We're thrilled to finally announce publicly that the Windgate Charitable Foundation has generously come to our aid in ushering along some much-needed improvements to our department. The award will be distributed among the multiple areas of the art department, with the most significant chunk helping get our new sculpture facility off the ground and well-equipped. Obviously, the ceramics area also has plans for some new equipment to be acquired in the coming year. Keep an eye on our posts... things are going to be changing a lot around here! For more details, click on the link below.

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Hosted by Baltimore Clayworks, juror Jason Bige Burnett writes, "This exhibition will highlight what is happening now in studio ceramics. It will showcase new talent and highlight known experts in the field. All forms will be considered that include graphic and illustrative surfaces including, but not limited to: sgraffito, mishima, china paint, and print processes on clay; image transfers and decals. Professional, novice, emerging, all artists highlighting these processes are encouraged to apply! It will be an exhibit that’s vibrant in content and surface."

Deadline for application is January 16th.

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We're very proud that Linda has been chosen to be included in Crystal Bridges' "State of the Art" exhibition. If you haven't yet visited the show, you definitely should! And, if you're too far away to make the trip, you should at least tale a look at the comprehensive website they have created for the show. 

The exhibition opened on September 11th and will be up through January 9th.

Source: http://stateoftheart.crystalbridges.org/bl...
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Lecture: Thursday, October 23, 2014 @ Kimple 102, 5:30 PM

Kristen Morgin, whose work is formed with a mixture of clay, glue, cement and other media, comes from a ceramic background, but goes far beyond traditional uses of the medium. Her sculptures have an affinity to the assemblages of George Herms, Edward Keinholz, and Michael Mc Millen, but also evoke relics of contemporary culture that have been buried and unearthed at a later date. As Morgin states: “My works are delicate things that express the preciousness, nobility and stubborn-headedness of matter that resists its own inevitable demise in spite of its dilapidated condition and predestined downfall.”

Morgin was born in 1968 in Brunswick, Georgia. She completed her BA at California State University, Hayward, and her MFA at Alfred University. Work has recently been acquired by LACMA, the Hammer Museum and The Rubell Family Collection. Kristen Morgin has been included in the Thing exhibition at the Hammer Museum in 2005, the New Museum’s inaugural show in New York in 2007, and has participated in the Istanbul Biennial curated by Jens Hoffman.

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    From July 17-19 2014 the University of Westminster organized a new ceramics conference that was supposed to address the ways clay is moving forward into a new realm of existence beyond the common conceptions of the media and Janet Abrams, who was asked to attend and review the event by C-File, feels otherwise.

   For more information and research potential check out the website of Ceramics in the Expanded Field and the articles written within.  It seems that they are updated regularly.  Worth it? You decide.

http://www.ceramics-in-the-expanded-field.com/essays

   If you happen to be interested in the image provided or want to see other exhibitions that happened as a result of the conference click the link below for more potential inspiration.

http://www.ceramics-in-the-expanded-field.com/events/project-exhibitions

Sections of “Quietus” by Julian Stair. (image from C-File's page with the article by clicking the title of this post).

Sections of “Quietus” by Julian Stair. (image from C-File's page with the article by clicking the title of this post).

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Fire! is an exhibition of contemporary ceramics curated by De Pury De Pury @ Venus Over Manhattan. Artists: Flavie Audi, Jean Baptiste Bernadet, Cameron Jamie, Friedrich Kunath, Shio Kusaka, Young-Jae Lee, Andrew Lord, John Mason, Dan McCarthy, Marten Medbo, Ritsue Mishima, Sterling Ruby, Thomas Schutte, Josh Smith, Rosmarie Trockel, and Ai Weiwei.

September 18 - November 1, 2014


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Group Exhibition: Intersecting Editions

The Castle Gallery @ the College of New Rochelle, 29 Castle Place, New Rochelle, NY

September 2 - November 2, 2014

This exhibition challenges the traditional assumption that artists pursue one material and methodology at a time, by showing the complex dialog between print and ceramic media. Though the two disciplines each developed through independent paths, with unique histories of technique and artistic styles, artists in this exhibit embrace “a post-disciplinary spirit” that goes beyond strict roles of ceramic artist or printmaker. By blending identities the artists have opened new avenues that combine techniques from both disciplines.

Curators Sarah Rowe and Rachel Sydlowski, who both incorporate printmaking and ceramics in their own studios, have put together an exhibit that shows the results of interdisciplinary thinking between ceramics and printmaking.  The outcomes range from traditional forms of reproducibility to cast sculpture and ephemeral performance-based methods of mark-making, as well as printmaking methods such as slip cast multiples, screen printing, decals, video, and photography.

Rowe explains, “We chose to focus on crossing disciplines because many artists today are working in a cross-disciplinary way. The connections between printmaking and ceramics are not often directly highlighted in a gallery or museum setting. Though decals and mold making have been employed within the ceramics field for hundreds of years we wanted to investigate how artists are exploring and stretching this ever evolving relationship between printmaking and ceramics. Each piece in the show speaks to a different level of crossing disciplines.”

Artists in the exhibition include: Dylan J. Beck, Alison Carey, Ane Fabricius Christiansen, Christine Facella, Future Retrieval, Sin-ying Ho, Jessica Kreutter, Matthew McConnell, Scott Rench, Hope Rovelto, Amanda Small, and W.A. Ehren Tool.

http://castlegallery.cnr.edu/1369/intersecting-editions/

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Jeannie's work is featured in the third floor vitrine of 21c in Bentonville, AR.

Stop by and take a look!

www.21cmuseumhotels.com

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Friday and Saturday, October 10-11, 2014

Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire Street, Lawrence, KS

Every two years, the Lawrence Arts Center hosts six nationally recognized ceramicists in a symposium on topics central to the contemporary ceramics art world. This rare opportunity offers a chance to interact and observe ceramic artists working in the top of the field. Over the course of two days, this select group of artists are active in studios at the Lawrence Arts Center demonstrating sculpting processes, wheel throwing, surface decoration and glazing, representing a diverse range of techniques and approaches to ceramic art.  The six artists are paired up in three studios at the Arts Center, to demonstrate their techniques and encourage dialogue with the audience. Attendees are encouraged to visit each of the three studios throughout the two day symposium on Friday, October 10 and Saturday, October 11 from 9:30am to 4:30pm.

Artists: Sunshine CobbGerit GrimmChris GustinAkio Takamori, Patti Warashina, and Stan Welsh 

More info here: http://lawrenceartscenter.org/ceramics-symposium/

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Armatures of Audubon: Contemporary Constructions and Ecologies

Kentucky School of Art Gallery, Louisville, KY

September 4 - November 3, 2014

When John James Audubon sought to create a comprehensive document of all birds in North America, he generated life-size interpretations of species to sell to subscribers. A self-taught natural historian, musician, outdoorsman, and the first person to band birds, Audubon’s identity was split between that of a showman and scientist, and he manipulated and posed his avian subjects to captivate an audience.

The desire to depict “true” nature is complex, and related efforts and failures have become rich material for contemporary artists as they construct their own worlds. In Armatures of Audubon: Contemporary Constructions and Ecologies, artists appropriate visual languages associated with 19th century natural history, botanical illustrations, and landscape paintings, propose alternate relationships between objects from daily life and observation, and translate complex histories through a personal lens.

 

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