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30th Annual California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art

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Friday, 27 April 2018 to Sunday, 29 April 2018
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Friday, 27 April 2018 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Experience a diverse assortment of ceramic art in one, central location! Visit downtown Davis, CA, April 27-29th, when it transforms into a mecca of over fifty exhibitions within a four block radius, with an educational conference with lectures, workshops and demonstrations. 30th Annual California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art April 27-29th, 2018. 

The annual Ceramics festival, hosted by the John Natsoulas Center for the Arts enters its 30th year and continues to bring the leading national and international ceramic artists to Northern California for a weekend of creative instruction and collaboration. Register now at: https://shop.natsoulas.com/product-category/ccaca/

This year's conference will feature captivating lectures and hands-on demonstrations from celebrated artists: En Iwamura, Shenny Cruces, Gerit Grimm, Kevin Snipes, Michelle Gregor, Mark Burns , and Lisa Clague

Supplementing the weekend already full of ceramics enjoyment are the fifty exhibitions of ceramic art. The majority of these exhibitions feature universities and colleges throughout the entire state. No-where will you be able to see as many exhibitions in such a short amount of time than you can from April 27-29th in Davis, CA. Because the downtown area is intimately small and walkable, all of the events are near-by and easy to find, allowing more time spent enjoying the art and less time finding it!

The John Natsoulas Center for the Arts will hold its annual gallery-wide 30 Ceramics Sculptors exhibition in concurrence with the conference.

The work will be on display from April 11-May 12th. For more information, schedules and conference registration, please visit http://www.natsoulas.com.

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En Iwamura

En Iwamura was born in Kyoto, Japan in 1988. Under the influence of both parents who were painters, Iwamura was cultivated in an art enriching environment. After he received a BFA in Crafts at the Kanazawa College of Arts and Crafts, he became intrigued by international art. He believes ceramics has the potential to be an international language and is one that can cross different cultures, people, and countries. Iwamura’s current research investigates how he can influence and alter the experience of viewers who occupy space within his installation artworks. When Iwamura describes the space and scale in his works, he references the Japanese philosophy of Ma. Ma implies meanings of distance, moment, space, relationship, and more. People are constantly reading and measuring different Ma between themselves, and finding the proper or comfortable Ma between people or places that can provide a specific relationship during a given moment. Through his work, Iwamura intends to create such an encounter with site-responsive installations, and provide through entering the space, an opportunity for viewers to recognize and experience their own unique Ma.

Shenny Cruces

 

Shenny Phillips Cruces has moved on average every three and a half years her entire life.  She grew up moving from Air Force Base to Air Force Base and has made a habit of relocating even in her adult life.  Ms. Cruces attended Cal State San Bernardino and Sonoma State University, completing a BA in English.  She taught High School in Santa Rosa California for a few years until relocating to Illinois.  Ms. Cruces received a BA in Ceramics from Illinois State University in 2008 and a Masters of Fine Arts in Ceramics from San Francisco State University in 2011.  Her work has appeared in juried shows throughout California and the United States and includes  2013 NCECA Biennial, A Gilded Age at the Northern Clay Center and the Community Heirloom Project at the Palo Alto Art Center.  Her work has received numerous awards including a Murphy Cadogan Fellowship, and a Kiln God Award Residency at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Maine. Ms. Cruces has taught ceramics at NIAD in Richmond, California and as a Lecturer in Ceramics at Sonoma State University and San Francisco State University.

 

Gerit Grimm

 

Gerit Grimm was born, and grew up in Halle, German Democratic Republic. In 1995, she finished her apprenticeship, learning the traditional German trade as a potter at the “Altbürgeler blau-weiss GmbH” in Bürgel, Germany and worked as a Journeyman for Joachim Jung in Glashagen, Germany. She earned an Art and Design Diploma in 2001 studying ceramics at Burg Giebichenstein, Halle, Germany. In 2002, she was awarded with the German DAAD Government Grant for the University of Michigan School of Art and Design, where she graduated with an MA in 2002. She received her MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2004. She has taught at CSULB, Pitzer College, Doane College and MSU Bozeman and has worked at major residencies like Mc Coll Center, Bemis Center, Kohler Arts & Industry Program and Archie Bray Foundation. In 2009 NET Television created “Fantasia in Clay” a Nebraska Story about artist Gerit Grimm. Grimm now lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

 

Kevin Snipes

Kevin Snipes was born in Philadelphia, but grew up mostly in Cleveland, Ohio. He received a B.F.A. in ceramics and drawing from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1994. After leaving grad school at the University of Florida in 2003 Kevin has led a seemingly nomadic artistic life, constantly making pieces no matter where he is.

Kevin has participated in several artist residency programs, including the Clay Studio, in Philadelphia and Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, in New Castle, Maine and received a Taunt Fellowship from the Archie Bray Foundation in Montana 2008. Exhibiting both nationally and internationally, including a recent solo exhibition at the Society of Arts and Craft, Boston; Akar, Iowa City and Duane Reed Gallery in St. Louis. Kevin has exhibited as far away as Jingdezhen, China. Kevin combines his love of constructing unconventional pottery with an obsessive need to draw on everything that he produces, creating a uniquely dynamic body of work. He currently resides in Chicago, IL.

Michelle Gregor

San Francisco Bay Area artist Michelle Gregor creates sculpture in high fire ceramic and bronze. Her work has been described as lyrical, graceful, spiritual.
Her architectural sculpture graces the exterior of the Olympic Club on Sutter Street in San Francisco and an interior space at the Spa at Pebble Beach. Her figurative sculptures in bronze and ceramic are in private homes, offices, and gardens of private collectors.
She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from University of California, Santa Cruz and Master of Fine Arts degree from San Francisco State University.

 

Mark Burns

With roots in Philadelphia, Mark Burns now lives and teaches in Boston, MA where he is an Artist in Residence at the Ceramics Program – Office for the Arts at Harvard. Burns is a Professor Emeritus from University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he was the major force behind the NCECA Conference in 1997. Burns explores societal norms of sexuality and identity through his humorous and often absurdist sculptural forms.

“For over four decades, I have made strange marriages between disparate sources. Mythologies, manifest spiritual tropes, historical truth and historical lies, sexuality, television, movies, music, literature, and the ravenous beast we call pop culture. Once considered, those who seek an explanation will hopefully realize my work is an outward physical manifestation of a simple truth.

My work has always been the diary of my life.”

Lisa Clague

The distinctive figurative sculpture by Lisa Clague hovers between fantasy and reality –- playful, mysterious, contemplative. “My work evokes a place between the subconscious and the intangible,” she notes. “My masked figures are hybrid creatures, mistresses of ambiguity and disguise, of seduction and deception. These images, like dreams, are familiar but illusive.

The figures are rendered in white-ware and then treated with stains, oxides and wax. Metal, glass and/or wood are added components to complete the sculpture.

Clague received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Cleveland Institute of Art and her Master of Fine Art degree from California College of Arts and Crafts.

Telephone: 
5307563938
Venue ( Address ): 

John Natsoulas Gallery

 

521 First Street 
Davis, CA 95616 

530.756.3938
art@natsoulas.com

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