call for entry: artist profiles in FUSION Magazine

by | Jul 12, 2013 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

SUBMISSION DATE EXTENSION
Established Artists, Fall Issue of FUSION Magazine
Deadline extended to: – July 22, 2013

The Established Artist
An artist who has created an independent body of work over a number of
years and who has received regional or national recognition through
publication or public presentation of his or her work and has
participated in a number of exhibitions.

FUSION: The Ontario
Clay and Glass Association invites submissions for a new FUSION magazine
column that will feature one clay artist and one glass artist in each
issue. The Spring issue will feature Emerging Artists, the Fall issue
will feature Established Artists, and the Winter issue will feature
Student Artists.

Submissions must include an artist statement
and/or biography that is no more than 300 words in length, along with
two professional quality images of recent work (within 12 months). The
images must be minimum 1200 pixels (4 inches) x 1500 pixels (5 inches)
at 300 dpi, JPEG Format. The images should be of professional quality.
Poor quality images will not be used. Featured artists will be selected
by the Magazine Committee.

Submissions must be sent
electronically to the FUSION Office at [email protected]. Please
use “FUSION Magazine, Feature Artist Column” as the subject heading of
your emailed submission.

Find more info about FUSION magazine online here.

Want to be on the cover of a magazine?

by | May 10, 2012 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

The Crafts Report Facebook Contest

Written by Dennis Piotrowski
  

Give your one-of-a-kind craft the exposure it deserves by having it
featured on the cover of our nationally recognized and distributed
magazine.  Starting May 1, submit a photo of your best piece of art or
one-of-a-kind craft to our Facebook wall for a chance to be featured on the cover of the October 2012 edition of TCR.

Contest Rules – Photo submissions will be accepted between May 1 and
May 31, 2012. Contestants are only allowed one submission each.  To be
eligible for the contest, your submission to our Facebook Wall must include the following:

  • the verbiage “Entry for The Crafts Report Magazine Cover Contest”
  • artist name
  • title of subject/photo submission
  • photo credit identifying the photographer

TCR staff will be the preliminary screeners to determine which photos
will be the “Finalists” and entered into the initial Facebook voting
round of the contest.

We will run 4 voting rounds in the contest; the Preliminary Round, Quarter Final Round, Semi-Final Round, and Final Round.
Voting for each of the first three rounds will remain open for 24
hours. Voting for the Final Round will remain open for 72 hours (for
entire contest timeline and specific deadline and announcement dates,
see Summary below). 

For the Preliminary Round, TCR staff will select the 64 Finalists
from the pool of photos received in the month of May. We will then post 4
photos together each day for 16 consecutive days starting in June,
asking for our Facebook users to vote for 1 of the 4.

Each day’s winner from the 4 posted on that given day will move on to
the Quarter Final Round. After 16 days, we will be left with 16 Quarter
Finalists.

For the Quarter Final Round, we will again post 4 photos together each day for 4 consecutive days, asking our Facebook users to vote on one of the 4.

Each day’s winner from the 4 posted on that given day will move on to
the Semi-Final Round. After 4 days, we will be left with 4
Semi-Finalists.

For the Semi-Final Round we will post, for two consecutive days a
“heads-up” competition, leaving us with two finalists. Those finalists
will move on to the Final Round, where they will be posted together for
72 hours, with the final vote winner to win that photo on the cover of the October 2012 Crafts Report magazine.

Summary

Preliminary Round (May 1 thru May 31): Contest open to ALL submissions. 

June 8 (Thursday): TCR staff will announce the top 64 entries.

Quarter Final Round (June 10 thru June 24): 16 daily
rounds of Facebook voting. Each day, voters have 24 hours to vote for
their favorite 1 of 4 daily entries with 1 winner advancing to the
quarter finals round per day.

June 25 (Monday): TCR will announce the 16 finalists from the quarter final round as voted by Facebook visitors.

Semi-final Round (June 26 thru June 29): 4 daily
rounds of Facebook voting. Voters have 24 hours to vote for their
favorite of 1 of 4 daily entrants with 1 winner advancing to the
semi-finals per day.

July 2 (Monday): TCR will announce the final 4 entries as voted by Facebook visitors.

Final Round (July 9 -12): Facebook voting for grand
prize winner. Voters have 72 hours to vote for their favorite, single
entry from the 4 semi-final round winners.

July 13 (Friday): TCR will announce–via Facebook, email,
web site post–the grand prize winner who will have their photo entry
appear on the cover of the October 2012 Crafts Report magazine. 

Submit your entry today!  Good luck! 

A World in Making: Cities Craft Design – Issue #5 Call for papers

by | Jan 3, 2012 | Uncategorized

craft + design enquiry is pleased to announce a new call for papers for the fifth issue of the journal to be published in 2013.A World in Making: Cities Craft Design
Guest Editor, Suzie Attiwill is calling for papers for this on the theme of A World in Making: Cities Craft Design as outlined below.On 12 March 1913, a naming ceremony took place in an empty paddock on a hill. This rural environment was to become a city, the capital city of Australia, the city of Canberra. The aspirations and the projections of the Griffins’ winning design for Canberra are an example of a world-in-making involving the practices of design and craft. This issue of craft + design enquiry will be published in 2013 – 100 years after this event and when, for the first time in history, more than half the world’s population live in cities. By 2030, this will increase to at least 60% with significant growth happening in cities of developing countries and the emergence of meta-cities with 20 million inhabitants. ‘The twenty-first century will be known as the century of the city’.1 This next issue of craft + design enquiry will focus on and highlight the role, contribution and potential of craft and design practices to the urban environment as well as the transformation of these practices – a world in making. ‘The thing is what we make of the world. … Things are our way of dealing with a world in which we are enmeshed rather than over which we have dominion. … It is our way of dealing with the plethora of sensations, vibrations, movements, and intensities that constitute both our world and ourselves’ … ‘We make objects in order to live in the world’.2 Situated in a journal published by Craft Australia, the nuances of craft – a practice which values making and materiality – will guide the selection of papers for publication. This emphasis on craft does not exclude design so much as bring focus to practices of design which engage ideas of making and materiality, where there is a sense of a hand(s) in making, a valuing of haptic encounters and an attention to the relation between people and surroundings. From small to large scale projects, from individuals to communities, an intimate approach to the question of how people inhabit and transform the urban environment is invoked. What are the potentials in this century of the city for craft and design practices? What is the contribution of craft and design to cities and liveability? What might a craft sensibility bring to urban inhabitation? What of an expanded idea of craft practice as a way of working and thinking which addresses spatial and temporal urban conditions? What of the emergence of new forms of practices to engage in the condition of the urban environment and the social, political and cultural forces of the twenty-first century?
Academics, practitioners, research students and others are invited to submit research papers and critical project works. A definition of research as ‘the creation of new knowledge and/or the use of existing knowledge in a new and creative way so as to generate new concepts, methodologies and understandings’ 3 is reiterated here to highlight the criticality of ‘new and creative’ in relation to research and to encourage the submission of research through craft and design practice, as well as about craft and design practices situated in a world in making – ‘the century of the city’. Authors are also encouraged to consider the inclusion of visual material as research. This issue of craft + design enquiry will be published in mid-2013. The CDE#5 Call for Papers closes on 30 June 2012.To submit a paper please register online by the closing date of 30 June 2012. Refer to author guidelines for further information.For inquiries relating to this issue or submission of papers, please contact the Guest Editor, Suzie Attiwill Administrative enquiries, please contact Jenny Deves Biographical details of Guest Editor: Suzie Attiwill is Associate Professor and Program Director, Interior Design, RMIT School of Architecture and Design. Suzie has an independent practice involving the design of exhibitions, curatorial work, writing and working on a range of interdisciplinary projects in Australia and overseas. Publications include: ‘Urban and Interior: techniques for an urban interiorist’ Urban Interior. Informal explorations, interventions and occupations Germany: Spurbuchverlag, 2011; ‘Spatial Relations’ in Making Space: artist run initiatives in Victoria Australia: VIA-N, 2007; co-editor with Gini Lee, ‘INSIDEOUT’ IDEA Journal 2005, Brisbane: QUT Press, 2005. From 1996 to 1999, she was the inaugural Artistic Director of Craft Victoria and editor of Craft. Suzie is the current chair of IDEA (Interior Design/Interior Architecture Educators Association) – www.idea-edu.com, a founding member of the Urban Interior research group – www.urbaninterior.net and a member of the Design Institute of Australia.
1. Tibaijuka, A.K., 2010. Inaugural Address UN Pavilion Lecture Series, Shanghai World Expo 2010 – Better Cities, Better Life. Available at: http://www.unhabitat.org/content.asp?cid=8273&catid=560&typeid=8&subMenuId=0 [Accessed April 24 2011]. Tibaijuka was then Executive Director of UN-HABITAT, the United Nations agency for human settlements. 2. Grosz, E., 2009. ‘The Thing’. In F. Candlin & R. Guins, eds. The Object Reader. London & New York: Routledge, pp. 126 & 128. 3. Australian Research Council March 2011 http://www.arc.gov.au/pdf/2011_presentations/decra0311.pdf. [Accessed 13/04/2011].

Call for submissions: Lark Books – 500 Teapots

by | Nov 30, 2011 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

500 Teapots

Lark is seeking images to publish in a juried collection of ceramic teapots publishing in August 2013. The juror for 500 Teapots will be Jim Lawton of Oyster Street Pottery. Pieces may be functional or purely decorative. You may submit up to four entries; there is no entry fee. Artists will receive full acknowledgment within the book, a complimentary copy, and discounts on the purchase of additional books. Artists retain copyright of their work. Download the 500 Teapots call for entries form here. Entries must be postmarked by April 20, 2012. Mail materials to:
Lark Crafts
67 Broadway
Asheville, NC 28801
Attn: Dawn Dillingham

Call for Wood Fire Ceramics Images 2011

by | Nov 27, 2011 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

To whom it may concern:

I am compiling information for a new book titled Wood Fired Ceramics: 100 Contemporary Artists, to be published by Schiffer Publishing Ltd. I am including with this letter a call for entries for the book.

Please post this call for entries on your website and distribute it to anyone who might be interested in submitting work for consideration. I will be happy to acknowledge your organization in the completed book if you are able to help attract talented artists.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at [email protected]

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

Sincerely,
Amedeo Salamoni

Amedeo Salamoni
Ceramics/Sculpture
Anderson and Walton Galleries Coordinator
George School
PMB 4542
1690 Newtown Langhorne Rd.
Newtown,PA 18940