Nan Smith on sun 21 jan 01
The University of Florida Ceramics Program will host a workshop with artist
Mary Barringer. The workshop and lecture description follow. Activities are
free to students and a donation is requested of professionals who attend.
Nan Smith
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: LYNN DURYEA
FLORIDA POTTERS GUILD
CERAMICS DEPT., SCHOOL OF ART & ART HISTORY
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
352 392-0201x232
WORKSHOP AND LECTURES PRESENTED BY MARY BARRINGER AND SPONSORED BY THE
FLORIDA POTTER'S GUILD WILL BE HELD AT UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA'S CERAMICS
DEPARTMENT JANUARY 31ST - FEBRUARY 2ND.
MARY BARRINGER WILL PRESENT TWO EVENING SLIDE LECTURES. WEDNESDAY
JANUARY 31ST WILL BE A LECTURE ON THE HISTORY OF CERAMICS; the lecture
will be held in 103 Fine Arts B (across from University Gallery) at 7:30
PM. THURSDAY FEBRUARY 1ST BARRINGER WILL DISCUSS THE EVOLUTION OF HER
WORK IN CLAY. Thursday's lecture will take place in Turlington L011 @
7:30 PM. ALL EVENTS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Donations to support
the work of the Florida Potters Guild are gratefully accepted.
THE FLORIDA POTTER'S GUILD IS PRESENTING A WORKSHOP by nationally known
ceramic artist Mary Barringer Thursday February 1st and Friday February
2nd. Mary will be doing demonstrations and lecturing on Thursday the
1st from 9AM-NOON and 1-4PM. On Friday the 2nd she will be lecturing
and demonstrating again from 9AM-NOON. All demonstrations and daytime
lectures take place in the Ceramics Department at the University of
Florida, Fine Arts BuildingC, Room B14. There will be a potluck lunch
on Thursday the 1st from NOON to 1:00 PM. Fine Arts Building C is
located on Inner Road just off 13th Street in Gainesville. For more
information, please call 352 392-0201x232.
Mary Barringer is a studio artist from Charlemont MA. She studied
sculpture at Pratt Institute and earned a BA in art from Bennington
College. Mary has been a visiting artist and lecturer at many schools
and craft centers around the US. Her work has been shown extensively in
this country and abroad and she is represented in many public and
private collections.
Of her work Mary says "Making pots enables me to participate with the
work of my hands in an ancient human conversation. My pots come out of
my own ideas about food, elegance and generosity. It thrills me that
they go on to lead lives of their own, to inhabit other spaces, fit
other hands and fulfill other ideas about the useful and the special.
The Florida Potters Guild is an organization run by graduate and
undergraduate students in the Ceramics Department in the School of Art & Art
History at the University of Florida. The organization contributes to the
education provided in the ceramics department by sponsoring workshops by
nationally known presenters, providing scholarship funds for students to attend
professional conferences and by purchasing equipment for the clay
studio. The organization is funded through pottery sales with assistance
from the University student government.
Nan Smith, Professor
Area Coordinator Ceramics Program
School of Art and Art History
302 FAC
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida 32611
E:mail nan@ufl.edu
Office: (352)392-0201, Extension #218
FAX: (352) 392-8453
Website: http://nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu/~nan/
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