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surfing with helen bates - april 28, 2006 - canada, israel, usa

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Helen Bates on fri 5 may 06


Surfing with Helen Bates - April 28, 2006 - Canada, Israel, USA
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I have posted this a couple of times, but it seems not to have arrived
on the list, so am trying again. Thanks, Mel or Joyce!

Here goes, then...

Yoshua Schori (Israel)
http://www.yoshua-schori-art.com/
(Crystalline glazed work with contrasting sections.) (I think the
glaze is sometimes allowed to start to re-melt, perhaps, giving a
unique soft look to the crystals.)

Mary Jane Lundy (Halifax, NS, Canada)
http://www.argylefa.dyndns.biz/gallery/artists/mjlundy.htm
http://www.argylefa.dyndns.biz/gallery/shows/MJLbirdsiview.htm
(Colourful sculptural work with low fired glazes) (Birds, fishes,

Sammie Nicely (Atlanta, GA, USA)
http://www.tnarts.org/prodevelop/sammie2005/sammie2005.htm
http://www.arts.state.tn.us/aierostervisual.htm#SAMMIE%20NICELY
http://www.gotricities.com/photoarchive/index.dna?action=image&idNumber=409
http://www.piedmontcraftsmen.org/indv-artist.php?aid=389
http://www.unctv.org/nctreasures/snicely.html
http://hometown.aol.com/mefoundation/auction3.html
(Potter, teacher, mask maker, folk artist) (Continues to reflect and
explore his rural East Tennessee and African heritages)

Jordan Taylor (Stony Meadow Pottery) (Union Dale, PA, USA)
http://www.stonymeadowpottery.com/
(Wood fires; built his own kiln; throws large pots that he makes larger
by throwing tops separately) (Very artistic site)

Deborah Schwartzkopf (Archie Bray Foundation) (Helena, MT, USA)
http://www.debspottery.com/
(Elegant functional porcelain pottery forms, salt fired at cone 10 in
oxidation using glazes with softly glowing colours) (Website best in
IE, or Opera but not fully functional in Mozilla and similar browsers.)


Carla Potter (Anchorage, AK, USA)
http://www.carlampotter.com/
http://artistsregister.com/artists/AK6
http://www.anchoragepress.com/newarchives/artreviewvol12ed44.html
(Sculptural pieces with many protrusions, inspired by the sea and its
creatures) (Current work is porcelain with high fire oxidation glazes)


Lee Akins (Dallas, TX) (Plano, TX, USA)
(Collin County Community College, Spring Creek)
http://iws.ccccd.edu/lakins/
(Professor of Art, Ceramics) (Work is made in terra cotta often
combining figurative imagery and the traditional clay vessel.)

Val Cushing (Oral History) (Alfred Station, NY, USA)
http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/cushin01.htm

(Interview conducted in 2001 by Margaret Carney for Smithsonian)
(Discusses the Syracuse National Ceramics show of the Vietnam era, when
Robert Turner, Jeff Schlanger, and Peter Voulkos suspended the jurying
process and instead invited people to exhibit work who hadn't even
submitted work for the show.)

Helen

Helen Bates (Belleville, Ontario, Canada)
Clayarters' Websites: http://amsterlaw.com/clayart/

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