It's never too early to start thinking about life after UArk! If you're interested in craft and community, check out Penland School of Crafts and its Core Fellowship Program. This is an exciting and competitive chance to live, work, and learn in the mountains of North Carolina at Penland. Deadline is October 15th!
Congratulations is in order for our very own Adam Posnak. He was recently granted a $4000 grant from the Arkansas Arts Council for his contributions in the field of "Traditional and Contemporary Craft." If you haven't yet read Adam's Studio Potter article, you should! You can find it in the current issue (vol. 41, number 2, "Indigenous). Among the other winners, you may also recognize Tim Latourette, who manages the Architecture woodshop, and teaches courses in Furniture Design.
Visual Arts - Traditional and Contemporary Crafts Grant Recipients:Timothy LaTourette, Fayetteville
Ed Pennebaker, Green Forest
Adam Posnak, West Fork
Images from Jason Hackett's exhibition "Out of Necessity" at the Richmond Arts Center. This is a show I'm really proud to be a part of. It's a great group of artists participating, and the VAC of Richmond has been superb to work with all-around! If you're in the area, please stop by and take a look!
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"The 2014 Artosphere Partner Grant program has a total of $20,000 to be awarded among 1-5 grant winners. The goal is to find work that supports the mission and theme of Artosphere, and engages the community." Click the link below for full prospectus.
August 30 – October 13, 2013
Curated by Jason Hackett
"The premise of this exhibition explores clay as a contemporary art material strongly connected to its history and traditions. Recognizing the responsibility art has to question and reflect culture, Hackett presents a selection of work by artists who investigate overlapping themes of ceramics, function, art, and life. This exhibition honors six artists: Blair Clemo, Sin-Ying Ho, Mathew McConnell, Adam Shiverdecker, Linda Sikora, and Stan Welsh."
I'm pleased to announce that Linda and I are currently exhibiting work in The Clay Studio of Missoula's current exhibition, "Finger to Thumb; A Thousand Marks of Pinching Artists" curated by Lilly Zuckerman and Emily Schroeder Willis. Featured artists include: Ingrid Bathe, Katie Coughlin, Shannon Goff, Mel Griffin, Giselle Hicks, Linda Lopez, Leanne McClurg Cambric, Mikey Walsh, Emily Schroeder Willis, Lilly Zuckerman, and myself. The exhibition runs from September 6th to September 27th.
Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, PA has a call for entries for the Leap Award. This award is open to graduate students/emerging artists working in craft materials including clay! Mark your calendars and apply!!!
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
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:
A nice profile of Edmund de Waal, who will soon be showing at Gagosian.
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!
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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
A feature on the annual Peter's Valley anagama firing.
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.
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