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, 2024
Deadline: May 20th, 2024

Exhibition: September 1st – October 12th, 2024

Juror Prizes: $300 / $100

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Our Call For Entry Exhibition in 2024 is “Put A Lid On It”, guest juried by Doug Peltzman and Jen Allen. This Second Annual Functional Fall Exhibition at Clay Art Center presents lidded ceramics and encourages submissions from artists at all stages of their careers.  

Our guest jurors state, “This exhibition of lidded ceramics spotlights the concept of containment with the intent to hold, store, commemorate, memorialize, and celebrate. The lidded pot spans millennia. From the physical need of preserving food to the spiritual need for ceremonial objects, the lidded pot is - and always has been - essential to survival. Contemporary makers continue to explore this realm of object-making in exciting and unpredictable ways. This exhibition hopes to bring together a powerfully diverse grouping of lidded pots that speak to our times in addition to our histories.”

Doug Peltzman & Jen Allen
Guest Jurors

Guest Juror Doug Peltzman is based in Shokan, NY. He states, “My work is an act of love. I love the challenge of making functional pottery for daily use. Every aspect of the process is an opportunity to dig deep. I believe pots can be a powerful conduit for conversation, interaction, and celebration. I approach my forms with comfort, curiosity, playfulness, geometry, history, and intention of use, in mind. My surfaces are a careful arrangement of glaze color, idiosyncratic marks, leaf motifs, horizon lines, circles, and grids. I use these signifiers to emphasize my formal decisions and to shift perceptions about what pottery can be; a profound mechanism to induce pause and delight in the day to day.”

Visit his website here: Doug Peltzman

Guest Juror Jen Allen is based in Morgantown, WV. She states, “My focus is to express sentiments of beauty and joy through tactile, handmade pots. Whether forming a vase that decorates a room or producing dinnerware that celebrates a meal, my work is made to honor and enhance the rhythms of home life. Driven to create for special occasions, I visualize the holiday table brimming with friends, food, flowers, and candlelight. While I enjoy the vibrant energy encircling a festive gathering, I find the contemplative moments sipping a morning cup of coffee equally as invigorating. My work is intended to live in these instances of physical and psychological nourishment.”

Visit her website here: Jen Allen

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 must have been made within the last two years

·      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 20th, 2024

·  Adjudication: May 21st - May 31st, 2024

·  Notification: By June 10th, 2024

·  High-Resolution Images for Press Release: June 20th, 2024

·  Work Received: August 12th - 16th, 2024

·  Work Returned: by the end of October 2024