residency opportunity: London Potters Guild

by | Aug 21, 2014 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

Artist in Residence Program
Description
The Artist in Residence program was created to give up and
coming artists an opportunity to set up a studio in exchange for 8 hours of
studio technician support each week at the London Clay Art Centre.  This residency program allows ceramic
artists to pursue their artistic endeavors while working in a state of the art
ceramic studio and contributing to the community of fellow ceramic
artists. 
What the London Clay
Art Centre Provides
·      
Private studio space, 7 feet by 10 feet, electric
wheel, electrical hook-up, standard shelving
·      
24 Hour access to the studio
·      
Access to all equipment, (3 electric kilns, two
slab rollers, well stocked glaze kitchen, two extruders)
·      
Opportunities for sale of work in the retail
store and Annual Fall and Spring Sales
·      
Paid teaching and workshop opportunities
·      
Exit Show/exhibition
·      
Opportunities to be featured artist in the
gallery space
·      
Website visibility
·      
Participation in bi-monthly critiques
·      
Free attendance at workshops presented at the
LCAC, in exchange for setup and tech work during workshop (above and beyond the
8 hours scheduled work each week)
·      
10 Kilograms of reclaim clay a week provided
What the Artist In
Resident Contributes
·      
Commit to one 8 hour shift or two 4 hour shifts
each week of technical work. 
Shifts will be coordinated in conjunction with the Studio Technician and
may include tasks such as helping maintain a clean studio, loading and
unloading of kilns, maintaining glazes, slips, and clay reclaim.
·      
Spend a minimum of 10 hours within the studio
each week dedicated to personal work
·      
Process all personal work (ie. load and unload
kilns with personal work in them)
·      
Maintain a personal blog or website that the
LCAC can link to from its website
·      
Contribute one piece to the LCAC permanent
collection at the end of term
·      
Resident Artists are responsible for their own
housing
 Please visit their website for full details.
      London Potters Guild
C/O London Clay Art Centre
664 Dundas Street
London, ON. N5W 2Y8
Tel: 519-434-1664
www.londonpottersguild.org

monday morning eye candy: “Beauty and Natural Forces: Part II” by Sarah McNutt

by | Aug 18, 2014 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

 “Beauty and Natural Forces: Part II” by Sarah McNutt
Year: 2014
Location: Solana Beach
San Diego, CA
Materials: Unfired mold clay
Measurements 3′ x 1′ x 5′ feet

Second
work of a pair of sister pieces exploring the fleeting and controlling
nature of the idea of beauty when subjected to natural forces. This work
was handbuilt at San Diego State University, from unfiredable junk
clay, and allowed to disintegrate over a few hours in the ocean. It is
subjected to sun, waves, salt, and sand leading to it’s ultimate
destruction.

 

 

monday morning eye candy: Brian Rochefort

by | Aug 11, 2014 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

 

The following via his website:

Rochefort’s sculptures are provisioned by the artist as ‘Gloops’. They
are interpretive, mis-formed, and flawlessly amassed hollow ceramic.
Each piece profiles an affective relationship to the emasculated
characterization of infantile attachment to object. Typically, a teddy
bear, robust at core, falls short of true charity with arms truncated
and squat. In these sculptures, Rochefort’s idea pairs the masculine
iconography of automotive paint with the symbolic gifting of toy for
love.

Brian Rochefort is a Los Angeles based mixed media sculptor working in
ceramic and automotive paint. Born and raised in Rhode Island he
attended the Rhode Island School of Design, receiving a BFA in Ceramics.
He was the recipient of the Lillian Fellowship as an artist in
residence at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic arts from
2007-2009.

For more information regarding CV and/or artist statement
contact:

Brian Rochefort
[email protected]


www.brianrochefort.net

oh and he makes these drool worth cups too!


download it now: American iPottery by Kevin A. Hluch

by | Aug 8, 2014 | Uncategorized

sample page from American iPottery

Description

American iPottery is a survey of two
hundred fifty-six potters with over three thousand gallery and
interactive images plus fifty-seven rotatable three-dimensional images. 
The gallery images expand to fill the iPad screen. The interactive
images provide a detailed captioned look at particular aspects of the
artists’ pottery.  Email links and website links are provided.  Each
potter has an artist’s statement and brief autobiographical text.  This
book may be useful to collectors, teachers and students interested in
contemporary American pottery. Eight hundred twenty-six pages.

This book is available for download with iBooks on your
Mac or iPad, and with iTunes on your computer. Multi-touch books can be
read with iBooks on your Mac or iPad. Books with interactive features
may work best on an iPad. iBooks on your Mac requires OS X 10.9 or
later.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/american-ipottery/id905569043?mt=11