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surfing with helen bates - february 18 2006 - usa, new zealand,

updated mon 20 feb 06

 

Helen Bates on sat 18 feb 06

Pre-Columbian Pottery

Surfing with Helen Bates - February 18 2006 - USA, New Zealand,
Pre-Columbian Pottery

Miranda Thomas (Bridgewater, VT, USA)
http://www.shackletonfurniture.com/LocationStores.html
(Thrown stoneware functional pieces with carved or brush-applied
underglaze animal and plant decoration and clear glazes)

Adrienne Bolton (Earth-Works Studio) (Aotearoa, NZ, b. Zimbabwe)
http://www.earth-works-studio.co.nz/
(Much of the work is hand-built, using both organic vessel shapes and
more angular or "modern" forms. Techniques used in slab-building are
illustrated)

Pre-Columbian Art Online Tour (Orlando, FL,USA)
http://www.teachers.ocps.net/moa/
(Quicktime [tm] virtual reality tour of Pre-Columbian art, especially
pottery and ceramics created as part of a 1995-96 project between the
Multimedia Productions class of Edgewater High School, Orlando, Florida
and the Orlando Museum of Art.) (Columbia, Costa Rica, Equador,
Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Peru)

Kimbell Art Museum Pre-Columbian Art (Fort Worth, TX, USA)
http://www.kimbellart.org/database/index.cfm?region=yes&mainregion=5
(Online images index of Mayan, Aztec and other Pre-Columbian pottery
and other art)

Detroit Institute of Arts (Pre-Columbian Art) (Detroit, MI, USA)
http://www.dia.org/collections/aonwc/precolumbian/precolumbian.html
(Just 4 Pre-Columbian ceramic pieces, but they are amazing!)

Helen

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Helen Bates (Belleville, Ontario, Canada)
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