International Cup – call for entry

November 26, 2008 entry deadline
Location: Montana, Missoula
The Clay Studio of Missoula is accepting submissions by digital images or slides to be jurored by Patti Warashina. Works must be primarily of clay and all exhibited work must be for sale. Forty percent commission will be charged on all sales. Entry fee $20 for one entry, $25.00 for two entries.

To request a prospectus, mail you SASE to Hannah Fisther,
The Clay Studio of Missoula
1106 Hawthorne Unit A
Missoula, Montana 59802
Phone: 406 543 0509

WHITE HEAT 2009 – call for proposals

The Australian Ceramics Association’s Biennial Exhibition 2009
Manly Art Gallery and Museum 12 JUNE – 19 JULY 2009
in conjunction with The Australian Ceramics Triennale NSW 09
Curator: Dr Julie Bartholomew

Please send an outline of your research proposal, a disc with 3 images of recent work and a CV.

Proposal packages due: 17 October 2008 Applicants notified: 1 December 2008 Exhibition dates: 12 June – 19 July 2009

Please post proposal packages to:
Dr Julie Bartholomew
The Australian Ceramics Association
PO Box 274 Waverley NSW 2024
T: 1300 720 124

Selected artists will be paid $100 for their participation in the exhibition.
Exhibitors must be financial members of The Australian Ceramics Association.

See website for more information.

On the subject of motherhood…

After posting the other day about my mis-adventures in mold making, Mel of Feffakookan brought the blog Six Hundred Degrees to my attention an in particular this post in which the author Sophie Milne talks about the book The Divided Heart: Art and Motherhood by Rachel Power.

I’m already ordering my copy but just thought all the other mud mommas might like to know about it. Sophie brings up a great point about the place of motherhood in “high art” and it’s an interesting discussion to have. I’ve spoken to many since having my babe who have asked if he has had an impact on my work and without a doubt he has as in every aspect of my life now I feel I have to be more accountable and responsible for what I put out there. But people seem relieved when you say that you aren’t making art directly about motherhood as it gets the old “crafty, hippy, flaky” stamp on it. Seems sad that such an amazingly miraculous process in life has little place in art world.