The Walter Gropius Master Artist Program presents Linda Christianson, Justin Donofrio, Sanam Emami, Chris Gustin, and Michael Hunt and Naomi Dalglish of Bandana Pottery will be on view starting this Saturday!
The Walter Gropius Master Artist Virtual Ceramic Symposium begins on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020, at 7 p.m., with an online public video lecture series, featuring all six Walter Gropius Master Artists. A free virtual symposium workshop will take place on Friday, Nov. 6, and Saturday, Nov. 7, beginning at 10 a.m., featuring videos of the six ceramic artists demonstrating their process.
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Get concentrated time with some of the best ceramic artists in the field with Pre-Festival Workshops at American Pottery Festival 2019, September 6 – 8.
Jan McKeachie Johnston & Linda Christianson: Hygge in Clay
Thursday, September 5, 9 am – 5 pm
Friday, September 6, 9 am – 4 pm
Students, Educators, NCC Members: $200 (non-members $225)
Join these powerhouse potters for a two-day, hands-on workshop filled with astute tips, lots of individual instructor attention, and laughter born of Midwestern wit and pragmatism. Hygge (Hoo-gah) is a quality of coziness and comfortable conviviality. The concept aligns with how Jan and Linda and their pots make us feel. Whether we are gazing upon one of McKeachie Johnston’s generous baskets, or warming ourselves drinking from Christianson’s mugs, we experience an overwhelming confluence of intention and execution. Primarily a handbuilder, McKeachie Johnston will demonstrate her slab work and carving from a solid. Christianson will work on a treadle wheel, creating various parts to alter and assemble. Throughout the workshop they will discuss proportion, form, intention, gesture, the benefits of cross-country skiing, and maybe a joke or two. One can expect to leave with a deeper knowledge of how to create energetic connections between parts of a form while capturing the intentional gesture of your hand in clay. Lunch included.
Friday, September 6, 9 am – 5 pm
Students, Educators, NCC Members: $115 (non-members $130)
Sunshine Cobb will share her approach to square things, like garlic boxes, and round things, like pitchers and vases. She will talk about how abstract concepts make their way into her work, and how to foster similar insertion into your own creative practice. Her demonstration will motivate you to experiment with new and old forms and methods of construction. Basic handbuilding methods will be applied to hard and soft slab construction as a way to generate various components for constructing pots. In this one-day workshop, participants can expect to complete one form. Lunch included.
The American Pottery Festival is a three-day event highlighting the immeasurable talent, the commitment, and the epic chops of your favorite ceramic artists and some icons in the making.
Ceramic artists from across the country will converge on Minneapolis to offer their wares and share glimpses of their studio practice, focusing on critical insight and technical information. In panel discussions, artist talks, demonstrations, and gallery chats, we will delve into the principles and elements of design in relation to dynamic utility. NCC will once again deliver a combination of engaging, influential voices from across the spectrum of American Ceramics!
On March 27, 2019, as part of the celebration of our new ceramics exhibit, “The Persistence of Mingei: Influence through Four Generations of Ceramic Artists,” we hosted a special gathering with women artists featured in the exhibition. Rebecca Sive moderated this informal conversation, focused on each artist’s ceramic practice, their relationship to the Mingei influence, and the role gender has played in their practice and larger context. Panelists included Margaret Bohls, Linda Christianson, Maren Kloppman, Jan McKeachie-Johnston, Linda Sikora, Sandy Simon, and Rhonda Willers.
Call for Entries! To celebrate our 50 years of existence, and to shake things up a bit, we’re inviting residents of the US and Canada to apply for a juried show of pitchers! Ceramics Monthly’s 2019 Artist of the Year, Deborah Schwartzkopf, will do the jurying for “Pitcher Perfect” and select our $300 prize winner. The show will also include pitchers by invited artists Linda Christianson, Adam Field and Simon Levin. Deadline to apply is June 30, 2019.
