Mary Barringer | Celebrating #GlobalDayofClay 2017

Seasoned ceramic artist/studio potter, Mary Barringer, talks with The Marks Project research coordinator, Donald Clark, at her studio in Shelburne Falls, MA about her art, technique and the relationship of form, function and surface of her work. She also talks about some of her favorite pieces of her personal functional ceramic art collection and the […]

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The Spirit of Ceramcs – Volume 6, Linda Arbuckle: Fresh Color on Pottery

Arbuckle Teaser Clay icon Linda Arbuckle is widely known for her signature majolica-glazed earthenware, which marries function with beauty in the form of expressive, richly detailed surfaces. In this loving portrait of the artist, we gain an understanding of the generous spirit and warm intelligence so evident in her work. The film takes us inside

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A Town…and Village Two Clay Art Center Leigh Mickelson

A conversation with Clay Art Center's dynamic new executive director, Leigh Taylor Mickelson. CAC is an amazing cultural resource in Port Chester New York devoted to the ceramic arts. CAC has just embarked on a year long focus on the talent in close proximity to it . Titled, "In Our Backyard," CAC has scheduled exhibitions,

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Justin Novak – Disfigurine sculpture

American ceramist Justin Novak . . "The ceramic figurine has historically embodied a mainstream, bourgeois ideology, and for this reason I have employed it in the presentation of an alternative vision, an ironic anti-figurine, or `disfigurine`. In the "disfigurine" series, physical wounds such as bruises and lacerations serve as metaphors for psychological harm. Whereas the

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