Eric Hansen on wed 12 may 10
I am looking at the testimony of several at Clayart and realizing how
fortunate i was to put a good program together for my self, Ferguson and
Zeller, great teachers! Also, Lawrence Kansas potters always had a great
mentor in as Bill Bracker. Tinsley Wert I am also indebted to. Kansas
Geological Survey gave me rare copies of Sheldon Carey's KGS publications h=
e
co-authored with Plummer. I did my own field trips, dug my own clay, built
and fired my own design of wood-fired raku kiln, and bisque/pit fired in it=
.
This really got me started with the geology, and Hank Murrow kindly took me
on a field trip digging old sites in Oregon, and added to my library with
copies of materials from David Stannard. I fired wood kilns with Ferguson,
Zeller, Chuck Hindes, Ron Meyer, Natalie Warrens, Rimas VisGirda, Rand
Heazlitt, Charles Hansen, and Karl Beamer. And while at KU, I fired the
Alpine to bisque every Friday. The instructor never even knew who was doing
it. I took 500-700 level graduate courses in the art and archeology of
classical Greece (50% ceramics) and Southwestern Archeology (also 50%
ceramics), Asian Art History from a grad student of Stephen Addiss (again,
lots of clay art history), and even Eastern Civilization from the KCAI
academics staff, even Art History survey from clay sculptor Jim Leedy! I
have used the online resources from Richard Burkett, and use his glaze
software. We used to meet at IRC #pottery channel; met a chatted at NCECA
2007. I got into ClayArt, ClayCraft, and other discussion forums, as well a=
s
the use of HyperGlaze software as a result of an expansion in the
University's design department computer lab. I have conducted ceramics art
historical "research" at Kansas City's Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City
Art Institute's Library, Lawrence's Spencer Art Gallery and Art History
Library, the Freer and Sackler, Victoria and Albert, Stoke-on-Trent
Potteries Museum, and Art Museum of Santa Fe, Puye ruins, Morelia,
Michoachan, Mexico Museum (they have great green painted Aztec pots), and
the Louvre. I've worked at the following clay studios: Kansas City Art
Institute Ceramics Department, Lawrence Art Center Ceramics Studio,
University of Kansas Ceramics Studio, University of Oregon's Craft Center
Ceramics studio at the Erb Memorial Union, as well as my own constantly
relocating studio in Lawrence, Kansas, Eugene, Oregon, Georgetown, D.C., an=
d
Alexandria, VA. I've been invited to MFA programs at IU at Iowa City,
Catholic University of America (Rob Barnard) in Washington D.C., and San
Diego State University. I have been in constant communication with my potte=
r
brother, Charles D. Hansen, who was a student of Tony Marsh at University o=
f
Kansas, and my father Charles L. Hansen who was a student of Tony Prieto at
California College of Arts and Crafts. All three of us guys work full time
in 3-D design and/or graphic arts. Me and Charles D. are both half-time
potters. We make and sell pots. Moral of the story: you use the resources
available to you, and you expand your horizons. Louis Katz got it right whe=
n
he said it is all about the life of ideas. I'll give up my BFA when the pry
it from my cold, dead fingers.
h a n s e n
Eric Hansen on wed 12 may 10
p.s. forgot to say, taught illustration classe at Lawrence Art Center,
Lawrence, KS, and clay class at Maude Kerns Art Center in Eugene, OR. Also
been digging clay in Kentucky and Virginia!
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Eric Hansen
wrote:
> I am looking at the testimony of several at Clayart and realizing how
> fortunate i was to put a good program together for my self, Ferguson and
> Zeller, great teachers! Also, Lawrence Kansas potters always had a great
> mentor in as Bill Bracker. Tinsley Wert I am also indebted to. Kansas
> Geological Survey gave me rare copies of Sheldon Carey's KGS publications=
he
> co-authored with Plummer. I did my own field trips, dug my own clay, buil=
t
> and fired my own design of wood-fired raku kiln, and bisque/pit fired in =
it.
> This really got me started with the geology, and Hank Murrow kindly took =
me
> on a field trip digging old sites in Oregon, and added to my library with
> copies of materials from David Stannard. I fired wood kilns with Ferguson=
,
> Zeller, Chuck Hindes, Ron Meyer, Natalie Warrens, Rimas VisGirda, Rand
> Heazlitt, Charles Hansen, and Karl Beamer. And while at KU, I fired the
> Alpine to bisque every Friday. The instructor never even knew who was doi=
ng
> it. I took 500-700 level graduate courses in the art and archeology of
> classical Greece (50% ceramics) and Southwestern Archeology (also 50%
> ceramics), Asian Art History from a grad student of Stephen Addiss (again=
,
> lots of clay art history), and even Eastern Civilization from the KCAI
> academics staff, even Art History survey from clay sculptor Jim Leedy! I
> have used the online resources from Richard Burkett, and use his glaze
> software. We used to meet at IRC #pottery channel; met a chatted at NCECA
> 2007. I got into ClayArt, ClayCraft, and other discussion forums, as well=
as
> the use of HyperGlaze software as a result of an expansion in the
> University's design department computer lab. I have conducted ceramics a=
rt
> historical "research" at Kansas City's Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City
> Art Institute's Library, Lawrence's Spencer Art Gallery and Art History
> Library, the Freer and Sackler, Victoria and Albert, Stoke-on-Trent
> Potteries Museum, and Art Museum of Santa Fe, Puye ruins, Morelia,
> Michoachan, Mexico Museum (they have great green painted Aztec pots), and
> the Louvre. I've worked at the following clay studios: Kansas City Art
> Institute Ceramics Department, Lawrence Art Center Ceramics Studio,
> University of Kansas Ceramics Studio, University of Oregon's Craft Center
> Ceramics studio at the Erb Memorial Union, as well as my own constantly
> relocating studio in Lawrence, Kansas, Eugene, Oregon, Georgetown, D.C., =
and
> Alexandria, VA. I've been invited to MFA programs at IU at Iowa City,
> Catholic University of America (Rob Barnard) in Washington D.C., and San
> Diego State University. I have been in constant communication with my pot=
ter
> brother, Charles D. Hansen, who was a student of Tony Marsh at University=
of
> Kansas, and my father Charles L. Hansen who was a student of Tony Prieto =
at
> California College of Arts and Crafts. All three of us guys work full tim=
e
> in 3-D design and/or graphic arts. Me and Charles D. are both half-time
> potters. We make and sell pots. Moral of the story: you use the resources
> available to you, and you expand your horizons. Louis Katz got it right w=
hen
> he said it is all about the life of ideas. I'll give up my BFA when the p=
ry
> it from my cold, dead fingers.
> h a n s e n
>
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