#44 – A contest for emerging ceramic artists

Ceramics Now Weekly #44 features a contest, the week's news in the ceramics world, and new featured artists.

Nov 29, 2022

Hello! Welcome to the 44th edition of Ceramics Now Weekly. This is Vasi Hirdo, the founding editor of Ceramics Now.

I hope you are doing well today 👋 Let’s see what's new.

A contest for emerging ceramic artists

Our friends at Ceramics Monthly are accepting entries for their 2023 Emerging Artist Contest. If you've been working with ceramics for less than ten years, you can win this title and have your work published in the May 2023 issue of Ceramics Monthly. Applications are due February 10, 2023.

New featured artists in Ceramics Now

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The week’s news in the ceramic world

🗨 A-B Projects Los Angeles invites you to a new State of Ceramics online discussion: Ceramics in Relationship to SoftWare, led by Stacy Jo Scott. This conversation will explore how our soft bodies engage with the digital softwares that currently surround us. The talk will take place on Friday, December 2. Registration is free.

🎓 The SMU Meadows School of the Arts (Dallas) recently announced that six full scholarships are available for their MFA program, covering full tuition and all related fees each year, supplemented by teaching assistantships. The MFA in Art is a highly selective two-year program preparing artists for professional careers in art. Past visiting artists include dozens of world-renowned ceramic artists. Applications are due February 1, 2023.

👌 ClayHouston's Bayou City Clay Crawl returns Sunday, December 4 for its sixth annual event, providing the public with a one-of-a-kind opportunity to tour studios and discover pieces created by over 40 ClayHouston member artists. The event is partnering with Empty Bowls Houston, an international grassroots effort by artists and craftspeople to feed the hungry in their local communities.

💫 The Expressive Computation Lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is hosting an experimental ceramic craft residency in collaboration with the Hand and Machine Lab at the University of New Mexico. Their goal is to explore integrations of ceramic craft with new technologies. The resident will work with researchers to develop new work employing tools like ceramic 3D printers, laser cutters, and custom software. Applications are due January 15, 2023, and are open only to US-based artists.

⏳ There are two weeks left to apply to the 62nd Premio Faenza International Competition (Faenza, Italy). The main Faenza Prize is worth €25,000. Check out the 2023 calendar of ceramic competitions.

⛩ Joan B Mirviss Ltd will host an online gallery talk entitled ETERNAL CURRENTS: The Tidal Impact of Japanese Women Clay Artists and Charting a Course for the Future. To discuss the change in Japan's venerated centuries-old, male-dominated ceramic tradition, gallery artist Hayashi Kaku will be joined by Professor Todate Kazuko, a highly respected scholar of Japanese ceramics and collector and museum patron, Dr. Mina Levin. Additionally, curator Russell Kelty, who recently organized Pure Form at the Art Gallery of South Australia and authored the accompanying publication, will offer his own observations.

📌 The Ceramics Program at the Office for the Arts at Harvard will host an exhibition and sale featuring thousands of pieces of original ceramic artwork by participants in Ceramics Program classes. This popular exhibition has something for everyone, from functional dinnerware to sculptural masterpieces. The event will take place December 8-11, 2022.

🔍 What’s On View: Vivienne Foley: Enduring Elegance is on view at Vessel Gallery, London / Salvatore Arancio: We Don't Find The Pieces They Find Themselves is on view at MIC Faenza, Faenza / Toru Ishii & Kazuma Koike: Koishi-Kei is on view at Sokyo Gallery, Kyoto / Hannan Abu Hussein & Batia Malka: Sisyphus is on view at Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Centre, Tel Aviv / Bouteilles is on view at Château de la Neuenbourg, Guebwiller / Clémentine Dupré: And the sky was all violet is on view at Galerie Eko Sato, Paris / Rachel Grimshaw: Movement in Stillness is on view at Pangolin London / Viola Frey: Faces, Masks, and Figurines is on view at Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York / Hayashi Kaku: Eternal Currents is on view at Joan B Mirviss, New York