Optical Allusions by Bill Carman at Gallery Nucleus
The Boise State University Department of Art will present their bi-annual Clay & Fire
Held each semester for nearly 40 years, Boise State’s Clay and Fire sale has become a tradition for many in the Treasure Valley. It features hundreds of original ceramic pieces, ranging from elegant to exotic, made by Boise State students, faculty and alumni. Items fresh from the kiln may be available daily, so the public is invited to shop often.
A portion of the proceeds benefits Boise State’s Visiting Artists in Ceramics program, which brings world-class artists to campus to teach students and the community about contemporary techniques and concepts. Visiting artists from around the country perform their magic with clay each semester. The Clay & Fire
Basic Enameling with Cage or Prong Settings
2-day Hands-on Workshop
Mon & Tues., May 14 & 15, 2012, 10 am – 5 pm
Boise State University Art Metals Studio
Liberal Arts Building, Room 157
This hands-on workshop will cover beginning level enamel techniques with a focus on setting your finished work in a cage or prong setting. Primary metal used will be copper or steel for the enamel and sterling for the setting, although students can work in silver and fine silver. Due to the costs of enamels, there will be an additional materials fee of $20 due at the beginning of the workshop.
Skill Level: intermediate to advanced/basic hand-tool knowledge preferred. Space is very limited, so reserve your spot early. We anticipate that the workshop will fill up quickly and reservations are accepted on a first come, first serve basis.
For additional information, questions, or to register for the workshop, please contact Anika Smulovitz at anikasmulovitz@boisestate.edu
This workshop is sponsored by the BSU ASBSU Art Metals Club
About the artist: Alicia received her Bachelor’s degree in Functional Design at Murray State University in Kentucky and her Masters in Artisanry from the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth in Jewelry and Metalsmithing. Her work is in personal and private collections and has been exhibited in juried and invitational shows. She was an Artist-in-Resident at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in 2007/08. In 2008/09 she was the Visiting Associate Professor teaching Jewelry and Metal Crafts at PrattMWP in New York and in 09/2010 was sabbatical replacement teaching Jewelry and Metalsmithing at Boise State University in Idaho.
Through the Department of Arts & History in Boise Idaho in the winter of 2010, she was awarded a short-term residency to create a new body of work for a solo exhibition generously funded with a grant from the Idaho Commission of the Arts/National Endowment for the Arts. In 2011 chosen for the Enamelist Society International Exhibition ‘Alchemy’ Honorable Mention Award and was selected as one of the LEAP award finalists through the Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, PA. In her most recent professional & artist endeavors, she has been awarded a “New Emerging Professionals” scholarship to attend The Society of North American Goldsmiths annual conference in Phoenix Arizona May 23rd-26th & to take part in the 2nd Annual Trunk Show & Exhibition.
Boise State University is pleased to announce that the next distinguished visiting artist in ceramics is Australian artist, Janet deBoos.
“I work at the limits of thrown porcelain, finishing all work whilst the ware is still wet on the pottery wheel, and throwing as thinly as it is possible to do without complete collapse. I do not turn or trim the porcelain to thin it down after it is dry … but try to always ‘go with’ the clay and retain the freshness of the act of making. It becomes almost a game that I play with myself- pitting technique against material.” Janet deBoos
About the Artist
Janet deBoos is an internationally recognized ceramic artist. She currently holds the position of Head of Ceramics Workshop, School of Art, at The Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. She has had a long career in making, teaching and writing during which she has had an abiding interest in process. She sees the domestic pot as occupying the space between making and use. This rich field has led to examinations over the past thirty years of the way we both make, and use, objects. Initially this was related to skill and to the way in which we develop ‘object-related meaning’. For the last five or six years she has become increasingly interested in the way in which meaningful making and using can contribute to health and the way in which creative thinking is enabled through periods of what is commonly called boredom.
She has written (or co-authored) three books on glazes (Glazes for Australian Potters, More Glazes for Australian Potters and Handbook for Australian Potters), been invited speaker at national and international conferences, and conducted workshops or demonstrations in most states of Australia, the USA and China. She is an editorial consultant on Ceramics Technical and Ceramics-Art & Perception, and a regular contributor to these and other journals. She received Australian Research Council Grants for 1996, 1997 and 1998 to examine the stability of barium glazes.
About the workshop
The two-day workshop will be held on April 2nd & 3rd from 9:30 – 4:30 in room 150 of the Liberal Arts Building. As with all our ceramic workshops, questions and comments are totally welcome, and the discussions over the course of the workshop span a wide variety of art related topics. The workshop is free to BSU students, faculty and staff. A $25.00 fee is charged to campus visitors. Registration is on the morning of the first day. The workshop is made possible through Boise State’s bi-annual “Clay and Fire” fundraiser. For more information email Caroline Earley at carolineearley@boisestate.edu.
About the free public lecture
Janet deBoos will present an illustrated talk about her work followed by a Q&A session. The lecture will be held in the Simplot B room of the student Union building on Monday, April 2nd at 6:00pm. (Free parking available in the Liberal Arts parking lot (between LA and SPEC) for the lecture.)
Boise State University Art Metals Program
April 5-30, 2012
Opening Reception April 5, 5-9pm
Artwork by Josh Wiklund
Caroline Earley, Assistant Professor of Ceramics, is currently showing her work in a solo exhibition at Object Space gallery in Auckland New Zealand. Domestic Disturbance presents a monochromatic installation of distorted ceramic domestic ware; a table covered with uncanny bulbous and contorted forms, all in pristine white. These ceramic volumes are enclosed and nonfunctional, expressing the nature of Earley’s disquiet and discomfort with American domestic politics. Earley’s work was also selected by a panel of internationally known l jurors for inclusion in the Gyeonggi International Ceramix Biennale 2011, Icheon World Ceramic Center, Icheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea and The Wichita National All Media Craft Exhibition 2011, The Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, Kansas.
Image: Installation image at Objectspace.