, and we have a DIY non-traditional approach to all things. Most of us are POC, many of us are queer, and we are always committed to proliferating radical art and providing a safe space for uncensored creative expression. We aim to provide an alternative to vanilla pottery spaces.
Mandy, our founder, is Iranian and wanted to celebrate LA being a hub for so many diasporas seeing as LA is the largest diaspora for Iranians in the world. Her dream was to facilitate a space that builds community and cultivates culture in Los Angeles, while also creating fun fulfilling jobs with living wages for radical POC artists. With Mandy being an avid handbuilder, she enlisted the help of our Studio Manager Ambar to man the wheel (literally) and opened POT. Ambar is an LA-native Salvi woman with a commitment to radical activism, and she is also a self-taught wizard at the wheel. The two shared a commitment to activism, social politics, laughing, and pottery – which made POT come to fruition organically.
Part of POT’s mission is to break down the walls surrounding art spaces in LA and create a beginner’s oriented studio. We recognize that not all of us are raised with the privilege of growing up with the arts, many of us are adults wanting to try new things for the first time – and that’s a beautiful thing. We aim to provide a chill and fun adult atmosphere where people can laugh, dig their hands in, and build up a fire inside through pottery. This is ceramics for activists, meme lovers, abuelas, and everything in-between.
POT is committed to being accessible to persons of color and the native Echo Park community. We have numerous practices to ensure we give back to the community.
Please visit our Community page for more information. POT is an inclusive space for everyone. We encourage you all to sit back relax, connect, laugh, and get your hands on some pot…tery.
Find out more HERE!
