| SCC E-News, Vol 5, No 4 . February 19, 2010 |
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Ph: 306.653.3616 • fax: 306.244.2711 Mark Stobbe - Executive Director Website: www.saskcraftcouncil.org Archived Newsletters available on the Saskatchewan Craft Council website |
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“History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; Art has remembered the people, because they created.” William Morris CRAFT COUNCIL NEWS During the spring and summer, many SCC members participate in regional studio/art tours events. We’d like to help with publicizing these events on our website and by generating some articles for magazines that highlight this activity. We’d like to get this up on the website soon, and will need information asap to generate magazine articles in time for publication deadlines. Therefore, could you e-mail a PDF of your region’s tour promotional brochure to Colin at colin@integrityimages.ca. If there is no brochure as yet, please send Colin an e-mail with the following information:
The Saskatchewan Trade and Export Partnership has a new Market Access Program (MAP) that might be of assistance to craft artists interested in trying to build a market presence in new international markets. MAP is a program designed to support the domestic and international marketing efforts of STEP regular members. Funds are available to assist companies in entering new markets, new market sectors or new market segments outside of Saskatchewan. Financial assistance is available to support costs to participate in trade shows, trade events or trade missions. If this is of interest, call Mark at 306.653.3616 ext. 27 or email: scc.director@sasktel.net to discuss the specifics of this program and whether this program could be of assistance to you. 03. Swimming Pools, Movie Stars If you’ve got any inclination to attempt making sales in the Los Angeles area, the Canadian Consulate has prepared a guide to marketing art in LA, click here to view... It’s a big market – certainly not for everyone – but this is a good roadmap to start the trip. Make sure to bring along the Flatt and Scruggs music. Potential marketing members are reminded that the application deadline for the Annual Jury Session is March 1. For more information contact Chris Jones. The entry deadline for the Bi-Functional Craft contest is on March 12. It's your chance to win $500 cash and a $500 shopping spree at Traditions Handcraft Gallery. Remember, the entry must be a crafted object that serves two separate and distinct functions. Aesthetic appeal does not count as one. We recently received these images [click here] inquiring whether it would qualify. On the basis of bi-functionality, it certainly does. However, arguements can be made that (a) it is not hand crafted, and (b) it won't fit into Traditions. We love the combination of cleaning wheat and cleaning roads as functions, but... We know SCC members can do better. 06. IMPORTANT NOTICE: Prairie Excellence: The Today and Tomorrow of Prairie Craft Some of our early communication for Prairie Excellence stated that the entry deadline would be May 31st, 2010. Please note that this ENTRY DEADLINE HAS BEEN CHANGED TO MAY 3. We apologize for any inconvenience that this change may have caused you. The attached brochure (click here) outlines how Prairie Excellence will be selected, by whom, and how to enter. All of the information you require should be in this – if you have any other questions about HOW to participate, give Mark a call at 306.653.3616 ext. 27 or e-mail at scc.director@sasktel.net.
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EDUCATION/WORKSHOPS Too Shy to Sell? To be successful, Craft artists have to do two things:
Let’s face it, selling can be tough. You are meeting new people at places like markets, and trying to engage. It’s not easy. There’s more. Most craft artists set out to be craft artists, not sales people. Most feel more at home in the studio than on the market sales floor. HELP IS AT HAND! Toastmasters International has been helping people feel more comfortable in speaking and public interaction since 1924. They’ve helped millions of shy people become more confident in public. The SCC has enlisted Toastmaster’s to help you. If you feel awkward and uncomfortable in settings such as craft markets, the “Too Shy to Sell?” session is for you. If you do “okay” at markets, but want to do better, the “Too Shy to Sell?” session is also for you. Prince Albert: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 Jean-Francois Escoulen has an obsession with defying the laws of gravity. He satisfies this obsession with his unique and whimsical wood turning. What’s more, he’s been teaching others for the past two decades. You can see images of his work here... Jean-Francois will be coming to Saskatchewan for the Saskatoon 2010 Wood Symposium this July 23-25th. It’s not often we get a wood turner from France to teach here – and he’s just one of the 15 instructors who will be at the Symposium. It’s a unique opportunity to learn from the best – from around the world. Registration will be limited to the first 100 – act now to avoid disappointment – the Symposium is almost half sold out already. Click here for the registration brochure. Attention all Artists and Art Educators - 1st Annual “Art in the City” Art Educator and Artist Retreat. April 15-17, 2010 at the Moose Jaw Art Gallery with Rob Froese (clay and wheel throwing) and Ward Schell (cartooning and drawing). This workshop is designed as an informal educational gathering for elementary to high school art teachers, community art educators and artists from every walk of life and range of experience. It is a hands-on opportunity that will challenge all. Everyone from beginners to seasoned art educators and artists are welcome! Registration is limited to the first 30 paid registrants so call the SSEA office now to secure your spot! Please contact Lorna Scott at: 306.975.0222, 1.800.667.7732 or email: ssea@sasktel.net for more information. Download a pamphlet from their website here... 04. How to Marry Heritage and Development so it doesn't end in Divorce The Ministry of Tourism, Parks, Culture and Sport presents the 3rd Annual Heritage Week Public Lecture: "I Do: How to Marry Heritage and Development So It Doesn't End in Divorce," by Neil Richardson. When: Thursday, February 18, 2010 View PDF flyer for more details... 05. Bookkeeping For Small Business Bookkeeping For Small Business is being offered at SIAST Kelsey Campus Mondays-Thursdays, March 8 - March 17, 2010 from 6:30-10:30pm. This is a hands-on, focused course for anyone who needs to understand accounting and business principles. Tuition is $374 which includes a reference guide and working papers. For more information contact Gord Vaxvick at gord.vaxvick@siast.sk.ca, 306.659.4038 or visit their website, www.goSIAST.com. CARFAC REGISTRATION INFORMATION All workshops are free and open to the public unless otherwise stated. We encourage pre-registration in case of cancellation or change. Call: 306.522.9788 in Regina, or 306.933.3206 in Saskatoon. (Members may use the toll-free telephone numbers printed on the back of their membership cards). Email: programs@carfac.sk.ca, or visit the CARFAC website for more details. 06. Getting Your Art Out There: Exhibition Venues and Proposals Artists need to know how to approach public and commercial art galleries, and other exhibition venues. The workshop outlines the basics of preparing an exhibition proposal of your work for various types of exhibition venues and opportunities. Tuesday, February 23rd from 7:00pm to 8:00 pm. Attend from the comfort of your own home by phone. Visit the CARFAC website for more details. 07. A Beginners Introduction to Website Development for Visual Artists This workshop is designed to introduce the artist to concepts of website development and what it takes to design your own website. It will help you answer questions like; should you build your own or pay someone to do it for you. If you build your own what kinds of software will you need, free or to purchase, and what is the best way for you to get your site online. This is a two and a half hour information session. Instructor: Sharon Hamilton. Saskatoon, Saturday April 10th from 1:00pm to 3:30pm at The Refinery, 609 Dufferin Ave., also in North Battleford, date TBA, at The Chapel Gallery, 891 - 99th St. 08. So Many Ideas So Little Time: Time Management for Artists This workshop is a discussion-based session that will explore the pitfalls artists face with time management. Many artists juggle multiple roles as an aspect of their career choice. Some work full-time, part-time or multiple jobs in addition to a studio practice. How can artists efficiently balance their working lives? This workshop will discuss some concrete strategies for creating balance, some simple ways to maximize studio time, scheduling strategies, how studio set-up impacts creative efficiency, and some of Heather Cline’s hard-learned lessons in time management. April 24th from 9:30am to 11:00am at the Signal Hill Gallery, 424 - 10th Ave. South. The session will discuss tips and strategies for pricing artwork. How to determine what fair market value is - size, reputation, dealer’s commissions, prices of similar work, can all influence pricing. Monday, April 12th beginning at 7:30pm at the Gallery Building, at the Corner of College Ave. and Cornwall (old Mackenzie building beside Darke Hall), Regina. This workshop will give you guidelines on how to approach public and commercial art galleries, and other exhibition venues. The workshop covers preparing a portfolio and resume/artist’s CV, contracts, copyright, insurance and how to pack and ship artwork. Saturday, April 24, 2010, from 1:00pm to 3:30pm at the Barr Colony Heritage Cultural Centre. |
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CALLS FOR ENTRY 01. Saskatoon Collector's Show The Saskatoon Collector's Show is looking for Wildlife Artists in all media to display/sell artworks with an outdoor theme. The Show is being held at the Prairieland Park Hall C and A on March 12, 13, and 14, 2010. For more information contact Kathy Litwin (Show Chair) at 306.373.7409, or email thecollectorsshow@mail.com. ParkArt 2010 Entry Forms are now available. To request a form from the Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, call 306.692.4471. Or you can drop by the SCC office to pick one up. 03. Art Market - Art & Craft Sale Art Market - Art & Craft Sale, November 18-21, 2010, at the Calgary Telus Convention Centre (City Centre) Calgary, AB. Marlene Loney, Art Market Productions Inc. 200 artisans, 24th Annual, Juried High Quality Event. Processing will start April 1st. Apply early! Applications at: www.artmarketcraftsale.com. E-mail: info@artmarketcraftsale.com. 04. The Works Art & Design Festival in Edmonton The Works Art & Design Festival in Edmonton, AB is calling all artists to participate in The Works Art & Design Festival’s 25th Anniversary June 25 to July 7, 2010. The Works will continue to be the largest art & design festival in North America with over 290,000 people attending, over 500 participating artists, 60+ live bands, a vibrant art market, 30 exhibits and 250 special events annually and attracted artists and art-lovers from around the world in 2009. We would like to offer the opportunity to any interested artists to participate in the upcoming festival in The Works Smaller Then A Breadbox Exhibit. This exhibit has been inspired by ceramic cone box exhibits, where no piece is larger than 3 x 3 x 6 inches. Traditionally Cone Box shows are made primarily of clay, but this exhibit is open to all mediums. Click here for details and entry applications... 05. Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics and The RBC Award for Glass With the on-going generosity of Ms. Winifred Shantz and RBC Foundation, the Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery present these awards for early career practicing glass and ceramic artists that have been working professionally for between 5 to 10 years. Intended to allow the artist to undertake a period of independent research, or other activities with the capacity to advance their artistic and professional practice at a key moment in the artist’s career, winners of the RBC Award for Glass receive $7,000 and winners of the Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics receive $10,000. Deadline for Submissions - June 30, 2010 by 5:00 pm. More details here... 06. Make parking your bike a beautiful thing We are inviting artists to submit sketches to a competition being held by Road Map Saskatoon, We Are Many (WAM), and the City of Saskatoon. The competition’s goal is to provide attractive and functional bicycle parking that will bring cyclists into commercial districts and contribute to people-friendly spaces. Artists working in any arts discipline are invited to submit workshop proposals to the Cultural Exhange for it's 28th Workshop Tour. Successful applicants must be willing to travel to Saskatchewan schools for an eight-week period starting in September 2010. Artists travel as a troupe of 5 throughout rural Saskatchewan as far north as Isle la Crosse to as far south as Coranach. Compensation is based on dates of presentation with compensation for travel time. Artists are guaranteed 26 dates over an 8 week period. Workshop delivery fee is $300.00 per day of workshop plus per diems. An additional per diem is paid for travel days of 8 hours or 5 hours. Please submit a resume and a brief outline of a workshop in your area of specialty that you could present, in an adaptable fifty-minute format, to school age youth: kindergarten to grade 12. Electronic submissions are acceptable or you may fax to 306.780.9487 or send via the mail. Please check out the most recent workshop tour blog for more information at http://scesworkshoptour.blogspot.com. Deadline February 26, 2010. 08. Call for Proposals – Placemaker Program 2010 Purpose: The Urban Design Section of the City of Saskatoon is pleased to invite applications for its Placemaker Program at various locations in Saskatoon’s Downtown, Broadway, and Riversdale Business Improvement Districts and River Landing. The Placemaker Program supports approximately 20 installations annually, and the City anticipates the selection of up to 5 pieces for an installation period of three (3) years from Autumn 2010 to Autumn 2013. Introduction: The goal of the Placemaker Program is to enhance civic spaces through public art. Public art refers to artwork that has been planned and executed in the public domain, in any media, that is outside and accessible to all. Artists are requested to respond to the sites and take into account the physical, cultural or historical contexts. Background: The Urban Design Section initiated the Placemaker Program in 1994. The Program applies to the geographic areas lying within the Business Improvement Districts mentioned above. The intent of the Program is to provide an effective way to:
The Urban Design Section invites any artist to submit an application to this program. Applications may be submitted for either a completed work in the artist’s possession or for proposed new work. The City of Saskatoon Visual Arts Placement Jury adjudicates the applications and selects the works to be exhibited in consultation with representatives from each of the Business Improvement Districts and the Urban Design Section. 09. Call for Entries - Land of the Loon Gallery The SCC will be again partnering with the Land of the Loon Resort at Anglin Lake to hold two exhibitions during the summer of 2010. The exhibition will be held in the Raven Room of the Land of the Loon Resort. One show will run from the May 14, to July 5. The second will run from July 6 to September 10, 2010. Work in the exhibition can be one-of-a-kind, limited edition, or production pieces. Work in the exhibition should be “for sale” with a 40% commission rate being charged. Multiple copies of the same piece can be provided in order to provide replacement exhibition pieces as work is sold. Work can be in any medium – however, we are looking for work from three craft people for each exhibition, which will consist of:
Please note that the primary target market consists of tourists, so work should be transportable and not excessively fragile. The exhibition will be juried from photographs of the work. To be considered, please forward by email, 3 images, representative of what you would have in the exhibition to, scc.exhibitions@sasktel.net, along with the following information:
All photographs and entry information must be received by Wednesday, March 17, 2010. Those selected will be notified by Wednesday, March 31, 2010. The work will need to be delivered to the SCC Gallery in Saskatoon one week before the beginning of the exhibition. It will be transported to Anglin Lake and installed by SCC staff. In 2009, we had 6 craft artists exhibit in the Raven’s Room Gallery. 4 sold work, 2 did not. We’ve adjusted the exhibition dates to give both shows a more equitable distribution of long weekends. If you wish to talk your ideas, please call Mark at 306.653.3616 ext. 27. |
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SCC GALLERY EXHIBITIONS "Northern Craft - The Robertson Trading Collection" – Private collection of First Nations work. January 15 – February 21, 2010. The Art of the Book '08 – Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild (CBBAG) fifth major touring juried exhibition. February 26 – April 5, 2010. Homage – Necklaces inspired by outstanding Canadian women, historic and contemporary, created by Donald A. Fri, Apr 23, 2010 - Sun, May 30, 2010. Susan Rankin: Valid Objects of Beauty – Contemporary blown glass vases and sculptures by Susan Rankin, originally from Moose Jaw, SK, now from Ontario. Fri, Jun 4, 2010 - Sun, Jul 11, 2010. Artifact – Exhibition of small objects created by Emma 2010 International Collaboration participants, curated by Michael Hosaluk. Fri, Jul 23, 2010 - Sun, Aug 8, 2010. Compelled Please check www.saskcraftcouncil.org for updated listings |
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OTHER NEWS 01. Sue Hunchuk on SaskTel Max Glass artist Sue Hunchuk received some richly deserved recognition from the community programming offered on SaskTel Max. She and her work are profiled in a video that will be available to all subscribers of Sasktel Max television service. If you subscribe to this service, you can see Sue's profile at any time because of Sasktel's "on-demand" formatting for community television. You can also see the video by clicking here... 02. Artist puts unique spin on Figurines Carole Epp began creating the figurines while getting her Master of Arts degree in Australia, and the series has since grown into a larger collection, known loosely as "A Collection of Small Miseries." A selection of the work is currently on display at Regina's Mysteria Gallery, in a show with painter Marsha Kennedy. Read full Leader Post article about Carole here... 03. "About Pictures" - Terry Fenton Art Placement is pleased to present an evening of artful conversation, wine, and great company as we celebrate Terry Fenton's recent book, About Pictures, published by Hagios Press. This event, co-sponsored by Hagios Press, will be held in conjunction with our exhibition, (On Collecting), which will feature works by various gallery artists such as Terry Fenton, Robert Christie, Greg Hardy and others. We hope you can join us for this special evening on Thursday, March 4th at 7:00pm.Tickets for the event are $15 in advance and include a copy of About Pictures ($20 value). For ticket information, please drop by the gallery or contact me at 306.664.3385. Linda Stark, Gallery Manager Kita Kruschev presents: Birds of Pray at Caffe Sola, 38 - 23rd St. East, Saskatoon. Birds of Pray is a collection of fresh clothes from vintage and re-salvaged fabrics. 05. Susan Robertson at Alberta Gift Show Susan Robertson will be at Booth #5437 at the Alberta Gift Show from February 21 - 24, 2010. The show will be held at Northlands in Edmonton. More details... This store in Saskatoon features decor, furniture and a variety of work by local artists. The owner, Kris Kersahw, is a painter and is interested in the possibility of having SCC members' work in the store. Check the website: www.esteemforthehome.ca, for more information call Kris - 306.477.2833. |
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