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surfing with helen bates - march 2nd., 2007 - usa

updated sat 3 mar 07

 

Helen Bates on fri 2 mar 07


Surfing with Helen Bates - March 2nd., 2007 - USA

Just a quickie...

Barbara Harnack (Barbara Harnack Gallery) (Cerrillos, NM, USA)
http://www.showofhandsdenver.com/gallery/ceramic_glass/artist_barb_harnack/catalog_harnack.htm
(See Ceramics and Glass gallery of this website)
http://www.studio98b.com/gallerybarb/index.html
http://82.165.243.105/BaltimoreRetail2007/artist.php?id=137&gid=1
(RAku face pots)

Diana Fayt (San Francisco, CA, USA) (of Hungarian descent)
http://www.dianafayt.com/

Larry Richmond Pottery (Bellingham, WA, USA)

(Pots look a lot like basketry - handthrown,oxide-coated, carving
through coating, 2nd. oxide coating, bisqued to cone 08, clear glaze,
high fired to cone 11)

Lisa Naples (Doylestown, PA. USA)
http://www.lisanaples.com/
Hand Made Functional Earthenware Pottery

Natalie DiCostanzo (Arcata California USA)
http://arcataartisans.com/artists/natalie_dicostanzo/

Robert Sutherland (Philadelphia, PA, USA)
http://www.rob-sutherland.com/
("A union of alternative surfaces and utilitarian design")

The University of Washington's "Ceramics for Scholars" Auction
http://depts.washington.edu/teapot/

Zbigniew Chojnacki (ZC Studios) (Philadelphia, PA, USA)
http://www.zcstudios.com/
(Sculptor - mainly figurative, using raku techniques with bright
low-fire and crackle glazes)

Saya Moriyasu (Seattle, WA, USA)
http://homepage.mac.com/saya/
( figurative sculpture of pinched clay or pinched clay and mixed media,
often site-specific)
(Sophisticated art that looks at first naive ) (
http://www.platformgallery.com/artist_pages/moriyasu/Moriyasu.html
http://www.jema.us/pages/exhibitions.html
Saya Moriyasu's "Audience" (John Erickson Museum of Art) December, 2006
http://www.jema.us/pages/moriyasu_pages/moriyasu_state.html#
(Artist's statement: I enjoy beautiful objects. I am interested in
class and culture.)
http://www.jema.us/pages/whatsnew.html#moriyasu
(The opening of the Saya Moriyasu installation "audience" in Miami, Florida)
("JEMA spent 9 hours visiting and varying its location to numerous art
venues and hot spots in the Miami area. The museum's form complimented
its function as it attempted to move audience with style, agility, and
actively engage curious viewers.")

The JEMA Museum (Seattle, Washington.)
http://www.jema.us/
(A miniature travelling museum of art in a box) ...What a concept!

I hope the links still work today. Most were collected fairly recently
so they should still be OK I think.

Enjoy,
--
Helen Bates
Belleville, Ontario, Canada
Clayarters' URLs: http://amsterlaw.com/clayart/