Community Corner
The 4th Ceramics Annual of America: Free Exhibition and Art Fair
at Civic Center, San Francisco,
California
October 19-20 2013 9:00am-7:00pm
Contact: Nancy Resler
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Site: http://ceramicsannual.org/
Witness A Unique Experience: Ceramic Sculpture from Around
the World
The Ceramics Annual of America (CAA) is the
only event of its kind in the United States and the goal is to encourage the
education and enrichment of the public, cultivate a fertile art market, and
foster dialog between collectors and makers of ceramic sculpture.
Part of California’s continuing legacy of
excellence and innovation in ceramics, CAA is the largest exhibition and art
fair that is entirely focused on ceramic art in America and is modeled after
the Ceramic Biennials held in Europe, Korea, Japan and China. It provides a
venue for the top regional and international artists from working in the clay
medium to show their work to a broader audience of collectors.
CAA is organized by the California Ceramics
Cooperative, a group of invested regional ceramic artists, and will feature
panel discussions, lectures, tours as well as daily interactive art
demonstrations all day that will provide a greater understanding of the
artistic process for students and educators alike. Artist demos will
feature Donna Billick, Rene Martucci, Amber Augirre, Yosuke Koizumi, Tony Perry,
Susannah Israel, John Toki and Wesley T. Wright.
This year, the city of San Francisco is
partnering with CAA. The exhibition will be held at the San Francisco Civic
Center. CAA expects high attendance with over 25,000 vistiors. This is an
exciting time for CAA, the Civic Center has not been used as an art venue
since 1986. From 1946 until the last years of the Arts Festivals in the
mid-1980s, the Arts Commission used budgeted monies from the City’s general
fund to purchase jury-selected work by contributing local artists. As a result,
the Civic Art Collection contains a number of early works by influential
artists, including Robert Arneson, Bruce Beasley and Viola Frey. In 1978 an
exhibit of Arts Festival acquisitions was held at the Arts Commission’s
gallery, followed in 1986 by a second showing in the lobby of the TransAmerica
Building, after which many of the objects were incorporated into the Arts
Commission’s interdepartmental loan program for display in City offices. For
many of the artworks included in The Art of a City, this is the first time they
have been publicly exhibited in over twenty years.
Featured artists…
Amber Aguirre (Hawaii),
Junghee Nicole Sohn (Korea) Hollie Dilley (California), Mikey McGhee
(Alaska), Calvin Ma, (California),
Geordie Shephard (Canada), Susannah Israel (California), Steven Allen (California), Jennifer Brazelton (California), Lisa Clague (North Carolina), Natasha Dikareva (California), Jeffrey Downing (California), Katherine Dube (Idaho), Cathy Feiss (California), Carol Fergoso (California), Damien Jones (California), Carmen Lang (California), Eusebio Lozano (California), Rene Martucci (California), Kathryn McBride (California), Paula Moran (California), Kathy Pallie (California), Lisa Rienertson (California), Gail
Ritchie (California), Bar
Shacterman (California), Tiffany
Schmierer (California), Barbara
Sebastian (California), Leslie
Smith (California), Glenn Takai (California), Yoshio Taylor (California), Derik Van Beers (California), Cindy Williamson (California), Geetha Alagirisamy (Switzerland) , Golly Peters
(Netherlands), Katherine Dube (California), Susana Arias (Panama), Spring
Montes (California), Tony Perry (California),
Jenni Ward (California), Stephen Braun (California) Miguel Peraz (Mexico), Jose
Benavides (California), Carol Wedemeyer (California)Esther Shimazu (Hawai),
Shalene Valenzuela (California) Gomme Palotti (Italy).
