#32 – An exceptional ceramics event in Andenne
Ceramics Now Weekly #32 features a ceramics event in Belgium, the week's news in the ceramics world, and new featured artists.
Hello! Welcome to the 32nd edition of Ceramics Now Weekly. This is Vasi Hirdo, the founding editor of Ceramics Now.
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An exceptional ceramics event in Andenne
A must-attend event for all lovers of contemporary ceramics, Ceramic Art Andenne (Belgium) welcomes visitors until June 12, 2022. The 2022 event includes eight exhibitions, a ceramics market, conferences, performances, activities for children, guided tours, and more.
Highlights include MADE IN…, a juried international exhibition of contemporary ceramics, and Hidden Colours: Korean Contemporary Ceramic Art, the guest country exhibition by South Korea. View the photo gallery.
Prizes: Nathalie Doyen - Grand Prix Ceramic Art Andenne 2022, Yves Malfliet - Ceramics Prize, Aster Cassel - Young Ceramics Prize
Mentions: Simcha Even-Chen, Fabienne Withofs, Ming-Miao Ko
New artists featured in Ceramics Now
Ken Mihara’s profile was created with the participation of A Lighthouse called Kanata, Tokyo.
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The week’s news in the ceramic world
📢 The City of Castellamonte in Italy invites artists to participate in "Ceramics In Love", an international competition curated by Giuseppe Bertero. Applications are due May 28 and there is no entry fee. The competition is listed in our calendar.
🏷 There is one week left to apply for Studio Potter’s Grants for Apprenticeships Program, which supports emerging artists who want to become full-time studio potters and mentor-potters who wish to take on apprentices. Applications are open to US residents only.
📙 Terra Sigillata: Smoke, Fire & Clay was recently published by Shamai Sam Gibsh. The book explores the world of alternative firing techniques and includes information on the preparation and application of terra sigillata, as well as ancient Greek and Roman terra sigillata decorating and firing techniques such as smoking, saggar, Raku, naked Raku, horsehair Raku, milk & egg, Obvara, Pit, in glaze luster, and pigment luster.
🎓 Our Ceramics Jobs Board is becoming popular. If you're looking for a ceramics teaching position in the United States, this is the place to search out the perfect job. Currently, there are eight listed vacancies.
⭐ Do you have a favorite ceramic artist or performer? Submit a suggestion for the 2023 NCECA Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio.
👍 If you'd like to appear in the September issue of Ceramics Monthly, apply to their annual readers' contest. This year's theme: Elemental. Application fee: $10.
📌 The 31st Contemporary Ceramics Market in Giroussens (Tarn, France) will take place during the Pentecost weekend - June 4-6. Over 60 ceramic artists will present their works in the city center of Giroussens.
📦 Handle With Care, a multi-gallery exhibition around the theme of fragility, is on view until June 6 at Hotel d’Aguesseau, Paris. Organized and curated by the Spaceless Gallery, the event is an ode to delicacy, conceptually exploring the notion of fragility through the work of some thirty artists, including ceramists.
🌍 Registrations are open for the 50th IAC Congress and General Assembly, to take place September 12-16 in Geneva, Switzerland. The International Academy of Ceramics (IAC) will celebrate its 70th anniversary in 2022. The central theme "Melting Pot: From the alchemist’s crucible to the cultural crucible" is based on the international dimension of Geneva, a city where cultures, habits and politics tend to merge. Virtual registration for non-members costs CHF 40 ($41).
🔍 Peripheries is on view at The Ceramic House, Brighton / Kristen Morgin: 21st Century Works 2001-2019 is on view at Sokyo Atsumi, Tokyo / Animal Attraction is on view at CraftBoston, Boston / Yurim Gough: VainEgo is on view at A.P.T. Gallery, London / Virginia Scotchie is on view at Plinth Gallery, Denver / Three Sculptors: Warashina, Currier and Lyon is on view at Lucy Lacoste Gallery, Concord / Roger Coll: Cool Temperature is on view at Puls Ceramics, Brussels / Deirdre McLoughlin is on view at Modern Shapes, Antwerp / Roberto Lugo: The Village Potter is on view at Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton
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Exhibitions
Explore these ceramic exhibitions that were recently featured in Ceramics Now.
Sergei Isupov: Past & Present at Ferrin Contemporary, North Adams
AfterGlow – New Nordic Porcelain at CLAY Museum of Ceramic Art, Denmark
Yang Zong-Jia: In the Name of Love, Courage & Hope at Mizuiro Workshop, Taiwan
Johannes Nagel: Field lines at Kunstforum Solothurn, Solothurn
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