Call for Participants

How to Apply

Email a one-page letter of interest (max 500 words) and 10 .jpg images, 1 .pdf with 10 images, or a link to an online portfolio to info@westernfront.ca with the subject “Craft Parlour Application” by Oct 6, 2023 at 11:59 p.m. PDT.

Successful applicants will be notified by Oct 13, 2023.

About the Artists

Rebecca La Marre is a queer artist based in Saskatoon or Treaty 6, the traditional home of the Blackfoot, Cree and Métis people. Her writing, making, and performance practice uses clay, text, and the human voice to give form to questions about what it means to be a person in the world. Her activity is driven by what she reads and a need to test how ideological structures, trauma, language, and ritual can shape bodies. The first person to teach her about clay was her grandmother Ellen La Marre, who displayed her work in domestic settings and craft markets. She holds an MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London, and is the former editor and publications coordinator for Remai Modern, Saskatoon, and an emeritus editor for E.R.O.S. Journal, London.

KC Adams (Flying Overhead in Circles Eagle Woman) is an artist based in Winnipeg, Canada, registered with Fisher River Cree Nation. Her practice explores technology and its relationship to Indigenous identity and knowledge systems, while considering her role as an educator, activist, community member, and mentor. She works in adornment, clay, drawing, installation, painting, photography, printmaking, public art, video, and welding.

Rob Froese is a ceramic artist based in Saskatoon, Canada. In creating objects for both use and contemplation, his approach to clay considers the transformation of material through chance, temporal processes, and active intervention.

Sharon Kivland is an artist, writer, editor, and publisher based in London, England and France. Her work considers what is put at stake by art, politics, and psychoanalysis. She is a visiting professor at Kingston University London, and is the editor and publisher of MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE.

Danny Kostyshin is a potter based in Vancouver, Canada. He makes porcelain and stoneware tea bowls, cups, plates, and bowls and encourages the use and enjoyment of the handmade, functional ceramic object in daily domestic rituals. Often integrated into this practice is confrontational text and images which deal with themes of sexuality, the environment, and HIV/AIDS through ceramic bodies.

Anahita Jamali Rad is a text-forward artist born in Iran and currently based in Windsor, Canada, on the traditional territory of the Three Fires Confederacy of First Nations, which includes the Ojibwa, the Odawa, and the Potawatomi. Informed by anti-imperialist materialist theory, Jamali Rad has exhibited and performed across Canada and the United States, as well as in the United Kingdom and Turkey. They co-run House House Press with D.M. Bradford.