NCECA NSJE Exhibition 2014

Deadline: September 24

Jurors: Tara Wilson and Jeffrey Mongrain

ELIGIBILITY:

The 2014 NCECA NSJE is open to full-time undergraduate, graduate and post-baccalaureate students (as defined by their home institution) enrolled in the United States of America. Students enrolled at institutions on which the jurors currently serve as faculty are not eligible to apply.  The applicant must be working towards a degree or be a post-baccalaureate in art at the time of submittal. Click here to view the details.

Work by Jeffrey Mongrain

This is the beginning of the end, isn't it?

"For L’Artisan Electronique, Unfold modified an open source 3d printer to print ceramics. On the other side of the ceramic printer, Unfold created a virtual pottery wheel in collaboration with Tim Knapen. This pottery wheel gives visitors a chance to ‘turn’ their own forms. At regular intervals, a selection of these designs is printed in clay and exhibited in the space. In L’Artisan Electronique, pottery, one of the oldest artisanal techniques for making utilitarian objects, is combined with new digital techniques. The virtual pottery wheel was realsied by means of a 3D-scanner and digital design software. However, the installation still clearly refers to the artisanal process of working in clay. The printing process imitates the traditional technique used by ceramicists, in which the form is built up by stacking coils of clay. L’Artisan Electronique is an installation commissioned by Z33 Art Centre for the exhibition Design by Performance and developed in collaboration with Tim Knapen and the RepRap community. unfold.be unfoldfab.blogspot.com"

Whoa.

Jonathan Keep - Ceramics 3D Printing

While 3D printing has been in development for years (see BGSU's project under Greg Pugh and John Balistreri), Jonathan Keep has been demonstrating how the average artist can use and adapt these technologies for the small studio. His solutions are very hands-on, very "crafted," and very well conceptualized. His blog and portfolio is worth a look. Click on the image to link:

Edmund de Waal Prepares for an Exhibition

A nice profile of Edmund de Waal, who will soon be showing at Gagosian.

Grizzly Grizzly : September 2013

New Work by Tom Lauerman and Fabio Fernandez. I was lucky enough to have shown with these guys last year. The humble little pieces these two make together always somehow seem to be just right. I'm anxious to see the new work! 

Ken Price’s Time

via HYPERALLERGIC

America’s Newest Art Pilgrimmage: Bentonville, Arkansas

via HYPERALLERGIC. 

Continuing Ed Courses at UAF

We are pleased to announce that the ceramics studio will now be open to the public. Enrollment is available in 8 week sessions, and will be taught by Resident Artist Kensuke Yamada. For more complete information on the program, click here. 

Enrolling is simple. Click here. 

Jinsoo Song and Kensuke Yamada switch places?

After three years of serving us as a Resident Artist, Studio Technician, and Adjunct Faculty, we are saying farewell to Jinsoo Song. Jinsoo is departing Fayetteville to join The Clay Studio in Philadelphia. We wish him the best and are thrilled about his transition to Philadelphia. Jinsoo has been a trusted colleague and generous mentor to many of our students He will be missed.

Filling Jinsoo's role will be Kensuke Yamada, who recently arrived in Fayetteville from—you guessed it—The Clay Studio in Philadelphia! We're excited to welcome him to the team, and promise we won't call him Jinsooke or Kensoo. 

http://jinsoosong.com/home.html 

http://www.yamadakensuke.com

Three Decades of Conversations With Fire - NYTimes.com

A feature on the annual Peter's Valley anagama firing.

A Letter to Goldsmiths art students on capitalism, art, and pseudo-critique.

A scathing, open letter to students at Goldsmith College students in London. It's worth a read, for sure. Basically, it calls out the ways that critique can ultimately lapse into complicity—a worthwhile concern for any student that is trying to understand how to effectively engage with societal concerns.

Archie Bray Foundation | Call for Entries

Beyond the Brickyard.  This year, juried by Tony Marsh.

Apply!  Applications due by September 16th.

Paul Noble.

The clay pieces are from a few years back. I must have missed them at the time, but they're worth taking a look at. He's interested in turds, mainly, it seems.

Top 10 College Towns 2013 - Fayetteville, AR | Livability

hands in the air...

Brion Nuda Rosch

DAVID KORDANSKY GALLERY | GRAPEVINE

A show curated by one of my recent favorite artists, Ricky Swallow. The press release is worth reading, and does a good job of putting these works into the context of what is happening with clay in contemporary art today.  The show features the works of four west coast ceramic stalwarts: Ron Nagle, Michael Frimkess, Peter Shire, and John Mason.

Lindsay Pichaske — An Intimate Knowledge | American Craft Council

She’d visited the cadaver lab – “just one or two times,” she clarifies with a small laugh. “I was drawn to the way that they would peel back the skin – not to get too morbid – and the muscle striations were the most gorgeous patterns.”

Funny, Lovely, Ugly — Alice Mackler

This is Mackler's first solo show, at 82 years of age. It's pretty much getting rave reviews across the board. It's nice to know it can happen that late! 

Alice Mackler | Kerry Schuss | Exhibitions | Time Out New York

Our Own Adam Posnak in Studio Potter Magazine

We're proud to announce that Adam's article has been published! "To Serve the Divine" details Adam's interest and involvement in making pottery that serves African-Atlantic religious customs. It's a well-articulated, personal, and engaging read—and it stakes out a territory for the functional potter that is as unique as Adam himself.

https://issuu.com/studiopotter/docs/sp41_2web_32bf155af6b14e/35?e=0