Chris Gustin presents a slide lecture following his workshop at the University of Notre Dame. Originally streamed live on Periscope.
Recorded on 04/06/2016 09:34 PM UTC by artbyfuzzy
Notre Dame
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Chris Gustin demonstrates and explains how to use short coils to create curved walls.
Recorded on 04/06/2016 06:24 PM UTC by artbyfuzzy
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Chris Gustin workshop at the University of Notre Dame. Throwing cups on the pottery wheel. Originally streamed live on Periscope.
Recorded on 04/05/2016 07:04 PM UTC by artbyfuzzy
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Chris Gustin workshop at Notre Dame. Throwing and altering a large bowl on the pottery wheel.
Originally streamed live on periscope.
Recorded on 04/05/2016 08:34 PM UTC by artbyfuzzy
The loading of the anagama wood kiln at Gustn Ceramics, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the building of the kiln, and the 30th anniversary of Watershed Center for the Ceramic Art. Unloading is on July 1st (9am-2pm), public is invited. Exhibition, Gala Raffle and party is on September 2nd, proceeds to go to support Watershed.
The loading of the Gustin Anagama in November, 2016
The 4 day loading of Chris Gustin's anagama wood kiln, located in Dartmouth, MA. The loading was June 12-15, 2014.
Studio Talk with Chris Gustin
Chris Gustin
On View February 29 – April 26, 2020
Reception: Saturday, March 28 4pm-6pm
McGuireWoods Gallery
Artist Statement
I am interested in pottery that make connections to the human figure. The figurative analogies used to describe pots throughout history all in some way invite touch. The pots that I respond to all speak of a clear, direct sense of the hand. The hand is celebrated in the work by its maker, whether it is that of a fifteenth century rural potter or a nineteenth century court artisan. And it becomes a necessary tool for the user in understanding the relationship of the object to its function, and subsequently, to how that object informs ones life.
Making tile is a way for me to connect to the basics of functional ceramics and to touch the roots of utilitarian clay. My studio work over the years has moved away from an interest in function and utility to an interest in sculptural form. Yet the desire to make things that function in our daily lives still resonates deeply within me. I have found that this “need” is indeed quite strong, and over the years I have occasionally fed it by making simple objects for daily use; the cup, the bowl, the plate.
Chris Gustin was formerly Associate Professor of Ceramics and the senior faculty of the ceramics program at University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. After twenty years of teaching and working with hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students, he retired from academia in 1999 to devote full time and energies to his studio work and tile production company.
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Chris Gustin is a studio artist and an Emeritus Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. He received his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1975, and his MFA from Alfred University in 1977. Gustin lives and works in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Gustin’s work is published extensively and is represented in numerous public and private collections, including the Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the World Ceramic Exposition Foundation in Icheon, Korea, the American Museum of Ceramic Art, the Currier Museum of Art, the Yingge Museum in Taipai, and the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art. With more than 50 solo exhibitions, he has exhibited, lectured and taught workshops in the United States, Caribbean, South America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. He has received two National Endowment for the Arts Artist Fellowships, and four Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowships, the most recent in 2017. He is a member of the International Academy of Ceramics and was elected to the American Craft Council College of Fellows in 2016. He was awarded the Masters of the Medium award from the Renwick Alliance in 2017. Gustin is co-founder of the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Maine, and currently serves as Honorary Trustee on its board.
Chris is one of six artists who were chosen for similar reasons, and also for ones unique to each of them. All of them share a love of the material of clay, and an appreciation for the function of the particular objects that they create. Each of their experiences in clay is individual, but the common thread of education, from the past, present, and future, with their instructors being working artists in their field, ties them to the foundation of the Bauhaus.
For more information on the Walter Gropius Master Artist Ceramic Symposium, go to www.hmoa.org/education/gropius-ceramic-symposium/. For more information on the Walter Gropius Master Artist Program, go to www.waltergropius.org.
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This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how the National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov.
This project is presented with financial assistance from the West Virginia Department of the Arts, Culture and History, and the National Endowment for the Arts, with approval from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts.
The Walter Gropius Master Artist Series is funded through the generosity of the Estate of Roxanna Y. Booth, who wished to assist in the development of an art education program in accordance with the proposals of Walter Gropius, who designed the Museum’s Gropius Addition, as well as the Gropius Studios. The Museum is indebted to Roxanna Y. Booth’s son, the late Alex Booth, Jr., for his participation in the concept development of the Gropius Master Artists Workshops.
