by Carole Epp | Jun 11, 2010 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
Entry Deadline: July 2, 2010
Florida, St. Petersburg
Last Call – A juried exhibition that honors the social nature of drinking and the care that can be taken into honoring flavor.
Jurors: Adam Yungbluth & Matt Schiemann.
July 2, 2010 – Postmark deadline for CDs, fee & entry form.
July 16, 2010 – Email notification of accepted entries.
Aug. 3, 2010 – Deadline for receipt of accepted work.
Sept. 3, 2010 – Last Call Opening Reception.
Sept. 30, 2010 – Last Call Closes.
Oct. 8, 2010 – Return of unsold work.
Last Call is open to national and international ceramic artists. Clay must be the primary material used, sculptural interpretations are welcome. the entries much have been completed in the past two years. Entries form St. Peterburg Clay Company members and A.I.R.s will not be considered.
>> Download Prospectus / Entry Form
by Carole Epp | Jun 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
Thursday, June 10
Guest Artist Robin Dupont
Monday, June 14
Participating Artists – Part II
Monday, June 21
Les Manning and Aaron Nelson
Translucent porcelain cups by Artistic Director Aaron Nelson.
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Work by Les Manning.
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Wood-fired teapot by Guest Artist Robin DuPont.
Visit the Medalta website here for more info.
by Carole Epp | Jun 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
The Leach Pottery
6 pm, Thursday, June 24, 2010
Influx Room, Regis Center for Art
University of Minnesota
Admission: FREE
A special screening ofThe Leach Pottery, narrated by Warren MacKenzie, and restored and released by Canadian filmmaker Marty Gross.
This film, given to the filmmaker by Bernard Leach and his wife Janet Darnell Leach in 1976, records virtually every aspect of pottery making at the Leach Pottery. It has been restored and edited by Marty Gross, a filmmaker noted for his films of Japanese potters and potteries. Gross worked with Warren MacKenzie to provide narration for the film, as well as to add footage shot by MacKenzie when he was in residence at the Leach Pottery in 1952.
Marty Gross and Warren MacKenzie will be present for the event. Following the screening (the film is about 50 minutes), they will discuss the history and ideas in the films with each other and with the audience.
Marty Gross is a ceramics enthusiast who has brought that knowledge and passion to the public through films about ceramics and their makers, as well as through the Marty Gross Studio, a private art school for children in Toronto, founded in 1971. He has made and restored numerous films about Japanese craft, culture and history, including documentaries about the theater form bunraku, and the pottery villages of Onda and Koishibara on the island of Kyushu, and of Mashiko, where Hamada and Shimaoka lived and worked.
Warren MacKenzie worked at the Leach Pottery from 1949 to 1952, and then returned to Minnesota to teach at the University of Minnesota. While he taught at the University and after his retirement, he made and continues to make thousands of pots every year, which he intends to be used in the daily acts of serving and eating food—or containing flowers or paper clips and pencils. His pots may be found at Northern Clay Center, as well as in cupboards and display vitrines around the world.
by Carole Epp | Jun 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
Learn how to build your own wood-burning ovenDates: July 5 – 9, 2010
Instructor: Alan Watt| Course # 1015
Learn how to build your own wood fired oven for pizzas, breads, roasts, even smoked foods. You will participate in building and completing two different types of wood-fired ovens – one a low-cost adobe oven and the other a high tech. Conventional refractory oven. During the process, you’ll gain a full understanding of the principles of wood-fired oven design, material selection, construction methods as well as cooking techniques. The culmination of the course will be the baking of breads and cooking of a pizza feast in the adobe oven.
Alan Watt, has since 2003, conducted numerous workshops throughout Australia resulting in many participants building their own ovens to suit their particular needs. His interest and expertise in building his own, and subsequently friends’ wood-fired ovens, comes from long experience in building kilns, many of which were wood-fired.
As a professional ceramic artist and teacher he has established a knowledge and understanding of refractory structures and design as well as heat retention and management. Transfer from kiln structure to oven structure has been a simple and natural shift. Formally, as Head of Ceramic Department, National Institute of the Arts, ANU, Alan supervised the construction of many student built kilns.
For More Information: 403-356-4900 or [email protected]. To Register: 403-357-3663
www.rdc.ab.ca/series
