movie day: How Montana Became World Renown for Ceramic Art – Steven Lee

A brief history of the Archie Bray Foundations for the Ceramic Arts in Helena, Montana. Steven Young Lee has been the resident artist director of the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts in Helena, Montana since 2006. In 2004-05, he lectured and taught at numerous universities throughout China as part of a one-year cultural and educational exchange in Jingdezhen, Shanghai, and Beijing. In 2005-06 he was a visiting professor at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, B.C. In March 2013 he participated on a panel, “Americans in the Porcelain City,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In 2013, he was one of several international artists invited to participate in “New Blue and White,” an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston that featured contemporary artists working in the blue-and-white tradition of ceramic production. In the Fall of 2016, his work was featured as part of the Renwick Invitational at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C. Steve received his BFA and MFA in Ceramics from Alfred University. www.archiebray.org This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

movie day: Hitomi Hisono reinterprets Wedgewood classics with Japanese aesthetics.

 

Hitomi Hosono explains how she combined British and Japanese aesthetics to create a collection of ceramics for Wedgwood in this video Dezeen filmed at their factory in Stoke-On-Trent. Hosono, a ceramicist from Japan known for intricate porcelain pots featuring botanical forms, designed the collection in collaboration with Wedgwood, after being invited to take part in the brand’s artist in residence program. The collection is comprised of vases, bowls and ornamental boxes in an unglazed matte finish typical of Wedgwood’s signature Jasperwar – a kind of stoneware developed by the brand’s founder Josiah Wedgwood in the 18th century. Jasperware products typically employ relief decorations of human figures and natural forms known as sprigs, which are cast in clay molds and added to the pots. “Sprigs are like thin leaves made of clay,” explains Hosono in the interview. “I chose jasper sprigs from Wedgwood’s archive and applied them in a new way on the pots, with a Japanese aesthetic.”

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