Clay Art Center is happy to announce a Call for Entry to "Functional Fall: A Seat At The Table", guest juried by Jessica Putnam Phillips.

Submission Period Begins: February 1st, 2023
Deadline: May 21st, 2023

Exhibition: September 1st – October 16th, 2023

Juror Prizes: $300 / $100

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Our Call For Entry Exhibition in 2023 is “A Seat At The Table”, guest juried by Jessica Putnam Phillips. This First Annual Functional Fall Exhibition at Clay Art Center brings everyone to the table through ceramics that serve, and encourages submissions from artists at all stages of their careers.  

“This exhibition of functional ceramics focuses on the concept of “service” in tableware. Encompassing a wide range of ceramic styles from evocative shapes made to serve functionally, to conceptual and narrative work that explores the ideas of serving beyond the traditional role as a vessel for a meal, these objects set the table for a dialog between maker and viewer. This exhibition aims to present ceramics that bring people together for discourse and sustenance for the mind, body, and soul.”

Jessica Putnam-Phillips
Juror

Guest Juror Jessica Putnam-Phillips is a ceramic artist, USAF veteran, and educator. She received her MFA from the Art Institute of Boston and her BA from UNC-Wilmington. She was a resident artist at the Saratoga Clay Art Center and at AIR Vallauris, France. She actively promotes ceramic art and education and is the founder of ClayShare, an online school for ceramic learning. Jessica’s work has been in national and international exhibitions, most notably at the Museum of Craft and Design, the Craft and Folk-Art Museum, the American Museum of Ceramic Art and the Veterans’ Art Museum. She is a past winner of the Zanesville Prize and was named a potter to watch by C-File. She has been a presenter at NCECA, ClayCon West and the Veterans Triennale and Art Summit. When not traveling for workshops, presentations and residencies Jessica can be found in her Vermont studio developing and filming classes for ClayShare and creating new ceramic work.

Visit her website here: https://www.jessicaputnamphillips.com

The Mission of the Clay Art Center Gallery is to provide a platform for emerging and established artists to explore a wide range of topics that address materials, processes and techniques, and to engage in critical dialogue through clay. We are committed to exhibiting a variety of work representing diverse backgrounds, and we support our artist and student communities through gallery programming opportunities.

Application Requirements

Before beginning submission, applicants must be prepared to provide the following:

• Artist statement (up to 1000 characters - Do not include artist name in statement.)

Each work submitted must include the following details:

• Title

• Medium (60 character limit) *Please be specific about type of clay 

• Height/Width/Depth

• Price/Value

• Year completed

• Primary Discipline (ceramics)  including process (eg. underglaze, glaze etc.)

• Description (300 character limit)

• No more than 3 artworks may be submitted for consideration
• Submission allows up to 3 images total (3 images of one artwork submitted, or 3 images total of 2 artworks submitted, or 3 images total of 3 artworks submitted)

Eligibility Criteria

Clay Art Center accepts submissions from all US based artists regardless of race, color, gender, religion, disability, national or ethnic origin.

As Clay Art Center strives to deepen our connections to our local families and community in the Port Chester, NY area, we especially encourage Artists of Latina/o/x and Hispanic origin to submit. According to data released in 2019 by the American Community Survey, our local Hispanic* community makes up 64.8% of the population in Port Chester. Clay Art Center hopes to particularly highlight participating Latina/o/x and Hispanic artists in this exhibition as part of our efforts to celebrate Hispanic Heritage month.

*The definition of the word Hispanic does not truly illustrate the complexity of demographics of our community but it is widely used in statistical research and surveys like the 2020 Census or American Community Survey.

Exhibition Guidelines

·      Artists must be based in the United States and over the age of 18.

·      Works presented must be available and for sale at time of exhibition.

·      Works presented cannot be listed elsewhere for sale at the time of exhibition.

·      Primary medium must be ceramic / clay – at least 85% where other media are utilized. Clay Art Center is a non-profit organization for the ceramic arts, and does not accept works in polymer clay, or paintings.

·      Work must stay in gallery until exhibition ends.

·      Gallery commission is 40% of selling price.

·      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.

Fee

• There is a $25 application fee

Number of Works

• No more than 3 artworks may be submitted for consideration

Deadlines

·      Application Deadline: May 21st, 2023

·      Adjudication: May 22nd – June 2nd, 2023

·      Notification: By June 10th, 2023

·      High-Resolution Images for Press Release: June 18th, 2023

·      Work Received: August 7th - 11th, 2023

·      Work Returned: by the end of October 2023