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2 C eramics Monthly William C. Hunt...................................... Editor Barbara Tipton.................... Associate Editor Robert L. Creager....................... Art Director Ruth C. Butler............................ Copy Editor Valentina Rojo.................... Editorial Assistant Mary Rushley.............. Circulation Manager Connie Belcher .... Advertising Manager Spencer L. Davis............................. Publisher Editorial, Advertising and Circulation Offices 1609 Northwest Boulevard, Box 12448, Columbus, Ohio 43212 (614) 488-8236 Ceramics Monthly (ISSN 0009-0329) is published monthly except July and August by Professional Publications, Inc.—S. L. Davis, Pres.; P. S. Emery, Sec.: 1609 North west Blvd., Columbus, Ohio 43212. Second class postage paid at Columbus, Ohio. Subscription Rates: One year SI6, two years $30, three years $40. Add $5 per year for subscriptions outside the U.S.A. Change of Address: Please give us four weeks advance notice. 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All rights reserved December 1983 3 4 Ceramics Monthly Ceramics Monthly Volume 31, Number 10 December 1983 Feature Articles Afghan Refugee Potters by Dennis Maust................................................ 26 Faenza 1983 29 The 64th May Show................................................ 33 A Better Vent for Electric Kilns by Ted Scatchard................................................ 34 A Rob Barnard Teapot by Louise Cort.................................................... 36 Forms around a Vessel by Martin Smith................................................. 38 Ceramic Portraiture by Beverly Mayeri.............................................. 42 Rick Dillingham...................................................... 44 Portfolio: Earthenware by Walter Ostrom............................................... 45 Hideto Satonaka by Ban Kajitani and William Hunt................... 53 Glazes for Medium and High Firing by Harold J. McWhinnie.................................... 58 Departments Letters..................................................................... 7 Where to Show........................................................ 11 Questions 13 Itinerary.................................................................. 15 Suggestions............................................................. 19 Comment: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome by Ron Sering and Chuck Steinberg, M.D., 21 News & Retrospect 61 New Books............................................................... 77 Technical: Potters and Computers by John Baymore ............................................... 79 Classified Advertising............................................ 84 Ceramics Monthly Index January-December 1983................................... 87 Index to Advertisers............................................... 88 The Cover “Paradise Found,” detail, installation of individually mounted ceramic tile, mixed media, by Phillip Ma- berry, for “The 1983 Biennial Exhibition” at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City. Though not trained as a ceramist, this artist became interested in clay while working as a technical assis tant at the Brooklyn Museum School, and some of the decoration on his earlier slip-cast bowls was in spired by Anasazi pots he saw at the museum. Current interests center around ’50s design elements and New Wave attitudes, which pervade his own living space and carry through to other media. Photo: Joshua Schreier, and courtesy of Hadler/Rodriguez Galleries. December 1983 5 Letters A Potter’s Dilemma and scratches. Not to mention the wonderful Students who take professional training, Some years ago I asked the abbot of our stacked forms. I may not have the right per or actually stick with it and get a degree from monastery if I could make pottery; he said spective to appreciate Pete’s work. I still re a school suffering from faculty burnout are okay. In order to find the money for this spect his lifelong attempt to express himself at best wasting their time, their money, and operation I collected black walnuts that grow artistically. But if this is the stuff of legends, possibly learning counter-productive habits. on the abbey property. These sold for about then I believe there are hundreds of mere In the worst scenario a student’s potential $2 per potato sack. I must have picked a mortals who deserve the same status. can be killed by a system designed to protect million black walnuts that fall. Brian Archenbault the teacher. Some of the monks asked me what I was Denton, Tex. Who is to be served by the schools? Are doing. I said: “I’m making glazes.” “And how schools to be protected environments for do you make a glaze from a black walnut?” Voulkos and Rauschenberg teachers, or do teachers work for students? they asked. After reading “Peter Vonlkos in Japan” Consider what would happen to the same “Well, you take the black walnuts to the and “Voulkos on Voulkos,” I quickly turned sort of nonproductivity in the commercial corner grocery store where they give you $2 the page and—zap—Pete changed my life world. per sack. Then you take the $2 to the pottery again. That plate with triangle brought love This letter is not only directed to teachers, supply store where they give you glaze ma tears to my eyes. Like life, just when you but also to students who have an obligation terial.” think you’ve got it figured out, it all changes. to demand all they are paying for, and to put I remembered that experience when I read Thanks again and again, Pete. You’re more forth their greatest effort. If you are not a Angela Fina’s very fine article “A Potter’s incredible than any of us know. good student you can hardly expect your Dilemma” (October, page 32). It seems to But, come on letter writers, why all this teacher to fill the gap. me it is always very helpful if you really condemnation of Robert Rauschenberg and My suggestion: Take a good long look at know what you are doing. When you are his work? What do you want him to do, act yourself, teacher or student. If you don’t be involved with clay, are you making a living, poor because it’s cool for artists to be poor? long where you are, and you can’t change to having fun, exploring your inner being, mak This conventional thinking and ridiculous the point where it is beneficial for all, then ing useful and beautiful objects to bring joy judgment of others and what they make is get out. to the hearts of friends or a combination of what keeps most of us from making art. I Name withheld by request all these? know—this is also a judgment. Pass out the Personally I find that if I really know what stones. I am currently teaching full time and de I am doing at any one moment, the dilemmas Rick Berman voting 45-50 hours a week to throwing in seem to disappear. Atlanta preparation for upcoming shows. I’m sure Anthony Bellesorte that other potters/teachers must find them Vina, Calif. Rauschenberg Ceramics selves in the same position. Articles concern I read CM and wonder how some artists ing the appropriation of time, production October Letters merit publication. Please, no more of the schedules, etc. would be of interest to many To Richard Overman: “to be a notable pot Sanibel Island resident. of us with time limitations. ter like John Leach” takes more than a beard. Mary Mollgren Edward Zembrzuski It takes talent, hard work, dedication, out Belvidere, 111. Natrona Heights, Pa. standing personality, a wonderful family— and a red beard. I know. I read the Summer Let’s keep art in mind. Ceramics has for Beware the Zen-like Vortex issue and went to Muchelney. tunately slipped the bounds of crafts. Let’s It’s really exasperating and at times pain Virginia Bailes teach craft readers they have limited their ful reading CM, because it’s continually filled Strasburg, Pa. own scope by limiting their education and with people going on about ceramics in a perspective. This concept is defined by the disgustingly self-indulgent way. Is that the Voulkos in Japan letters previously published as comments on way people talk these days in America?