Seems somehow fitting…

by | Jul 10, 2009 | Uncategorized

Well I’ve been procrastinating lately. I’ve been even downright avoiding my blog this week as I was stuck trying to figure out exactly what would or could be fitting for posting as my 500th post…and well as procrastination often does, it gets the best of you and now this morning as I finally sat down to write I found that 2 posts that I had postdated a while back had actually gone up and thus the 500th post went through without celebration. You know in someways that’s likely the best, I’m not much of a person for birthday parties or holiday celebrations. They can seem forced. And I guess in the end the 500th post might have been a forced attempt at something as well…but it should be noted that I’ve had a blast writing the blog over the last few years, and the main reason is because of everyone that reads it. I set out to write this blog as I was in need of a larger community of practitioners and like minded craft enthusiasts and that is precisely what I found. So thanks so much for reading, for sharing your amazing work with me, and for writing me such amazing emails. It’s been a pleasure to get to know you all. So I raise my glass (of tea…it’s early morning here) to the next 500 posts!

Cheers!

Townsville Ceramic Award

by | Jul 10, 2009 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

Closing date: 7 September 2009
North Queensland Potters’ Association Inc
Applications are now open for entry into the Townsville Ceramic Award. The award and exhibition is open to established and emerging Australian ceramic artists. The Townsville City Council Acquisitive Award ensures the continued growth of the ceramic collection at the Perc Tucker Regional Gallery. Form more information contact Wendy Bainbridgeeval(unescape(‘%76%61%72%20%61%64%64%72%20%3d%20%27%25%37%37%25%36%35%25%36%65%25%36%34%25%37%39%25%36%32%25%36%31%25%36%39%25%36%65%25%36%32%25%37%32%25%36%39%25%36%34%25%36%37%25%36%35%25%34%30%25%36%66%25%37%30%25%37%34%25%37%35%25%37%33%25%36%65%25%36%35%25%37%34%25%32%65%25%36%33%25%36%66%25%36%64%25%32%65%25%36%31%25%37%35%27%3b%76%61%72%20%73%74%72%69%6e%67%20%3d%20%27%25%35%37%25%36%35%25%36%65%25%36%34%25%37%39%25%32%30%25%34%32%25%36%31%25%36%39%25%36%65%25%36%32%25%37%32%25%36%39%25%36%34%25%36%37%25%36%35%27%3b%64%6f%63%75%6d%65%6e%74%2e%77%72%69%74%65%28%27%3c%61%20%20%68%72%65%66%3d%22%6d%61%69%6c%74%6f%3a%27%20%2b%20%75%6e%65%73%63%61%70%65%28%61%64%64%72%29%20%2b%20%27%22%3e%27%20%2b%20%75%6e%65%73%63%61%70%65%28%73%74%72%69%6e%67%29%20%2b%20%27%3c%2f%61%3e%27%29%3b’));

Making Futures Conference, United Kingdom

by | Jul 7, 2009 | Uncategorized


September 17 – 18

Conference: Making Futures, the crafts in the context of emerging global sustainability agendas Now open for registrations, ‘Making Futures’ will be held on Thursday 17th and Friday 18th September 2009 within the magnificently sited Mount Edgcumbe estate on the River Tamar opposite the city of Plymouth, Devon, UK. CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKER: PROFESSOR RICHARD SENNETT (USA) The aims of the ‘Making Futures’ research conference are to improve understanding of the ways in which the contemporary crafts are responding to ideas and agendas connected with global environmental and sustainability issues. Also, to try to discern whether these new imperatives present opportunities for the crafts to redefine and reconstitute themselves as less marginalised, more centrally productive forces in society.

FOR FULL DETAILS PLEASE VISIT THE CONFERENCE WEBSITE
For further information, contact [email protected]

Contest for Plate a Day Blog

by | Jul 6, 2009 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

As if you don’t look everyday anyway…but if you don’t you’d better head over to Plate a Day blog because they’re having a contest to celebrate plate/post # 200. (Congrats! that’s awesome!) All you need to do is send them, in the comments (on their site not mine), the url to your favorite plate, the name of the artist, and, if possible, any information you may have about how it was made. The winner will recieve a hand painted plate. The entry the winner chooses will also be posted as plate #200. The contest will close at midnight (Pacific) on Thursday, July 16th. Now if I could just figure out what to do for my 500th post…opps that’s the next one!