Campaign to Save the Wedgwood Museum
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Write to you MP, Join our Supporters roll to declare your support and to be kept up to date with the Campaign: help to Save Wedgwood for the Nation. I was shocked to hear of this disgusting decision – I presume under the existing law the courts had little option! I have written to my local MP seeking support and would ask that all who read this article do the same – either to their MP or if outside the UK, Direct to the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. David Cameron. Please also Join the supporters group above. Here is a copy of my letter: Dear Nicholas Soames, I run a major website for ceramic art, www.studiopottery.co.uk with an audience of some 25000 per month, with several hundred ceramic artist members. I have watched the unfolding saga surrounding the Wedgwood Museum with consternation and sadness. In essence, as I understand it, because a few museum staff were linked with the company the whole of the assets of the museum can be claimed and sold for the benefit of the old group pension scheme deficit. This ‘loophole’ in the law has been confirmed by the court this week. The result is that this archive of International importance, recognised by UNESCO can now be split up and sold off to meet the group pension fund liabilities. http://savewedgwood.blogspot.com/2011/12/decision-collection-can-be-dispersed.html Destruction of this unique collection and archive, which was always intended to be held in trust for perpetuity would be a National DISGRACE. Both personally and on behalf of Studiopottery.co.uk we seek your support in finding a way that this unique collection can be saved for the nation and for future generations. Yours sincerely, Stephen Dee Founder and Director Studiopottery.co.uk
Call for artists: Red Gate Residency Opportunity
Closing date: 31 December 2011
Red Gate Residency is an international artists residency program providing artists, curators, writers, and academics with the opportunity to live and create work in China. Our objective is to provide facilities for artists to easily start their projects and offer a community in which they can participate as much as they like. As a member of RES ARTIS, the International Association of Residential Arts Centers, we are committed to the promotion of multicultural arts dialogue within an immersion setting. Red Gate assists all participants to connect with the art scene, meet local Chinese artists and to source art materials. We provide the necessary support and encouragement to help you get the most out of your stay here. We help get you settled, show you around, tell you where to buy the best Peking Duck, which part of the Great Wall not to go to, and where and when the latest openings are. All residents are invited to Red Gate Gallery events, including private dinners after the openings.Find more details here.
WOODSTOKE – Woodfiring Conference in New Zealand
March 16th to 18th 2012
Whangamata, Coromandel, New Zealand
For the first time in New Zealand a conference is happening dedicated to the art of wood firing. This will be the start of the renaissance for the wood firing fraternity and the best possible introduction for potters and ceramicists that have wanted to have a go with wood firing. The weekend is full of kiln building, kilns firing and an exploration of all things related to the wood fired pot. International guests will lead the charge into the frantic pace of kiln construction, with participants expected to lend a hand and feel the clay under their fingernails. A variety of kilns, from small salt kilns through to large temporary kiln installations will be erected on site, pots made to fill them and then the fires are lit. A pyromania of heat and flame will ensure the weekend is an impression burnt into the memory of all. There will be the sort of feasting and company that legends are made of and with camping on-site the partying and all night stoking vigils can last until dawn.
Invited Artists:Marshall Maude
Don Bendel
Robert Sanderson and Coll Minogue
Maureen Allison
Janet Smith
Duncan Shearer
Louis Kittleson
Darryl Frost
Mike O’Donnell
Chester Nealie
Yuri Wiedenhofer
and Janet Mansfield
For all the details please visit the website here.
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Monday morning eye candy – Josh Stover
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Residency Opportunity for 2012
EnergyXchange in rural WNC is accepting applications for 2 three-year residencies (March & June, 2012) in their clay studio.
Craft residencies are intended to enable artists who have completed their schooling/training to move into a shared, equipped professional studio space at low cost.
For more information go to: http://www.energyxchange.org/news/8/38/Clay-Residencies-Open-2012 or contact : [email protected].
DEADLINE IS FEBRUARY 14, 2012.
EnergyXchange is the world’s first art studio to be fueled by methane. County wood waste is used for the wood kiln.
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