Helen Bates on sun 26 oct 03
Surfing with Helen Bates - Maryland and Virginia - October 26th., 2003
Maryland sites:
-- Tom Pergola II (Baltimore, MD, USA)
Slip moulded or molded white earthenware sculptures with an
intentionally garish look to the glazes.
-- Lynn Lais (Spruce Forest Artisan Village) (Penn Alps, near
Grantsville, MD, USA)
http://www.spruceforest.org/artisans.html
Photo of potter Lynn Lais with bowl on his pottery wheel. (No other
work on view.)
History of Lynn Lais's education by educator and potter Marvin Bartel:
(Mentions Maryland Potter Lynn Lais' training in Indiana, and Europe, in
an article discussing teaching style and method, in art education.)
"A Cry From the Clay" by Esther Bender
(Book with photos of Lynn Lais's pottery.)
-- Mary Ellen McLewee, (Clay Orbit Pottery & Gift Gallery)
(Cockeysville, MD, USA)
(Gallery Owner and potter)
McLewee's site features potters from Baltimore and the surrounding area:
Carol Brody; Mary Cloonan; Peggy Fowler; Susan Gladstone; Victoria
Heisler; Matthew Hyleck; Joann Kandel; Nina Long; Cliff and Natica
Losee; Sonya Meeker; Micki Mez; Jane G. Miller; Amanda Pellerin; Margery
Pozefskye; Lorna Taylor; Joe Vitek.
-- Susan Chappelear (Clayarter) (College of Southern Maryland, La Plata,
MD, USA)
(Some nice pages of student work on the CSM Fine Arts and Humanities
Department web site)
Virginia Sites
-- Pottery trip to China (WVU)
(Under the auspices of West Virginia University, Morgantown, West
Virginia)
Program Leader, Professor Robert Anderson (West Virginia U, Morgantown,
VA, USA)
Other Faculty: Joe Zeller, Rick Hensley and Donna Polseno, Ron Meyers,
Jason Bohnert.
The best part of this site is the "Photo & Video Gallery", which has a
large number of videos from an earlier trip. (Videos available in two
formats)
The Clay Connection (Metropolitain area, Washington DC, VA, USA)
Holds the Mid-Atlantic Clay Conference (Site under construction)
Gail Adkisson and Ed Bull (Hands in Harmony Pottery) (Springfield, VA, USA)
(Hosts of the 5th. Annual Mid-Atlantic Clay Conference at Front Royal,
VA, USA)
Conference ended Oct. 5th. (Sorry)
-- Salt Glazed Stoneware of Alexandria, VA, USA (Alexandria Archaeology
Museum)
(Article with photos, and links to pieces of three 19th. C. potters:
John B. Swann; Hugh Smith and Co.; Benedict C. Milburn)
-- Richard Busch (Glenfiddich Farm Pottery) (Leesburg, VA, USA)
(Salt fired functional pottery which is quite lovely)
-- Lynne Kelly (Newport News, VA , USA)
Kelly is a ceramic sculptor working in terra cotta. Her pieces include
commissioned portrait busts and wall pieces, and a few nudes. Her style
is idiosyncratic, but more or less realistic.
Helen
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