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TO BUY A SHARE, CALL (603)924-2787.
CSArt Project 2 • Summer 2012
What is a CSA?
Over the last 20 years, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) has become a popular way for consumers to buy seasonal food directly from local farms. With the same buy-local spirit in mind, Community Supported Art is a similar endeavor to support local art, artists and collectors. We are seeking artists, of all disciplines, to launch our inaugural Community Supported ART (CSArt) program. Our local CSArt program is modeled on a similar project created by Springboard for the Arts and mnartists.org in Minnesota. This is a new and highly successful grassroots arts effort taking shape across the nation, helping to promote artists along with the beauty and necessity of the arts within a regional framework. Nine artists will be selected from a jury of local food and art luminaries (TBA) and will receive a stipend of $1,250, great connections to local collectors and significant promotional support. The visibility generated from the project alone is anticipated to be enormously beneficial to any artist along any stage in his/her career.
How CSArt works:
Selected artists will create 50 “shares” for the program*. A typical share will consist of a work of art/object of artistic production – multiples are encouraged, however creative ideas that translate your practice into this format or connect to themes like sustainability, farm, or food are also welcome (for example a limited edition of screen-prints, series of small tea cups, a run of photographs, a pairing
of glass objects, letterpress editions of an artist book, or even 50 small original paintings). Collaborations between artists or work by collectives are also welcome. The artwork will be limited editions for CSArt only—i.e. rare and unique, unavailable elsewhere. CSArt pieces should be created for the program in limited editions. This is what makes it, like an agricultural CSA, fresh and local. The advantages to participating in CSArt are not just the stipend and the monetary compensation – it also guarantees the shares get into the hands of 50 patrons who might want to form relationships with the artists and may wish to buy more work from them.
Interested consumers/collectors will purchase a share (aka a “membership” or a “subscription”) and in return receive 3 “farm boxes” of unique, locally-produced artwork at intervals this Summer season: JUNE, JULY and AUGUST.
We anticipate selling out quickly, with a $330 per share cost to the public.
SUMMER 2012 SELECTED CSArt ARTISTS
Access Ceramics
I am proud to announce that you can now view my work at
Coming of Age: New England Artists Under 30
Come and check out my sculpture at the Sharon Arts Gallery in Peterborough, NH through April 28th. You can also read about my work in this month’s Artscope Magazine.
Sharon Arts Center is proud to present “Coming of Age: New England Artists Under 30” in their Exhibition Gallery, 30 Grove St., which will run from Mar. 2 through Apr. 28. Co-sponsored with the New Hampshire Institute of Art (NHIA), the exhibit will have an Opening Reception, free and open to the public, on Mar. 2 from 5 to 7 pm.
“This exhibition was designed to introduce young artists under the age of 30 to a new audience, and to also provide the community with an opportunity to experience art in a contemporary context,” said exhibit organizer and curator Kate Lenahan (NHIA ‘08). The show will offer a wide variety of mediums utilizing both traditional and innovative methods and techniques. The exhibited mediums will include video installations, performance art, paintings, photography, glass, ceramics, mixed media, drawings and sculpture.
“Black Tape Portrait: Female/Male,” artwork photos by Nyiko Beguin, photo taken by Ashley Saari
Jurors for the exhibition are Cathy Sununu, director of the Portsmouth Museum of Art; Craig Stockwell, artist and professor at Keene State College; and Tim Donovan, artist and director of Launch Art Galleries.
“It is a privilege through this exhibit to support the careers of exceptional and innovative young artists at a point in their careers when they need the greatest visibility and impact to advance,” said Executive Director Keri Wiederspahn. “It is a vulnerable time for a young artist working towards both recognition and sustainability in the contemporary art world. Sharon Arts is deeply invested in sharing this vital mix of talent within the scope of New England.”
Accepted artists include Rachelle Beaudoin, Peterborough, NH; Nyiko Beguin, Hancock, NH; Brett Davis, Dover, NH (NHIA ‘09); Cara DeAngelis, Monroe, CT; Sarazah Deetz, Boston, MA (NHIA ‘07); Chloe Feldman Emison, Lee, NH; Mary Goldthwaite-Gagne, Peterborough, NH; Shaina Gates, Jaffrey, NH; Corin Godfrey, Manchester, NH; Nome Graham, Gloucester, NH; Rebecca Gutwin, Allston, MA; Paul Hackett, Portland, ME; Rachel Hammerman, Wayland, MA; Brittany Kelly, Greenfield, NH; Rachel Montroy, Auburn, NH; William Pickford, Peterborough, NH; Laurel Schultheis, Cumberland, RI; Cory Munro Shea, Cambridge, MA; Mikhaela Stinson, Brattleboro, VT (NHIA ‘11); Devin Swett, Windham, NH (NHIA ‘08); Mike Weinstein, Manchester, NH (NHIA ‘05); Pembrooke Werden, Dublin, NH; and Matt Wyatt, Farmington, NH (NHIA).
Raku Master Class at the Currier Art Center
Can’t wait for this workshop!
Friday, April 13 from 7-9 pm (slide show and potluck reception)
Saturday, April 14 from 9 am-4 pm (Demos)
Sunday, April 15 from 10 am-4 pm (Glazing & Firing)
$120 for Observers on Friday & Saturday
$230 for Participants Friday-Sunday
Maximum 20 students
Location: Currier Art Center, Manchester, NH
Raku is a technique that is simple in concept, requires rudimentary firing facilities, and is easy to do. A deeper understanding of the process along with experimentation and higher expectations can yield sophisticated colors, textures and surfaces not necessarily recognized as “raku.” Steven will show slides of his work, studio, raku history and contemporary raku pottery survey, as well as selections from his wide-ranging personal clay collection. He will demonstrate his throwing and forming techniques including his personal surface treatments, inlaid colored glass technique, narrow neck vase shapes, one-handed throwing and expanding forms from the inside out, glazing and raku firing. Throughout the weekend Steven will talk about his life, career and experiences as a student, potter, teacher, writer and businessman. Bring your questions and don’t forget your cameras and notebooks! No experience with raku is necessary.
To register call 603 669 6144 x 122 or go to the art center online registration
Karen Karnes Exhibition at the Currier Museum in Manchester, NH
A Chosen Path: The Ceramic Art of Karen Karnes
Organized by Arizona State University Art Museum Ceramics Research Center, Tempe, Arizona
August 27, 2011 – December 3, 2011
The Currier Museum of Art will present A Chosen Path: The Ceramic Art of Karen Karnes, celebrating Karnes’ more than 60-year career at the forefront of the studio pottery movement. From her dramatic salt-glazed pottery of the 1960s and ‘70s, to her most recent complex joined sculptural pieces, Karnes (born 1925), of Morgan, Vermont, is one of the medium’s most influential working potters and is a mentor to several generations of studio potters. Throughout her career, Karnes has created some of the most iconic pottery of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. She has worked at some of the most significant cultural settings of her generation including North Carolina’s avant-garde Black Mountain College and Gate Hill Cooperative in Stony Point, NY in the 1950s.
“Karen is one of the originators of the art pottery movement in the United States, and I am thrilled that the Currier was chosen as one of only a handful of venues to host the exhibition,” said Kurt Sundstrom, associate curator, Currier Museum of Art. “Visitors to the exhibition will experience artwork that has a mystic beauty which appeals to the eye and the mind.”
A Chosen Path: The Ceramic Art of Karen Karnes is her first retrospective exhibition, and is accompanied by a book-length monograph. The exhibition is organized by the Arizona State University Art Museum Ceramics Research Center, Tempe, Arizona, and curated by ASU Curator of Ceramics Peter Held.
The exhibition is generously funded by an Artist’s Exhibition Series grant from the Windgate Charitable Foundation, with additional funds provided by the Ceres Trust, the Center for Craft, Creativity and Design and the Friends of Contemporary Ceramics.
Image credit:Vase, Karen Karnes, 1969, salt-glazed stoneware, 19 inches. Currier Museum of Art, Museum Purchase: The Henry Melville Fuller Acquisition Fund, 2006.23; Vessel, Karen Karnes, 1984, produced in Morgan, VT, glazed stoneware, wood-fired,14 x 13 x 13 in. Collection of Dr. Martin and Joyce Halpert. Photo credit: Anthony Cuñha; Three Forms, Karen Karnes, 2002, produced in Morgan, VT, stoneware, salt-glazed, (L) 20½ x 4½ in.,(M) 30 ½ x 6¼ in. (R) 23½ x 6¼ in.Private Collection, New York Photo credit: Anthony Cuñha
William Daley Exhibition in Exeter, NH
Phillips Exeter Academy’s Lamont Gallery presents “William Daley – Selected Works: 1967 – 2010″
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - Saturday, October 22, 2011
 Artist William Daley, with Gaurdian Vesica. 2005 Unglazed Stoneware.Exeter, NH (September 1, 2011)—From Wednesday, September 14 to Saturday, October 22, the Lamont Gallery at Phillips Exeter Academy will present an exhibit byWilliam Daley, a leading figure in American studio ceramics. The exhibit entitled “William Daley – Selected Works: 1967 – 2010″ will include a selection of hand-built, unglazed stoneware vessels and drawings. An artist’s reception will be held at the gallery on Friday, September 16, 6:30-8 p.m., and a gallery talk is scheduled for Saturday, September 17 at 10 a.m. Daley will attend these events and will be available to answer questions about his work. The Lamont Gallery is in the Frederick R. Mayer Art Center on Tan Lane. All events are free and open to the public. Born in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, Daley earned his bachelor’s degree in 1950 from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and his master’s degree in 1952 from Teachers College, Columbia University. Daley has taught ceramics at state colleges in Iowa and New York; and has taught ceramics, drawing and industrial design for more than 30 years at The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, which named him its first University Distinguished Professor in 1989. Daley has received the Regis Master Award and the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, to name a few. He is the recipient of honorary doctorates awarded by the Maine College of Art and The University of the Arts. Daley has also received distinguished awards from the College Art Association, the American Craft Council, the Northern Clay Center andWatershed. Most importantly, he was a 2010 recipient of the prestigious PEW Fellowships in the Arts. Daley’s work has centered on the vessel; what he describes as “a fixed form that can take all of your spirit and imagination.” Characterized by large-scale, monochromatic earth tones and geometric form, Daley’s works appear deceptively simple but with further study yield complex dualities emerging between inside and outside, concave and convex, positive and negative, form and symbol. Daley says he works from an organic perspective: “Clay, like all primal materials, has personae. It holds secrets, embeds traditions, and feeds the boundaries that nurture change. Consequently, materials hold the inherent structure of ’the possible becoming.’
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C-Venture Vesica. 2008 Unglazed Stoneware
“I enjoy the rush of moving toward a more telling vessel: One in which the duality of material and spirit whisper the symmetry of wonder we share together,” he says. Daley’s works have been shown in galleries in numerous U.S. cities, the Netherlands, the U.K. and South Korea. His work is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; the Renwick Gallery in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; the Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; The Stedelijk Museum’s Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England; and the Clayarch Gimhae Museum, Gimhae, South Korea, to name a few. Lamont Gallery Manager Sara Zela says, “It is the Lamont Gallery’s honor to host such a distinguished and influential artist and educator. Daley’s large-scale work will allow our students, faculty, [staff] and visitors an up-close-and-personal experience. The vessels and drawings illustrate the artist’s use of positive and negative space, and use of geometrical forms and symbols to produce complex and interesting relationships between the inside and outside.” Gallery hours during the school year are: Monday 1-5 p.m., Tuesday-Saturday 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; closed Sundays and school holidays. For more information, contact the Lamont Gallery at 603-777-3461. For directions to Phillips Exeter Academy, call 603-777-4330. A complete list of upcoming events is available on the Phillips Exeter Academy public events line at 603-777-4309; or visit the Academy’s community calendar or website. |
Finished work from my residency at Watershed
Here are a few pieces that I have finished from my residency at Watershed. I made about 10 pieces in two weeks, but once I got back to the real world, it took me two months to glaze them!
Exciting ceramic Master Classes at the Currier
October 26
MASTER ClASS with Samantha Stumpf
Working with Casting Slip
Sat. 10 am-4 pm
$95, Maximum 10 students
Join ceramic artist Samantha Stumpf as she explores the
contemporary world of casting slip. She will demonstrate how
to make a three-dimensional form and cast a reproduction of
it in casting slip. Then try her unique techniques of pouring
the slip into slabs and hand-building with them. You will also
learn about coloring the slip, texturing and slip trailing. The
work made during the workshop will be glazed and fired, then
picked up 2 weeks later.
MASTER ClASS with Karen Karnes and Mark Shapiro
Working and Living Clay
Saturday, oct. 15 from 10 am-4 pm & Sunday, oct. 16 from 11 am-5 pm
$250, Maximum 15 students
In a rare appearance, Karen Karnes will demonstrate her
approach to vessel making. Her traveling retrospective, A
Chosen Path, is on view at the Currier Museum of Art through
December 3, 2011. This workshop will celebrate her work,
which helped shape the modern craft movement. Mark
Shapiro will facilitate Karnes’ demonstration as well as share
his own pottery techniques.
To register go to www.currier.org and click on art center or call 603 669 6144 x 122
This is a picture of the studio space I was in on the left half.
Funding provided by the NH State Council on the Arts and Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts. Thank you to both of these organizations for making these two weeks possible!New work and upcoming shows
I have just finished a new batch of work and have already sent it off to several places!
You can currently see my work at:
-Mill Brook Gallery’s 14th Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition in Concord, NH
-New Hampshire Potter;s Guild Biennial at the Sharon Art’s Center in Peterborough, NH
-Art in the Garden Tour hosted by Exeter Center for Creative Arts
