[caption id="attachment_4109" align="aligncenter" width="384" caption="Julia Galloway"][/caption] This weekend I had the pleasure of going to Casper, Wyoming to see the Persistence in Clay: contemporary ceramics in Montana, at the Nicolaysin Museum.  Unfortunately I missed the panel discussion on Friday, because I had to teach, but I drove up for the demos on Saturday, the demos on Saturday with Julia Galloway, Alison Rientjes, David Smith and Stephen Braun. 

These pictures are from a new app that I have called "Hipster", it makes your pictures into postcards.  It automatically adds the location of where you are. 

I was delighted to catch up with with Julia Galloway on Saturday; we went to Alfred together, ooooh so long ago.  It’s been 20 plus years since Julia have seen each other.  As always it was great to sit down with old friends and hear what they have been doing.  I’m not surprised at Julia’s success; she was the hardest working person I’ve ever met.  She has really dedicated her life to ceramics.  The ceramics world is lucky to have her in it.  Julia’s work is absolutely stunning!  If you’re not familiar with her I recommend that you make the jump to her website and marvel at her prolific and amazing work. www.juliagalloway.com .

Take a quick tour of some of my favorites from the show.  I had so many favs I can't post them all. 

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  Several days ago, well it’s probably more like a few weeks ago now; the wonderful people of Ceramics Now sent me pictures from the reception of Ceramics Now Exhibition.  Although, I don’t know a soul in the photographs it was fantastic to see everyone enjoying themselves at the reception.  It looks like they had a great turnout.  I wish I could have been there.  I am very proud of Vasi Hirdo and his very ambitious staff getting the first edition of Ceramics Now off the ground.  Without further ado here are some of the pictures from the reception of the first Ceramics Now Exhibition.  Plus I got my hard copy of the Ceramics Now magazine the mail the other day.  I was very excited to see the magazine in print and hold it.  I was thrilled to see it as a digital magazine, but there is something to seeing it on paper.  Maybe my age is showing and I haven’t really caught up to the digital age.  Plus I love the stamps they used!!! I started a Pinterest account!  So if you are so inclined please follow me and I'll follow you.  I just figuring out Pinterest, so I hope I get it. 

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I am very pleased to announce the arrival of the newest ceramics magazine, Ceramics Now, from Cluj-Napoca, Romania.  I just got my digital copy and it looks impressive!  The staff at Ceramics Now has been working so tirelessly for months now.  They are featuring 40 different artists, ceramic artists: Claire Muckian, Carol Gouthro, Ian F. Thomas, Cynthia Lahti, Carole Epp, Simcha Even-Chen, Liza Riddle, Patrick Colhoun, Mark Goudy, Chang Hyun Bang, Ian Shelly, Shamai Gibsh, Margrieta Jeltema, John Shirley, Jim Kraft, Blaine Avery, Shane Porter, Antonella Cimatti, Maciej Kasperski, Wim Borst, Merete Rasmussen and I am so lucky to be one of the artists as well!   Right now I am so flattered to be included on their website and to be one of their featured artists in the first issue.  They are offering the magazine at a fantastic deal $15 dollars or $4.00 for a digital copy or you can subscribe for a year for $59 with free digital subscription.   Please make the jump to Ceramics Now to read an excerpt of my interview on their website. www.ceramicsnow.org  Or better yet go become a subscriber to the magazine and read the entire article!

Thank you so much to Vasi Hirdo the editor and the rest of the staff!

On December 3-4^th, Jonathan Kaplan will instruct a two-day workshop on mold-making, in the Plinth Gallery Studio.  Please see the attached flyer.   Cost is $150/person for both days which includes all materials, and lunch.   Please contact the Gallery if you are interested in attending this workshop, and feel free to forward to anyone you  know who may be interested.  This will be our last workshop for 2011, and coincides with our exhibition of Jonathan’s own work in the Gallery.

18 Hands Art Show and Sale

Works by 9 talented artists!

Josh Eastman

Deborah Britt

Sandy Bordson

Mark Koons 

Do Palma

Amy Mahaffy

Nancy McCalla

Georgia Roswell

and me. Artist Reception on Thursday November 10th during Art Design & Dine from 5:00 til 8:00pm Additional hours on Friday the 11th from 3:00 til 8:00pm Saturday the 12th from Noon til 4:00pm

A portion of the proceeds will go to benefit Grace for Two Brothers. For more information on this important organization please visit their website at http://gracefor2brothers.com

 

Jim Kraft’s work is compelling yet deceptive. Kraft builds large container forms by using small pieces of cut or torn clay which is constructed in such a way as to appear as a completely different material.  This manipulation of the clay creates a visual deception, of baskets constructed of wood, fiber or cork pieces when in reality, they are ceramic.   Seattle-based Kraft has worked in ceramics for over 30 years, and likes the idea of being a part of the long history of people making things with their hands. He has described his own work as an evolution of ideas, often influenced by the natural world and native cultures. Kraft often works with the idea of smaller parts making up the whole, and this can be seen clearly in pieces such as “White Keep” or “Kala”.  These large vessels are made using coil and brick-like pieces, or cut and torn clay parts assembled to create a vessel which appears basket-like.  Kraft’s use of texture in the clay is exciting, and this exploitation of texture, combined with his use of natural colors for surface treatment, further trick the eye into seeing a different material. - Jonathan Kaplan, Plinth Gallery Ceramic Constructions” opens at Plinth Gallery on First Friday, November 4^th, from 6-9pm. This exhibition will be on display during Denver Art Week and through November 26th. For infromation please go to Jim's website and to see the upcoming exhibitions at Plinth make the jump to their website.  HOW DID YOU BECOME AN ARTIST? I think I became a creative person first, it wasn't until later that I thought of myself as an artist. As a child I loved to draw and I had a strong connection w nature. I was inquisitive. As time went on and I took art classes in school I realized I liked to work with my hands, to make things. Plus I had an innate desire to express myself. I would say it was when I was an adult and I had a career in ceramics that I started to think of myself as an artist. Perhaps I could see that others thought me an artist and that made me an artist. I think of myself as a creative person and a maker of things. HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR STYLE? My style is what bubbles up from my interest in the vessel form, my interest in texture, my interest in nature and my interest in how previous cultures have distilled or combined these same elements. I want clay to look like clay. I meet it halfway, I don't wish to over power it. WHAT IS YOUR INSPIRATION FOR YOUR PIECES? The vessel form in general and the things I mentioned in the previous answer; nature and other cultures. I'm generally inspired to be creative and to follow in the path of a long line of people who made objects with their hands... for ceremony or every day use. WHAT KEEPS YOU MOTIVATED? The need to be creative. To evolve ideas. I see the ideas in my head and go from there. I also take successful aspects of a series and build on those aspects in the next series. ARE YOU A FULL TIME ARTIST? Yes. WHAT OR WHO INSPIRES YOU? That's a difficult question to answer as I don't think I am directly inspired by anything. It's a filtering and distilling of many things like travel, other visual art, nature, music, beauty, decay. If I had to say though I'd mention the cave painters, van Gogh, basket weavers, Joni Mitchell, Cary Grant, Gandhi, John Merrick, Steve. HOW DO YOU MAINTAIN A HEALTHY LIFE AND WORK BALANCE? I'm a spin addict and I get enough sleep and I can sit around and do nothing for hours on end. And I travel. ART BUSINESS? Make peace w the fact that the Art World is a necessary evil. There is art and then there is the art world. Do your best to have integrity and don't be seduced by the art world to become famous. WHAT ADVICE CAN YOU GIVE ASPIRING ARTISTS STRUGGLING TO FIND THEIR OWN VOICE AND LOOK?  Make what you want to make not what you think you should make. Let it come out, don't think about it too much.  Art is another language, not one of words and ideas.

I was very excited to hear that Ceramics Monthly decided to put my salt and pepper shakers in their Exposure section of this month’s magazine.  I’m in there with Kari Radasch  and Victoria Christen for the show Table Manners: Functional Pottery for the Table, a Feast for your eyes which is now at Lark and Key Gallery in Charlotte, North Carolina.  Thank you so much Erin Pfeifer!

I’m so late with this post.  I feel awful.  I just haven’t posted about the show Table Manners @ Lark and Key Gallery in Charlotte, North Carolina.  Months ago Jennifer Mecca asked me if I was interested in being in a show with her and her Mud Mama friends, and I answered, “Hell Yes!”  Well, the show went up October 5, and will end on November 26.  Jennifer Mecca and Amy Sanders curated the show and they did a fantastic job!!  I wish I could have made it to the reception!  But Wyoming isn’t that close to North Carolina, no matter how many times I look at the map!  I was blown away by the assembly of artists Jennifer and Amy got for the show, I feel like the red headed step child of the show.  I am in great company!  Linda Christianson, Victoria Christen,  Amy Evans, Ursala Hargens, Allison McGowan, Jennifer Mecca, Gillian Parke, Kari Radasch, Amy Sanders, Paula Smith, and Liz Zlot Summerfield.  And the paintings are by Diane Hoeptner, Duy Huynh and Wanda Steppe. The pictures that Lark and Key posted on their Flickr site the show looks terrific.  Please click on the link and enjoy the show!

If you are in the Denver area please come by and see my work in Hand Lettered at Abecedarian Gallery. 

November 4 – December 17, 2011

Opening Reception November 4, 6-8pm

910 Santa Fe, #101, Denver, CO  80204

 Abecedarian Gallery is a contemporary book arts gallery in Denver, Colorado. Alicia Bailey the owner asked me to participate in the Hand Lettered show after she saw my work at Plinth Gallery, Jonathan Kaplan being the amazing guy that he is said “No Problem.” So for the month of November my work is in two galleries in Denver. I’m thrilled to be in the show; I’ve always love book arts and have dabbled here and there in making books. But I’ve never felt they have been successful. I can’t wait to see the show!!

Here is the press release for the show and some links to some of the artists in Hand Lettered! In this final show of the year, Abecedarian Gallery presents Hand Lettered, a group exhibition featuring artists whose works include hand lettered elements as either primary content or concept. The exhibition was curated by gallery director Alicia Bailey and features work by Heidi Zednik, Jan Owen, Justin Quinn and Mamiko Ikeda alongside books and sculptures by seventeen other artists from throughout the United States, Germany and Argentina. Heidi Zednik is represented by Abecedarian Gallery and has been included in several previous exhibits. Here exhibited are several works created particularly for this exhibition. A dual citizen Austrian/American Zednik uses both painting and original texts in her works on paper, her studio work a recognition that art can be a catalyst for beauty, for peace and for being still.  Maine artist Jan Owen has also been included in previous exhibitions at Abecedarian. Captivated by the gestures found in handwritten letters, she often works with texts written by others. More than marks made on specific surfaces, Owen’s work integrates surface with mark, which she does by working on translucent materials that are layered, or by weaving materials back into the original surface. New to Abecedarian is Justin Quinn, a printmaker currently living in St. Cloud, MN, displaying both books and prints from his Moby Dick series. Quinn has altered Melville’s epic novel by changing all letters to the letter E, thus abstracting the text away from something that is read into something that is seen. Both a bound copy of the original graphite drawings, and a photocopy version installed on the wall will be on view, alongside an intaglio print. Also new to the gallery is Mamiko Ikeda. Born in Tokyo, Mamiko has lived in Colorado since 1995. She learned Japanese calligraphy from her mother, master calligrapher Shotei Miura. Here are exhibited several monotypes with calligraphy, works created as a form of meditation, the brush movements reflecting her moods, feelings and thoughts and hand painted boxes, each containing hand-lettered and printed manga scrolls. Hand Lettered also includes artists’ books by the following artists: Carol Erickson (Albuquerque, New Mexico) - Emily’s Trunk, a piece inspired by the writings of Emily Dickinson, Carol Es - All Done But None, an edition book with each copy hand written with original watercolors and prints. Cheryl Bailey/Deborah Henson (Denver/Longmont, Colorado) – A Manual for Future Departures, a collaborative multiple page scroll designed to hang on the wall mimicking a check list. Danielle Feliciano (St Louis Park, Minnesota) Luminous a digitally printed abecedary of illuminated letters Elizabeth McKee (Pasadena, Maryland) let it go a book work based on an e. e. cummings text of the same name Ellen Wiener (Southold, New York) Even the Rain, a poem by Agha Shahid Ali in a lavishly painted and printed accordion book Friedrich Kerksieck (Memphis, Tennessee) Abandoned Tales a letterpress book of text and illustrations reproduced via photopolymer plates and utilizing both hand drawn and digitally typeset text. Jennifer Hines (Chicago, Illinois) Kneel, a mixed media accordion with a body relief print and handwriting Kristen Catlett - Booneville, Arkansas, Alphabook: A Celebration of Letters, a book letterpress printed from hand drawn linocuts. Marí Emily Bohley (Dresden, Germany) Hoar Frost, Hanging in Time, accordion books an elegant use of natural materials along with The Book of Silence a codex incorporating hand-written translations of various words. Marina Soria (Buenos Aires, Argentina) Winter and Autumn, two puzzle books that allow viewer re-arrangement of the pages Stephen Sidelinger  - (Venice, Florida) Baudelaire Prose Poems Book 1&2 - two lavishly illustrated books with hand calligraphy and illuminations, each with 26 poems. Sun Young Kang - (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) The Way To Be Empty 2 is composed of 108 small boxes set within 5 larger boxes. Each small box has a character hand burned into the cover with incense. Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord (Newburyport, Massachusetts) Words for the Journey, a fan book with one one line quotations from various well known authors. Turner Hilliker (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Velvet Vacuums and Epic Moments of Personal Failure are both digital reprints of hand lettered works. As well as works by by E. Brooke Lanier (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Veiled Threat, Sincerely and Caveat modestly scaled wall works with troubling messages Connie Norman (Cheyenne, Wyoming) a selection of ceramic vessels incorporating repeating messages alongside stenciled glazed designs.

 

Modalert (Brand) FOR SALE, The graceful forms, elegant patterns and lively colors of Kristen Kieffer’ s  “Lovely Intangibles”, will be on display at Plinth Gallery during October.  This exhibition, featuring all new work from the Massachusetts-based ceramic artist, opens “First Friday” October 7^th with an artist reception from 6-9pm.   

Kristen will also instruct a two-day workshop October 8-9 in the Plinth Gallery studio.  The workshop will focus on altering forms, and decoration techniques such as stamping, slip-trailing, sponging and resists. Modalert (Brand) from mexico, Cost is $250/person which includes lunch, and interested persons should email the Gallery for more information.  

Kristen’s website and blog KiefferCeramics.com 

 Tell us a little about yourself!

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My favorite compliment is, where can i cheapest Modalert (Brand) online, Modalert (Brand) 800mg, 875mg, 900mg, “I’ve never seen anything like this before.” I wrote a blog post in January 2010 called “Signature Style” (http://kiefferceramics.com/2010/01/05/signature-style//) that delves into this subject a bit, and remains the most commented-on post I’ve written, where can i Modalert (Brand) online. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Las Vegas, Nevada, I also recently re-wrote my artist statement, which I think explains my perspective about my current pots fairly well:

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What is the inspiration for your pieces. Modalert (Brand) FOR SALE, Most of the blogging I do on my website is about my influences. The blog is obviously a marketing tool, but it’s also a place for me to communicate to my collectors, gather my thoughts by having to write them down, and catalog my inspiration. My influences are rarely ceramic and vary wildly (architecture to candy, industrial design to furniture, etc.), as I mention in my artist statement above. I’m now keeping track of influence images for future blog posts on Pinterest (http://pinterest.com/kiefferceramics/). And, starting with my post about the title for my exhibition (http://kiefferceramics.com/2011/09/12/lovely-intangibles/) at Plinth this month, there are dozens of blog posts on my site about my influences (http://kiefferceramics.com/category/influences/) and favorites (http://kiefferceramics.com/category/favorites// ): separate and sometimes overlapping categories for things that impact my work vs. things I admire. 

 How does your DVD on surface decoration relate to your workshops?

The DVD (http://kiefferceramics.com/dvd/ ) was a neat, independent project that is a great compliment to my teaching, Modalert (Brand) FOR SALE. The response has been tremendous and supportive. Since it came out last year, many folks who purchased it have been enticed to take a full workshop. And many more who took a workshop have purchased it as reminder of what they learned. The DVD has sold all over the world, and while I’d certainly be happy flying anywhere and everywhere to teach, this instructional video has allowed folks who can’t come for a workshop the opportunity to see some of the techniques I enjoy in a personal format.

What keeps you motivated?


I think being a self-employed anything requires a certain kind of personality, an inner drive. I strive to continue to be a studio potter, so how to do that (and pay the bills) is on-going motivation.

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