monday morning eye candy: Brenda Wolf

Well there is honestly nothing more pleasing than finding amazing work practically right in your backyard, plus the joy of meting a blog reader in person. Last weekend I meet Brenda Wolf at the Cathedral Village Arts Festival and was completely taken with her work. In fact the piece in the 3rd picture below now sits on my living room cabinet. I also have a soft spot for artists who work both functionally and sculpturally like me.  I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Find her here:

Call for entry : Port Hacking Potters 47th National Competition 2012

Tim Mantzouridis – “Ambiguous Perception7” Winner 2010 Port Hacking Potters Award

This event is held every second year at the Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Art Centre, Gymea NSW.

The event has been part of the ceramics calendar for the past 50 years
as it used to be held annually.  It has been a spring-board for the
careers of many famous potters and ceramic artists.

In 2012 the event will take place from 22 September with an Official
Opening and will continue until 3 October 2012 when any unsold entries
must be collected.

This year our Judge will be Greg Daly.   Here is a quote from the Entry Form:

About the Judge –

Greg
Daly is a ceramic artist resident of the Cowra district and lecturer at
the Australian National    University – Ceramic Workshop.  A member of
the International Academy of Ceramics – Geneva, he is a ceramicist of
national and international standing with works in national and
over 75 international    galleries / museums. 
“In
my own work, I have concern for the whole piece – throwing, finishing,
glazing, firing, decorating are all important to me in the creation of
the work. Images, illusions of surface and the form they are placed upon
to create individual works”.

Entry Forms are now available.
If you would like to receive an entry form please email to: 

ENTRIES  CLOSE Friday  14 September 2012

http://www.porthackingpotters.blogspot.com.au/p/port-hacking-potters-group-47th.html

Call for Entry: Craft Forms 2012

The 18th international juried exhibition is dedicated to enhancing the public’s awareness of contemporary
craft while providing a venue for established and emerging artists alike
to share their functional and sculptural creative endeavors.

Juror – Cindi Strauss

Cindi Strauss is Assistant Director, Programming and Curator for
Modern and Contemporary Decorative Arts and Design at the Museum of Fine
Arts, Houston. She holds a BA with honors in Art History from Hamilton
College and an MA in the History of Decorative Arts from the
Cooper-Hewitt/Parsons School of Design. Cindi is a member of the board
of the American Craft Council and the Advisory Council of the Houston
Center for Contemporary Craft and has served as a grant evaluator for
the Pew Charitable Trust and the Center for Craft, Creativity, and
Design.

Entry Deadline September 13th.
Find all the details here.

Wayne Art Center Contacts:

Nancy Campbell, Executive Director
Karen Louise Fay, Director of Special Projects
Wayne Art Center
413 Maplewood Avenue
Wayne, PA 19087
610.688.3553
www.wayneart.org
www.craftforms.com