Features the work and words of Richard Notkin of Helena, Montana. From a series of films about the Montana clay community. Funded in-part by a Big Sky Grant from the Montana Film Office.
Filmmaker, Geoffrey Pepos
Producer, Cynthia Knutsen
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Visiting Artist Residency: Richard Notkin
Dates of the residency: August 12 – 16, 2009
All images courtesy of the artist.
Directed by Derek Klein
Museum of Glass Executive Director: J. Timothy Close
Museum of Glass Hot Shop Team: Benjamin Cobb, Gabe Feenan , Alex Stisser, and Sarah Gilbert
The Visiting Artist Residency program is sponsored by
the Courtyard by Marriott -Tacoma Downtown
This video was created a few years back, the video itself and the following statement reflects where Jan and Randy were in their career at the time:
'Randy Johnston and Jan McKeachie Johnston have been producing wood-fired pottery from their Wisconsin workshop for over 30 years, carrying on a strong lineage and influence from Shoji Hamada, Warren MacKenzie and Bernard Leach. Randy teaches at the University of Wisconsin, River Falls and he and Jan have led numerous workshops around the United States. Their work is in many international public and private collections and Randy has work in the Permanent collections of the Minneapolis Art institute, Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Los Angeles County Museum.'
This video is from 'The Muse DVD Periodical', a collection of 50 relaxed, spontaneous conversations with writers, musicians, applied artists, dancers, curators and educators about how our lives are enhanced by our personal creative pursuit. High definition video has become standard in the few short years since this was shot. These are lower resolution, with my apologies. Technology moves on!
Thank you for this encounter, Randy & Jan.
Walter Gropius Masters Workshop Series Spring 2012, Randy Johnston
Ceramic artist Randy Johnston describes his yunomi.
Narrated by Craft in America Center.
Pictured: Randy Johnston, Yunomi, 2020
Upon the centennial of the founding of Leach Pottery, the Craft in America Center presents an exhibition celebrating the cup as object and the impact of Bernard Leach on studio ceramics. "A Humble Legacy" is an exhibition of approximately two dozen historic and contemporary cups made by a selection of artists affiliated with Leach Pottery and others who continue in its legacy. For more information, visit .
The Craft in America Center in Los Angeles is a craft-focused library and gallery offering artist talks, workshops, exhibits and educational programs.
For more info about Craft in America, visit www.craftinamerica.org.
All Craft in America programs are viewable on craftinamerica.org, the PBS iPhone/iPad app, and pbs.org/craft-in-america
Peter Voulkos at Archie Bray, 1955, from “Peter Voulkos Working,” produced by Susan Fanshel and Ann Voulkos, and distributed by Documentary Educational Resources.
Digital video, TRT 00:08:11
Photography by Maxime Blackmer
This video has no sound.
Peter Voulkos making a sculpture, c. 1956, from "Revolutions of the Wheel, the Emergence of American Clay Art," produced by Queens Row.
This video has no sound.
Charlie Park and Xa Sturgis, Director of the Ashmolean Museum, discuss the potter and artist Hans Coper. To mark the 100th anniversary of Hans Coper’s birth, the Ashmolean is devoting a display to an exhibition of Coper’s ceramics made across his career. The exhibition includes ceramics from the Museum’s own collection together with more than 30 loans from private collections.
This haniwa clay model of a horse from 6th-century Japan would have been buried in a tomb on ‘a very grand scale’, explains Japanese Art specialist Mark Hinton.
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The decoration and detailing suggest it would have been made for a ‘very high-ranking person’, with tombs for such people often being ‘similar in size to a football pitch’.
Haniwa of armoured warriors and horses of the 5th and 6th century A.D. indicate the military power of the ancestors of the imperial line, and show that the horse must have played a major role in the unification struggles and the rise of the Yamato clan.
Although archaeology tells us that there were wild horses in Japan long before the Kofun period when this was made, it is believed that they had never previously been domesticated. The contents of tombs attest that horses and riding accoutrements were brought to Japan from China and Korea around the end of the 4th and the beginning of the 5th century.
‘I think it is a very imposing and rather haunting creature,’ says Hinton of this impressive highlight from the Art of Japan sale on 8 December in London. ‘It gives us an insight into an extraordinary period in the pre-history of Japan.’
Points of Departure: Treasures of Japan from the Brooklyn Museum
March 7, 2014–June 8, 2014
"Haniwa"
Join Japan Society Gallery Director Miwako Tezuka as she guides viewers through time and space to explore Japanese art, culture, and history using works from Points of Departure: Treasures of Japan from the Brooklyn Museum as signposts along the way. For this journey you won't need a map, compass, or even a plane ticket! In this final installment, Dr. Tezuka examines two clay figurines known as haniwa. These two figures are almost 1,400 years old!
"A radically reorienting show…gives you a new way to navigate Japanese art." – The New York Times
Points of Departure: Treasures of Japan from the Brooklyn Museum is organized by Japan Society in collaboration with the Brooklyn Museum.
Music: "Takeda no Komoriuta" performed by Yoko Reikano Kimura and Hikaru Tamaki
