#15 – A call for applications (ceramic design / architecture)
Ceramics Now Weekly #15 features an open call for applications, the week's news in the ceramics world and new exhibitions.
Hello! Welcome to the 15th edition of Ceramics Now Weekly. This is Vasi Hirdo, the founding editor of Ceramics Now.
I hope you are doing as best as possible these days 👋 Keep up the good work & let’s see what’s new.
Our friends at Caolin Association just announced an open call for submissions
Applications are open for the International Contemporary Ceramics Contest – The Memory of Clay 2021, organized by Caolin Association in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Deadline: August 11.
Artists are invited to make or even invent a ceramic design object or a composition with ceramics modules, which can bring more personality to interior design projects made by architects.
The proposed product must be executed in the form of a trophy. Subsequently, the winning artist, in addition to the cash prize, will be asked to make 20 ceramic trophies, for a fee, intended as prizes for the winning architects at the Transylvania Architecture Biennial – BATRA 2021. Read more and apply here.
The week’s news in the ceramic world
🔥 Naomi Cohn's splendid ceramic work is featured in The Stubborn Influence of Painting, on view at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMOCA). The exhibition explores how the history of painting acts as a silent collaborator in the work of artists who create in other mediums.
🌬 At New Designers Awards, Ellie Perry has won The John Lewis & Partners Award for Design and Innovation for her sustainable alternative to household fridges, and Cicely Peers has won the Thrown Contemporary Ceramic Award for her innovative machine processes can be used to re-interpret and re-invent clay.
🌍 The 28th edition of the Contemporary Ceramic Competition - Premio Grottaglie is on view through September 30, in the Italian "city of ceramics". This year's winners are Fabio Fuerra (Premio XXVIII Concorso di Ceramica Contemporanea) and Edoardo Battaglia (Personal Exhibition Prize. Sara Dario and Sabino De Nichilo received Honorary Mentions.
👌 Majolika Manufaktur celebrates its 120th anniversary this year and invites artists to apply for the Majolika Karlsruhe Award for Contemporary Ceramic Art 2021. Applications deadline: August 15.
📍 The Gardiner Museum, Toronto, just opened three new exhibitions:
Heavy Shine - a collaboration between Dianne Lee and Robyn LeRoy-Evans where they investigate their relationship to materials and their bodies, using their hands to throw pots and to drape and thread fabrics.
The Sheridan Graduate Show: Audax 8. Meet the next generation of ceramic artists in this exhibition showcasing the work of Ceramics graduates from the Bachelor of Craft and Design program at Sheridan College.
Garniture Remix, which captures the spirit of the historical garniture as a free, yet carefully orchestrated assemblage of objects. A garniture is an ensemble of matching vases and other vessels made for display, or to "garnish" a specific location.
🔍 Wehrmühle Biesenthal (in Germany) presents Shapes of Comfort, an exhibition featuring the work of 8 artists / Elisa D’Arrigo: Materializing Recent Ceramics is on view at Elizabeth Harris Gallery in New York / Olga Blokh, a Finnish ceramic artists working in Puumala, presents an online exhibition./ Saratoga Clay Arts Center’s Schacht Gallery presents Anonymous - Reframed, a solo exhibition featuring sculptural works by Paige O’Toole./ Shapes from Out of Nowhere: Ceramics from the Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection is on view until the end of August at The Metropolitan Museum, New York
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Exhibition openings
Have a look at these exhibitions that were recently featured on Ceramics Now.
She’s Clay, sculptures from the Estate of Ruth Duckworth at Salon 94, New York
Sam Bakewell: Things you take, things you take too far at Corvi-Mora, London
Beautés Equivoques is on view at Fondation Bernardaud, Limoges
Pioneers: 101 years of the Leach Pottery is on view at Court Barn
Formed From Instinct by Nina Casson McGarva at Vessel Gallery, London
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Thank you
This year certainly had its ups and downs, but I’d like you to know that I’m glad and thankful to be able to continue writing this newsletter and working on Ceramics Now. If you have any suggestions, hit reply or email me at vasi@ceramicsnow.org
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