Helen Bates on thu 14 jun 01
These are all sites I visited originally in April!
Ceramic Arts of Western Australia.
http://www.ceramicartswa.asn.au/index.html
The homepage of Pottery and ceramics in Western Australia
Includes work by: Angela Mellor; Bernard Kerr; Helen Manson;
Janet Kovesi Watt; Robyn Lees; Sandra Black; & Pip Drysdale.
Page is still under construction, so some links may not work.
Just click on your "back' button, in that case.
"Materiality"
http://www.ceramicartswa.asn.au/bernardkerr.pdf
Bernard Kerr's essay here on the postmodern impulse in ceramics
is a .pdf file which needs "Adobe Acrobat Reader" software to read it.
You can download this reader and install it on your system for free:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html
The article is in triple columns and 6 pages, so although the language
is quite readable, the format does necessitate a lot of jumping about.
The American Art Pottery Organization
http://www.amartpot.org/index.htm
Pottery mystery page
http://www.amartpot.org/mystery_page.htm
A very interesting page of mystery pots with pictures and correspondence about the pots.
Historic Manufacturers of the Arts & Crafts Movement
http://www.ragtime.org/M/HGP.html
A list of American Arts & Crafts Potters of the past.
ARTWORK by James Q. Jacobs
http://www.geocities.com/archaeogeo/potter.html
"Rock Art Pottery - - Rock Art Photography and Illustrations Collection"
This artist, potter, computer professional, teacher and anthropologist
has included, besides his own work, many pictures of rock art sites in
the American West. An immense site.
Betsy Begor Perkins
http://www.artplaces.com/perkins/index.htm
"I'm an obsessed potter..." states this prolific hand builder.
Functional and decorative work. I like it.
Neue Keramik - German Ceramics Online Publication
http://www.ceramics.de/menueheft.htm
This magazine is published online, in German.
It has abstracts of articles with images from the current
issue (click on "Aktuell") and past issues (click on the
various issue numbers under the "Hefte" and year lines in
the column on the left. Opens a new page each time, so
close it when you've looked at it and the index page will
be there again behind it.
The work is very different from most of what is being done
in North America, but at first I found it hard to pin down
why, exactly. Distanced, somehow, that's it...
Thanks to Edouard Bastarache for bringing Neue Keramik to
my attention.
Dartington Pottery, Devon UK
http://www.dartingtonpottery.co.uk/
Lovely design and glaze work at this English producer
of of high fire studio-produced table ware.
Neat little pottery animation as it's loading.
Scroll down past the blank space to get to the material
available and click on pictures to be taken to new pages,
and again, you'll need to scrol down.
Training positions available.
Swedish Raku Pottery Dan Leonette
http://www.leonette.com/eng.sida.htm
English pages at above url.
Thrown and slab work. Strong European design sensibility,
but there is also a looseness evident in the way the outlines
of the forms or in some cases the decorative surface work of
the pieces curve in opposition to the main thrust of the pot.
Dominique Armstrong
http://www.citrusglaze.com/welcome.htm
Very imaginative and painterly worker in decorative tile.
Various methods used, from hand-made tiles to overglaze on blanks.
Keramikmuseet Grimmerhus
http://129.142.84.243/grimmerhus/gb/index.htm
Danish pottery museum site with an international collection.
Now has English language pages as well as Danish.
Click on "Have a Look" and after you look on that page, scroll down and click on "Take a further look.."
Cleveland Museum of Natural History:
Tracing the Art of Pueblo Pottery
http://www.cmnh.org/research/cultural/pueblo-pottery/tracing.html
Pueblo Pottery Artifacts in the Weatherhead Collection
http://www.cmnh.org/research/cultural/pueblo-pottery/artifacts.html#weatherhead
Traditional Acoma Pottery
http://www.migrations.com/traditionalacoma.html
Part of Carol Snyder Halberstadt "Migrations" site for American
Indian arts and crafts sales and history.
The page is dedicated to Rose Garcia, traditional Ancoma potter.
The pictures are not all that large, and you can't "click" them,
but there are a lot of historical pots and text.
Links to other traditional pots, many with quite interesting designs.
American Craft Museum Clay Videos
http://www.aandfvideo.com/htmlpages/americancraft.htm
The American Craft Museum Series of Videos on clay and other craft.
Ashford.com Home Page
http://www.ashford.com/
Click on "Guild Art" at top right; then click on "Ceramics" at lower left.
Commercial site with high quality studio ware, both functional and decorative.
Now I'll try and hold off for a few days.
Helen
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