Creating Meaning: Ceramics (NCECA) Pre-Conference
UF School of Art + Art History and H.O.T. Clay (student ceramics organization) will host Creating Meaning on March 27 - 28, 2011, offering three artist workshops and seven University of Florida and Gainesville ceramic exhibitions in conjunction with the 2011 National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) Conference in Tampa Bay. NCECA attracts over 5,000 ceramic artists, students, collectors, curators, critics and art historians each year. This year, they will converge in Florida from all around the world to attend presentations, demonstrations and to view close to seventy exhibitions.
The pre-conference will offer those who enroll an opportunity to visit the UF School of Art + Art History studios, to see the work of UF students and Gainesville artists, as well as selected works by national artists. A full-day workshop will be offered by ceramic artists Nan Smith, Kathy King andKevin Snipes. King will focus on her signature use of surface imagery and narrative demonstrating sgraffito, stenciling, china painting and more. Smith, who is known for her figurative sculpture, will demonstrate methods of mold-making, using alginate provided by Reynolds Advanced Materials, as well as casting and life modeling techniques. Snipes will demonstrate how he creates his trademark narrative drawings on slab-built vessels. Using traditional methods such as mishima and sgraffito he will create contemporary vessels.
Additionally, a variety of exhibitions will be held throughout Gainesville."Alchemy: From Dust to Form: 2011 Ceramics National" will be on display at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art (Jurors: Kathy King and Nan Smith). Other exhibitions include: "Intersection: UF Ceramics Undergraduates", Cofrin Gallery at Oak Hall High School; "Currents: Past and Present - UF Alumni and Student Juried Exhibition", Thomas Center Mezzanine Gallery, (Juror: Anna Calluori Holcombe); "Intersection: UF Ceramics MFA and Post-Baccalaureate Candidates", Focus Gallery, (Juror: Steve Howell); "Nan Smith, Kathy King, Kevin Snipes: Workshop Leaders Exhibition", UF College of Fine Arts Atrium, FAA; Ceramics MFA Thesis Exhibitions of Charlie Cummings, Chris Pickett and Brian Weaver at the University Gallery.
Shuttle tours from campus to the gallery venues will run on Sunday afternoon ending at the Harn Museum for a reception. Breakfast, lunch, the tour and the workshop costs are included in the registration fee.
This Pre-Conference is sponsored by the UF School of Art + Art History Ceramics and H.O.T. Clay, the student run organization. In-kind sponsorship, provided by Reynolds Advanced Materials.
Online Registration:
http://conferences.dce.ufl.edu/Ceramics/reg.aspx
tel: (352) 392-1701
fax: (352) 392-5437
Space is limited...REGISTER EARLY!
Media Contact:
Anna Calluori Holcombe, Professor of Ceramics
School of Art and Art History, University of Florida
352-272-3050 Tel
352-392-8453 Fax
ach@ufl.edu
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