by Carole Epp | Jan 2, 2019 | job posting
Taoxichuan JAEA International Art Center
Located at Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, PR China
Job opening: Executive Director
• Age 35-65 years old
Salary:
• Annual salary 250,000-300,000 RMB
Qualification:
Good health, team spirit, oversea working experience related to art in education, organization activities. Mastering English and Chinese is essential. Additional languages are an asset, requires excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Benefit:
• No less than 30 days ANNUAL LEAVE, and ONE ROUND TRIP TICKET for reimbursement;
• Accommodation and Meals are provided.
Duties:
1. Responsible for the operation, management and daily international exchange activities of Jingdezhen Taoxichuan JAEA International Art Center, Jingdezhen International Studio and Taoxichuan Education Center.
2. Responsible for the annual invitation of the studio guest artists, the implementation of the resident’s creation plan, the duration of the artist’s solo exhibition, group and joint exhibition, and the sales of works.
3. Responsible for international cultural and educational projects, promote exchanges and cooperation between international art center and institutions and meet the expected goals of Taoxichuan.
4. Managing International Projects assigned by the Artistic Director
5. Advising the art gallery, museum and the economic development of Taoxichuan.
Require information for the application:
1. Cover letter
2. Contact information: mobile, mailing address, email address
3. Resume
4. Name of reference
5. Photos
6. ID
Please send the required information to the following
Contact person:
Name:Linn
Email:[email protected]
Address:Taoxichuan Ceramic Art Avenue
Phone number: 18979808895
Applications will be reviewed immediately until the position is filled.
Find more info HERE.
by Carole Epp | Dec 29, 2018 | call for entry, workshops
We are happy to announce the Call for Applicants for the 4th annual Artaxis Fellowship. This year, we will again be offering two fellowships, each one worth up to $2,000, to fund a two-week summer workshop in ceramics at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. The fellowships will cover room, board, and tuition for a two-week workshop, and up to $500 for travel to and from Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine, USA.
The Fellowship is intended to increase diversity, equity, and access across the field of the ceramic arts. In particular, attention will be paid to race, gender, sexual orientation, and socio-economic status, but unique circumstances such as wartime military service, medical conditions, and unconventional family structures will also be considered. Therefore, Artaxis encourages artists of diverse backgrounds and experiences to apply.
The 2019 Fellowship Selection Committee is comprised of: Morel Doucet, Janina Myronova, and Natalia Arbelaez. After an initial round of reviews by the Artaxis Board of Directors, our distinguished Fellowship Selection Committee will choose the final recipients for the 2019 Fellowship.
Eligibility:
- Nominated by an existing Artaxis member. Members can nominate more than one applicant. (Artaxis members cannot apply)
- Artists 18 years of age or older, at any stage of their career. Nominee does not need to be a student.
- Artists must be able to demonstrate financial need and, if requested by the board, provide a copy of the first page of your most current tax return or other financial document.
- The Fellowship is designed to offer an experience that would otherwise not be possible for the Nominee. To that end, any Nominee who has attended numerous workshops will not be considered “in need”.
- This Fellowship is open to National and International applicants. Artaxis will provide International applicants with letters of invitation, but cannot offer additional funding or support with acquiring a visa.
The 2019 Artaxis Fellowship is supported by Artaxis members and funded by Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in an effort to nurture talent within creatively driven individuals by offering financial support to underrepresented artists.
If you have any questions, please email us at [email protected].
Full application form HERE.
by Carole Epp | Dec 16, 2018 | emerging artist
This a series of three photographs made in Israel and the West Bank that document the performance of rooting myself in a ‘foreign’ land. Materially I play with the idea of body/ clay as body / clay/ body as clay merging into the earth. With the image, I question the notion of, and relationship with ‘home’, with ‘land’, the meaning of a ‘homeland’ and the act of returning to the homeland. I question notions of ownership and control. I suggest rootedness and up-rootedness; (In order to cause distress and claim land, settlers famously uproot olive trees that have been a part of Palestinian families).
I also refer to the first act of asserting right to the earth – by planting trees and crops – the means by which the human species has colonized the earth.
Although there are no obvious markers of race, gender or location in the photographs, the act of performing the images is deliberate. The sites at which these images are made are of importance, loaded with meaning. The photographs were made quickly, and without permission in a private garden with the backdrop of Sabra fencing in Jerusalem, in Kiryat Arba, a Jewish settlement in the West Bank, and at the separation wall in Hizma, a suburb of Jerusalem broken by the wall.
This series of photographs was part of a group of work made while artist-in-residence at Hacubia in Jerusalem, as part of the Postcolonialism? project organized by the Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel Aviv, and curated by Wendy Gers.
Photography: Noa Bachner and Neha Kudchadkar
via: www.nehakudchadkar.com/?portfolio=homeland
