Clay Art Center Soliciting Entries for Cup Show

Clay Art Center is happy to announce a Call for Entry to "A Taste of Home", curated by Julia Galloway.

A Taste of Home is a ceramic cup show celebrating and exploring our relationship to the meaning of “Home”. For many, this relationship has changed over the past year. Originally scheduled to run in 2020, this exhibition was postponed due to Covid-19 closures. In 2021, we look at this theme through a vastly different lens.

The cup is both an everyday and intimate object in our daily home lives. Using our favorite cup can bring us unscheduled moments of comfort, elicit special memories, and create opportunities for social interaction as we stop to imbibe, reflect and savor. A cup can be the touch of elegance at the hurried breakfast table, the fun, bright moment in the workday, or the relaxed drink over a conversation with a loved one. Whatever reason we have to choose a particular cup, it elevates that object from functional to sacred just because it is our favorite and reminds us of home.

In the past year, our homes have been transformed into new environments with new narratives and language. Working from home, remote learning, home studio practice, isolation, virtual socializing, economic impact, and/or watching social justice events unfold across the United States in a tumultuous election year are just some of the ways the home landscape has been changed. For some, the home landscape has changed forever.

We ask artists to present ceramic cups or drinking vessels that reflect their relationship to the meaning of home, whether presented as a humble but favored object, vehicle of expression, or object of desire. 

Juror
Artist Julia Galloway and Clay Art Center gallery staff will select the works.

Julia Galloway is a utilitarian potter and professor. She had her first solo show at Clay Art Center in 1998, and most recently, had a third solo show there with her Endangered Species Project: New York. At the opening of that show in September 2019, Julia stated that the opportunity to show at Clay Art Center was instrumental in helping her career along. Julia, in turn, has helped countless other ceramics artists both with her professional guidance as a teacher, and with her Ceramics Field Guide, a free online resource for students and graduates, and emerging ceramic artists: http://ceramicsfieldguide.org/

Julia teaches ceramics at the University of Montana, Missoula. Julia has exhibited across the United States, Canada, and Asia and her work is included in the collections of the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Museum, Washington DC, Long Beach Art Museum, Long Beach CA, the Ceramics Research Center at the Arizona State Art Museum, Alfred Ceramics Art Museum at Alfred University, the Dinnerware Museum in Ann Arbor Michigan and The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Visit Julia Galloway’s website here: http://juliagalloway.com/about/

Clay Art Center is a nationally recognized non-profit center for the advancement and practice of ceramic art offering exhibitions, classes for adults and children, studio spaces for clay artists and outreach programs in the community.  It is located in the heart of Port Chester at 40 Beech Street, Port Chester, NY 10573.

Eligibility

Any artist in the United States over the age of 18. Works presented must be available and for sale at time of show. Primary medium must be in ceramic clay.

Application Process
Applications will be accepted online only through a CaFÉ™ profile (see instructions below)
View the call: https://artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=8648

Dates and deadlines:
Submission begins: February 22, 2021 and ends: May 24, 2021 at midnight EST.
Notification: by June 25, 2021
Exhibition dates: September 1 - October 3, 2021
There is a $10 application fee*
*If you need assistance with the application fee, please e-mail: gallery@clayartcenter.org

Number of Works
No more than 3 artworks may be submitted

To Apply
You must create a CaFÉ™ Artists Profile: www.callforentry.org
Upload Work Samples - Uploaded media files will be stored in your CaFE Portfolio so you can submit them to calls. You will choose which media files to submit to a call when you fill out the application.
Media file submissions must comply with specifications found at CaFÉ https://www.callforentry.org/image_prep.phtml

IMAGE: Only JPEGs up to 5MB with a minimum of 1920 pixels on the longest side.
For complete specifications, tutorials and resources please go to CaFE Help

No changes will be allowed once an entry is accepted into the database. Once data is entered in the system, it cannot be altered. Proofread your data carefully as this information may be used to generate the catalog, insurance and publicity information.

Each work submitted must include the following details:

• Title

• Medium (60 character limit)

• Height/Width/Depth

• Retail Price/Value

• Year completed

• Primary Discipline: **ceramics**

• Description (300 character limit)

ADJUDICATION
The juror will select artwork of available pieces ONLY!

Exhibition Guidelines
- Work must stay in gallery until show ends.
- Artwork that is hand delivered must be picked up at end of exhibition. Work that has been shipped to CAC will be returned at CAC’s expense.
- Gallery commission is 40% of selling price.