Ceramic Arts Daily – 2011 Emerging Ceramic Artist Contest: Vote for Your Favorite!

Vote today for your favorite emerging ceramic artist!

Early each year in our offices, the Ceramics Monthly editorial staff spends hours and hours, poring over hundreds and hundreds of images, with heated deliberations (sometimes resulting in fisticuffs) going well past quitting time,* to jury the annual Emerging Artists competition. The competition is open to ceramic artists who have actively been pursuing a career in ceramics for less than ten years.

Well, they did it again. They have chosen 15 wonderfully talented ceramic artists who are featured in beautiful full color in the May 2011 issue (arriving in mailboxes soon).

For several years now, we have had a little contest on Ceramic Arts Daily in which you, dear readers, get to choose your favorite from the selection in our Peoples’ Choice Emerging Artist Contest. This year, we have upped the ante a bit and the winner will receive a $500 gift card to Bailey Ceramic Supplies, who has graciously sponsored the contest.

So check out the artists and their work below and cast your vote through the link at the bottom of the page! The voting will be open through Friday, May 6 and we’ll announce the winner on Wednesday, May 11.

And finally, we’ve made a lovely printer friendly e-book of all of the emerging artists, which is now available as a free download: Fresh Work in Contemporary Ceramic Art: Ceramic Sculpture and Pottery by Emerging Artists! Download your copy today! – Jennifer Harnetty, editor.

*Details may have been embellished for dramatic effect.

Click on the artist’s names below to see more images
and learn more about each artist…

Aaron Tennessee Benson
Helena, Montana

Guy Michael Davis and Katie Parker
Cincinnati, Ohio

Meredith Host
Kansas City, Missouri

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Mike Jabbur
Santa Fe, New Mexico

Darien Johnson
Buffalo, New York

Peter Christian Johnson
La Grande, Oregon

Myungjin Kim
Torrance, California

Courtney Murphy
Helena, Montana

Kip O’Krongly
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Douglas Peltzman
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Yoko Sekino Bové
Washington, Pennsylvania

Kala Stein
Alfred, New York

Angelique Tassistro
Asheville, North Carolina

Cary Weigand
Jacksonville, Oregon

Adam Welch
New York, New York

For a full-color, printer-friendly version booklet of this year’s Emerging Artists, download your free copy of Fresh Work in Contemporary Ceramic Art: Ceramic Sculpture and Pottery by Emerging Artists.

The 2011 Emerging Artists are featured in Ceramics Monthly magazine’s May 2011 issue.
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Anne-Berte April 28, 2011 at 7:11 am -

I note that all the artists are from USA
Ruggero April 14, 2011 at 6:15 pm -

I voted, but I regret that there is an artist in Europe. Ruggero Guiso
Jennifer April 13, 2011 at 7:06 am -

Shawn – See Sherman Hall’s comment above. – ed.
shawn April 12, 2011 at 11:27 pm -

How did these people enter this contest ?
Gillian April 12, 2011 at 6:17 pm -

Each is a winner! I’ll just have to pick the one that made me smile again and again!
didi April 12, 2011 at 5:01 pm -

the are all fabulous. I agree, how does one choose?
Sherman April 12, 2011 at 10:14 am -

Janice, This contest began as the Ceramics Monthly Emerging Artist competition, which has a deadline in mid to late February. Look for it next year—we’ll be doing it again for sure, and we’ll likely start announcing it in CM and online in December and January. All the best.
Muriel April 12, 2011 at 9:33 am -

How does one choose? All of these artists are an inspiration to me. Congratulations to you all.
Janet April 12, 2011 at 8:26 am -

…so hard to decide…I went back to the basics -elements/principles of design; as well as creativity/originality.
Anne-Berte April 12, 2011 at 3:42 am -

You can google the artist you like and see more of their work, if it is difficult to decide ;-) It helped me http://anne-berte.no
M. A. April 11, 2011 at 10:02 pm -

wow…hard to decide since none of these images enlarges to a size that really helps the viewer see any detail????
Roberta April 11, 2011 at 4:24 pm -

Other ease way to see better and more of the artist , go below the circle for voting, click in the second line in blue . There you can download freely.
Sherman April 11, 2011 at 4:09 pm -

Jean, these are just thumbnail images on this page, but if you click through to each artist’s page, you can enlarge the images to a more reasonable scale. Enjoy!
Janice April 11, 2011 at 4:08 pm -

How does someone enter this contest?
JEAN April 11, 2011 at 4:03 pm -

I am finding it hard to enlarge these enough to really look at them-is it just me?

2011 Emerging Ceramic Artist Contest: Vote for Your Favorite!

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