2020 NCECA PROJECTS SPACE
MULTIVALENT: clay, mindfulness, and memory
54th Annual conference of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Art - Richmond, Virginia March 25-28, 2020 DEADLINE May 15, 2019 (11:59PM EDT)
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NCECA seeks Projects Space proposals that have conceptual resonance with the theme of its 54th Annual Conference, MULTIVALENT: clay, mindfulness, and memory, which takes place in Richmond, Virginia March 25-28, 2020.
A region steeped in history and engaged with reinvention, the arts, teaching and learning are at the heart of Richmond, Virginia’s vision for innovation. The primary material of ceramic art, clay, connects our human experience from our local communities to distant places, and times long past. Clay’s receptivity to human touch carries the hands of distant and past makers into the here and now. Ceramic art’s diversity of expression and continuous invention generate affinities that extend the human imagination. NCECA’s 54th annual conference will explore ways that ceramic artists are charting new pathways from the complex meanings of our interwoven histories. The array of programming, exhibitions, and experiences for NCECA’s 2020 conference will build on the field’s interpretations of MULTIVALENT: clay, mindfulness, and memory. NCECA’s board and advisors may also reach beyond the fields of ceramic art and education to curate additional thought provoking perspectives that encourage us to imagine the future of our field in new ways. Through its programming, NCECA hopes to welcome the experiences of artists of under-represented backgrounds, while celebrating, and challenging accepted understandings of ceramic art’s impact as aesthetic experience, self-realization, and social transformation.
PROJECTS SPACE Projects Space is a platform for ceramic artists to create and present works during the annual conference that incorporate clay as medium in time-based, performative, relational, or site responsive work. Project Space proposals will be considered in three different durations: ½ day, full day, and multi-day projects. Programming will begin with a preview reception on Tuesday evening of conference, and conclude on Friday afternoon. In 2020, all selected projects will take place in spaces created in a publicly accessible area of the Greater Richmond Convention Center where artists will create their works on-site interacting with visitors. Successful proposals will be those that engage with the concept of MULTIVALENT: clay, mindfulness, and memory using the medium of clay as a central focus, and also with materials, processes, and audience in unique and unconventional ways. Artists should keep in mind that Projects Space is staged at the heart of the NCECA Conference, that works are meant to occur, grow and change throughout the duration of the event, and that materials and construction will have to be limited to those permissible in such an environment.
NCECA reviews and selects programming from proposals submitted from the field as an important component of conference planning. Additionally, NCECA reserves the right to curate and develop programming that strengthens the quality and range of experiences related to the conference theme, sense of place, and other strategic objectives. NCECA’s annual conference has earned a reputation worldwide as a premier event for ceramic art drawing thousands each year. MULTIVALENT: clay, mindfulness, and memory will join ceramic art’s historic engagement with empirical research and discovery to today’s evolving creative commons.
ELIGIBILITY - Everyone is eligible to submit proposals for this strand of programming. Applications are welcomed from artists working with ceramic materials/processes as a significant component of their work FORMAT - Invited artists will work within an assigned space (approximately 10’ x 20’) to create their works. The first artists to be programmed will have from 9am to 4:30pm Tuesday, March 24th to install their materials and begin their piece during a reception on Tuesday evening. Artists will continue to interact with their work and the public during their scheduled time slots throughout the conference Wednesday through Friday, March 25-27, 2020. Projects scheduled for half-day or one-day duration must be capable of being disassembled immediately following their presentations so that other artists can occupy the same space. Final de-installation and cleaning of spaces will be completed from 4:30-9pm Friday evening.
APPLICATION PROCESS - All proposals must be submitted using NCECA’s Online Submittal process (a link to the form is provided below). Proposals related to the Conference theme of MULTIVALENT: clay, mindfulness, and memory will receive preference. Your ONLINE submittal form must include the following or it will not be considered. (Only .doc, .docx, .JPEG or .PDF files will be accepted):
IMAGES – Six images required, 10 images maximum (Only images that directly reference the actual proposal) (.jpg ONLY. Each image no larger than 800 KB) (Image Submission Guidelines)
Required information for each image:
*** APPLY NOW *** ADJUDICATION - The selection committee includes the NCECA Exhibitions Director Brett Binford and the Projects Space Coordinator, TBD. Successful proposals will be those that engage with the concept of MULTIVALENT: clay, mindfulness, and memory using the medium of clay as a central focus, and also with materials, processes, and audience in unique and unconventional ways.
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