call for entry: Manninggham Victorian Ceramic Art Award 2017

The
Manningham Victorian Ceramic Art Award was established by Manningham
Council in 2009 to support Victorian studio ceramics and acknowledge the
special place that ceramics has in the Manningham region.
The
biennial acquisitive award and accompanying exhibition celebrates the
best in contemporary Victorian ceramic art practice from across the
state. Works acquired through the award form part of the Manningham Art
Collection and are subsequently displayed in public buildings throughout
the municipality, as well as regularly featuring in Manningham Art
Gallery exhibitions.

Manningham Victorian Ceramic Art Award 2017

Major Award $10,000
Merit Award Acquisitions up to $4,000
Entries for the 2017 award will open soon.
The 2017 award will be judged by Janet DeBoos.
You may enter up to three individual artworks. Each artwork entry costs $30.
Entrants
are required to submit up to three high resolution images per artwork
entry (min. recommended – jpg or tiff; 300dpi; 1920 x 1080pixels).

Key Dates:

Entries Open: Soon
Entries Close: Monday 26 June
Finalists Notified and Announced: Friday 14 July
Finalists Exhibition Opening: Wednesday 16 August
Finalists Exhibition Closes: Saturday 23 September

Past Winners and Acquisitions

The
Manningham Art Collection includes almost thirty ceramic artworks
acquired through the Award since 2009, representing some of the best
contemporary ceramic work in Victoria. View a full list of past winners and acquisitions.

www.manningham.vic.gov.au/manningham-victorian-ceramic-art-awards

SUMMER 2017 RESIDENCIES AT C.R.E.T.A. ROME APPLICATION DEADLINE 1 MARCH 2017!!

CITY OR COUNTRYSIDE!!

 

Choose our city residency and live and work in the historical center of Rome,
just a few blocks from the Roman forum, Pantheon or Colosseum.
Bramante’s Tempietto pictured here is just a stroll across the Tiber to
Trastevere.

Or opt for our countryside residency near the Lake of Bracciano and the
Medieval town of Anguillara. The house and studio in a tranquil garden
setting is just a half-hour walk from the train station where you can
catch a train into the center of Rome.

 

We
offer artist residencies for ceramic artists, visual artists and
writers for periods of 4 or 5 weeks. The residency periods can be
combined, but the residency cannot exceed 90 days (for non-EU
citizens). Both residencies conclude with a final group show in our Rome center gallery space.

To apply, please submit the following by e-mail to [email protected] by 1 March for summer 2017 residencies. We also consider applications on a rolling basis on the 1st of every month:
 

  •  
  • application form https://cretarome.wufoo.com/forms/m18h6lh10iwgpi5/
  • curriculum vitae   
  • artist statement (250 words max)
  • project proposal (500 words max)
  • preferred residency period
  • 10 images (jpeg or pdf), image list with year, materials & dimensions
  • 4 short writing samples (writers and poets)

YOU CAN ALSO APPLY FOR THE FALL 2017 residency periods:
deadline 1 May 2017 (5 weeks unless noted)

10 AUGUST-13 SEPTEMBER

14 SEPTEMBER-18 OCTOBER

19 OCTOBER-22 NOVEMBER

23 NOVEMBER-20 DECEMBER (4 weeks)

www.cretarome.com

emerging artist: Mia Riley

“My work
is centered on my relationship to the natural environment. I believe
that what defines the wilderness is what we project upon it; that a
journey into this environment is also a journey within oneself. The
contrast found between using our external experience of solitary natural
settings to stem the discovery of internal meditations has become the
foundation for my recent work. I research ways in which visual elements
of contrast can symbolize dualities that exist within a larger context,
most notably in regards to an individual’s relationship to natural
landscapes. In creating contemplative vessels I seek to evoke opposing
feelings; intimacy and distance, movement and quiet, and roughness and
softness.”

www.miariley.ca