by Carole Epp | Feb 2, 2022 | workshops
The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce Dr. Ronnie Watt as their next speaker for their Speakers Series. Dr. Watt will present via Zoom on Sunday, February 27, 2022, 11 am Pacific Time. This daytime presentation will allow interested parties from Europe and Africa to attend. All are welcome, but registration is required. Please see here or below to register for this exciting talk.
Dr. Ronnie Watt is a collector and specialist researcher of South African studio pottery and studio ceramic art. He is a graduate and postgraduate of the University of South Africa. His Master’s dissertation addressed South African studio pottery of the later twentieth century and its Anglo-Oriental label. The focus of his PhD was a contextual history of South African ceramics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He has published numerous articles on South African studio pottery. After retiring from his career as journalist and producer of television programmes, he emigrated from South Africa to Canada in 2015 and is now resident in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island where he continues his research and writing.
Dr. Watt’s lecture will discuss what is a distinctive feature of South African ceramic art, the expression of identity within a multi-cultural society. Contemporary ceramics produced by both white and black ceramists reveal the practice of cultural referencing to be a conscious engagement with issues of identities, values and meanings, which are expressed as complex symbolism and metaphor in the visual vocabulary. The lecture will refer to works by 20th and 21st century South African ceramists such as Maggie Mikula, Andile Dyalvane, S’bonelo Thau Luthuli, and Michelle Legg.
To register for this talk, please register (free of charge) here:
by Carole Epp | Feb 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
Haystack is pleased to steward a new fellowship fund celebrating the life of renowned potter, Michael Simon (1947-2021), who passed away last August after a long illness. Michael taught and met many other artists at Haystack. He recognized that the special environment at the School could be sustaining and even life-changing, and designated Haystack as the recipient of memorial gifts.
In honor of his wish, the Michael Simon Studio Pottery Fellowship is being established by friends and family. The fellowship honors and celebrates his life—his powerful teaching and work—by giving others the opportunity that was transformative to so many artists over the years. Once fully funded, the fellowship will annually provide tuition, room, and board, plus $500 in travel assistance for a mid-career functional potter to attend a ceramics workshop at Haystack. Individuals will be selected through the annual Haystack scholarship review process and the fellowship will be awarded each summer.
Images:
1) Michael Simon, by D. Hayne Bayless
2) Michael Simon’s work by John Polak, courtesy of Ferrin Contemporary.
by Carole Epp | Jan 25, 2022 | job posting
Studio assistants are students who assist instructors and are responsible for maintaining the school’s standards for studio operation. They receive housing and meals and pay only a $5 application fee in Slideroom and a $25 non-refundable processing fee if selected.
Studio assistants are selected based on their knowledge of a working studio. In addition to 25–40 hours of work each week, studio assistants are required to work from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM on the day before their session and may have some work to do on Friday after the session is over. Clay studio assistants have a work assignment on Saturday morning after the session and stay on campus Friday night.
Summer 2022
See a full list of workshops offered HERE. Please apply using the scholarship application form on Slideroom by 11:59 PM ET on February 17, 2022.
Note: we cannot accept applications from studio assistants who are not US citizens unless they have current documents authorizing them to work in the US.
Studio Assistantships
by Carole Epp | Jan 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
2022 Juror: TBA
This will be the very first Ceramics Congress juried Film Festival! Our hope is to have a wealth of submissions from all over the world.
- This is a juried exhibition. Juror’s decisions are final.
- All entries must be complete and received by March 31, 2022 @ midnight CST.
- Films must be submitted as a youtube link. This can be an unlisted video, but it can not be hidden or we won’t be able to access it.
- The festival will be held online only.
- Open to artists from anywhere in the world who are 18 and older.
- Films that have been exhibited elsewhere are eligible.
PLEASE NOTE:
- By submitting your film for consideration you are acknowledging that the work submitted is your own work and that you have full permission to use the footage. Please credit all collaborators and staff in the submission form.
- By submitting your film to the festival you are agreeing to have your film be shown online and that still images of your film may be used for publicity purposes.
- Please note: It is the sole responsibility of the applicant to secure clearance from all copyright holders of materials included in the submitted film. The Ceramic School will not be held responsible for the unauthorized inclusion of copyrighted materials within or relating to the submitted film. The Ceramic School reserves the right to disqualify any film with unauthorized copyrighted materials.
The festival opening will be held online as part of the Spring Ceramics Congress, exact date to be announced. The festival will also be available to view online after The Ceramics Congress.
About The Ceramics Congress:
The Ceramics Congress is a bi-annual online event bringing together ceramics artists from around the world for 5 days in May and November. It host workshops, artist talks, technical advice and demonstrations, exhibitions, vendor expo, makers market and many interactive social events. Thousands of attendees participate each time making this the number one online international ceramic event.
APPLY HERE.
