3D printing @ Northcote Pottery Supplies with Alterfact

by | May 21, 2015 | Uncategorized

 
Alterfact
is an design studio created by Lucile and Ben in 2014. Since graduating
from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2013, Lucile and Ben have worked
in tandem on various issues in different mediums. Alterfact explores
current and future issues and translates them into experiences,
installations and objects. They conduct critical research with materials
and data, and invite the viewer into their world. Our
background is in design, and we have a critical approach to making.
This means that we consider the manufacture of ‘stuff’: where it is
coming from and where it is going; how it is made and how it will be
used. Within Alterfact, Ben is more academic and research based, whereas
Lucile conducts more material research and translation to objects. 
 
Lucile
and Ben’s residency project @ Northcote Pottery Supplies was to build their own 3D Printer and
create a series of unique ceramic tableware using the printer. They
are harnessing the irregularities of 3D printing and working within its
limitations to create work that is pretty exciting and it has garnered a
lot of interest.
Floor Talk by Ben Landau & Lucile Sciallano of Alterfact Studio
Guest Artists in Residence, Northcote Pottery Supplies
Monday 1st June 6pm-7pm
Free Event
Northcote Pottery Supplies
142-144 Weston Street
Brunswick East VIC 3057

call for entry: Conversations in Clay

by | May 21, 2015 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

New Mexico Potters & Clay Artists
Conversations in Clay

This year’s NMPCA show has a multidimensional theme, Conversations in Clay,
encouraging members to participate in different ways, including working
with another artist, NMPCA or non member. Individual pottery or ceramic
art pieces can be submitted with a one-sentence “conversation starter”
description.  Another option is collaboration between two artists as one
piece created together or two pieces comprising one conversation. The
selected works will be exhibited at the Fuller Lodge Art Center.

 New Mexico Potter’s and Clay Artists website   Download Application

Potters Retreat with Ben Carter, Chandra Debuse and Kathy King

by | May 19, 2015 | Uncategorized

June 10-13th, 2015
 
The
Mary Anderson Center for the Arts is excited to host our second
Potters’ Retreat.  This June our presenters will be Ben Carter, Chandra
DeBuse and Kathy King. 
Come to the beautiful
grounds of Mt. St. Francis for this amazing three day workshop
experience. Not only will each artist work independently, but the three
will work together, interacting and exchanging stories and insights into
their lives as working artists. This workshop is designed to be a true
retreat, set on the 450 acres grounds, you will be recharged by the
community of fellow artists and the land around you. Meals will be
provided on site by the Mount’s two professional chefs and rooms are
available on site. Come and experience this fantastic retreat.
This demonstration only workshop
will showcase each artists’ work, focusing on their approach to the
surface and decoration. The intimate and personal talks with each artist
will give insight into their process and the unique approach each of
them take to their work.

Ben Carter will
demonstrate quick manipulations of soft wheel thrown clay to create
expressive pitcher, bowl, and cup forms.  He will also cover decorating
with deflocculated slip and techniques for drawing on clay, including
sgraffito, wax resists, and underglaze painting.
Chandra DeBuse
will demonstrate how she designs unique and personal pottery forms using
simple and inexpensive materials, such as plywood and craft foam.  In
addition to handbuilding, Chandra will share techniques used to alter
wheel-thrown work and to create multiple parts for building narrative
pots.

Chandra will share her surface decoration techniques, which include
sprigging, stamping, freehand drawing, underglaze inlay, sgraffito, and
the use of wax resist to create a layered and colorful surface.

Kathy King will
demostrate how to center on building a personal vocabulary of imagery
while considering methods of composition of that imagery onto the
wheel-thrown and hand built ceramic form.  With humor as a tool to
create narratives within her work, King will introduce some
non-traditional ideas about function and methods of storytelling.   She
will carve through slip-colored clay (sgraffito) and will showcase other
methods on leather-hard clay with transfer techniques such as decals,
silk-screening, resist printing from a photocopy and block-printing
images onto clay.  In addition, glaze techniques that will enhance
surface work will be demonstrated.

 www.maryandersoncenter.com