The DO GOOD Residency
Red Lodge Clay Center | Deadline: September 2, 2013 | Fee (USD): $10.00
The DO GOOD-MJ Wood Memorial Short-Term Residency is an underwritten residency intended to support ceramic artists who wish to develop a body of work with a socially-conscious spirit and a strong sense of community engagement. Through a competitive application process one candidate per year will be selected to work at the Red Lodge Clay Center Studios with a full waiver of the residency fee. An additional stipend may be available for selected projects to assist with travel and/or production costs during residency.
Dates of residency: Any time between December 1, 2013 and May 31, 2014
For full details of requirements follow the link below:
Short Term Residency Application Deadline: May 1, 2013 The Short-Term Residency (any time between September 1 – May 31) is ideal for the ceramic artist who is working to complete a special project requiring two to eight weeks’ time. Accepted short-term residents are provided with studio space and 24 hour access to the studio. Housing is available for $450.00 per month or a prorated basis congruent with the scheduled residency. Short-term residents will be responsible for personal living expenses, as well as all material and firing expenses. The application deadline is May 1st annually. Application Fee: $40 The Red Lodge Clay Center welcomes applications from ceramic artists who will thrive working as a team, in a community minded atmosphere.
When I saw this I just about lost my mind and jumped in the car and drove straight there to see it. Then I remembered how far away I am and that we’re expecting a winter storm today….maybe another day. Thank goodness all the images are online.
curatorial statement for Tisdale Figurative Invitational
“James Tisdale is a Resident Artist and Ceramic Education Coordinator at the Austin Museum of Art. His position with AMOA has allowed him to participate in several residency programs in the US and across the globe, even teaching at the International Ceramic Studio in Kecskemet, Hungary. His allegorical, biographically inspired figures have been exhibited internationally and most recently his work was featured at SOFA Chicago. Red Lodge Clay Center is proud to welcome Tisdale back to Montana after twenty years. We are also excited to have the opportunity to collaborate with him on this exhibition. “Silhouettes” presents an intimate, yet diverse display of contemporary, figurative ceramic sculpture.
The figure has had a pretty interesting run throughout the history of art. More than once this icon has been declared “DEAD”, only to rise again thanks to the undeniable hubris of the human condition. We will always grapple with ourselves and so we will always have need to view ourselves through the varied, external, interpretive lens of the maker. Some of the artists in the exhibit honor the classical rendering of the figure to explore the human condition, while others abstract surface and form to exploit psychological underpinnings or to celebrate frozen moment narratives. Humor, history, mythology, and anthropomorphism inform these objects in a melange that is only possible in modernity. It’s easy to forget that the salon once vilified deviations from the representational figure. Now such deviations are not only accepted, they are the exemplar. Debates between protectors of tradition and those reaching for innovation are applicable to many fields and it is an opportunity to examine our own boundaries.
Humanity has primordial ties with the material of ceramics and a seemingly primordial impulse to recreate our likeness in the plastic mud. The figure serves as human proxy and as divine proxy. The figure functions as icon and catharsis. It is a way for us to try catching lightening in a bottle. The collective “we” can redefine ourselves through the figure. Through the figure we can be immortal. “
The Long-Term Residency (September 1 – July 31)
is ideal for committed individuals in transition from post
baccalaureate studies to graduate school, as well as those pursuing the
development of professional artistic careers. Self-directed ceramic
artists searching for the time, space and resources needed to explore
new ideas and create new work will enjoy the rural mountainous setting.
Accepted residents will be provided with studio space, housing,
utilities, and a monthly stipend in exchange for twenty hours of work
per week at the Clay Center. Responsibilities will include assisting in
the retail operation of the gallery, teaching community clay classes, as
well as cleaning and maintenance of the studio and gallery. Residents
will be responsible for personal living expenses, as well as all
material and firing expenses. The application deadline is February 1st annually.
curatorial statement for Tisdale Figurative Invitational 
