2010 ICMEA Exhibition - Call for Entries

Call for Emerging Ceramic Artist Competition:
Deadline: June 30, 2010

Definition of Emerging Artists: Ceramic artists who have not been practicing longer than eight years after finishing their training/studies and have never won a major competition.

To Enter:

1. Each artist may enter only one art work;

2. Four images from different angles of the piece to be submitted (in JPG format, 300 dpi and at least 1 MB in size);

3. The title, size and description of the work including materials, techniques, etc.

4. CV (no more than one page) and a short artist’s statement (< 200 words), all text to be in English in WORD format.

All the above information should be sent to the following e-mail address:
ICMEA2010@gmail.com before Deadline June 30, 2010.

First Round Judging Procedures and Conditions:

1. All received entries will be selected initially by:
Janet Mansfield (Australia), Bernd Pfannkucke (Germany), Elaine O. Henry (USA),
I Chi Hsu (China), Tina Byrne (Ireland), and Giovanni Mirulla (Italy).

2. A total of 60-100 applicants will be selected for the final competition. ICMEA will notify all artists before Deadline August 31, 2010.

3. All selected applicants should send their art work to ICMEA office in Fuping at artists’ cost.

Postal address:
Mr. XU Guoliang
Fuping Pottery Art Village
1 Qiaoshan Road
Fuping, Shaanxi, China (postal code 700710)
phone: +86-138-9259-1969
Deadline for receiving the art work is September 30, 2010.

Final Jurying Procedures and Conditions:

1. All selected works will be exhibited at 2010 ICMEA Conference in Fuping. Ceramic magazine editors present will choose 10 Award winners on Nov. 7, 2010.

2. Entry to the competition is free. If the applicant is selected for final competition, he or she is invited to come to Fuping for the conference. Fuping will cover the artist’s lodging and meals during the conference period but not any traveling costs. Artists should notify Fuping by September 30, 2010 if they intend to be present.

3. Winners will be announced during the opening ceremony of the ICMEA Conference in Fuping, November 8, 2010.

Awards:

The FuLe Prize will be given to 10 emerging artists for a free one month residency program in Fuping Pottery Art Village during 2011-2012. In addition, three cash prizes will be given to the top three of the ten emerging artists:

Gold Prize: US$ 2000;
Silver Prize: US$ 1500;
Bronze Prize: US$ 1000.

Award winning art works will be retained by ICMEA for permanent exhibition. The residency award does not include traveling money but covers all the room/meals/studio facilities and reasonable working materials in the one month period. Artists will donate to FLICAM half of their finished work made during their residency. The other half of the work belongs to the artists. Artists can ship them back at their own expense or find a local gallery to sell the art work for them or donate to FLICAM.