23rd-25th June 2023 / The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw

During the conference “Art with a Spark”, nine artists will talk about their own creative activities using high temperature. The conference will be a forum for exchanging ideas within broadly understood art created with the use of fire – from technological, historical, aesthetic issues and formal considerations and ending with the presentation of individual achievements of the artists invited to the festival.

Conference “Process with a Spark”
PLACE: the Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, ul. Traugutta 19/21, Wrocław, 4th floor / 410
TIME: Sunday, 14:00 – 18:30

CONFERENCE HOSTS: Jagoda Nowak-Bieganowska, Cara DiStefano

SPEAKERS:

14:00 – 14:10  CONFERENCE OPENING

14:10 – 14:30  PETER HERMANSSON (Sweden) | glass | EN |  Swedish Graal

14:40 – 15:00  VELIMIR VUKICEVIC (Serbia) | ceramics | EN | Illusion Factory

15:10 – 15:30  TOBIAS FLORES (USA) | metal | EN | Toby Creations

15:40 – 16:00  SIMCHA EVEN-CHEN (Israel) | ceramics | EN | Between Control and Chance

16:10 – 16:30  KARIN FORSLUND (Sweden) | glass | EN |  Glass-based thinking as language for multidisciplinary creativity

16:50 – 17:10  DAVID MARQUEZ (USA) | metal | EN | Success in the Arts: Developing a Professional Community

17:20-17:40  ALICJA i DMITRIJ BUŁAWKA-FANKIDEJSCY (Poland, Ukraine) | ceramics | PL | Ceramics – Alternative Firing Methods

17:50 – 18:10  JOHN MORAN (USA) | glass | EN | From then till Now

DETAILED PROGRAM (pdf)