by Carole Epp | Feb 27, 2013 | Uncategorized
West Virginia
University (WVU) China Ceramics announces Walter Ostrom as one of our
Fall Semester China Ceramics Program Visiting Artists!
More Info: http://art.ccarts.wvu.edu/international_programs/china_program
Join Walter and WVU at the Pottery Workshop this Fall Semester in Jingdezhen!
Walter
Ostrom is an influential ceramic artist who has revived and modernized
the making of low-fired tin-glazed pottery in Canada. He was born in
Binghamton NY and is a graduate of Ohio University. Walter recently
retired as the Professor of Ceramics at Nova Scotia College of Art and
Design (NSCAD). His work has been featured in collections and
exhibitions worldwide, including the Canadian Museum of Civilization and
the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Walter was one of the first
western artist/educators to begin traveling to Jingdezhen, to study,
teach, and research Chinese Ceramics. Announcements for additional
Visiting Artists will be made in the near future.
Through a
unique linkage, West Virginia University and Pottery Workshop have
teamed to offer a comprehensive study and travel opportunity for
students and the serious advanced or professional ceramic
artist/potter. Join us for a once in a lifetime experience and join us
in the Imperial Porcelain Capital of Jingdezhen. Participants will have
the opportunity to study with some of China’s most prominent teachers
and ceramic artists. For those who interested in undergraduate or
graduate credits, the WVU China Ceramics Program will enable you to earn
accredited WVU credits for the programs.
Imperial Blue
& White Porcelain Capital of Jingdezhen, Qin’s Terra Cotta Army,
Great Wall of China, the Forbidden City, the hustle and bustle of
Shanghai. Join us for a experience of a lifetime!
Fall Semester 2013
September 7 – December 14
(Dates and prices may vary slightly)
12 Credit Hours: Graduate or Undergraduate
Cost: 12 Credits/Tuition and fees $10,900*
6-Credits Studio Ceramics
3-Credits Chinese Ceramic Art History
3-Credits Basic Language and Culture
Participants
will be expected to pay for tools not supplied by the program, brushes,
personal acquisitions, and local travel outside of the program.
Students may also be expected to purchase their own meals during the
Xian and Beijing travel components.
This fee covers the entire
cost of International airfare, in-country travel, all program fees,
insurance, living accommodations and 12 transferable credits from West
Virginia University.
If you or anyone you know may be interested in either of the 2 programs, more information and applications are available at:
http://art.ccarts.wvu.edu/international_programs/china_program
If you have any questions feel free to contact us. Hope to see all of you in Jingdezhen, China!
Shoji Satake
Assistant Professor of Art
West Virginia University
College of Creative Arts
School of Art and Design
Creative Arts Center
PO Box 6111
Morgantown, WV 26506
304-293-3512
[email protected]
by Carole Epp | Feb 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
Tucker’s Pottery Supplies, Inc.
15 West Pearce Street Unit #7
Richmond Hill, Ontario
Canada L4B 1H6
Toll-free:1-800-304-6185
Phone: 905-889-7705
Fax: 905-889-7707
E-mail: [email protected]
by Carole Epp | Feb 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
Location: Ceramics Studio, 219 Western Ave, Allston
How to get tickets:
Thursday 2/28 10:00 AM
Performance Detail:
Download the workshop registration form here.
Thursday, February 28th
Workshop: 10:00am – 4:00pm
Slide Presentation: 5:00pm – 6:00pm
Internationally recognized for her mastery and reinterpretation of historical ceramic technique, Michelle Erickson
joins us for a day of demonstration and slide presentation of her work.
Her contemporary work makes use of arcane ceramic techniques to create
historical narratives about political, social and environmental issues –
both past and present. Regardless of time frame, Erickson’s works are
distinguished by insightful commentary on the universal character of the
human spirit. Recently returned from a three-month, artist residency
at The Victoria and Albert Museum, Erickson will share her experience in working amongst 5000 years of clay traditions represented as documented in her
blog.
Her highly sought creations are in the collections of major museums in
America and England and documented in several volumes of the annual
journal Ceramics In America.
“Endeavoring to rediscover the techniques once used by these potters
during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries has spurred years of
experimentation. In the course of this technological investigation, I
also develop an awareness of the broader historical contexts surrounding
these potting traditions. My approach has always challenged
traditional explanations and conceptions about pre-industrial ceramics
and the methods used to create them. I have sought to find the original
language of the artifact itself to make a tangible connection to the
present. Physically recreating these lost processes reinforces the
irreplaceable significance of the hand even in the technological
landscape of the twenty-first century.”
Related Events
February 20th, 2013 – July 14, 2013
Exhibiting artist at the “New Blue and White” Exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Foster Gallery, 158.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Featured speaker at “Two-Point Perspective Gallery Talk” entitled,
Influence and History: Blue and White Chinese Ceramics with Robert D.
Mowry, Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art, Division of Asian and
Mediterranean Art, Harvard Art Museums and Melissa A. Moy, Cunningham Assistant Curator of Asian Art, Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art, Harvard Art Museums.
Ongoing
Erickson’s work has been represented by the Ferrin Gallery, Pittsfield, MA and the Lacoste Gallery in Concord, MA.
Artist’s Bio
Michelle Erickson is a graduate of The College of William and Mary
with a B.F.A. in Fine and Performing Arts. In addition to her
considerable contemporary ceramic work, Erickson has over twenty years
experience in working with 17th and 18th century reproduction pottery.
As owner of Michelle Erickson Pottery, Inc.,
she reproduces ceramics from archeological and acquired collections for
organizations such as Colonial Williamsburg, the National Park Service,
Parks Canada, the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts,
Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Historic Deerfield. She has lectured and
demonstrated her work widely for scholarly groups and institutions.
Examples of her contemporary work are in the collections of the Mint Museum of Craft and Design; The Museum of Art and Design, NY;
The Peabody Essex; The Long Beach Museum of Art;
the Milwaukee Art Museum; The Chipstone Foundation;
The New-York Historical Society; the
Potteries Museums, Stoke on Trent;
Yale University Art Gallery;
The Carnegie Museum of Art; and the
Victoria & Albert Museum, London. She has consulted on and designed ceramics for several major motion pictures such as The Patriot, The Time Machine, The New World and the recent HBO series John Adams.
Also Ms. Erickson has co-authored a series of articles Illustrating her
seminal work in the rediscovery of arcane ceramic techniques in the
prestigious annual journal
Ceramics in America edited by Robert Hunter and published by
The Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee WI.
For more information on Michelle Erickson, please visit her website and
blog.
Download the workshop registration form here.
http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/cal/details.php?ID=43704
by Carole Epp | Jan 31, 2013 | Uncategorized
Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico
MARCH 27-28, 2013
Students will learn about screen-printing and how to set up shop.
Demonstrations will include a Photoshop introduction to alter images and
drawings, how to create multiple stencils using silkscreens, and
additional surface design decorations such as decals and lusters.
Students will discover the process of slip and newsprint transfer
application and various decoration demos to create rich layered
surfaces. Audiovisual presentations will offer extensive examples of
print implementations in contemporary ceramics . At the end of the
course students will have all the skills and information needed to make
their own successful transfers.
JASON BIGE BURNETT GRADUATED FROM WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY IN
2009 WITH A BFA IN CERAMICS AND BA’S IN BOTH PRINTMAKING AND GRAPHIC
DESIGN. AFTER COLLEGE JASON CONTINUED HIS EDUCATION AT PENLAND SCHOOL OF
CRAFTS IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AS A CORE FELLOWSHIP STUDENT FOR TWO
YEARS. SINCE THEN HE HAS EXHIBITED NATIONALLY, BEEN FEATURED IN CERAMICS
MONTHLY AND POTTERY MAKING ILLUSTRATED. MOST RECENTLY JASON HAS BEEN
ACCEPTED AS AN ARROWMONT SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CRAFTS ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
IN GATLINBURG, TENNESSEE FOR THE 2012-2013 YEAR.
