emerging artist: Rachel Ballard
call for entry: $10,000 Awards for Emerging Ceramic and Glass Artists (Canada)
Are you an emerging artist? Do you want to develop your artistic practice? We have two opportunities for you!
The
Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery is calling for submissions to the
2016 RBC Award for Glass and Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics.
These
prestigious national awards allow practicing early career ceramic and
glass artists to undertake a period of independent research, or other
activities that advance their artistic and professional practice. The
winner of each Award will receive $10,000. The selection is made by a
jury comprised of respected contemporary glass and ceramic artists and
other arts professionals. Winners will be celebrated and the awards
presented at a ceremony in Waterloo, Ontario on November 12, 2016.
To
be eligible for the Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics or the RBC Award
for Glass, artists must be Canadian citizens or have Permanent Resident
status. They must have developed skills through training and/or
practice in the field (not necessarily in academic institutions) and be
recognized by other artists working in the same artistic tradition.
Successful candidates seek payment for their work and actively practice
their art. All applicants have maintained a professional practice for no
more than 10 years prior to the date of application.
Application Guidelines:
To download the complete guidelines for the RBC Award for Glass or the Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics, visit www.theclayandglass.ca/awards. In order to be considered, applications for either award must be received electronically by Monday, September 5, 2016.
About the Awards:
The
RBC Award for Glass is supported by RBC as part of the RBC Emerging
Artists Project. The Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics is supported by
The Keith and Winifred Shantz Fund for the Arts, held at The Kitchener
and Waterloo Community Foundation.
Past
recipients of both awards truly represent the best of the emerging
ceramic and glass artists in Canada. Alwyn O’Brien of Salt Spring
Island, British Columbia was the winner of the 2015 Winifred Shantz
Award for Ceramics. Ito Laïla Le François of Rimouski, Quebec was the
winner of the 2015 RBC Award for Glass.
Contact Information:
For additional information, contact Andrew Bucsis, Curatorial Assistant at 519-746-1882 ext. 227 or [email protected]
Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery
Galerie canadienne de la Céramique et du Verre
25 Caroline Street North
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 2Y5
519-746-1882
www.theclayandglass.ca
Hours:
Monday to Friday 11 am to 6 pm
Saturday 10 am to 5 pm
Sunday 1 pm to 5 pm
Twitter: @CdnClayandGlass
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emerging artist: Brian McNamara
Artist Statement:
My current body of work entitled Seven-Sevenfold, focuses on the rocky relationship I’ve built with religion as a means of identity. In constructing a narrative of my life in the Catholic Church as a bleak landscape, I have situated isolated ceramic pieces with desolate ink drawings. My use of clay references the convention of creation myths, such as God creating man from dirt in Genesis 2:7. In this way I act as creator to my own abominations.
My whole life has revolved around storytelling. My favorite stories were alwaysthe ones that were about society and the leaders of society. Stories that have a utopian society broken by a character revealing it as dystopia: such as Ayn Rand’s Anthem and Lois Lowry’s The Giver, even The Bible. I look to these books with a critical eye and place them in the context of my own life to inspire my art, my aesthetics, and my morality. Through these books I’ve learned what it means to find the idea of ‘self’, what it means to experience, and what it means to love.
In the same way storytelling is rooted in folk tradition, I approach my artwork as an adaptation of traditional folk ceramics. I create figures in a gestural way, leaving the mark of my hand and using a loose-hand built method of construction. When thinking of a composition I pull influence from the Muromachi period of Japanese Suibokuga. The loose and gestural scroll drawings provide a much-needed harmony to the rough material and surfaces of the ceramic pieces.
For guidance in the creation of Seven-Sevenfold, I investigated the number seven and its prominence in The Bible. This body of work features seven landscapes to represent a dystopian viewing of the utopia given to the Israelites after the 40 years of wandering mentioned in Deuteronomy; mirrored in this relationship between the abominations and the alien desert landscapes that I created.
Through the lens of the Catholic Church I am that abomination; set out on my journey through the desert to find my utopia, whether or not it exists.
emerging artist: Stephanie Dukat
Growing up in the suburbs, I saw the effects of the sprawling suburban landscape; I observed a shift from open and natural spaces to engineered environments. Land, which I once knew as forest, a place for retreat from the fenced in backyard was transformed into subdivisions, parking lots, and infrastructure. This observation raises the question: How has the perception our natural world shifted? I marvel at the beauty of the natural landscape and feel compelled share my viewpoint on issues regarding overdevelopment through my ceramics and mixed media sculptures. In using these materials there is duality in the origins of the material and content, and through them I build artificial versions of already artificial landscape.
With the end of WWII, 1950’s suburban dreams littered the surface of American communities in the form of small, quaint, and well-made houses. Ensuing generations expanded upon the aura of the “American Dream” on a much larger scale. Rapidly the market desired newer and bigger, creating an unstable infrastructure and housing with ephemeral qualities. This development deplete farmland and forests vital to the both natural world and human existence.
Along with these expanding communities, it has become necessary to carve out additional highways for transportation. The stretch of winding access roads and ramps connect suburbs with metropolitan hubs. At the same time creating divisions, effectively carving up the parts of daily life into drive-only destinations: work, home, school, shopping. These highways with their advertisements lure residents to the next current consumerist American lifestyle. A balancing act is created within an already delicate system of nature, causing the network to degrade and expose the complex issues of the substructure.
www.stephaniedukat.com
Instagram- @sdukat
call for entry – North American Clay Challenge – quick deadline of June 15th!!!
This international event is scheduled for September 1 – October 2 in
the historic City of Auburn located in the California, Sierra Nevada
foothills, heart of Gold Country.
This juried clay show celebrates visionary artists from around the
world with only 100 entries allowed in the Exposition. Online
applications will be accepted beginning April 1, 2016.
More than $25,000 in cash prizes and awards will be offered to the winning entries. The Exposition will be judged by Susannah Israel, the only American to win the New Zealand Fletcher Challenge.
This Exposition is held in conjunction with a Throw-a-Thon, exciting
workshops and a Street Fair (organized by General Gomez Gallery and the
ClayArts Studio). The exposition features a grand finale Beer &
Brats Fete, complete with local beer, food, music and commemorative beer
stein.
The North American Clay Challenge is offering $25,000
in cash prize money and purchase awards. 2016 is our inaugural year,
the not so modest beginnings of many more years to come for the North American Clay Challenge.
We started with an idea for a two-day clay throw-a-thon, and soon our
enthusiasm heightened and our ideas propagated more ideas, and the North American Clay Challenge was born.
One goal early on, was to join the ranks of Auburn’s many prestigious
events. In keeping with the true “Auburn, Endurance Capital of the
World” spirit, we soon realized that what was needed was not simply a
single clay event, but a month long, pull out all the stops,
International Clay Challenge!
With the expertise of clay artists Larry Ortiz and Ray Gonzales, we
soon had internationally known artist Susannah Israel on board as juror
for the show. The Clay Challenge exhibit will be located in the General Gomez Arts building at 808 Lincoln Way in Auburn, California, USA.
The exposition includes challenges in the following four categories:
Figure Sculpture, Sculpture, Functional (Thrown), and Tile/Wall Hanging.
September begins with an exclusive invitational VIP reception, followed
workshops, the clay throw-a-thon, the General reception along with a
street fair with demonstrations, live music, and vendors.
October 1st wraps up the month with a Beer and Brats festival.
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