The reemergence of decorated pottery in the Aegean is a slow refining process of picking up where the Mycenaean left off after inheriting the great pottery traditions of Crete. This early Greek style continued to evolve until the mature geometric style emerged. The circles and half circles of the Proto-Geometric style are replaced by …
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Ceramics as Theater and the Necessity of Video
Either by question or comment, people are often curious about the blending of ceramic and video that is at the heart of the Foxy-Wolff collaboration. Partly, it is a simple matter of blending Gabe’s and my skill sets, this is just what would naturally come about from a collaboration of a ceramist and a film …
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Janet Mansfield
I was attracted to the article in Ceramics Art and Perception on Janet Mansfield (issue 92) primarily because I admire her contribution to contemporary ceramics. She has been so very dedicated to the spread and growing acceptance of ceramic art as a respected medium. Her legacy as a writer and editor and publisher, including the …
Wall-Paper: An Installation by Aurora Hughes Villa
Wall-paper has a pretty bad reputation among contemporary house proud decorators, yet it has so much appeal for artists. Being passé and completely decorative is just one of the reason to use it for inspiration. Another wonderful feature is that its broken symmetry and patterning work so well in backgrounds. Additionally, wall-paper is loaded with …
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Minoan “Snake Goddess” Figurines
The Minoan culture, Lasting from approximately 5000 bp to 3450 bp is commonly thought of as the beginning of the group of cultures commonly referred to as Western Civilization. Located on the island of Crete in the Mediterranean sea, the Minoan culture is known today by the many wonderful artifacts left behind following the cataclysmic …
Ceramics of Dolni Vestonice
The woman of Dolni Vestonice was discovered in the present day Czech Republic in 1925 at the site known as Dolni Vestonice. The site is located in the Pavlov hills among concentrations of loess with small amounts of clay and sand. It is from this material that the 11.5 cm figurine (Just over 4.5 inches) …
Clay Slab Sculpture
Slabs are the most versatile method for building in clay. Dropping “slab built clay sculpture” into a search engine brings us a dazzling array of ideas, approaches and techniques. As a ceramist, I feel somewhat comfortable working with any technique in clay, but I return again and again to slabs because they allow the greatest …
Coil Pots
This coiled vessel was made by the late potter, Maria Martinez. Maria worked in the tradition of her families village, the San Ildefanso Pueblo. The work of Maria is notable in many ways, the first and most obvious is the elegance and mastery of the work, but possibly more significant is the way the these …
Pinch Pots
These pinch pots, by Kate Tremel, capture exactly what I love about pinched forms. Delicately crafted, the rims become landscape and describes perfectly the action of the fingers in making. Simple glazing accentuates the directness of form. The only addition to these wonderful bowls, is subtraction in the form of pierced openings in the clay …
International Top 10: Pamela Mei Yee Leung
Early in the semester I did a lot of research for this project. Power points, web research and books. All that research went into a gray covered Moleskine note-book that i have used for my ceramic classes for a couple of semesters. Today, as I ran out of the last artists that I remembered from …
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