The Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramists 2007

Call for Submissions:

As the only national award for young ceramic artists or potters, The Winifred Shantz Award presents $10,000 annually to an artist to both recognize achievement and invest in the future.

The Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery welcomes submissions from Canadian artists working in ceramics and potters who have been working for a minimum of five years and a maximum of ten years in a productive studio capacity.

This award is designed to allow the recipient time away from the studio, travel for career development, connect with mentors, visit other studios, study museum collections, investigate kiln sites, or liase with industry to perform research that will further in-studio production. It may also be used for international residencies or symposia. While recognizing that not all ceramists arise from an academic background, this award is intended to assist at a post-graduate level of accomplishment and may not be used for tuition purposes.

Hard-copy applications should be delivered to the Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery by August 10th, 2007 by 5pm.

Applications should include:

* 2-page cv detailing the applicant's accomplishments for the past five years
* Creative Material: 20 labelled .jpg images, 72 dpi, maximum 1024 x 768 (height must not exceed 768 pixels). Title each file with a number, your name, and title of the work. (ie. 01.artistname.title.jpg). Save images directly on the CD-ROM without creating folders, and do not submit PowerPoint. OR 20 slides clearly numbered and labelled with the artist's name
* image list indicating the number, title, date, process and size of each work
* single-page outline describing how the award will be used, i.e. a proposal of the research program and its intended relevance to the applicant's future work

Send submissions to:
Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramists
c/o Robert Achtemichuk, Director
Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery
25 Caroline Street North
Waterloo, ON N2L 2Y5

All submissions will be kept on file at the Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery's Artists' Registry for archival purposes and cannot be returned. All applications must be hard copy (email submissions will not be accepted); additional support materials are not required.

The award recipient must deliver a brief report to the Gallery, summarizing the benefits received from the award, no later than two years after the award is granted. Documents outlining itinerary, as well as confirmation by receiving mentors or industrial partners and disclosure of the terms of agreement between partners and the recipient, may be requested prior to disbursement.

Previous winners include Ying-Yueh Chuang (2006), Kate Hyde (2005), Joan Bruneau (2004), Marc Vincent Egan (2003), Laurent Craste (2002) and Susan Collett (2001). Ying-Yueh Chuang holds an MFA in ceramics from NSCAD University and a BFA from the Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design. She will be using her $10,000 award to further develop her practice as an artist in residence at the Jingdezhen Sanbao Ceramic Art Institute in China. This program offers a broad range of facilities and will allow the artist to learn different ways of approaching the multiple. "Studying the cultural aspects of creative mass production from the traditional to the contemporary and being able to incorporate that process in my work will be a magnificent opportunity and a turning point in my career", notes Chuang.

The Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramists is administered by staff at the Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery and is funded by Winifred Shantz, an arts philanthropist and ceramics enthusiast from Kitchener, Ontario.

For more information, contact:
Robert Achtemichuk
Executive Director
519.746.1882, #231
robert@canadianclayandglass.ca
http://www.canadianclayandglass.ca