Craft Horizons AUGUST 1973
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craft horizons AUGUST 1973 Clay World Meets in Canada Billanti Now Casts Brass Bronze- As well as gold, platinum, and silver. Objects up to 6W high and 4-1/2" in diameter can now be cast with our renown care and precision. Even small sculptures within these dimensions are accepted. As in all our work, we feel that fine jewelery designs represent the artist's creative effort. They deserve great care during the casting stage. Many museums, art institutes and commercial jewelers trust their wax patterns and models to us. They know our precision casting process compliments the artist's craftsmanship with superb accuracy of reproduction-a reproduction that virtually eliminates the risk of a design being harmed or even lost in the casting process. We invite you to send your items for price design quotations. Of course, all designs are held in strict Judith Brown confidence and will be returned or cast as you desire. 64 West 48th Street Billanti Casting Co., Inc. New York, N.Y. 10036 (212) 586-8553 GlassArt is the only magazine in the world devoted entirely to contem- porary blown and stained glass on an international professional level. In photographs and text of the highest quality, GlassArt features the work, technology, materials and ideas of the finest world-class artists working with glass. The magazine itself is an exciting collector's item, printed with the finest in inks on highest quality papers. GlassArt is published bi- monthly and divides its interests among current glass events, schools, studios and exhibitions in the United States and abroad. GlassArt is featuring articles by Richard Marquis, Samuel Scholes, and others. Sybren Valkema in the Netherlands, Sam Herman in Eng- land and Erwin Eisch in Germany are just a few of those keeping all of us abreast of glass activities in Subscribe now! Don't miss a single Europe. issue of this exciting new inter- Of Particular interest is the Decem- national glass magazine. Guilds and ber issue, "People in Glass Houses", organizations should write for a registry of current work and discounts. USA and CANADA ideas of major glass artists through- $15.00 PER YEAR out the world. This issue at the FOREIGN close of each year will document $16.00 PER YEAR the current state of the art. P.O. BOX 7527 OAKLAND, CALIF. 94601 craft horizons August 1973 Vol. XXXIII No. 4 5 The Craftsman's World 9 by Denise Hare 10 Performance by Rose Anne Thom 12 Ceramics International '73 by Chris |_pwe|| 18 Do! Do! Do! and DO! by May Natalie Tabak 19 Exhibitions 36 Calendar 38 Where to Show The Cover: "Creation of Life," porcelain, 15y2" high, by Tatsuo Daimaru (Japan), prizewinner in "Ceramics International '73," the first world exhi- bition of ceramics to be held in North America under the auspices of the International Academy of Ceramics, Geneva, Switzerland, at Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary, Canada (August 28-September 22). Coverage be- gins on page 12. Editor-in-Chief Rose Slivka Managing Editor Patricia Dandignac Assistant Editors Edith Dugmore John-Michael Risaliti Art Director Sydney Butchkes Advertising Department Yolande Bavan Editorial Board Robert Beverly Hale Leo Lionni Aileen O. Webb Ceramics Daniel Rhodes Metal .Adda Husted-Andersen Textiles -I_ili Blumenau Wood Charles V.W. Brooks Bookbinding. —Polly Lada-Mocarski Published bimonthly and copyrighted 1973 by the American Crafts Council, 44 West 53rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10019. Telephone: Circle 6-6840. Aileen O. Webb, President and Chairman of the Board; John L. Baringer, Vice-Chairman: Donald L. Wyckoff, Executive Vice-President; May E. Walter, Secretary; R. Leigh Glover, Trea- surer; Joseph P. Fallarino, Assistant Treasurer. Trustees are: Nicholas B. Angell, Mark Ellingson, Robert D. Graff, August Heckscher, Samuel C. Johnson, Jack Lenor Larsen, Sarah Tomerlin Lee, Vera Neumann, De Witt Peterkin, Jr., Barbara Rockefeller, William Snaith, Dr. Frank Stanton, W. Osborn Webb. Honorary trustees are: Alfred Auerbach, Kenneth Chorley, Walter H. Kilham, Jr., Edward Wormley. Craftsmen-trustees are: Cynthia Bringle, Jean Delius, Arline Fisch, Donald Reitz, Frances Senska, Paul Söldner. Membership rates: $12.50 per year and higher, includes subscription to CRAFT HORI- ZONS. Single copy: $3. Address unsolicited material to the Editor-in-Chief, CRAFT HORIZONS, 16 East 52nd Street, New York, N.Y. 10022. Material will be handled with care but the magazine assumes no responsibility for it. Manuscripts will be returned only if accompanied by self-addressed, stamped envelope. Second class postage paid at New York, N.Y., and at additional mailing office. The complete content of eacn issue of CRAFT HORIZONS is indexed in the Art Index and Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, available in public libraries. Book reviews published in CRAFT HORIZONS are indexed in Book Review Index. Microfilm edition is available from University Microfilms, 300 North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106. For change of address, give old address as well as new with zip code number; allow six weeks for change to become effective. Address all subscription correspondence to Anita Chmiel, Member- ship Manager, American Crafts Council, 44 West 53rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10019 TWO NEW CATALOGS cDellaRobbia $out,kw«st Si SMELTING S. REFINING CO.. INC. CLAY CATALOG 172 TOOLS SUPPLIES EQUIPMENT f JEWELER Bakes hard in your J CASTER FOR THE < | DESIGNER kitchen oven With Delia Robbia Clay you don't need a kiln! MANUFACTURER This miracle clay will bake to a durable hardness right in your own kitchen oven. Anyone can do it- it's quick, it's easy, and it's inexpensive. l2Vi lbs $4.50; 25 lbs. $8.00. Available at: Straleys' Artist Materials, 222 So. 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MOMENTUM KICK WHEELS $1.00 for both copies, refundable on your first order of $5.00 or more. SoutktoGSt Dep' CH SMELTING & REFINING CO., INC. P. 0 BOX 2010 1712 JACKSON DALLAS, TEXAS 75221 P 0 BOX 1298 118 BROADWAY SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 78295 The Craftsman's World MAKE IT-WEAR IT-SHARE IT! GOVERNMENT INITIATES The Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New (July 17-29); and Feet Week—foot coverings "DESIGN NECESSITY" York, has opened its galleries to the public and leg decorations (July 31-August 5). As the initial step in a major program to in a series of week-long workshops devoted The remaining workshop schedule in- improve the quality of design in all federal to making and decorating clothes and cos- cludes Clown Week (August 7-12); Hats, buildings, landscapes, publications, and tumes (through September 9). With a grant Bags & Carrying Things Week, with Kathryn graphics, the first Federal Design Assembly from NEA, this is the first time an entire sum- Stoll (August 14-19); making and wearing convened in Washington, D.C. (April 2-3). mer of participation events has been pro- musical instruments, with Bob Wood (Au- Over four hundred government repre- grammed at the Museum. gust 21-26); interpretive color and sym- sentatives, agency administrators, and pro- Lois Steinhart, on a grant from the New bolism of astrological signs (August 28- fessional designers gathered to present proj- York State Council on the Arts, is coordina- September 2); and a Christmas Week for ect reports and summations of principles for t] tor for the workshops, which have included making gifts (September 4-9). the Federal Design Improvement Program, Dream Images Week—creation of fantasy Over sixty companies are contributing j. Carter Brown, director of the National clothing, with Ruth Heller Coron (June 26- materials, and visitors are invited to bring Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., served as July 1); Independence Week—"freedom" materials with which to work and/or share. chairman of the assembly task force. clothing (July 3-8); Beach Week—beach A bulletin board at the entrance of the Mu- The theme of the assembly, "The Design towels and bikinis (July 10-15); Flower and seum will announce free events and places Necessity," was documented by case studies Vegetable Week—adornments from orange in the city where participants can be seen of twenty-five government projects, which peels to cabbage leaves, with Bob Kushner in their costumes. will be compiled in a book and a planned national exhibition. The assembly, the book, and the exhibit are sponsored by the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities OVER HILL AND DALE WITH GLASSBLOWING under a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. After nearly three years of planning, re- gas lines, burners, gauges, dials, furnaces, As part of the overall improvement pro- searching, and fund raising, Bill Boysen, pro- annealing kilns, and cabinets, complete with gram, Bill Lacy, director of the Endowment's fessor of art in the glassblowing department first-aid kit and fire extinguisher.