by Carole Epp | Dec 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
Prospectus For 2018 Concurrent Exhibition Proposals
DEADLINE: Wednesday, February 1, 2017 (EST)
52st ANNUAL NCECA CONFERENCE: CrossCurrents: Clay and Culture
Wednesday March 14 – Saturday, March 17, 2018
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Overview
The exhibition and expansion of
contemporary ceramic practice will include diverse approaches to ideas
and senses of materiality involving clay and process. NCECA’s annual
conference is enriched by the innovation and vision that emerges from
our community to present ceramic art of the highest caliber in the form
of Concurrent Exhibitions (CEs). These exhibitions make ceramic art
visible and accessible to communities in which the conference is based.
Concurrent Exhibitions also provide a platform for participating artists
to engage with the global audience of ceramic enthusiasts to expand,
challenge, and celebrate critical and aesthetic horizons of art made
with clay. NCECA promotes Concurrent Exhibitions through the print
conference guide, app, website, Blog and social media. While NCECA makes
efforts to cluster the shows within art/ cultural districts to maximize
viewer attendance, it is not able to guarantee that all exhibition
venues will be included on tour routes.
2018 Exhibitions Focus
NCECA seeks exhibition proposals
that incorporate clay as the principal medium of expression and have
conceptual resonance with the theme of its 52nd annual conference, CrossCurrents: Clay and Culture.
The conference will take place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in March
2018. Cross-currents within Pittsburgh’s three rivers are traversed by
446 bridges. These natural and cultural features are vibrant metaphors
for the intersectionality, significance, and experience of different
cultural constructs. Traditions and innovations coexist throughout the
ceramic medium’s history. Our creative work with ceramic art in the 21st
century can be a catalyst to generate dialog and empathy. When art
grapples with change through underrepresented ideas, new models of
creating, teaching, and learning, it has the capacity to crystalize
experiences of diversity and notions of community. Through these
exhibitions, NCECA hopes to share and promote innovative approaches to
ceramic art that explore and highlight the experiences of diverse
cultures within a dynamic society.
http://nceca.net/concurrent-exhibition-proposals/
by Carole Epp | Dec 1, 2016 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, technical tuesday
DEADLINE: December 17, 2016
NCECA International Residency Awards support projects that are
approximately one month in duration, to occur between April 2017 and
March 2018. Residency dates vary; check details below.
For 2017, NCECA is pleased to partner with:
- Medalta International Artists In Residence Program
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
- Celebrating 10 years at Curaumilla Art Center with NCECA Residency
Santiago, Chile
The purpose of NCECA is to promote and improve the ceramic arts
through education, research and creative practice. One of the many ways
that NCECA supports its members is by providing opportunities to engage
in international programs. Intercultural exchange of ideas and methods
is critical to evolution of individual artists who through their
immersion and experimentation, absorb and sometimes transform influences
of other artists and their cultures. NCECA has participated in programs
in Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe and South America. Global
interface will continue to play an important role in NCECA’s efforts to
sustain and advance a vibrant ceramic art and education community.
The award amount available for 2017 will be $3750.00 per residency.
Partnering residency centers are expected to support the artists through
in-kind and/ or monetary support subject to their available resources.
Prior to submitting an application, artists should visit and review the
residency websites below to learn about each program’s costs,
facilities, unique experiences, and application requirements.
Application materials may include the following items but each
application process may be different; Letter of Intent, Artist
statement, Resume/CV, 10 images, etc.
Medalta International Artists In Residence Program
713 Medalta Ave SE
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Primary Contact: Noriko Masuda
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.medalta.org
An eight-week residency is available only July 3 – August 30, 2017
International Visa is not required.
Approximate total cost for an eight-week residency is $4060.00.
Medalta will provide up to $1760 in-kind support and NCECA has budgeted
$3750.00; the selected artist is responsible for costs beyond the
budgeted amount; Studio fees, services, firing fees, miscellaneous
expenses. This cost is only an estimate and could change depending on
varying factors such as material/firing usage, food consumption, and
travel distance. In-kind support provided by residency is for specified
items and amounts. CLICK HERE for application process.
Celebrating 10 Years at Curaumilla Arts Center with NCECA Residency
Director: Marilu Pelusa Rosenthal
Primary Contact: Marilu Pelusa Rosenthal
Mailing Address: La Disputada 37, Lo Barnechea, Santiago
Country: Chile
Telephone: (569) 8428 0745
Email : [email protected]
Website: www.centrodeartecuarumilla.cl
A four-week residency is available April 2017 – November 2017.
International Visa is not required.
Approximate total cost for a four-week residency is $4000.00.
Curaumilla will provide up to $1900 in-kind support and NCECA has
budgeted $3750.00; the selected artist is responsible for costs beyond
the budgeted amount; materials, firing fees, miscellaneous expenses.
This cost is only an estimate and could change depending on varying
factors such as material/firing usage, food consumption, and travel
distance. In-kind support provided by residency is for specified items
and amounts. CLICK HERE for application process.
Full details and eligibility are on the NCECA website here.
by Carole Epp | Nov 26, 2016 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, technical tuesday
DEADLINE: Wednesday, February 1, 2017 (EST)
52st ANNUAL NCECA CONFERENCE: CrossCurrents: Clay and Culture
Wednesday March 14 – Saturday, March 17, 2018
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Overview
The exhibition and expansion of
contemporary ceramic practice will include diverse approaches to ideas
and senses of materiality involving clay and process. NCECA’s annual
conference is enriched by the innovation and vision that emerges from
our community to present ceramic art of the highest caliber in the form
of Concurrent Exhibitions (CEs). These exhibitions make ceramic art
visible and accessible to communities in which the conference is based.
Concurrent Exhibitions also provide a platform for participating artists
to engage with the global audience of ceramic enthusiasts to expand,
challenge, and celebrate critical and aesthetic horizons of art made
with clay. NCECA promotes Concurrent Exhibitions through the print
conference guide, app, website, Blog and social media. While NCECA makes
efforts to cluster the shows within art/ cultural districts to maximize
viewer attendance, it is not able to guarantee that all exhibition
venues will be included on tour routes.
2018 Exhibitions Focus
NCECA seeks exhibition proposals
that incorporate clay as the principal medium of expression and have
conceptual resonance with the theme of its 52nd annual conference, CrossCurrents: Clay and Culture.
The conference will take place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in March
2018. Cross-currents within Pittsburgh’s three rivers are traversed by
446 bridges. These natural and cultural features are vibrant metaphors
for the intersectionality, significance, and experience of different
cultural constructs. Traditions and innovations coexist throughout the
ceramic medium’s history. Our creative work with ceramic art in the 21st
century can be a catalyst to generate dialog and empathy. When art
grapples with change through underrepresented ideas, new models of
creating, teaching, and learning, it has the capacity to crystalize
experiences of diversity and notions of community. Through these
exhibitions, NCECA hopes to share and promote innovative approaches to
ceramic art that explore and highlight the experiences of diverse
cultures within a dynamic society.
full details here: nceca.net/concurrent-exhibition-proposals/
by Carole Epp | May 20, 2016 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, technical tuesday
THEME: The Evocative Garden
DEADLINE: Wednesday, JUNE 15, 2016 (11:59pm Mountain time)
The Evocative Garden FULL prospectus(pdf)
If you encounter problems and require technical assistance with submission contact [email protected]
Location:
Disjecta Contemporary Art Center
8371 N Interstate Avenue
Portland, OR 97217
www.disjecta.org
March 4- April 1, 2017
JUROR/ CURATOR: Gail M. Brown, curator will select works for the
exhibition in coordination with NCECA Exhibitions Director Leigh Taylor
Mickelson.
ABOUT THE NEW NCECA ANNUAL
In 2017 NCECA launches a new annual exhibition platform that will
replace the Biennial and Invitational, which have been produced in
alternating years since 2010. The refreshed NCECA Annual exhibition
format is being developed in response to feedback from members. The
new model seeks to blend impactful attributes of each of the previous
models while also cultivating opportunity for curatorial practice in
regard to ceramic art.
NCECA’s aspiration is to evolve the exhibition model in a manner that
will enable exceptional work to be represented in a way that celebrates
concerns of materiality and conceptual rigor. One outcome that NCECA
will remain committed to will be that comparatively under-exposed
artists will have an opportunity to present their work with that of
established and important emerging creators in the field.
The NCECA Annual will enable the vision of a single curator to frame
an organizing concept and to support the exhibition’s foundational ideas
through the inclusion of works by up to five invited artists making
important contributions to the field. The remainder of the exhibition
will be selected through an open submission, blind review and selection
process. The single curator model will provide an annually recurring
opportunity for a particular point of view on the field to emerge as the
result of a unique, informed, and thoughtful vision.
ABOUT THE EVOCATIVE GARDEN
The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts is pleased to
announce that in 2017, esteemed curator of contemporary craft Gail M. Brown
will launch this new series with The Evocative Garden, an international
juried and invitational exhibition exploring natural and cultivated
worlds. Invited artists include Megan Bogonovich, Jess Riva Cooper, Kim Dickey, Linda Sormin and Dirk Staschke.
A breadth of implied and articulated dramas will be staged as a
personally defined natural landscape or more formalized garden scenario.
In works of ceramic sculpture, installation, object and vessel format,
each participant will offer a new or recent work- some potent
objects-as-metaphors, with sub-text and, others as choreographed scenes
with figuration or the figure/s implied in a verdant location, in
vocabularies from nuanced realism to personal symbolism. Each will be
designed to reference an array of issues- nature’s fragility and
sustainability, the wild and the tame, life’s appetites and dilemmas,
conflict and resolution, the everlasting and the temporal- social and
historic events, of the natural world and the human condition.
Artists remind us that nature and the articulated garden, as context,
stimulation and tactile allure, is a seductive, universal, ever present
enticement.
~Gail M. Brown, Curator
Portland identifies itself as The City of Roses. It abounds with lush
public and private gardens and the climate to nurture them. For The
Evocative Garden, the curator seeks submissions that visually define a
garden allusion, as subject, context or setting, according to their own
narrative and ceramic vocabulary.
http://nceca.net/annual-exhibition/
by Carole Epp | Mar 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
