p4337@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca on mon 15 apr 96
Hi all....just a note to up date you all about "FIREWORKS" Edmonton's
International Seminar. Dates are May 9-12, 96. This is the first
installment of several that I hope will get you all interested in
attending the seminar. Prices are 165.00 before the end of April and a
10.00 fee for the social and dance...PARTY...
Billiting is available but going fast. Check out the e-mail and http
address below. Hope to see a lot of clayarters at the seminar. As Always
in Clay Peggy
PS...this is our Alberta 'nceca' but with smaller crowds. Bus tours of
gallerys and shows, openings etc......... READ ON....
PEGGY HEER/Heer Pottery email: p4337@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
9702 76 AVENUE phone: 433-0290
EDMONTON, AB CANADA T6E 1K3 http://www.ffa.ucalgary.ca/artists/pheer/
Subject: FireWorks '96 - April 14 Update.
FireWorks '96, an International Ceramics Serminar will be held May 9 to
12 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Over the next few weeks we will be
profiling the artist and events that will occur during the seminar. This
week, two of the most outstanding ceramic artists will be profiled;
Don Reitz and Nuboru Kubo.
Don Reitz is one of the great masters of contemporary ceramics, an
artist whose creative energy has infuenced several generations of
potters.
He now lives and works in Clarksdale, Arizona. He did graduate work at
Alfred University in New York. After teaching at the University of
Wisconsin for 26 years, he was named Professor Emeritus in 1988. His
work is in major museums throughout the US and abroad.
"My work has reference to the past, that is, time past. No specific time
but conditions occurring because of time. It refers to a life force, an
energy that travels through each of us. What a rush it is to take part
of the skin of the planet and transform it into structures that exist in
my time. I enjoy what mud does. It is a very forgiving material that
allows you to record all emotions and physical forces effortlessly,
without precondition or forethought. Your mind, emotions and hands work
as one with great freedom. When working with clay, one day, you realize,
'Who is forming whom;' you are close to truth. After all, that is my
search. To have the courage to put forth that which you preceive as
truth is all one can do."
Education:
New York State College of Ceramics,
Alfred University, Alfred, New York, MFA, 1962;
Kutztown State College, Pennsylvania, BS - Art Education, 1957.
Selected Exhibitions:
Lamar Dodd Art Center, LaGrange, Georgia, 1995;
Clay Space, Miami, Florida, 1995;
Artables Gallery, Houston, Texas, 1994;
Maureen Litton Gallery, Washington, DC, 1994;
The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1994;
Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois, 1993;
Martha Schneider Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, 1993;
Twist Gallery, Portland, Oregon, 1992;
National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC, 1991;
Komo Art Gallery, Himeji City, Japan, 1990;
Hovikodden Art Center, Oslo, Norway, 1990;
Brandt's Kloedefabrik, Odense, Denmark, 1990;
University of Arizona, Tuscon, Arizona, 1989.
Selected Collections and Commissions:
Nippon Castle Research Center, Himeji City, Japan;
Renwick Gallery of Fine Art, and Building of Science and Industry,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC;
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia;
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California;
Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York City;
Milwaukee Museum of Art, Wisconsin; Northern Arizona University,
Flagstaff;
Chicago Art Institute, Illinois; University of Southern Illinois,
Carbondale;
New York State University, Alfred, Cortland and Oswego;
Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana.
Noboru Kubo, following a tradition set by his great grandfather, is the
4th generation of his family to work as a potter.
After graduating from the Kyoto City Industrial Arts School, Noboru
operated his own studio in Kyoto. As well, Nuboru is a member of a
select group of potters who fired their work in the kiln of Kanjiro
Kawai.
Norboru has a distinguished exhibition history. His works are included
in private collections in Japan, Canada, the United States and Great
Britain. He currently lives in Edmonton, Alberta, where he is the
Ceramics Master at the University of Alberta.
For further information visit our Web site;
http://www.extension.ualberta.ca/finearts/fireworks/
or email us at;
fire.works96@ualberta.ca
Graphics on the http address for those who can get them.
Billiting can be arranged via ELKE BLODGETT who is on the list.
Thanks for checking it out. Peggy
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