December 2011
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Call for entry - Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft...
Craft Artists Wanted Deadline: April 1, 2012. The 36th Annual Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, a juried exhibition and retail sale, will be held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center from November 8 to 11, 2012, with a preview party on November 7. The jury will accept 195 craft artists.
The show serves as the Museum’s largest yearly fundraising event and is devoted to bringing wide...
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Dan Finnegan vase
Dan Finnegan fesses up to his own restlessness with his work while sharing some fine examples.
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apply for residencies at Energy Xchange
North Carolina’s Energy Xchange is the first art studio to run on methane, firing their wood kilns with waste wood. Their residencies offer affordable workspace to those just getting started in their clay careers. Apply by Valentines Day 2012. More here.
(And thanks to NC Clay Club for their indefatigable clay coverage.)
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“An artist (a generic term covering poet, composer, painter, sculptor, perhaps novelist) consciously or unconsciously takes a vow of obedience to awareness. In order not to be lost in the whirl of time, either past or present, the artist must look at all things with the energy and clarity of a hyperthyroid Buddha. Frankly, this awareness is not always fun.”
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Boar vessel, Iran, 2900-3100 BCE
Found here.
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"In order to be a good potter I think you got to...
“…If you ain’t, and ain’t as cantankerous as they come, someone is going to come and change you and you’re going to be turnin’ out stuff that inside you don’t want to make.” - Zedith Teague, potter, North Carolina
Taken from Aron Sober’s blog Welcome to the Yard
(Sober wins my respect by leaving a successful 10 year pottery career to return...
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