Ayumi Horie is a potter who specializes in crafting bowls perfect for eating ramen. The perfect ramen bowl is all about the curve of the bowl. The INSIDER team believes that life is an adventure! Subscribe to our channel and visit us at:
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Sexism and misogyny in the field of ceramics are discussed from different points of view with the goal of providing concrete information for change. Art historian, Jenni Sorkin, provides an overview of how "bro culture" within ceramics emerged out of the GI bill and into academia. Attorney, Dana Lossia, makes legal analyses of hypothetical case studies based on actual stories that were submitted to the panel. Artists, Ayumi Horie and Sunshine Cobb, discuss personal and organizational accountability together with offering checklists for personal well-being and organizational health.
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Ayumi Horie
BIO:
Ayumi Horie is a studio potter in Portland, Maine who makes functional pottery with drawings of animals. In 2015, she was awarded a Distinguished Fellow in Craft grant from the United States Artists Foundation. She runs Pots In Action, a curatorial project on Instagram that features international ceramics and recently completed a collaborative public art project, Portland Brick, that repairs city sidewalks with bricks stamped with past, contemporary, and future memories. In 2011, she was the first recipient of Ceramics Monthly’s Ceramic Artist of the Year award. She has organized multiple online fundraisers including Obamaware in 2008 and Handmade For Japan in 2011. She is currently on the board of the American Craft Council and accessCeramics.org.
STATEMENT:
My work attempts to deepen connections between people and their communities, serving both a physical purpose and as a vehicle to open the softer side of a person. I want to explore individual vulnerability by drawing images that evoke an emotional response and also explore how public art invites a community to deepen their link to one another and to their sense of home.
My work has multiple directions- functional ceramics, tote bags, photography, social media and social practice. My primary work for the last twenty years has been that of a studio potter. I use imperfections in form as evidence of human vulnerability to link the user to the maker. I am interested in the anti-masterpiece and the anti-monumental, because I think one kind of meaningful connection to an object, and by extension another person, takes place through daily interaction in intimate domestic spaces.
My pottery, photography, Pots In Action and my collaborative public art project, Portland Brick, reflect my interest in relational aesthetics. The dialogue and impact on both parties is concrete. Much of my work is given as gifts, and the social exchange aspect of my practice overlaps with my explorations in community projects that have participatory elements, storytelling components, and even fundraising goals supporting social change.
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Our very exciting guest this week is Ayumi Horie, a potter artist from Portland, Maine who believes that the best handmade pottery encourages connections between people and makes daily life better. She received a Distinguished Fellow grant in Craft by the United States Artists and is the first recipient of Ceramics Monthly’s Ceramic Artist of the Year award. In 2020, she was awarded an Honorary Member at National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts for “outstanding contribution” to the field. She also organized Obamaware, a fundraiser involving the work of nationally known ceramic artists who made Obama-themed work, which raised funds for the Obama/Biden campaign. Ayumi is currently on the board of the American Craft Council and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and her work is in various collections throughout the US. We talk with Ayumi about pottery as functional art, her Japanse background, family (and redefining family), and social media.
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Join us for a lively discussion about ceramics offered in connection to the exhibition An Adventurous Spirit: The Jane Costello Wellehan Collection.
Ayumi Horie is a full-time studio potter from Portland, Maine who makes functional pots, mainly with drawings of animals. In 2015, she awarded a Distinguished Fellow grant in Craft by the United States Artists and is the first recipient of Ceramics Monthly’s Ceramic Artist of the Year award. This year, 2020, she was awarded an Honorary Member at NCECA for “outstanding contribution” to the field. She has taught workshops and given lectures at many universities, art centers and residencies in the U.S. and abroad, including the Archie Bray Foundation, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Greenwich House Pottery, Penland School of Crafts, Peter’s Valley, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, the Northern Clay Center, and the International Ceramic Research Center in Denmark. She has served on the board of directors at the Archie Bray Foundation and American Craft Council. Currently, Ayumi is President of the board of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. Her work is in various collections throughout the US, including the Museum of Art and Design in New York City.
Mark Johnson is currently Professor of Ceramics & Foundation at the Maine College of Art. He received his BFA and MFA degrees from Kent State University. His ceramic work explores the relationship between control and chance that is an important part of the soda firing process. Pottery forms, including vases, jars, teapots, platters, and pouring vessels, are surfaced with glazes that interact with the clay body and the soda kiln atmosphere to create a synthesis of material, form, and process. His artwork has been featured in numerous books and periodicals and has been included in over 200 hundred exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout the United States. He has been an Artist-in-Residence at the Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana and the Watershed Center for Ceramic Art, Newcastle, Maine. Mark has received Individual Artist Fellowships from the Maine Arts Commission and the New England Foundation for the Arts/NEA.
Sequoia Miller is a curator, historian, and studio potter. He has a BA in Russian & Art History from Brandeis University, an MA in Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture from the Bard Graduate Center in New York City, and a PhD in the History of Art from Yale University. His thesis analyzed the connections between ceramics and conceptual art practices on the East and West Coasts of the United States in the 1960s and ‘70s. Sequoia curated The Ceramic Presence in Modern Art at the Yale University Art Gallery and authored the accompanying award-winning catalogue. Before re-entering academia, he was a full-time studio potter for more than 10 years. Based in the Pacific Northwest, he made one-of-a-kind functional pots for daily use in domestic environments. Sequoia has exhibited widely and led workshops at craft schools, universities, and art centers in the U.S. and Canada.
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Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, is one of the nation's leading liberal arts colleges. It is a welcoming community whose members care deeply about the rigorous, challenging, and rewarding life of ideas and principles, and value their exchange and examination.
Take a look into the studio practice of Maine-based potter, Ayumi Horie. Using traditional wet throwing and a technique she developed twenty years ago called dry throwing, Horie makes pottery in porcelain and applies decals to glazed pieces. She talks about the importance of touch and the haptic in life. White pots are a reference to the nearly invisible white decals on white porcelain. Horie talks about what it means to make slow pots in a digital world.
メイン州のアメリカ人陶芸家、アユミ・ホリエのスタジオ風景。ホリエは器を作る際、伝統的な水引きの他に水を使わない「乾き引き」を２０年前に開発しました。動画では磁器粘土で作って釉をかけて焼いた器にオリジナルのデカールを施しています。そして毎日の生活の中での感触と感覚の大切さについて語っています。白い器はあえて白い表面にみえにくい白い絵をのせたもの。デジタルの世界で実際に手に取らないと全体がわかりにくい「ゆっくりした器」を作ることについて語っています。
Studio Assistant: Molly Spadone
スタジオアシスタント：モリー・スパドン
Michael Wilson
MW Photographic: Director and Filming
監督および撮影：マイケル・ウィルソン MW Photographic
Chloe Beaven: Video and Sound Editing
ビデオおよび音楽編集：クロエ・ビーバン
Miles Beaven: Music
音楽：マイルズ・ビーバン
Special thanks to Ai Kanazawa Cheung of Entoten for translation!
Throwing clay into a wooden mold for Portland Brick, a public art project in Portland, Maine in which past, contemporary, and future memories are stamped into bricks that repair city sidewalks. Ayumi Horie and Elise Pepple collaborating. Thanks to Janine Grant for throwing the clay
