Why has no one told me that Onyx opened up a location in Fayetteville? I'm going. Right now.
CFile has launched! As expected, it looks fantastic.
If you are looking for ceramic exhibitions, here's one for you... There's a pretty painful and limiting size restriction, so this one seems geared towards the potters out there!
From their website:
This exhibitions is open to all ceramic artists over the age of 18 who currently reside in the Central Time Zone. Central Time Zone states include: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Tennessee, and Texas; however not all counties within these states are within the Central Time Zone. Artists who reside in areas of Canada and Mexico that are within the Central Time Zone are also eligible. Artwork submitted must have been completed within the last three years. All forms of ceramic expression are encouraged.
Juror: Don Pilcher
Don Pilcher is a potter, writer and teacher. He has worked in ceramics since 1958 and continues as the creator of Rascal Ware Projects. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Size Restrictions:
All ceramic works must be packed within two boxes. The interior box must be no larger than 18′x18′x18′, and the exterior box must not exceed 24′x24′x24′.
Entry Fees:
Each artist must pay a non-refundable entry fee of $30 for up to three entries or $50 for five entries. Please make checks payable to Bradley University.
The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present Arkansas-based artist, Linda Lopez, in her New York City debut. Lopez’s seemingly arbitrary commingling of materials and forms further develops her desire to suggest the alternative existence of objects. In this work, Lopez’s sculptures animate the inanimate by combining an object with its otherness.
Until November 21.
If you want to see the rest of this debate: http://www.vimeo.com/52119147 Opening statement at a debate on the question "Should Artists Professionalize?"
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If you're looking for a little extracurricular ceramics goodness, Bobby Silverman has put together a series of lectures that can be accessed online (for a reasonable fee). The list of speakers looks fantastic, and you can watch the lectures live as they happen over the course of the next year. You can either pay to see individual lectures, or subscribe to the whole series.
Check it out and let Jeannie or Mathew know if you like it and need more.
First-year ceramics grad and director of the student-led sUgAR gallery, Aimee Odum, speaks about the gallery's move to downtown Fayetteville.
From The Contemporary Austin Website:
October 19, 3:30 PM
The Art School is excited to host artist Kensuke Yamada for our fifth annual Visiting Ceramic Artist Program. During a free public talk Yamada will discuss how he translates the inspiration that comes from day-to-day life and personal experiences into figurative sculptures.
As part of the Visiting Ceramic Artist weekend workshop, Yamada will demonstrate his hand building ceramic techniques with registered students.
Workshop two sessions Saturday, October 19 9:00A – 4:00P & Sunday, October 20 9:00A – 12:00P
Jack Kent Cooke Foundation - Graduate Scholarships
The Foundation's Graduate Arts Award is for up to $50,000 per year for up to three years to college seniors and recent graduates with financial need who will pursue a graduate or professional degree in the visual arts, performing arts, or creative writing. To be eligible, candidates must be nominated by the faculty representative at their undergraduate institution.
Linda and I are looking forward to a few days in Athens, Ohio as visiting artists. We'll be giving lectures, critiquing students, and even doing a bit of demoing! The lectures are on Halloween at 6PM in Mitchell Auditorium. Demos are on Saturday from 10-2 in the ceramics studio. See you there.
Linda and I are looking forward to our upcoming visit to VCU. We'll be there for two days—critiquing and giving lectures in the craft/material studies department. If you're interested in attending the lectures, they're scheduled for 2:30-4:00 PM on Tuesday the 22nd of October.
Another exhibition I am excited to catch while in NYC!
I'm very excited that Linda and I will be catching this show in a couple of weeks!
From the press release:
"Furthermore, the shoe functions as disguise of the long time tabooed naked foot, a classical sexual fetish the symbolic substitutionary meaning of which was transferred to the shoe and made the shoe become a fetish itself. His function as a fetish is still valid today, as regards both the psychoanalytical and the figurative meaning as a status symbol or as an object of a similarly irrational collector’s passion. With his exhibition, by means of the every-day and at the same time symbolically over-determined object of the shoe, David Shrigley unveils the individual, biased motivation of any attribution of meaning and wittily opens a winking perspective on the passion of art collecting which quite often resembles a never-ending desire and finally coincides with shoe fetishism – at least as far as this exhibition is concerned."
I'm pleased to announce that Linda and I will be showing with 21 other great artists at Queens University of Charlotte in the coming weeks. Organized by Denny Gerwin, I'm certain this is going to be a good one!
Our very own Ryan Sniegocki has been working as the Artist in Residence at The Arkansas Art Center for the past year. Currently, he has an exhibition up, if you happen to be in Little Rock. Hopefully I can get some more images to share soon!
And, if you're looking for a good regional opportunity, this program may be worth looking into.