Links to Interviews:
Andy Anderson
http://www.wpapotters.blogspot.com/2010/07/red-clay-tile-works-with-andy-anderson.html
Dan Vito and Donna Hettrick
http://www.wpapotters.blogspot.com/2010/10/fireborn-studios-profile-of-dan-vito.html
Jeff Schwarz - since this interview, Jeff has relocated to Brooklyn, NY
http://www.wpapotters.blogspot.com/2010/10/profile-jeff-schwarz.html
Karen Howell - since this interview, Karen has closed her studio
http://www.wpapotters.blogspot.com/2011/01/profile-karen-howell.html
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Monday, April 9, 2012
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
List of the Smithsonian Artist Interviews Awaiting Transcription
List of the Smithsonian Artist Interviews Awaiting Transcription or on Microfilm
Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
Link to Smithsonian’s Oral History Interviews
No live links.
Bennett Bean
Scheduled for transcription.
Paulus Berensohn
Scheduled for transcription.
Don Reitz
Scheduled for transcription.
Edward Eberle
Scheduled for transcription.
Rudolf Staffel
Interview not posted.
Tashiko Takaezu
Interview not posted.
Ken Price
Interview not posted.
Henry Varnum Poor
Transcript: Patrons must use microfilm copy.
Tony Marsh
Scheduled for transcription.
Laura Anderson
Transcript: use requires an appointment.
Charles Fergus Binns
Microfilm reels 3606 through 3611 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
Harding Black
Microfilm reels 2245 & 2250 available for use through interlibrary loan.
Aaron Bohrod
Microfilm reels 1794-1797 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
Anne Currier
Scheduled for transcription.
Ruth Duckworth
Interview not posted.
Edris Eckhardt
Interview not posted.
John Glick
Interview not posted.
Wayne Higby
Tapes. Use requires an appointment.
Annelies Ruth Kahn
Microfilm roll 2889 available at Museum of Fine Arts, Houstonand through interlibrary loan.
Luman Pierre Kelsey
Microfilm reel D23 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
Richard Mower – did a series of video taped workshops of potters. Part of the “Making it in Clay” series done at Montgomery College from 1978 to 1981.
Unmicrofilmed: use requires an appointment.
Otto Natzler
Transcript: Use requires an appointment.
Richard Notkin
Scheduled for transcription.
Antonio Prieto
Use requires an appointment.
Viktor Schreckengost
Microfilm reel 1078 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
Evaline C. Sellors
Microfilm reels 2080-2081 available for use through interlibrary loan.
Ken Shores
Scheduled for transcription.
Mary Chase Stratton
Microfilm reels 593, 1010 & 1021 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
Akio Takamori
Scheduled for transcription.
Frans Wildenhain
Untranscribed; use requires an appointment.
Marguerite Wildenhain
Untranscribed; use requires an appointment.
Paula Winokur
Scheduled for transcription.
Bob Winokur
Scheduled for transcription.
Betty Woodman
Scheduled for transcription.
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Links to the Smithsonian Artist Interviews
Links to the Smithsonian Artist Interviews
Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
Link to Smithsonian’s Complete Oral History Interviews
I have posted below the links to completed transcripts and also a photo of each artisan's work. In a separate posting I will list other potters/ceramic artists who have been interviewed but not yet transcribed. Those will be added in the future when the Smithsonian makes them available.
Potters/Ceramic Artists
Robert Arenson
Rudy Autio
Ralph Bacerra
Cynthia Bringle
Fong Chow
Val Cushing
William Daley
Eddie Dominguez
Michael and Magdalena Suarez Frimkess
Otto and Vivika Heino
Jun Kaneko
Karen Karnes
Marilyn Levine
Warren MacKenzie
John Mason
Nan McKinnell
Jim Melchert
Ron Nagle
Susan Peterson
Frances Senska
Dave Shaner
Peter Shire
Paul Soldner
Robert Sperry
Robert Turner
Patti Warashina
Kurt Weiser
Beatrice Wood Interview age 83
Beatrice Wood Interview age 99
Friday, February 18, 2011
Local potters tour Japan in January
In January, several Pennsylvania potters were part of a two week tour of some of Japan. Holly Van Dine and Dennis Bergevin joined a group of sociology and ceramics students which was organized at Washington and Jefferson College.
Harada Shuroku, respected Bizen potter.
Japantrac, a tour firm from State College, organized and expertly led the trip for W & J College ceramics and sociology students. (A few local ceramists also went along.)
Japantrac has led Japan tours for the New York Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and The Japan Society and many others. Their guides provide a depth of cross-cultural understanding and a view of Japan tailored to the interests of the travelers.
On this trip, the group stayed in several Japanese-style hotels featuring tatami floors and guest kimonos and Japanese baths. Ceramics visitors went to the Robert Yellin gallery in Mishima and made a trip to Bizen with Yellin as a guide.
Robert Yellin
Robert Yellin is a leading interpreter of contemporary Japanese ceramics and runs a gallery, the Robert Yellin Yakimono Gallery in Mishima (and also available online).
Pottery from the Yellin Gallery by
Uetake Satoshi
Pottery from the Yellin Gallery by
Tim Rowan of the US.
Pottery from the Yellin Gallery.
Pottery from the Yellin Gallery by
Takeuchi Shingo.
Pottery from the Yellin Gallery.
Shigaraki Jar by Furutani Kazuya.
Pottery from the Yellin Gallery by
Takeuchi Shingo.
Takeuchi Shingo.
Pottery from the Yellin Gallery. Ono Kotaro, white porcelain tea cups.
Bizen is considered Japan’s most popular unglazed pottery, made continuously for over 1000 years. The clay comes from local rice paddies (high iron content) or local mountains (low iron content) and is wood fired for long periods, anywhere from 10 days to three months, since the clay will crack if the kiln temperature rises too fast.
Japanese refer to keshiki, or the landscape of the work. Keshiki are different effects caused by the positioning of the pot in the fire flow and fly ash.
Four of these effects are called: yohen, or highly prized firing mutations; goma, a sesame seed tone from the ash; hidasuki, a fire cord pattern; and sangiri, a charcoal tone.
Bizen pottery.
Bizen pottery.
Bizen pottery.
Bizen pottery.
Bizen pottery.
Robert Yellin offered us this Sixth century BC poem as very much in the spirit of Zen and a yakishime (woodfire) pot:
Pots are made out of clay
But the hollow space in them makes the essence of the pot
And the essence comes from an intangible something
In the spirit of the potter
Which he is able to blend into all his knowledge of the throwing,
The glazing, and the firing
So that every piece from his hand is as much his own signature and his heartbeat
Only then will the pot be good, that is, alive
And the more highly developed a potter is as a human being, the better his pot
For there is no real beauty without character.
Most potters love food so Holly has provided us with a visual sampling.
The Reverend's noodles.
Eel Dinner.
Baby Sardine Dinner.
Prawn Dinner.
At the Sushi-go-round. Holly and Dennis on left.
At the Sushi-go-round.
Dressing up for dinner.
From the Noodle Shop.
Japanese Bakery.
Yogi Dennis.
Calligrapher.
Calligrapher.
Dennis meets the wall.
Holly's room at the Buddhist Complex.
For more information on future tours, you can reach Japantrac at Jonathan Phillippi
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