2013 NCECA Biennial Exhibition
January 26, 2013 to May 5, 2013
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, Texas
Application Dates
Feb 1 to Aug 1 '12
Application Fee
$40.00
(see prospectus for details)
Notification Date
Sep 4, 2012

Prospectus

2013 NCECA BIENNIAL - CALL FOR ENTRIES
Deadline August 1, 2012

“Earth/Energy”
Houston, Texas

The NCECA Biennial is a premier international juried ceramics exhibition. Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, Texas will host the 2013 NCECA Biennial from January 26, 2013 to May 5, 2013. This exhibition will be held in conjunction with the 47th annual NCECA Conference in Houston, Texas, March 20 – 23, 2013. Held in odd-numbered years, the NCECA Biennial is open to NCECA Members and the larger ceramic community. The exhibition is juried from digital images by three prominent professionals in the field. Merit and purchase awards total approximately $7,000. NCECA produces a color catalog featuring jurors’ statements and work by all participating artists.

JURORS: Cristina Cordova, Namita Gupta Wiggers and Richard Notkin

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all current members of NCECA (both national and international) and to all ceramic artists, 18 years and older, residing in the U.S. Please note: artists from outside the U.S. (including Canada and Mexico) must be NCECA members to enter. Entered works must have been completed within the last 2 years. Works shown in previous NCECA exhibitions are not eligible. Please do not enter the same work in more than one NCECA Call for Entry in the same year.

MEDIA: Ceramic. Mixed Media will be accepted only when clay is the dominant material. Final determinations will be made by the jurors. Video featuring clay or ceramics will be juried if a link is provided in the description field of the entry or a hard copy DVD is sent to the NCECA Office. All links must be anonymous, any reference to an applicant’s name will disqualify participant from jurying.

NUMBER OF WORKS: All entries must be submitted electronically using digital images. No more than 2 pieces of artwork may be submitted. For each artwork, you may submit only one full view image and one detail image. Jurors will only consider up to two works and review up to 4 images by each entrant. Submissions that include more than two works or more than one detail per work may be excluded from adjudication. Minimum of 1 image, maximum of 4 images.

ENTRY PROCEDURES: All applicants will enter submissions online electronically through Juried Art Services at https://www.juriedartservices.com/ . Online submission begins February 1 and ends August 1, 2012 (midnight Pacific time).  Two (2) pieces of art work may be submitted, each with one detail only.  Please note: An Artist Statement is NOT required for this call.

LIMITATIONS: All work will be given due consideration. The directors reserve the right to reject work that the gallery is unable to physically accommodate or which differs from the submitted image. No substitutions will be allowed. Work may not exceed 90” in any dimension and wall-mounted pieces are limited to 50 lbs.

CATALOG: A catalog of the exhibited work will be published. Artists will be required to provide a print quality professional image of each entry for possible use in the catalog and other potential publications. Please read your entry carefully. No changes can be made after the work is accepted.

PHOTOGRAPHY: Participating artists must agree to allow NCECA, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft and gallery visitors to photograph work while on display for educational and publicity purposes. Images of accepted works will be retained by NCECA for promotional purposes, catalog production, posting on the NCECA website and sharing with media related publications.

PRICE, INSURANCE AND SALES: Works will be insured by Houston Center for Contemporary Craft while on display. NCECA and Houston Center for Contemporary Craft will retain and split a 50% commission on all sales. Please check the price you entered and make sure it includes the 50% commission. No price changes will be allowed after a work is accepted.

SHIPPING: The artist is responsible for insured shipping to and from the gallery. All accepted entries must be sent double boxed in sturdy, re-usable packaging. If packing materials are not acceptable for return shipping, HCCC staff will contact the artist and any purchase of new packing materials will be the responsibility of the artist. De-install will take place after May 6, 2013 and will be completed by HCCC staff. Return shipping will be done through FEDEX, UPS and USART utilizing artists’ established accounts or by hand delivery. Artists will coordinate art pickup with HCCC staff. NCECA will reimburse artists up to $100 for RETURN shipping upon receipt of a reimbursement form and the original return shipping receipt. Any claims on shipping damage must be reported by the artist to the carrier and/or Houston Center for Contemporary Craft upon receipt. Artist must retain all original packing materials for inspection by shipper until claim is resolved.

NCECA MEMBERSHIP: NCECA membership runs 12 months from the date of joining or renewal. NCECA Membership fees are not included in any event registration. Membership is a standalone annual fee. To renew or become an NCECA Member go to: https://www.nceca.net/static/membership_home.php . If you are unsure of your Membership status, please contact kate@nceca.net.

ENTRY FEE:
NCECA members $20.00

All other U.S. artists (Non-members) $40.00

Please provide Image Details:

  • Title
  • Description – Clay body, decorating and firing methods
  • Photographic Credit (if artist, type in ARTIST)
  • Sale Status – For Sale or Not For sale
  • Image #s - Image 1, Image 1 detail = piece 1 w/detail
                      Image 2, Image 2 detail = piece 2 w detail
  • Retail Price
  • Dimensions (inches) H x W x D
  • Weight (lbs.)
  • Date of completion
  • Insurance Value: 50% of Retail Price

CALENDAR:

Submission Dates

February 1 – August 1, 2012

Acceptance notification

After October 1, 2012

Work due

January 11, 2013

Opening Reception

January 25, 2013

Exhibition

January 26 – May 5, 2013

NCECA Reception

March 21, 2013

Conference

March 20 – 23, 2013

Work returned

May 15, 2013

Damage claims before

Upon Receipt

Shipping reimbursement request by

June 1, 2013

Please double check your entry information, no changes can be made after your entry is accepted.

Past AWARD SPONSORS:
National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts

Workhouse Art Center
Ceramics Monthly Magazine
L & L Kiln Mfg Inc
AMACO/Brent
Skutt Kilns
Old Poag Road Clay & Glass Merit Award
Trax Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Paper Clay Award

NCECA 2013 Biennial Juror’s Biographical Statements

Cristina Cordova
Internationally acclaimed for her hauntingly, provocative figurative sculptures, juror Cristina Cordova has a well-established record of museum exhibitions including: Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Puerto Rico; Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico; Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, NC; Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL; Gretchen Keyworth, Society of Arts & Crafts, Boston, MA and the Joseph -Schein Museum, NY. A highly respected workshop teacher, Cristina has led numerous workshops in figurative art in universities and art centers such as: Armory Arts Center, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Anderson Ranch Arts Center and Penland School of Crafts where she serves as a trustee. A graduate of Colegio de Agricultura y Artes Mecánicas, Mayagüyez, Puerto Rico and New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University; Cristina’s work challenges gender and racial boundaries while engaging discussion of intellectual and social mores. Cristina recently exhibited her art in Bestiario at the Morean Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL during the 2011 NCECA conference and in Push Play: The 2012 NCECA Invitational at Bellevue Arts Museum.

Namita Gupta Wiggers
Namita Gupta Wiggers is curator at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in partnership with Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR, where she directs the exhibition, collection and public programming. Her curatorial work combines her experience and training as an art historian, a museum educator, ethnographer and design researcher, teacher, writer, and studio art jeweler. Through exhibitions and programming, Wiggers considers how craft and design function as subjects and verbs, and as simultaneously distinct and intersecting practices, and how the exhibition operates as a site and space for cultural inquiry.

Recent publications include Generations: Betty Feves (forthcoming), Ken Shores: Clay Has the Last Word (2010), and Unpacking the Collection: Selections from the Museum of Contemporary Craft (2008), the first publication to document the Museum’s collection and the institution’s connections to dramatic changes in craft-based and artistic practice over the past 70 years. Wiggers edited Garth Clark’sHow Envy Killed the Crafts Movement: An Autopsy in Two Parts (2009) and contributes essays for museum catalogues, includingHand + Made: The Performative Impulse in Art and Craft (2010, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston) and Innovation & Change: Ceramics from the Arizona State University Art Museum (2009, Ceramic Research Center, ASU). Her writing on contemporary jewelry includes “Mining History: Ornamentalism Revisited” (Metalsmith, 2009), co-authored with Lena Vigna and “Curatorial Conundrums: Exhibiting Contemporary Art Jewelry in a Museum Environment,” (Art Jewelry Forum Website, 2010). She is the co-founder of Critical Craft Forum, and serves on the Board of Trustees, American Craft Council and the curatorial board of accessceramics, an online clay-focused database.

Richard Notkin
Richard Notkin lives and works in Helena, Montana, creating works deeply influenced by the centuries-old tradition of Yixing pottery from which he has adopted the precise working methods and a penchant for trompe l'oeil. With his artwork serving as an extension of his conscience, Richard’s ceramic sculptures and tile murals are visual explorations into social and political commentary questioning military misadventures and foreign policy around the world with particular focus on nuclear weaponry and energy. Richard Notkin received his BFA from Kansas City Art Institute and MFA from University of California, Davis. His awards include: Artist Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, 1979, 1981, 1988; Fellowship in Sculpture, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and the Hoi Fellowship from the United States Artists Foundation. In 2008, he was elected to The American Craft Council College of Fellows. His work is in over 60 public collections including: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Carnegie Museum of Art, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Art, Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Shigaraki Museum of Ceramic Art and Victoria and Albert Museum, London.