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My work has been invited for a solo exhibition at the Thomas Hunter Project Gallery at Hunter College, The City University of New York at 695 Park Ave. This solo show will open May 6 and close May 26, 2012.
I have been asked to Curate the 2013 Scripps College 70th Annual Ceramic Exhibition. The exhibition will include 20 artists that I invite from across the United States whose work has had a major impact on the field of ceramic art. The exhibition will take place at the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College in Claremont, California. This Spring semester I will be working on the artists to include whose work centers around the thesis of De-Natured Abstraction.
I will also be the juror for the Red Heat annual exhibition at the University of Tulsa. The exhibition is open to all ceramic artists from the United States and I will jury the work to be included in the exhibition this coming May. The exhibition opens in Sept. 2012.
My work "Five Stack Cake" 2011, was recently purchased by the Fuller Museum in Boston Massachusetts for their permanent collection.
Here are some pics from last night at the EVERLAST opening @ Art+Cayce. The work will be up through Nov. 28th, 1329 State Street, Columbia, SC, across from Brookland Cayce High School. Gallery hours M-F 1-4 or by appointment.
Virginia is working on slipcast pieces for the collaborative show EVERLAST - which will be opening @ Art + Cayce, Columbia, SC - November 11, 2011.
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.........the ageless themes of love and revenge .........eternal truth .........life everlasting
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Confucius Institute to hold symposium on Chinese ceramic art
Learn about the art and history of Chinese ceramics at a symposium Oct. 13 at the University of South Carolina.
After a morning workshop, the symposium will feature a series of afternoon presentations at McKissick Museum and an evening lecture at McMaster.
All events are free and open to the public.
“This symposium, which follows ‘Eye to the East,’ a large show of Chinese ceramics, which was on display in 2009 at the Columbia Museum of Art and sponsored by the Confucius Institute, presents the best scholarship on Chinese ceramic art in the history of South Carolina,” said Dr. Tan Ye, director of the Confucius Institute.
Ye said people who attend will leave with a rich understanding of the ancient traditions, artistry and influence of Chinese ceramics, including pottery and porcelain.
The daylong event will begin with a workshop and ceramics demonstration by Jiansheng Li, a ceramic artist from Jindezhen, China, and Gary Erickson, a ceramics professor at Macalester College, from 10 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. in McMaster College, Room 103.
Afternoon sessions will be from 3 – 6 p.m. on the museum’s first floor and will feature presentations on the tradition and history of Chinese ceramics and how to authenticate them. The schedule includes:
· “Authenticating Chinese Porcelain” by Xinyu Shen, senior research fellow at the Hangzhou Historical Museum;
· “Lost Art: The Ceramics of Xixia Kingdom” by Tian Hang, an artist and historian of Chinese ceramic art;
· “The Art of Porcelain Capital Jingdezhen” by Li;
· “Jingdezehn and Me” by Erickson; and
· “Ceramic Art in Taiwan” by Virginia Scotchie.
B.J Zhang, a Chinese artist and USC graduate student in art, will share his views on contemporary Chinese art in a presentation at 8:15 p.m. in McMaster College. His talk is titled “Modern Art in China and Me.”
An exhibit of Southern pottery influenced by Chinese ceramic traditions will be on display in the second floor of McKissick Museum. Included will be examples of the alkaline-glazed stoneware tradition from Edgefield along with master works from the Jugtown Pottery in Seagrove, N.C.
The Chinese Ceramic Art symposium is co-sponsored by USC’s Confucius Institute and the College of Arts and Sciences’ department of art. For more information, contact Sandra Sabo in the Confucius Institute at 803-777-7660 or via email at sabos@mailbox.sc.edu.
USC is the first research university in South Carolina to establish a Confucius Institute (CI) in collaboration with the Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU) and the Office of Chinese Language Council International, a division of the Chinese Ministry of Education. For more information about the CI, its programs and events, visit the website: www.cas.sc.edu/ci
University of Manitoba School of Art - Ceramics Department: 1000 Miles Apart - Ceramics Conference, September 29, October 1 1000 Miles Apart 2011 Ceramics Conference September 29 - October 1
The Ceramics Area at the University of Manitoba will host 1000 Miles Apart from September 29 to October 1, 2011. 1000 Miles Apart will feature a number of high calibre artists who will present lectures and demonstrations, and provide a forum for exchange between students, faculty, and professionals in the field.
John Balistreri, professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, will share his latest research on using clay as a printing material in the rapid prototyping of three dimensional forms. Virginia Scotchie, world renowned for her energetic and stimulating ceramic workshops, will join us from the University of South Carolina. Paul Mathieu, professor of ceramics at Emily Carr University in Vancouver, will present a lecture on his recent art and industry experiences in China, and provide a critical view of the state of ceramics in the 21st century. Rory MacDonald, professor of ceramics at NSCAD University in Halifax, will present the closing address at 1000 Miles Apart.
1000 Miles Apart will include an exhibition at Gallery One One One in the FitzGerald Building. The exhibition will include work by ceramics students, faculty, and the visiting artists. Concurrent with the conference, visitors may investigate site specific installations by artist Rory MacDonald on the U of M campus and in downtown Winnipeg. More program details will be available closer to the conference.
Registration and Information Registration is free for all university and college students, faculty and staff. For all others the registration fee is $50.00, payable by cheque or cash to the University of Manitoba. Send to: 1000 Miles Apart Conference School of Art 203 FitzGerald Building University of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3T http:// www.umanitoba.ca/schools/art
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