by Carole Epp | Nov 20, 2013 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
Medalta and the Historic Clay District is looking for an Education Coordinator.
SUMMARY:
This
is a leadership position responsible for planning and delivering
educational programs, consistent with the goals of the Historic Clay
District, to a variety of audiences. The Coordinator’s scope of
responsibility includes the year-round interpretive programs related to
the museum and exhibit displays, the ongoing development of the K-12
curriculum based learning programs, public programming related to the
goals of the District and coordination of the continuing education
programs. The Coordinator will establish liaisons and partnerships with
affiliated education and community agencies that have an interest in the
District’s education programs.
Full job description available online:
by Carole Epp | May 31, 2013 | Uncategorized
If you follow Medalta on Facebook, twitter or Instagram (which you should) you’d have seen some pretty cool images lately of the 3D printing they’ve been doing. I was so intrigued that I bugged Aaron Nelson and Quentin Randall to send me some info and images to share with you guys. Below are some thoughts about the relevancy of the residency process for an artist and the integration of 3D printing technology.
“The value of art and artists
Artists
are experimenters, looking at new ways of using existing technologies
or developing new technologies to solve their own technical problems.
Artists today are not primarily focused on the final product. For every
piece in an art gallery, there are 100 piled in the corners of studios.
It is about the process; the experiments which yield new information.
Artist
residencies are the creative equivalent to scientific laboratories –
ideas come together and are explored to their natural end. Sometimes
it’s as a heap in the corner. In other times – exciting times – an idea
produces something revolutionary. When that happens, change happens.
Art
and Craft 3D printing is at the edge of our understanding and
development. By putting it in the hands of artists – people who make
careers out of pushing forward – their experiments will leave invaluable
and meaningful amounts of new information in their wake.
In
Medalta’s artists’ studios, 3D ceramic printing experiments are quietly
being conducted by many creative minds. The goal here is not to solve
the problems In fact, more problems are often created. The goal is to
push these two newly-convergent technologies (ceramics and 3D printing)
to their absolute limit in order to see further into the future. By
pushing further than before, artists at Medalta are able to help others
see the future. By experimenting and sharing, progress can (and will)
happen in positive, unexpected ways.
That
is the relevance of an artists’ work. To endlessly experiment, share
ideas, build on ideas, combine ideas and move this world forward.
Medalta’s artist residency program is devoted to that cause and
understands its role in the world. Medalta respects the process of
making and understands that process based learning produces new
knowledge that expands the definition of ‘possible.’”
Well if you’re like me I’m sure you’re dying to know more and if you’re lucky enough to be in the Alberta area you should make sure to check out their 3D printing demo and exhibition this weekend.
CERAMIC 3D PRINTING
Over 125 years of Ceramic technology in Medicine Hat
Exhibition & Demonstration
Saturday, June 1
7:00pm – 10:00pm
Yuill Family Gallery (Medalta)
No Charge
Artists
Steve Grimmer
Medalta is pleased to host
Ceramic 3D Printing,
a company from Omaha, Nebraska, who are using the methodologies
associated with contemporary art production in order to conduct research
into 3D printing. This company is at the leading edge of printing in
ceramics and organic material for the medical industry.
Artists
are experimenters, looking at new ways of using existing technologies
or developing new technologies to solve their own technical problems.
Artists today are not primarily focused on the final product. For every
piece in an art gallery, there are 100 piled in the corners of studios.
It is about the process, the experiments which yield new information.
Please
join us for a short demonstration of the process and to hear our five
feature artists discuss their involvement with this cutting edge
technology.
by Carole Epp | May 21, 2013 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
STUDIO MANAGER
Temporary Position (1 year Maternity Leave)
This is a leadership position responsible for facilitating the
operation of the Shaw International Centre for Contemporary Ceramics.
This position is a parental leave position and will end in July of 2014.
The Studio Manager is responsible for the day to day running of
Medalta’s contemporary ceramics studio. This includes facilitating
cleaning and maintenance of the studio, inventory management, and all
logistics associated with our international residency program.
Successful candidates will have a BFA or equivalent and experience in a similar environment.
The studio manager will be provided with a fully equipped studio.
APPLY
Apply by 4:00pm May 28th, 2013
Attention: Aaron Nelson, Artistic Director, Friends of Medalta Society
713 Medalta Avenue SE, Medicine Hat, AB T1A 3K9
Or email to [email protected]
Only candidates granted an interview will be contacted.
Thank you for your interest!
medalta.org/museum/employment
by Carole Epp | Mar 19, 2013 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
If you’ve ever met me, you’ll know that I speak very highly of the Medalta Artist in Residence program. These are some amazing folks doing great stuff and its so nice to see an internationally recognized residency program so close to my home. So of course I jump at any opportunity to work with them and thus I am beyond excited to announce the first ever Medalta International Cup Show. How thrilling to see an international cup show taking place in Canada.
Show us your mugs (or cups, yunomis, steins, etc) and be a part of Medalta’s first annual International Cup Show!
This show – August 23 to September 28 – is being juried by (yours truly!) Musing About Mud blogger and Canadian ceramic artist, Carole Epp.
The submission deadline is Thursday, May 30 so if
you’re interested, have a look at the eligibility requirements,
important dates and other information on this page and fill out the
handy-dandy form (along with payment). Thanks for your interest
and good luck!
JUROR
Carole Epp is likely best known for her work on Musing About Mud, (www.musingaboutmud.blogspot.com)
an online resource of ceramic related content. She is a graduate of the
Australian National University, produces two distinct lines of
functional and sculptural ceramics, exhibits internationally, and at the
end of the day is a mother to two charming young boys.
ELIGIBILITY
The exhibition is open to all international artists. Identify yourself as a student to be entered into the right competition. Work can be either
functional or sculptural so long as it addresses the idea of “the cup”.
Please submit only original work that has been completed in the last
two years. All work must use at least 50% fired clay as the primary
medium.
Work must not exceed 2 feet in width.
All work must be properly prepared for exhibition, be durable enough
to survive shipping and display, and come with exhibition/assemblage
instructions if applicable. Medalta reserves the right to reject any
work that is not suitably prepared for exhibition or that differs from
the original submission.
Medalta reserves the right to use images and photographs of accepted
works for the purposes of promotional materials, including postcards,
calendars, local media as well as online promotion.
All entries must be for sale, (priced in Canadian Dollars).
IMPORTANT DATES
Applications Due May 30th
Email Notification Begins June 15th 2013
Accepted Work Due July 20th 2013
Show Dates August 23rd to September 28th 2013.
Opening reception TBA
All sold and unsold work shipped back October 2013
SHIPMENT OF WORK
All artwork must arrive at Medalta no later than July 20th. Artists
are responsible for all shipping and insurance costs to the gallery.
COMMISSION
All entries must be for sale, (priced in Canadian Dollars). Medalta will receive commission of 40% on all sales.
AWARDS
Several of the selected artists will be featured on the Musing About Mud blog.
And we’re wrangling more prizes as we speak!
Awards will be determined by the juror and announced at the opening reception. Artists do not need to be present to win.
Find out everything you need to know and the application form here: http://medalta.org/showusyourmugs
Make sure to apply – because you know if you don’t you’ll never hear the end of it from me : )
by Carole Epp | Sep 27, 2012 | Uncategorized
She knew she could do better –Noreen Lehfeldt.
2012, 33 x 39 cm, ink, gouache, acrylic, digital, collection of the artist
My parenting is a chain reaction of generations –Ruthie Burritt.
2012, 20 x 30 cm, porcelain, underglazes, collection of the artist
And
she asked me over the fence, “have you ever met his wife? Is she still
alive?”
“Yes,” I said, “to both questions” –Susan Penrose.
2012, 33 x 45 cm, ink, gouache, acrylic, digital, collection of the artist
Sweetened Condensed is a series of illustrations and illustrated
ceramics by Elizabeth Burritt based on a selection of one-line stories, each by
a different writer. The project explores narratives that are restricted in
length and convey only the most basic information, thereby leaving space for interpretation
and exploration.
The stories were solicited from friends and strangers with the promise
that those who penned the selections for the final project would receive prints
of the illustrations in return for their efforts. The project created unique collaborations
between writers and artists who used blogs to track progress and to allow
viewers to witness developments.
Elizabeth Burritt is an artist and designer whose practice includes
ceramics, illustration, jewellery and graphic design. Her illustration work is
line-based and incorporates gouache, collage and digital mark-making while her
ceramics are primarily unglazed porcelain pieces that feature decorations
rendered in ceramic pigment and permanently high-fired onto the surfaces.
Burritt’s education includes a diploma in editorial illustration from Sheridan
College and a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Emily Carr University of Art
and Design. Originally from Ontario, she now lives in Medicine Hat with her
husband and two daughters.
Exhibition Information
18 framed works and 5 objects in Plexiglas cases
1 artist
2 crates
50 running feet
The reception is this Saturday during Alberta Culture Day’s at the Yuill Family Gallery at Medalta 1-3pm.
Curator
Xanthe Isbister, Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre, for the Alberta Foundation
for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program
About TREX
Each year over
300,000 Albertans experience a Travelling Art exhibition, known as TREX.
These professionally organized exhibitions travel all over the province
to schools, libraries, health centres and small rural museums
or galleries. The program is unique, the only one of its kind in
western Canada, and runs 12 months of the year, with an average of 7
exhibitions travelling per month. This year 112 exhibitions are
scheduled to be on display at over 30 venues from as far south
as Milk River to as far north as Stettler, and everywhere in-between.
Since 1981, the
Alberta Foundation for the Arts has supported the Travelling Exhibition
program, and it has been organized in our region by the Esplanade Arts
and Heritage Centre (formally the Medicine Hat Museum and
Art Gallery) for the past 17 years. The program’s mandate is to provide
every Albertan with the opportunity to enjoy visual art exhibitions in
their community, supporting and promoting Alberta-made art, with each
exhibition travelling for 2 years.
