by Carole Epp | Apr 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
Exploring residency options for the upcoming year? We want to see your work!
📸: 2024-25 Resident Artist @davidkwakpottery
Our Artist in Residence program is open to qualified clay artists looking to enhance their knowledge and experience in a working studio environment. Residents are expected to work to develop a strong and cohesive body of work, have a visible presence in the studio and interact with members of the clay community and the public. Â This year-long adventure starts on September 1 and continues through August 31.
We also have a 3-month Summer Residency opening, running June 1 – August 31. Our summer resident will have the opportunity to assist or teach in our summer kids & clay camp programs while developing their voice as an artist and being part of a dynamic ceramic community.
Deadline for both opportunities: May 1.
Find the details here.
by Carole Epp | Apr 28, 2026 | call for entry
Juried by Ching Yuan Chang @chingyuan.chang . “Baltimore Clayworks Clay Biennial” is a national juried exhibition presented in conjunction with the 61st Conference of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA), that celebrates the vitality, diversity, and evolving language of contemporary ceramics. Open to ceramic artists working in all styles, techniques, and conceptual approaches, the exhibition seeks work that reflects both technical excellence and compelling artistic vision. Functional, sculptural, installation-based, and experimental works are all welcome.
Exhibition Dates: January 9 – March 13, 2027
Application Deadline: September 25, 2026
Learn more and apply by clicking the link in our bio or visit baltimoreclayworks.org/exhibitions/calls-for-entry
by Carole Epp | Apr 22, 2026 | residency opportunity
Your residency. Your evolution. Your next artistic chapter.
John has been producing ceramics since the age of 12. Almost 30 years later, he opened up his home studio and his studio at the Montebello Design Centre, in Cape Town, to provide a space for experimentation and innovation.
John’s brilliance lies in his mastery of material engineering. Through his mentorship, residents are guided to develop their own distinctive ceramic technologies and discover pathways to scale their production. His philosophy – “embracing the noble catastrophe” -is fertile ground for bold artworks that forage new frontiers.
www.johnbauerart.com/pages/artresidency
by Carole Epp | Apr 20, 2026 | call for entry
What forces are at play, shaping and defining the world we experience? What impulses do we contain that form or override these forces?
Play is integral to the human experience and fundamental to the creative process. There is a tension inherent in play that is exhilarating yet risky, competitive yet collaborative. Through play we can put down the weight of a loaded past, imagine radical futures, and yet remain truly present. Play provides not only refuge, but resistance.
Play allows us a sense of joy, moving lightly between structure and chaos without fear of failure. It exists at the threshold of uncertainty – where systems can be questioned, patterns broken, conventions overturned. Play offers us the freedom to pivot, adapt and shape-shift, opening up space for thinking otherwise—about material, making, and consequently about the world we are part of.
In this third edition of the Indian Ceramics Triennale, we see the exhibition as an incubator of possibilities. We invite artists to hold this undefined and unknown moment filled with potential, to dare to play through inventiveness, provocation, humour, satire, meaning, absurdity, performance and colour. To use play as an institution of and for disruption, dreaming into existence the unexpected and unacknowledged. To question, through play, the forces at play.
The open call is open to professional and emerging artists over the age of 18, working in ceramics or exploring clay in interdisciplinary practices. While the Indian Ceramics Triennale focuses on clay based practices, we welcome proposals from artists working across disciplines who engage with clay conceptually, materially, or contextually.
Applications must be submitted online through the google form Indian Ceramics Triennale 2027. Please read the guidelines and FAQs carefully before submitting your application.
The deadline is May 15, 2026. Late submissions will not be considered.
Please email us at [email protected] with “Open Call Query” in the subject line. We will also conduct a live Q and A sessions online and will announce the dates on Instagram and on the websi
