by Carole Epp | Mar 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
Featuring new works by: Doug Jeck, Judy Fox, Cristina Cordova, Tip Toland, Arthur Gonzalez, Tom Bartel, Roxanne Jackson, Thaddeus Erdahl, Tanya Batura, and Jacob Foran
A Concurrent Independent Exhibition on the occasion of the 46th annual conference of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts.
When: March 26th- March 31, 2012
Reception Friday March 30th 6-9pm
Hours: M, W, Th 9am-5p
Tues, Friday 9am-9p
Sat. 10am-5p
Where: Seattle Design Center
Suite 292
5701 6th Ave S
Seattle, WA 98101
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The human head provides the obvious link between the work of 10 prominent ceramic sculptors featured in “A Show of Heads II” at the Seattle Design Center, in Seattle, WA, March 26th – March 31st, 2012. A more subtle unifying factor is the way in which these artists employ the head in their sculptures: essentially as a departure point for inquiry into thorny issues of human social identity, psychology and, ultimately, mortality. Where beauty arises in the exhibition it is tempered by frank acknowledgment of the liabilities inherent in the human condition. Where humor emerges, it tends to be black. Works by Tom Bartel, Tanya Batura, Roxanne Jackson and Tip Toland invoke the vulnerability of the physical body to aging, disease and arrest of such vital processes as hearing. Arthur Gonzales, Jacob Foran, and Thaddeus Erdahl reflect upon the psychological struggle fundamental to self-inquiry and the attempt to know other human beings. Cristina Cordova and Doug Jeck ponder the pathos of idealism undermined by reality, and Judy Fox insinuates the elusiveness of the inner peace promised by spiritual enlightenment. In this exhibition, curator Jacob Foran has succeeded in summarizing a deeply contemplative, psychologically introspective current in contemporary figural ceramic sculpture.
~ Glen R. Brown
For more information please contact:
Name: Jacob Foran
Phone: 217.520.2852
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.jacobforan.com
by Carole Epp | Jan 31, 2012 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
NCECA/crafthaus Conference Scholarship Submission FormHow to apply:Copy/paste this form into a word.doc, fill out form and e-mail it to: [email protected] with the reference “NCECA Scholarship.”
Extended Deadline for email application: February 3, 2012
NO SUBMISSION FEE.
Questions, problems? e-mail [email protected].
Judging Criteria:
NCECA Board member Sam Chung will select one scholarship recipient based on a review of images posted on the applicants’ crafthaus pages and brief responses to a short questionnaire (see application form for details).Scholarship Details:
- Complimentary pass to the 46th Annual NCECA Conference taking place in Seattle, WA from March 28-31, 2012.
- Push Play catalog.
- Shuttle tour ticket, enabling the scholar to get to the conference exhibitions.
- One-year additional NCECA membership once the current membership expires.
- One-year additional crafthaus membership once the current membership expires.
- Prominent blogspace on crafthaus for one year. NCECA provides reciprocal blogspace on an NCECA website.
- NCECA will work with the winning candidate to include him/her in events and meetings with NCECA, staff board and conference presenters.
I. Applicant Contact Information:
Name:
Street Address:
City/Zip Code/Countrye-mail:
phone:
Eligibility: Application for the scholarship is open to current, enrolled crafthaus and NCECA members (must be current members ofboth organizations) regardless of location or background.Please check:O I am a current, enrolled member with crafthaus and NCECA.II. Blog
The recipient will receive prominent blog space on crafthaus and the NCECA website geared towards the recipient’s field of expertise. Crafthaus and NCECA expect the recipient to blog at least twice monthly.
Blogging topics and timeline:
- Prior to conference: Introduction to audience, overview of own work, preparations for conference, introduction to conference theme, speakers, exhibitions.
- During Conference: Daily evening updates on conference experience, such as exhibition review, speakers etc. Note: These blog updates will be brief to enable the scholar to fully concentrate on the conference itself.
- After conference: Bi-weekly updates starting with continued, further in-depth conference coverage, then moving on to topic of scholar’s choosing as described in application. Continuation of blog for 6-12 months max.
Answer each of the following questions in 200 words or less:
- What are your goals as a maker and as a writer?
- What kinds of ideas, issues, people and/or work do you want to share through your blog entries?
- What personal attributes make you stand apart from other applicants for this opportunity as the NCECA/crafthaus Scholarship recipient?
III. Images:
Your submission will be reviewed from the images you posted to your new or current crafthaus profile solely! All applicants are strongly encouraged to update their photos on the site accordingly. Add new images or delete images that are no longer relevant.Remember to include media information, measurements and all other relevant information with each photo. Update your crafthaus page with relevant educational and/or updated CV information.TAG your photos with your name, media, and other relevant info!!
Submitted by:_______________________________________
Date: _______________________________________________
Deadline for email application: February 3, 2012
e-mail entry to: [email protected], reference “NCECA Scholarship.”
by Carole Epp | Jan 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
Christina West
What a Doll: The Human Object as Toy , 2010
Slip-cast and glazed ceramic cone 6 oxidation
January 19 – June 17, 2012
Want to play? In conjunction with the 46th Annual Conference of NCECA (The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts), taking place in Seattle March 26 – 31, 2012, Bellevue Arts Museum is pleased to present Push Play: The 2012 NCECA Invitational. Both in life and in art, play is not all fun and games. It is also serious business, teaching essential life skills and developing healthy, well-balanced lives through the pleasure of participation. Not relegated to the world of children, it continues to cultivate enlightenment and enjoyment through informed, creative activity into maturity. Imaginative, engaging and at times challenging, Push Play showcases the work of more than 35 important and emerging ceramic artists from across the globe, exploring how the act of play effortlessly expands human potential while also entertaining us.View works from the show online here.
by Carole Epp | Sep 22, 2011 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
ENTRY DEADLINE: Friday, November 4th, 2011 (midnight MDT) To be “On the Edge” is to be balancing yet changing, openly vulnerable and possibly ephemeral, about to plunge into a place that is undefined, unconventional and unexpected. “On the Edge” can be applied to virtually anything, from an impeding natural force to a chemical process, to a human emotion, memory, or condition. The dynamic and ever-changing landscape of the Pacific Northwest is a geographical manifestation of this concept and is at its most vigorous along the shores of Seattle and the Puget Sound-the site of NCECA’s 2012 Conference. “On the Edge” can also easily be applied to the medium of clay. Of all the materials that artists reach for, it can be argued that clay holds the most fundamental potential: able to immediately respond to the force of a touch, constantly changing and moving on to the next edge of expression. For the 2012 Projects Space in Seattle, artists are invited to consider the possibilities that lie within the medium of clay and submit works that consider the concept of “On the Edge.” Now in it’s third year, NCECA’s Projects Space is a platform for ceramic artists to present works that embrace the medium not as an end, but as a means of embracing the material as a physical metaphor, allowing it to communicate beyond the expected. Jurors Linda Ganstrom, Marianne McGrath, and Jeffry Mitchell are looking for submissions that not only actively embrace the concept of “On the Edge” using the medium of clay as a central focus, but also engage their materials, processes, and audience in unique and unconventional ways. Artists should keep in mind that the Projects Space Exhibition lies in the Central Hall at the heart of the NCECA Conference, and works are meant to grow and change throughout the duration of the conference. Five juried and invited artists will be assigned a 10’ x 19’ raw space in the Central Hall of the Seattle Convention Center to create their works during the week of the 2012 NCECA Conference. Artists will have from 9am to 4:30pm Tuesday, March 27th to install their materials and begin their piece. The artists will be featured guests at a reception Tuesday evening. Artists will continue to interact with their materials and piece throughout the conference ending Friday, March 30th at 5pm. Artists will de-install and clean their spaces from 5-9pm that evening.
Want more details? Find them all here.
by Carole Epp | Sep 14, 2011 | Uncategorized
March 28 – March 31 : Seattle, Washington
Washington State Convention Center
800 Convention Place
Seattle, WA 98101-2350
Invited presenters include: Demonstrators: Christa Assad, Walter Keeler, Tip Toland, Jason Walker Keynote: Mark Dion Distinguished Lecture: Stefano Catalani and Gwen Chanzit – Curatorial Perspectives Lectures:
The New Sawdust Injection Burner – W. Lowell Baker
China Paint: New Directions – Marci Blattenburger and Paul Lewing
Boredom, Skill and the Creative Act – Janet DeBoos
Maori Clay: Inventing a Tradition? – Moyra Elliott
Room of a Thousand Porcelains – Julie Emerson
Why was Porcelain Technology First Invented in China and What is its Chinese Imperial Association? – Mimi Gates
The Land Within the Sea – John Grade and John Roloff
The Old Weird Clay World – Garth Johnson
How to Practically Apply Digital Techniques in Ceramics – Mark Hall and Greg Pugh
The Hardened Hobbycraft Criminal – Charles Krafft
In Context: Anne Hirondelle Ceramics – Jo Lauria and Jake Seniuk
The Ceramics PhD: Re-thinking Creative Pedagogy – Andrew Livingstone
Soda Kiln Doctors – Matt Long and Gail Nichols
The Contemporary Figurine – Paul Mathieu
From the Melting Pot into the Fire: Contemporary Ceramics in Israel – Yael Novak
Electric Kiln Doctor – Saadi Shapiro and Mike Swauger Closing Lecture: Love , Money and Sin – Robert Brady and Sandy Simon Panels:
Ceramics at the Edge of Form – Daniel Bare, Susannah Biondo-Gemmell, Amy Gogarty, Linda Swanson
Life on the Edge – Mashiko Rebuilds – John Baymore, Ayumi Horie, Lynn Zetman, Valerie Zimany
Sustainable Ceramics: Contradiction or Possibility? – David Binns, Gerard Blaauw, Nancy Selvage
Substance: Three Artist’s Passions – Wally Bivins, Richard Notkin, Tip Toland, Patti Warashina
Studio Practice/Entrepreneurial Attitude – Andy Brayman, Alleghany Meadows, Linda Sikora
So You Want to Talk Glaze Chemistry? – Bill Carty, Dave Finkelnburg, Tina Gebhart, Matthew Katz
The Evolving Role of Residencies – Cynthia Consentino, Martina Lantin, Jill Oberman, Kari Radasch
Teaching 3-D in a Virtual Plane – Jennifer Frahm, Sin Ying Ho, Sonya Paukune, Shana Salaff
Distillations and Eruptions: Installation Today – Priscilla Hollingsworth, Jen Mills, Beth Sellars, Christian Bernard Singer New Work:
Confections and Contrivances – Nick Kripal
Matt Nolen’s Grotesque Garden – Matt Nolan
In Search of Streams and Mountain – Jae Won Lee
Yoga: Finding Your Personal Edge – Debra Chronister Randall Session: Little Big Band Friday Night Dance: The Big Sky Mudflaps
