call for clay artists: Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History
Calling all ceramic artists and lovers of clay creations! This exhibition will honor the deep legacy of ceramic art in Santa Cruz County and the broader Northern California, while celebrating the new community of ceramists producing amazing work.
Accepting artist submissions, through May 1.
The Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) is the cultural hub of Santa Cruz County—a place where people come together to celebrate art and history, discover themselves, and connect with one another through experiences and exhibitions that resonate locally and globally.
Learn more: https://www.santacruzmah.org/exhibitions/silica-northern-california-ceramics
Submit: https://artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=16928
call for artists: International Ceramics Festival Mino, Japan
Entries are now invited for the International Ceramics Competition Mino.
The competition is the main event of the International Ceramics Festival Mino, Japan. With the aim of contributing to the development of the ceramics industry and the promotion of culture through international exchange of ceramics design and culture, this year marks the 14th edition of the Festival.
The 2025 competition saw nearly 4,000 entries from over 70 countries and regions.
‘Now that we are in the 21st century, we face an age of mass production, mass consumption, new materials, and new technologies. And we question ourselves. In which direction will the strong waves of our times sweep the spirit and existence of ceramics? Will creative powers be lost before the onslaught of technological achievement? Will we come to deny the warm humanity that connects and looks gently over people living everyday lives? The International Ceramics Exhibition Mino, Japan, offers a glimpse into a future blessed with creativity, backed by the ultimate in technical sophistication, and with the unlimited potential of humanity.’
Application Deadline: 29 January 2027
Exhibition: 8 October – 7 November 2027
Find all the details to apply HERE.
Ceramic Art Residency with John Bauer in South Africa
Your residency. Your evolution. Your next artistic chapter.
John has been producing ceramics since the age of 12. Almost 30 years later, he opened up his home studio and his studio at the Montebello Design Centre, in Cape Town, to provide a space for experimentation and innovation.
John’s brilliance lies in his mastery of material engineering. Through his mentorship, residents are guided to develop their own distinctive ceramic technologies and discover pathways to scale their production. His philosophy – “embracing the noble catastrophe” -is fertile ground for bold artworks that forage new frontiers.
monday morning eye candy: Ben Bates
See more of Ben’s work here.
Indian Ceramics Triennale 2027: AT PLAY
November 5 to December 23, 2027
National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
What forces are at play, shaping and defining the world we experience? What impulses do we contain that form or override these forces?
Play is integral to the human experience and fundamental to the creative process. There is a tension inherent in play that is exhilarating yet risky, competitive yet collaborative. Through play we can put down the weight of a loaded past, imagine radical futures, and yet remain truly present. Play provides not only refuge, but resistance.
Play allows us a sense of joy, moving lightly between structure and chaos without fear of failure. It exists at the threshold of uncertainty – where systems can be questioned, patterns broken, conventions overturned. Play offers us the freedom to pivot, adapt and shape-shift, opening up space for thinking otherwise—about material, making, and consequently about the world we are part of.
In this third edition of the Indian Ceramics Triennale, we see the exhibition as an incubator of possibilities. We invite artists to hold this undefined and unknown moment filled with potential, to dare to play through inventiveness, provocation, humour, satire, meaning, absurdity, performance and colour. To use play as an institution of and for disruption, dreaming into existence the unexpected and unacknowledged. To question, through play, the forces at play.
The open call is open to professional and emerging artists over the age of 18, working in ceramics or exploring clay in interdisciplinary practices. While the Indian Ceramics Triennale focuses on clay based practices, we welcome proposals from artists working across disciplines who engage with clay conceptually, materially, or contextually.
Applications must be submitted online through the google form Indian Ceramics Triennale 2027. Please read the guidelines and FAQs carefully before submitting your application.
The deadline is May 15, 2026. Late submissions will not be considered.
Please email us at [email protected] with “Open Call Query” in the subject line. We will also conduct a live Q and A sessions online and will announce the dates on Instagram and on the websi
call for artists: Bold Choices
Want to see your work in the September issue of Ceramics Monthly? This year’s contest, “Bold Choices,” will include work from across our field from makers unafraid to stand out. Whether you express yourself with vivid colors, exciting forms, eye-catching surfaces, grand adornment, or bold concepts, we want to showcase the many ways makers use their work to communicate with courage and drama. Apply now to the Ceramics Monthly annual readership-wide contest!
To be considered for the “Bold Choices” competition, please submit the following materials and a $10 processing fee via Submittable by June 21, 2026:
- Up to five total images. The images can show five different works, or they can be a combination of overall and detail shots of fewer than five works/installations/performances.
- Up to five high-resolution (300 ppi) digital images that are at least 2500 pixels in the largest dimension (or at least 5×7 inches in print size at 300 dpi resolution).
- Complete caption information for each image including materials, processes used, firing temperature, dimensions, and date completed. Please include any relevant photo credit information as well. Photo credits not sent in the original submitted caption document cannot be guaranteed inclusion for finalists.
- Contact information (including email address and physical mailing address)
- Current artist statement and résumé saved as a PDF, Word, or .txt document.
Note on image editing: Please do not downsample, blow up/enlarge, or otherwise alter images, including color correction or altering the background (such as outlining the objects). All selected images will be edited by the production staff prior to publication.
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