Jean Lehman on thu 14 aug 97
If you were to list the top five FUNCTIONAL potters in the United States,
who would they be??? By "top" I mean most famous, most highly respected,
etc. (If five is too hard, you COULD give me ten names.)
Please e-mail me personally, so as to not clog the list.
Thank you... I appreciate your responses.
Jean
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Jean Lehman, in Lancaster, PA
j_lehman@acad.FandM.EDU (that's an _underscore_ not a hyphen)
Louis Katz on fri 15 aug 97
I don't feel right using the words top , best or most, in regards to
whose pots everyone else respects, but high on my list are Clary Illian,
Ely Iowa and Mackenzie Smith, a post academic itinerant potter currently
living somewhere making wonderful pots no doubt. His work seems to fill a
gap left when the first generation Mingeisota Potters became more famous.
Of the potters working in this line his pots are the ones that take me.
He gave a workshop down here a few years ago and its effects can still be
seen even though there are no students taking classes who were here then.
Clary's pots are the ones that I own that get used, and come to school as
examples most frequently. The pots are without glitz, but polished.
Louis
Louis Katz
Texas A&M University Corpus Campus
lkatz@falcon.tamucc.edu
NEW WEBSITE:http://maclab.tamucc.edu/lkatz/lkatz/index.html
Akitajin \"Lee Love\" on sat 16 aug 97
On Fri, 15 Aug 1997 10:12:28 EDT Louis Katz
writes:
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>I don't feel right using the words top , best or most, in regards to
>whose pots everyone else respects, but high on my list are Clary
>Illian,
>Ely Iowa and Mackenzie Smith, <...>
I agree with Louis about "top" or "best." There are so many good
potters around that taste has to be a factor.
The five North American potters that have the biggest influence
on me are (please excuse the spelling): Warren MacKenzie, John Reeve
(Canadian), Willem Gibben, Jan MacKechie-Johnson and Linda Christenson.
I tend to pick "life" in a pot over "intellect." My first
teacher, Dirk Gilespie of Omaha fits in there too.
Funny thing, I often talk to potters from out of state who visit
MacKenzie's pottery for the first time and they almost always talk about
Gibben's pots. They are quiet but with much presence. Even though he
studied in England, the spirit of his work puts me in mind of the Korean
work that is my favorite. It is "Heart" work.
Lee
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Lee in St. Paul, Minnesota U.S.A.
http://www.millcomm.com/~leelove/ikiru.html
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