by Carole Epp | Feb 20, 2010 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
Download the 2010 Entry Form
The City of Hobart Art Prize is open to artists, designers and craftspeople nation-wide. It brings together contemporary visual arts, craft and design practice in a single exhibition.
For all the details on the Hobart Prize visit the website here.
AIMS OF THE CITY OF HOBART ART PRIZE
The City of Hobart Art Prize seeks to:
- Promote art, craft and design practice in a way that is inclusive
- Encourage experimentation within and across art, craft and design forms
- Present an exciting exhibition that offers a ‘snap shot’ of contemporary practice
- Provide the City of Hobart with a collection of significant works
- Showcase the work of Tasmanian artists, craftspeople and designers within a national context
CATEGORIES
The 2010 City of Hobart Art Prize categories, for which the main prizes are awarded, change every year. The 2010 categories are Digital Media and Ceramics. The guidelines for these categories are as follows:
Digital Media – including projection, software generated and screen based art works.
Projection – work for the final exhibition must be provided as a standard or high definition QuickTime 7 codec (H.264, DV, Animation, Apple Intermediate) in a QuickTime container (mov.) file provided on DVD, or removable hardware. Hardware will be returned to artists following the exhibition. All Digital Media work is not to exceed 30 minutes playtime. Two high definition equivalent data projectors will be used to display works. Artists selecting to present their work in this format will have their works screened consecutively on a loop with an appropriate pause between individual entries. Software generated and screen based art works – work for the final exhibition requiring specific delivery platforms is the responsibility of the exhibiting artist. The provision of this delivery platform, including computers or other multi-media devices, with appropriate software installed, screens, cables, mouse and any remotes if required, with complete instructions and trouble shooting information for the set up and operation of software must be provided at a turn key/plug and play standard.
Ceramics – functional and non functional works, including sculpture and installation based practice in any technique, including but not limited to, wheel thrown, slip cast and hand built.
Note: In both categories, any three dimensional work to be included in the final exhibition shall not have a footprint of more than 2 metres square with a height restriction of 2 metres. Any individual component shall not exceed 50kg in weight, with any overall weight not exceeding 200kg. If the artwork has a number of separate components,
it should be freighted in separate crates, each weighing no more than 50kg. The work is to be presented ready for assembly or display. All fixtures and fittings required are to be included with detailed instructions for installation. Further: Any portable electrical equipment or fittings associated with works for final exhibition must be tested and tagged in accordance with Australian Standard AS3760 prior to exhibition.
PRIZES
The City of Hobart Art Prize
Two $15,000 acquisitive prizes provided by Hobart City Council (one in each category).
The MONA Prize
One $7,500 non acquisitive prize. This prize of $7,500 sponsored by MONA (Museum of Old and New Art) is open to artists, craftspeople and designers who are selected for the final City of Hobart Art Prize exhibition and who were either born, are presently residing in, or have resided
for a period of five years or more in Tasmania. The winners of the acquisitive City of Hobart Art Prize will not be considered for the MONA Prize.
For more information on MONA visit:
www.mona.net.au
by Carole Epp | Feb 20, 2010 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
Greetings Artists, Artisans and Craftspeople We are the Craft Connection and Gallery 378 located in Nelson BC, “the finest little art town in Canada” The Craft Connection is a Co-Operative owned and operated by twelve professional artisans. As well as displaying the members work we also represent about eighty artisan consignees and forty artist consignees. We have been in business for twenty-seven successful years in Nelson representing a wide range of artisans from our area. We recently moved into a new and larger building, the lower floor becoming our Gallery 378.
Our gallery proudly displays fine art and craft from around the region and we are looking to expand our repertoire of artisans and artists. Our consignment commission is 60/40; we have a $15 jury fee and an annual $30 consignment fee. We are interested in hearing from professional artists and artisans who are interested in having their work juried for display and sale in our store. All the necessary application information can be obtained from our website(www.craftconnection.org). Please click on the “forms” button.
Lance Hall is presently Chair of the Craft Connection Board of Directors. You can contact him at 250-226-6876 or [email protected] if you have any questions.
by Carole Epp | Feb 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
ALTERED POTS WITH SEQUIOA MILLER
Saturday/Sunday, April 17 & 18, 2010 | 10:00 am – 4:30 pm
Fee: $190 non-members, $180 LAC members Join us as we welcome Sequoia Miller to the Lee Arts Center to conduct a fast-paced workshop that will show how he makes many of his signature wheel-thrown and altered pottery forms. Sequoia will make four-footed bowls, altered vases, lids for jars taken off-round, and complex assembled pouring forms like teapots and pitchers. Sequoia will also show approaches to glazing and decorative surfaces that can enhance and redefine forms, as well as discuss ideas for keeping studio work dynamic and lively so that each pot is a continued exploration. A slide lecture will complement the studio demonstrations. Sequoia Miller was raised in Maine and New York City, and is now a studio potter based in Olympia, WA. He holds a BA from Brandeis University in Russian History and Art History. His pottery has been featured in numerous publications including Craft in America, Ceramics Monthly, The Studio Potter, Clay Times and the cover of Clay Times. Sequoia teaches occasionally at a local community college and at craft centers nationally, including Arrowmont School of Craft, Penland School of Craft, and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. Sequoia’s work is featured frequently in craft stores, galleries and kitchen cabinets around the country. He will be showing his work at the Smithsonian Craft show this April 2010 in Washington, DC.
More information on the artist and his work.
INTRODUCTION TO PRECIOUS METAL CLAYS: BRONZE CLAY WITH ALFREDO RATINOFF
Thursdays, May 13 & 20, 2010; 6:30 – 9:30pm
Fee: $ 95.00 non-members, $ 85.00 LAC members 
Bronze has been used since ancient times in all different cultures to create everyday objects as well as fine artwork; this wonderful and almost ever lasting material was discovered thousands of years ago and used in almost every culture since early times to present day. Artists and sculptors used bronze because of it’s timeless beauty, but it often required a complicated process to fabricate a finished piece. Recently a new material called ‘Bronze clay’ was introduced to the market; it consists of fine bronze particles held together with an organic binder and after firing in a kiln becomes solid bronze.
Learn about this new material as Alfredo Ratinoff discusses the technical aspects of bronze clay; how to work with it, firing techniques and metal finishing like polishing, burnishing and coloring with acid patinas and paint. Participants will create a small piece with bronze clay; discuss concepts of design and learn a variety of techniques to create visual texture and interest. This is a great class for clay artists, potters, jewelers or anyone interested in exploring a new type of clay that can be used as an alternative media by itself or as an additional element to enhance once fired clay, plaster or any other art medium.
Alfredo Ratinoff was born in Buenos Aries, Argentina. He studied at the National School of Ceramics in Buenos Aires, and then in Madrid, Barcelona and Florence. He specializes in large scale ceramic mural installations and recently has expanded into other art mediums as in printmaking and precious metal clay. His work has been shown both nationally and abroad and he has done numerous commissions for both private and corporate collections. Alfredo is currently an artist-in-residence in the ceramics studio at the Lee Arts Center.
More information on Alfredo Ratinoff.
More info and registration.
by Carole Epp | Feb 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
All of this NCECA news floating around is reminding me how much fun NCECA is and how sad I am to not be going this year. It’s been forever since I made it down, Portland was my last one…sigh…next year hopefully. For all of you lucky ducks going here’s more preconference stuff to check out:
Preconference for NCECA 2010, Philadelphia
March 29 and 30, Montgomery County Community College, Blue Bell, PA
Co-hosted by Michael Connelly and Alleghany Meadows Conference qualifies towards
ACT 48 Hours. This inaugural conference at Montgomery County Community College will focus on contemporary issues in utilitarian pottery, including sustainability, creativity, content, form, marketing, idea generating and social outreach. Demonstrators will also give slide lectures about their work. There will be a keynote address by the editor of Studio Potter Magazine, a panel discussion about Living Through Making, and a panel discussion on Sustainability in Ceramics. Presenters, Speakers and Panelists include Mary Barringer, Christa Assad, Andy Brayman, Ron Meyers, Ellen Shankin, Ayumi Horie, Julia Galloway, Alleghany Meadows, Steven Lee and Michael Connelly. The conference will also feature Artstream Nomadic Gallery. A part of the conferences focus will follow Montgomery County Community College’s commitment to integrating sustainability into the curriculum to better serve students, professionals and the greater community. Integration of “green” components across the curriculum for students in a wide variety of programs, from physical sciences to allied health, social sciences, and the humanities will have the greatest impact in the long-term reduction of the carbon footprint of our community. In addition, this conference will have a focus on “Green Kilns” and technologies for ceramic artists, which Dr. Stephen Grieco and Michael Connelly are currently seeking funding for a future kiln project at MCCC. It is, to the best of our knowledge, that the Montgomery County Community College’s “Green Kiln” will be the first at any college or university in the country. The demonstrators and presenters will be among the artists represented by the Artstream during its 2010 Spring Tour. Venues for the tour will include the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; Wabounsee Community College, Sugar Grove, IL; Illinois State University, Bloomington/Normal, IL; NCECA Preconference, Montgomery County Community College, Blue Bell, PA; NCECA 2010, Philadelphia Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA; New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred, NY, and other venues TBA.
Directions from Pennsylvania Convention Center Go to: Market Street East Station (12th and Filbert Streets) Take: R5 Region Rail to Lansdale/Doylestown to Penllyn Station (40 minute train ride—Bus stops at Penllyn Station) Take: Rte. 94 Bus to the College (5 minute ride)
Septa Schedule by Carole Epp | Feb 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
February 27 – April 10, 2010
Exhibition Reception: Saturday, February 27 from 2-4 pm
Mariko McCrae is part renegade, part court jester, part activist and community builder, but indeed – all artist. Her work is founded on historical ceramic tradition, but consciously subverts away from the norm of form and function, which is an important critical practice in establishing a contemporary way of working with clay.
McCrae completed her BFA at ACAD in 1995 where she was the recipient of the Board of Governor’s Award and the Governor General’s Award conjunctly. In 1998 McCrae graduated with her MFA in Ceramics from Kent State University, Ohio. She has taught at the Red Deer College Summer SERIES program, University of Manitoba, Ohio University, University of Michigan and been a guest lecturer at the Emily Carr College of Art & Design, Nova Scotia College of Art & Design and New York University to name a few. McCrae has participated in artist’s residency programs at the Banff Center for the Arts and the International Ceramic Center at Grimmerhus, Skaelskor, Denmark.
“An Affair to Remember” is based on a story written by McCrae. Through Duncan Gare, the second character that she has created during her career as a ceramicist, she comments on the lofty topic of mass production, consumerism and recycling. Duncan Gare (a combination of two hobby glaze manufacturers) personifies the struggle between good taste and bad, manufactured versus handmade, craft versus art, and in turn the battle between high art versus low.
Website Link.
