Contemporary Art

In Bloom by Zemer Peled – Behind the scene

The In Bloom collection by Zemer Peled is the result of an encounter between a talented young artist and exceptional craftsmanship. During her residency at the Manufacture Bernardaud, Zemer Peled spent time observing and understanding the complexity of creating a porcelain piece. It is with great enthusiasm that she became interested in the know how of decoration, alongside an expert who has been working at Bernardaud for more than 30 years. She learned to perform a quick, precise gesture and to perfectly control the pressure of her brush to achieve the desired effect: a decor where you feel the gesture and texture.

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La collection In Bloom de Zemer Peled est le résultat de la rencontre entre une jeune artiste talentueuse et un savoir-faire d’exception. Durant sa résidence à la manufacture Bernardaud, Zemer Peled a passé du temps à observer et comprendre le travail de chacun des corps de métiers qui sont à l’œuvre dans la fabrication d’une pièce en porcelaine. C’est avec beaucoup d’enthousiasme qu’elle s’est intéressée à celui de fileur décorateur aux côtés d’un expert qui travaille chez Bernardaud depuis plus de 30 ans. Elle a ainsi appris à exécuter un geste rapide, précis et à maîtriser parfaitement la pression de son pinceau pour obtenir l’effet désiré : un décor où l’on sent le geste et la texture.

Yeesookyung 1

1 – A visit to the Saatchi Gallery
If you're planning to go to London, you must visit the Saatchi Gallery.
The exhibition Korean Eye 2012 is a very interesting opportunity to discover or rediscover some artists. Personally, I continue to appreciate Yeesookyung with its delicate ceramic sculptures are very similar to an explosion of soap bubbles.
Watch the shorts videos that I took and tell me your opinion of this artist.

Del Harrow Lecture | Viola Frey Distinguished Visiting Professor

This lecture was recorded September 21, 2016, in Hahl Hall on the Oakland campus of California College of the Arts (CCA).

CCA’s Ceramics Program is pleased to welcome Del Harrow as the 2016 Viola Frey Distinguished Visiting Professor.

Del Harrow’s art practice spans genres of sculpture and design and integrates traditional manual and skill based forming processes with digital fabrication technology.

The artist has been invited to lecture widely on his own work and on the intersection of digital fabrication and craft in contemporary art and education.

Recent lectures include Syracuse University/The Everson Museum of Art; The Auerbach Endowed Lecture Series at Hartford Art School, Connecticut; and the Current Perspectives Lecture Series at Kansas City Art Institute.

His work has been exhibited recently at The Milwaukee Art Museum, The Denver Art Museum, The Arizona State University Art Museum, Vox Populi Gallery, The Museum of Fine Art in Boston, Haw Contemporary in Kansas City, and Harvey Meadows gallery in Aspen.

Harrow lives and works in Fort Collins, Colorado, with his wife, potter Sanam Emami and their son, William. He is an associate professor at Colorado State University where he teaches sculpture, digital fabrication, and ceramics.
About the Viola Frey Distinguished Visiting Professor Endowment

The program is supported in part through generous gifts to the Viola Frey Distinguished Visiting Professor Endowment. Created in 2001 to honor the life and work of groundbreaking and cross-disciplinary sculptor Viola Frey, CCA faculty member for more than three decades and CCA alumna, the endowment brings leading artists from around the world to teach as CCA Distinguished Visiting Professors.

Frey is an internationally respected artist who worked across media — painting, works on paper, and sculpture. Renowned for her monumental colorfully glazed clay sculptures of men and women, she is recognized for expanding the traditional boundaries of ceramics through her revolutionary use of clay.

Frey joined the CCA faculty in 1965, where she taught for nearly 35 years, becoming full professor and chair of the Ceramics Program. During her tenure, she guided the design and building of the Noni Eccles Treadwell Ceramic Arts Center on the Oakland campus and in 1999 was awarded the status of professor emeritus.

Ceramic Artist Randy Johnston on his Yunomi

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

Glenn Adamson Visiting Lecture: Voulkos, The Breakthrough Years

Peter Voulkos (1924–2022) was a major figure in the Montana Modernist movement.

Thanks to a community grant from MCAT, Missoula's Community Media Resource, we are able to share this lecture, presented by curator and theorist Glenn Adamson, that took place on April 27, 2017 in the Hellgate High School auditorium.

Adamson is the author of "Voulkos: The Breakthrough Years" and co-curated an exhibition of the same title for the Museum of Arts and Design. This lecture was presented as part of MAM's "Voices in Contemporary Art" series.