There are many ways to make handles, here I’ll show you a few hand built
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US Residents. Ceramic works of any thematic and stylistic presentation
will be accepted for entry. Clay must be the primary medium. Works may
be functional, decorative or sculptural. Assembled works may not exceed
4ft. in any direction, and 50lbs in weight.
Juror: Peter Held, curator of ceramics at the ASU Art Museum Ceramics
Research Center at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona.
Awards: Best of Show – $1,000, 2nd Place – $600, 3rd Place – $350
LH Horton Jr Gallery Exhibition: August 22 – September 19, 2013
On-Line Exhibition: August 2013 – June 2014
On-Line Entry / Fee $30 for first 3 entries and $3 for each additional
entry, limited to a total of 6 entries. Alternate view images of 3D
entries are unlimited and cost $3 for each image.
If I move forward and you move back, what happens to the space in between us? What is lost when something is gained? Often times, while working on a piece, a question is answered in the form of another question.
My forms are inspired by my memories as well as my daily experiences and my emotional reactions to them. For me, creating is a form of play in which I formally investigate thoughts and feelings, memories, desires, and expectations. Whether I’m working in a controlled or a spontaneous method, process is very important. By rearranging different components of each piece and by using traditional as well as unconventional ways of working with a material, I attempt to discover new relationships among the things around us.
Jonathan Adler is now synonymous with the irreverent designs — pottery, housewares, furniture and beyond — that he sells around the world, but it all started with a college professor who didn’t believe in him. After receiving discouraging feedback about his ambitions to be a potter, Adler wandered around New York City doing odd jobs that usually ended with him getting fired.
After some soul-searching, Adler returned to his true love, pottery, and learned the value of ignoring the expectations of others and following your dream. Here, he injects his trademark wit while sharing how he found his underlying message of “irreverent luxury” as his business evolved from pottery to pillows to rooms.
Adler preaches that we should keep other people’s opinions out of our creative process and attributes his success to his disdain of focus groups and feedback.
0:51 – “I’ve done everything ass-backwards in my life.”
1:21 – How he got his start. “I always wanted to be a potter”
2:29 – His first job at a talent agency. “I was absolutely unemployable”
4:08 – His start as a potter, and why he wanted to do it differently. “My greatest hope was that I could hawk my wares outside a rainsoaked craft fair”
5:45 – “I wanted to make pots that were groovy and graphic and spoke to my heart”
6:40 – Have a “F*** it” attitude. Follow your heart completely.
8:50 – Don’t just make a statement and refine it. Don’t be hemmed in by your “brand.”
9:47 – Making Pillows (and other well-crafted work).
11:13 – …and then he figured out his brand.
11:55 – Understand the underlining message of what you are trying to communicate throughout all of your work.
13:41 – Why not make rooms?
15:20 – “I loathe other people’s opinions and I hate focus groups.”
17:20 – The anti-focus group he uses to judge his work.
About Jonathan Adler
Seventeen years ago, a little-known potter named Jonathan Adler was thrilled to receive his first order from Barneys New York. He couldn’t have dreamed that today, in 2012, he would lead an international design company offering decorative accessories, tabletop collections, bedding, furniture, rugs, pillows, lighting, and fabrics, all featuring Jonathan’s signature Modernist forms, bold colors and groovy graphics. Jonathan is obsessed with creating beautiful design mixed with impeccable craftsmanship. His motto is “If your heirs won’t fight over it, we won’t make it.”
