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American Crafts Council, Sweden - January 16, 2005

Surfing with Helen Bates - Lapka, Japan, Faenza, American Crafts
Council, Sweden - January 16, 2005

More for the clay surfing crowd...


Eva Lapka (Born in Czechoslovakia, lives in Montreal, QC, Canada)
(La Galerie des Metiers d'art du Quebec)
< http://www.galeriedesmetiersdart.com/ >
La Galerie des métiers d'art du Québec is another good site for viewing

Lapka's work. Besides Eve Lapka's work, you can view that of: Mahmoud
Baghaeian, Paul Bogati, Mitsuru Cope, Marie-Andrée Côté, Laurent
Craste, France Fauteux, Monique Giard, Eva Lapka, Christiane Paquin,
Lisette Savaria, Maurice Savoie.I've mentioned it sometime in the past,
I think, but the site looks as though it has been given a major
overhaul. Click
"English", click "The Artists", click "Ceramics", click artist's name.
Eva Lapka (Galería Art Hobler) (Porto, Portugal)
< http://www.arthobler.com/artists/eva%20lapka/eva%20lapka%20home.htm
>
arthobler (galeria de arte contemporânea )
Home page of the Hobler Galeria:
< http://www.arthobler.com/ >
Eva Lapka
(Women Artists in Canada site) (Canadian Government Collections)
< http://collections.ic.gc.ca/waic/evlapk/evlapk_e.htm >
Lapka trained in Brno, Czechoslovakia.
Women Artists in Canada homepage:
< http://collections.ic.gc.ca/waic/ >
The WAIC site is searchable for Artist's Name, City, Province,
Discipline or Title.
Eve Lapka (Artworks Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada)
< http://www.wbt.ca/artworks/artistinfo.php?artistid=46&catid=5 >
(There are a few thumbnail images of Lapka's work, zoomable to
medium-sized images.)
Artworks homepage:
http://www.wbt.ca/artworks/index.shtml
(Brief sound file opens with page)

American Craft Council (Ceramics in 2004)
< http://www.craftcouncil.org/ >
(zoomable images for some of the shows are available)

RanRan Gallery (Japan)
< http://www4.ocn.ne.jp/~ranran/ >
(Virtually no English but lots of pots!)

Koie Ryoji (Asuka Gallery) (Japan)
http://homepage2.nifty.com/gallery-asuka/koie1/koie1.htm (English page)
http://homepage2.nifty.com/gallery-asuka/koie2/koie2-0.htm
(Japanese pages with more work) (Page 4 is a deadlink)
( Images are modest to medium-sized.)

Patricia Jansma (Dutch ceramics marks)
< http://members.ams.chello.nl/r.b.rigilink/home.html >
(Guide to help with the identification of marks on 20th century dutch
ceramics) The site also has a few ceramic pieces from her collection
shown online.

Kohyama Yasuhisa (Shigaraki?, Japan)
< http://www5d.biglobe.ne.jp/~ykohyama/ >
Ceramic sculptor working in abstract or non-representational form with
the rough clay typical of Shigaraki.
More can be viewed here:
<
http://www.lewallencontemporary.com/searchresults.php?start=1&artistId=1228
>
(LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA)


The International Competition of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Faenza
(Museo Internazionale della Ceramiche in Faenza) (Faenza, Italy)
< http://www.micfaenza.org/premifaenza/index.htm >
To see the links to all the winners since 1938, click on: "Premio
Faenza: i vincitori di tutte le edizioni dal 1938 al 2003."
(There is a link to an English page for the intro to the competition,
and the English page links to a PDF file for those wishing to enter)
The International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza homepage:
< http://www.micfaenza.org/ >.

Zimmerdahl 20th Century Design (Lund, Sweden)
< http://www.zimmerdahl.se/ > (Swedish and English)
(large selection of good 20th C. Swedish and other European art pottery
for sale)

Helen

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Helen Bates
Belleville, Ontario, Canada
E-mail: nelbanell@yahoo.ca mailto:nelbanell@yahoo.ca
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