Mark Shapiro: The Ceramic Art of Karen Karnes
Mark Shapiro gave a presentation about the life and work of ceramic artist Karen Karnes at the 2012 American Craft Council Baltimore Show.
Mark Shapiro gave a presentation about the life and work of ceramic artist Karen Karnes at the 2012 American Craft Council Baltimore Show.
The archaeological record contains clues about a group of people who moved around the ancient Southwest making beautiful red ware pottery. Can we track these "Lost Mogollon" based on the pottery they left behind? Follow me as I take you on a whirlwind tour around the American Southwest to look at the clues related to these people and their stunning pottery.
0:00 San Pedro River
3:14 Alkali Ridge
5:00 Edge of the Cedars
8:20 Reeve Ruin
10:55 Reasons Why They Returned
12:23 Conclusion
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I go looking for the oldest potters clay in the American Southwest near Tucson, Arizona only to find that this clay is rapidly disappearing beneath concrete. Explore the remote prehistory of ceramics and the long ancient ceramic traditions of the Tucson area.
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Native American pottery. Sometimes thought of as artifacts from the past or trendy decor, authentic Native American art is still very much alive in the form of pottery. In this segment, I visit Reyes Madalena in Moab, Utah to learn a bit more about this delicate process.
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From her studio in a disused London railway ticket office, Lisa Hammond shares the processes she follows to create her soda-fired carved pouring bowls. Discover more inside Ceramic Review issue 283, which features the full step-by-step masterclass. You can order back issues of the magazine from ceramicreview.com.
Film by Layton Thompson for Ceramic Review.
Watch Antonia Salmon, Ray Silverman and Janet Haig at work in their studios, in this film produced for the exhibition Shaping Ceramics: From Lucie Rie to Edmund de Waal at the Jewish Museum London (10 November 2016 – 26 February 2017).
Tin-glazed earthenware expert Daphne Carnegy shares the process and story behind her botany-inspired functional wares. Discover more inside Ceramic Review issue 288, which features the full step-by-step masterclass. You can order current and back issues of the magazine from ceramicreview.com.
Film by Layton Thompson for Ceramic Review.
Here's this week's ASMR version of my bowl throwing and trimming video. If you'd like to watch the version that goes into a lot more detail about the process and discusses the cross sections too, you can do so by following this link:
Timestamps:
0:00 – Introduction
0:13 – Preparing reclaimed clay to throw with
1:38 – Spiral wedging individual balls of clay
2:02 – Throwing bowls
5:51 – Trimming bowls
12:37 – Finished examples
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This video is excerpted from Design for the Soft Surface which is available in the Ceramic Arts Network Shop:
'It was at the wheel where it all came together for me. Tableware became an obsession, I loved the functionality of it, that it would be used and loved.'
In this video, Stuart Carey takes us step-by-step through the processes he uses to throw a thin-walled bowl, which he spray-glazes once it is bisque-fired.
Discover how Stuart makes his work in the full step-by-step masterclass inside CR 299 (September/October 2019). You can order current and back issues of the magazine from ceramicreview.com.
Film by Layton Thompson for Ceramic Review