2010 Emerging Artist Nominations
Nominations for the 2010 Emerging Artists is NOW OPEN!!!!! The deadline is October 15, 2009 midnight (MDT). Late applications will not be reviewed. Notification of the judges’ decision will be sent to all nominees upon completion of nomination review.
Criteria/Procedures
The NCECA Emerging Artist program is intended to give early career artists, who show exceptional promise, the opportunity to present their work to an international audience at the NCECA Annual Conference. Emerging Artist nominations are welcomed from professionals in the field of ceramics, or artists may self nominate with the support of two professionals.
Nominees may not be students and may not have received major national attention for their work, (e.g. a one-person exhibition at a nationally prominent gallery or museum). Submissions will be judged by Lydia Thompson, NCECA Director at Large, and two other NCECA Board Members.
IMPORTANT nomination information
Applications must be submitted completely electronically.
Please prepare the following before starting the Online submittal form as you will need to ATTACH or UPLOAD the following to your ONLINE Submittal:
1. Two-page resume (attach)
2. Artist’s Statement, 250 word maximum (Cut and paste, or type in)
3. Exactly 10 images (Image Preparation Guidelines) (upload)
4. If you are self nominating you will need to attach two 1-page Letters of Recommendation from professionals in the field of ceramics. You will need to receive the letters from the recommenders as a PDF and attach them to the ONLINE application.
OR
If you are being nominated the first Letter of Recommendation is one and the same as the Letter of Nomination. The letters from the nominator/recommenders need to be attach to the ONLINE application.
Lydia Thompson
NCECA Director at Large
lthompson@caad.msstate.edu
Technical assistance or questions???? Please contact kate@nceca.net
CLICK HERE to fill out the Emerging Artists form
NCECA 2010 EMERGING ARTISTS NOMINATIONS
Those selected as Emerging Artists must attend the 2010 NCECA conference in Philadelphia, PA, (March 31 - April 3, 2010) where they will deliver a 10-minute digital image presentation of their work. Emerging Artists’ presentations will be held on Saturday, April 3, 2010.
Emerging Artists are required to submit a written summary of their presentation for the NCECA Annual Conference for publication in the NCECA Journal. This summary must be accompanied by five 300 dpi images appropriate for print publication. Submission of this information is necessary to be included in the NCECA Program Guide.
A contract with specific presentation instructions regarding number of electronic images permitted and other pertinent information will be sent to the selected artists soon after jurying is completed. Selected artists’ images and application materials will be retained by NCECA and will be held in the NCECA archives. Images may be used to advertise the Emerging Artists program and may be posted on the NCECA website. Emerging artists will be ineligible for consideration as conference demonstrators for three years following their Emerging Artist presentation.