#1 – A call for submissions with a €10,000 prize
Ceramics Now Weekly #1 features new artists, calls for submissions, a selection of ceramic art exhibitions and news from the ceramic world.
Hello! Welcome to the first edition of Ceramics Now Weekly. This is Vasi Hirdo, the founding editor of Ceramics Now.
I hope you’re doing great today 👋
Let’s see what’s new this week.
A call for submissions with a €10,000 prize
Applications are open to the fourth edition of the Officine Saffi Award. Awards include a €10,000 cash prize and 8 residencies at renowned international ceramic centres, like Sundaymorning@ekwc (NL), Guldagergaard (DK), Mondovì Ceramics Museum (IT) or International Ceramic Art Festival Sasama (JP). Applications are open online until November 30, 2020.
New artists featured on Ceramics Now:
Exhibition openings
New exhibitions featuring ceramic art opened last month at Oxford Ceramics Gallery, Musee Ariana, Marsden Woo, Sabbia Gallery, Erskine, Hall & Coe, Harvey Preston Gallery and Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center. On CeramicsNow.org you can read more and view the photo galleries, including some great installation views:
Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center presents three new exhibitions
Blue & White is on view through September 5 at Oxford Ceramics Gallery
Pippin Drysdale: Breakaway is now on view at Sabbia Gallery, Sydney
Japanese Wonder presented by Katie Jones and Erskine, Hall & Coe
In Place: Gianna Commito and Giselle Hicks at Harvey Preston Gallery, Aspen
Martin Smith: Archive Presentation 2020 at Marsden Woo, London
News from the ceramic art world
📍 There are a few more days left to apply for Ceramic Art Andenne 2021, an international event that is organized every three years in Andenne, Belgium.
🎓 Arcadia University (Glenside, PA) and Syracuse University (New York) are seeking qualified candidates for part-time positions to teach ceramics.
ℹ The 8th International Ceramic Art Symposium "Ceramic Laboratory" took place last month in Daugavpils, Latvia. The resulting exhibition is now on view though October 25, 2020 at the Mark Rothko Art Centre. See photos from the closing ceremony.
📙 I republished online some incredible interviews and articles that were featured in previous editions of Ceramics Now Magazine, with more to come soon. You can buy the three digital issues of Ceramics Now Magazine if you’d like to read everything at once.
📖 Apollo Magazine published an article about the life of Bernard Leach, to mark a century since the Leach Pottery was founded in St Ives.
🔍 The American Museum of Ceramic Art is presenting their exhibitions online. Have a look at this magnificent virtual tour of Making In Between: Contemporary Chinese American Ceramics.
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