Mary Barringer and Danielle Burke – 2022 JRACraft Distinguished Artist Series

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The James Renwick Alliance, in partnership with the Center for Craft, hosts fiber artist Danielle Burke and potter Mary Barringer for the 2022 Distinguished Artist Series.

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MARY BARRINGER
Mary Barringer received a BA in art from Bennington College, apprenticed with Michael Frimkess, and has been a studio artist since 1973, making both sculpture and functional pottery. Barringer's works incorporate her belief that the surface technique needs to be integral to a pot’s construction and not only its appearance. She uses multiple layers of glaze and slip that are scratched, stained and sanded resulting in the integration of the surface decoration with the clay beneath. Her work has been exhibited internationally, and she has taught widely at universities, art schools, and craft centers and including Ohio University, Hartford Art School, and Anderson Ranch.

DANIELLE BURKE
​Danielle Burke’s current work focuses on weaving histories, processes, and ephemera. Through her studio practice and archival research she hopes to better understand the boundaries of authenticity, the role of craft within a traditional practice, the influence of landscapes on material culture, and the ways that textiles can be read as texts.

Mary Barringer | Celebrating #GlobalDayofClay 2017

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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 marks on them. This was filmed live for #GlobalDayofClay. Visit our Facebook Page to see a better quality version.

For more info on Mary Barringer, visit her page on The Marks Project:

To join Mary in our dictionary of American ceramics, contact info@themarksproject.org.

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

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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 Arbuckle’s home, studio, and classroom to offer an intimate glimpse into her life, and into the personal relationships and everyday beauty that inspire her.

Linda Arbuckle is a professor of ceramics at the College of Fine Arts at the University of Florida. A past recipient of an Artists’ Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Arbuckle has presented numerous summer faculty sessions and artist workshops throughout the U.S. Her work appears in both national and international collections, among them Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN; Fredrick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; and Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT. Publications include a feature chapter about Linda’s work in The Penland Book of Ceramic: Master Classes in Ceramic Techniques, Creative Pottery: A Step By Step Guide and Showcase, and Earthenware Masters.

The Story of the Westchester Craft Crawl

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The Story of the Westchester Craft Crawl

Westchester Craft Crawl is this weekend! We sat down with founder Leigh Taylor Mickelson to learn more about how this event came about during the pandemic. On May 15-16 (and Oct. 2-3), visit any or all of the ten locations across Westchester to view (and buy!) the work of 56 professional craft artists.

Learn more about this event in the May Issue of ArtsNews.