Documentary

Jugtown & Mark Hewitt Pottery

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Jugtown Pottery, a working pottery and an American Craft Shop, is located in Seagrove, NC in the community of Westmoore. It was started in 1917 by two artists from Raleigh, North Carolina who shared a love for pottery, Jacques and Juliana Busbee. Today Jugtown still follows the same approach to pottery as laid out by the Busbees. Master potter, Vernon Owens, with his wife Pamela and son, Travis, follow the same approach to pottery as Jugtown did when it began in 1917. They are to pottery much like Ford is to cars — a family business whose pieces have evolved in style yet have remained incredibly true to its roots.

Wedgwood Pottery (1966)

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Barlaston, Staffordshire.

The manufacturing of Wedgwood China has not changed much since Josiah Wedgwood first opened his factory – a look around the Wedgwood factory.

M/S of a row of girls pummelling clay into moulds. C/U of a girl emptying the moulds – delicate little clay figures fall out. C/U of man's hands carefully laying the figures on an unfired china dish. Zoom out on a man as he sticks figures to a jug, pan along to another man working on a bowl.

Extreme C/U of an engraver tapping out patterns on a copper cylinder, M/S of a row of engravers at work. C/U of a sheet of pattern transfers coming off metal rollers. M/S of a girl cutting out circles from the sheet. M/S of another girl brushing the transfers onto a plate. Panning shot along a workshop full of women sticking transfers to cups and plates.

C/U of a girl decorating a jug by hand, zoom out and pan across a workshop full of workers painting crockery. Extreme C/U on a brush painting an ivy pattern on the rim of a plate. High angled shot of a man painting a gold pattern on a plate rim. More shots of the hand painting workshop – lots of use of steadycam as it zooms around from worker to worker. M/S of a row of women polishing completed bits of Wedgwood, zoom in on a gold rimmed plate.

Various C/Us on sparkling Wedgwood on display.

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Beyond The Pottery: The Creative Giant, Josiah Wedgwood (Full Documentary) | Perspective

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Historian and author An Wilson explores the life of his great hero, Josiah Wedgwood. As one of the founding fathers of the Industrial Revolution, Wegdwood was a self-made, self-educated creative giant, whose other achievements might be better known if he wasn't so celebrated for his pottery.

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Meet The Artist: Richard Notkin

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All rights reserved. ©2009 Museum of Glass
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

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Peter Voulkos Working in Clay – PREVIEW

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Peter Voulkos is the undisputed creative force behind the American Clay Revolution that began in the 1950s and continues today. His energy and charisma are legendary. Peter Voulkos Working offers a window into three distinct chapters of his prodigious career. It features newly re-mastered films available digitally for the first tim

WORKING IN CLAY (26 min, 1992, filmed by Ann Voulkos)
Working in Clay intimately observes the artist in his Oakland studio as he creates plates, tea bowls and a large stack. What's captured is an intuitive process. The surface of a plate comes alive with a range of gestures from delicate lines to violent slashes. The quiet handling of a Japanese tea bowl is suddenly interrupted, revealing beauty in the accidental. While creating a large stack (Kings Chamber) Voulkos composes as he works, improvising like a jazz musician who has deep trust in both his instincts and his technical control. In these filmed moments, we see him alive in his work, powerfully present.

The Making of a Porcelain Bowl

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On our trip to Jingdezhen, the birthplace of porcelain, we got to see many talented artisans at work. This particular visit was at a ceramic factory. Each worker works a different part of the process.

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