January 2012
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Welcome, new beginning wheelthrowing students!
And remember: speed kills.
Sarratt Art Studios
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Studley Tool Chest
From Jennifer Knowles-McQuistion, book binder and fellow faculty member at Sarratt Art Studios:
Henry O. Studley, piano maker, built this tool chest in the 1800s. It holds 300 tools, measures 40”x 20” & is the thing I am most excited about today.
See it in action here.
(I rarely see both function and beauty served so harmoniously.)
December 2011
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Call for entry - Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft...
Craft Artists Wanted Deadline: April 1, 2012. The 36th Annual Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, a juried exhibition and retail sale, will be held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center from November 8 to 11, 2012, with a preview party on November 7. The jury will accept 195 craft artists.
The show serves as the Museum’s largest yearly fundraising event and is devoted to bringing wide...
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Dan Finnegan vase
Dan Finnegan fesses up to his own restlessness with his work while sharing some fine examples.
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apply for residencies at Energy Xchange
North Carolina’s Energy Xchange is the first art studio to run on methane, firing their wood kilns with waste wood. Their residencies offer affordable workspace to those just getting started in their clay careers. Apply by Valentines Day 2012. More here.
(And thanks to NC Clay Club for their indefatigable clay coverage.)
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“An artist (a generic term covering poet, composer, painter, sculptor, perhaps novelist) consciously or unconsciously takes a vow of obedience to awareness. In order not to be lost in the whirl of time, either past or present, the artist must look at all things with the energy and clarity of a hyperthyroid Buddha. Frankly, this awareness is not always fun.”
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Boar vessel, Iran, 2900-3100 BCE
Found here.
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"In order to be a good potter I think you got to...
“…If you ain’t, and ain’t as cantankerous as they come, someone is going to come and change you and you’re going to be turnin’ out stuff that inside you don’t want to make.” - Zedith Teague, potter, North Carolina
Taken from Aron Sober’s blog Welcome to the Yard
(Sober wins my respect by leaving a successful 10 year pottery career to return...
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November 2011
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Kelly Kessler's December shows in middle Tennessee
[lungs flask - 2011]
I’ll have my new line of pottery at three Nashville shows next month:
Sarratt Art Studios’ Holiday Art Festival December 1-11, Sarratt Gallery 2301 Vanderbilt Place, Nashville, TN 37235 Vanderbilt University
Six Potters and a Painter: a holiday market Saturday & Sunday, December 3 & 4 Sat 10-6, Sun noon-4 521 Gallatin Road, studio 3, East Nashville...
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Kismet via tumblr
I started a clay blog with small intentions - a catchall for myself and my pottery students, a jumping off place for ideas.
I never factored in the sheer pleasure I’d find logging into my dashboard* and seeing an abundance of images, some new to me and some like old friends, filling the well, priming the pump. Images from around the world and beyond, from today and the 14th c. and...
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WatchWilliam Brouillard:
I learned that when I was a full time studio person that the only way you could be happy in studio was to deliberately incorporate change into your work, and that was the only thing that made full time studio work viable.
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“The visible world is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears; and I...”
– (via journalofanobody)
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palate cleansing: Hans Coper 3
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palate cleansing: Hans Coper 2
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palate cleansing: Hans Coper 1
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rough hewn pots
I often find students have a strong preference for highly finished “perfect” pots. It can be a slow process for them to see the potency and beauty of historical work, with its unglazed surfaces, dings, muted palette and inconsistencies.
Where does this come from? A life of exposure to manufactured dishes? A desire to - since they’re pouring so many hours and much effort into...
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from Jenny Mendes on pinterest
October 2011
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Iranian water jar, ca. 17th c.
Happy Halloween!...
..all you divers into the clay.
(courtesy of nevver)
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Save NSCAD
There are some things I think of as so potent, so formative, it never dawns on me to imagine the world without them.
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, a 125 year old independent arts institution, is under the gun for serious defunding and possibly termination. I admit to knowing only about the ceramics department, which has been so influential and yielded such a number of high quality...
"Mies van der Rohe could never have driven a...
… because he was so stubborn that when the road turned he would have kept going straight.” -Edith Farnsworth (who commissioned the Farnsworth House from van der Rohe), per Franz Schulze’s lecture at the Art Institute of Chicago, available via podcast here.
Doug Peltzman pitcher
Doug Peltzman has been on my radar for a little while: impeccable sense of form and a restless eye when it comes to surface. Worth a closer look!
Mayan human head effigy pot
Ca. 600-850 A.D, in the collections of Boston’s Museum of Fine Art (which I discovered through katzevogel’s link to an intriguing Chinese bat vessel).
Clementina van der Walt
All right, divers. As you’ve probably noticed, not all clay blogs are created equal. One that consistently knocks it out of the park, introducing me to new work, is Carole Epp’s Musing About Mud.
This morning’s post of South African potter Clementina van der Walt’s bottle forms caught my eye, and not just with the eye popping palette. The forms are recognizable and yet a...
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Must Watch: BBC's Ceramics - a fragile history
It is very sensual stuff because it’s gloopy. And slithery. And of course it warms to the touch as you mold it.
Episode 1 of the BBC’s 3 part series on ceramics is up on YouTube. This look at British pottery will run the gamut from early folk pottery through Wedgwood and the Industrial Revolution, the rise of the studio potter (Bernard Leach et al) and right on up to today’s...
