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From LA Louver:
Source: http://vimeo.com/101592661
Summer in China sound interesting? Check with WVU. Sounds like they still have some spots to fill.
Make of this what you will...
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.
Yes, thank you.
Source: http://www.corvi-mora.com/
Julia Haft-Candell has started a LA-area blog chronicling ceramics in the region. Take a look...
Source: http://theclayla.tumblr.com/
Linda Lopez gets a nod as standout work at State of the Art. Nathan Larson says about Lopez's piece that is is "a wonderful example of craftsmanship with curiosity." Follow the link for the full article...
Ceramics competition welcoming artists to re-interpret traditional values of ceramics in unique ways.
Deadline Nov. 7 and there is no entry fee.
Follow the Link for more details.
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.
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.
DSDHA creates warehouse studio and gallery for Edmund de Waal
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.
Artist Grayson Perry has been constructing a cottage of sorts in Essex. If you are not familiar with his work he is a decorative vessel maker that uses imagery on his pots to comment on social mores and cultural issues surrounding gender and sex, primarily. For his current project he has become designer and architect, constructing a gaudy work of art covered in green and white ceramic tile and laced with the history of odd narrative surrounding a fictional woman whom the house was styled. The project has been getting mixed reviews from the locals and local government. Have a look. There is a video of Perry speaking about his work on the site, and don't forget to say hello to Claire for me.
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).
Kim Dickey will be in town this week... In addition to spending some time critiquing grads and post-bacs, she'll be giving a free lecture on Friday evening at Crystal Bridges. If you're anywhere near, get there! It will be worth the effort. I promise.
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
