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After three years of serving us as a Resident Artist, Studio Technician, and Adjunct Faculty, we are saying farewell to Jinsoo Song. Jinsoo is departing Fayetteville to join The Clay Studio in Philadelphia. We wish him the best and are thrilled about his transition to Philadelphia. Jinsoo has been a trusted colleague and generous mentor to many of our students He will be missed.
Filling Jinsoo's role will be Kensuke Yamada, who recently arrived in Fayetteville from—you guessed it—The Clay Studio in Philadelphia! We're excited to welcome him to the team, and promise we won't call him Jinsooke or Kensoo.
http://jinsoosong.com/home.html
A feature on the annual Peter's Valley anagama firing.
A scathing, open letter to students at Goldsmith College students in London. It's worth a read, for sure. Basically, it calls out the ways that critique can ultimately lapse into complicity—a worthwhile concern for any student that is trying to understand how to effectively engage with societal concerns.
Beyond the Brickyard. This year, juried by Tony Marsh.
Apply! Applications due by September 16th.
The clay pieces are from a few years back. I must have missed them at the time, but they're worth taking a look at. He's interested in turds, mainly, it seems.
hands in the air...
A show curated by one of my recent favorite artists, Ricky Swallow. The press release is worth reading, and does a good job of putting these works into the context of what is happening with clay in contemporary art today. The show features the works of four west coast ceramic stalwarts: Ron Nagle, Michael Frimkess, Peter Shire, and John Mason.
She’d visited the cadaver lab – “just one or two times,” she clarifies with a small laugh. “I was drawn to the way that they would peel back the skin – not to get too morbid – and the muscle striations were the most gorgeous patterns.”
This is Mackler's first solo show, at 82 years of age. It's pretty much getting rave reviews across the board. It's nice to know it can happen that late!
Alice Mackler | Kerry Schuss | Exhibitions | Time Out New York
We're proud to announce that Adam's article has been published! "To Serve the Divine" details Adam's interest and involvement in making pottery that serves African-Atlantic religious customs. It's a well-articulated, personal, and engaging read—and it stakes out a territory for the functional potter that is as unique as Adam himself.
https://issuu.com/studiopotter/docs/sp41_2web_32bf155af6b14e/35?e=0
A quick Paddy Johnson article aimed at those freshly minted MFA's that are panicking about their current joblessness. Simple, sound advice.
Article here.
Represented by Nicole Klagsbrun, who just happens to represent one of my all-time favorites, Mika Rottenberg.
hmmmm....
This time from the Boston Globe.
Whatever happened to the value of a humanities degree? Although this article is centered one educator's experience teaching literature, I can't help but to think of the trends we see in the visual arts. Kilnkenborg writes, "What many undergraduates do not know — and what so many of their professors have been unable to tell them — is how valuable the most fundamental gift of the humanities will turn out to be. That gift is clear thinking, clear writing and a lifelong engagement with literature."
I think the same can be said for visual literacy and creative thought, and that we sometimes lose sight of the longer-term goals of an arts education in exchange for skills that be more readily converted into near-term opportunities. I know I am guilty of that kind of thinking... Results Now!