movie day: The Ceramic Presence in Modern Art

by | Dec 28, 2016 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, technical tuesday

Over the last 25 years, Linda Leonard Schlenger has amassed one of the
most important collections of contemporary ceramics in the country. This
exhibition features over 80 objects from the Schlenger collection by
leading 20th-century ceramicists—including John Mason, Jim Melchert,
Kenneth Price, Lucie Rie, and Peter Voulkos—alongside works in other
media from the Yale University Art Gallery’s permanent collection by
artists such as Hans Hofmann, Willem de Kooning, Isamu Noguchi, Mark
Rothko, and Edward Ruscha. Although critically lauded within the
studio-craft movement, works by these ceramicists are only now coming to
be recognized as integral to the wider field of contemporary art. By
interspersing these exceptional examples of the medium with other
objects from this period, including painting, sculpture, and works on
paper, this exhibition aims to reexamine the position of postwar ceramic
sculpture within the context of contemporary art, highlighting the
formal, historical, and theoretical affinities among the works on view.

movie day: Theaster Gates: How to revive a neighborhood: with imagination, beauty and art

by | Nov 23, 2016 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, technical tuesday

Theaster Gates, a potter by training and a social activist by calling,
wanted to do something about the sorry state of his neighborhood on the
south side of Chicago. So he did, transforming abandoned buildings to
create community hubs that connect and inspire those who still live
there (and draw in those who don’t). In this passionate talk, Gates
describes his efforts to build a “miniature Versailles” in Chicago, and
he shares his fervent belief that culture can be a catalyst for social
transformation in any city, anywhere.