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December 1989 1 William C. Hunt....................................... Editor Ruth C. Butler...........................Associate Editor Robert L. Creager........................... Art Director Kim Schomburg....................Editorial Assistant Mary Rushley...................Circulation Manager Mary E. Beaver.................Circulation Assistant Jayne Lohr.........................Circulation Assistant Connie Belcher.................Advertising Manager Spencer L. Davis............... ................ Publisher Editorial, Advertising and Circulation Offices 1609 Northwest Boulevard Box 12448, Columbus, Ohio 43212 (614) 488-8236 FAX (614) 488-4561 Ceramics Monthly (ISSN 0009-0328) is pub lished monthly except July and August by Professional Publications, Inc., 1609 North west Blvd., Columbus, Ohio 43212. Second Class postage paid at Columbus, Ohio. Subscription Rates:One year $20, two years $36, three years $50. Add $8 per year for subscriptions outside the U.S.A. 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All rights reserved 2 Ceramics Monthly December 1989 3 4 Ceramics Monthly V olume 37, Number 10 • December 1989 Feature Articles A Search for Form and Place: Wayne Higby, An Autobiography......................................................................... 27 Rebuilding at Lejstaby AnnaKarin Boode .......................................................... 38 Something to Say by Debra Norby with Cale Kinne ............................................ 40 A Stove Project in Kenyaby Hugh Allen............................................................ 42 Yih-Wen Kuo .......................................................................................47 A Stove Project in KenyaWe often see coverage of big U.S. aid projects in the Tile Illustration news because of their importance to in From Painter to Potter to Painter Againby Paul Lewing...................................... 50 ternational relations, or because of waste and mismanagement. But there’s another side to U.S. aid—smaller (often Third Potters of the Upper Amazon by Dorothea and Norman Whitten, ............. Jr. 53 World) programs such as this one which uses ceramic technology to save nearly Danish Potters by Lisa Engqvist .............................................................................57 50,000 tons of wood each year in a country where deforestation threatens the ecology; turn to page 42 for a look at the process and equipment developed to help make this project a success. Departments Tile Illustration A growing segment of studio ceramists is earning significant in come through tile illustration, working Letters ........................................... 6 Questions .......................................80 on handmade or commercial tile. In ei Where to Show ............................. 8 ther case, the results have broad applica Suggestions.................................. 82 tions in architecture; page 50. Itinerary ........................................ 14 Classified Advertising................. 84 New Books ................................... 18 Annual Index: Comment: January-December 1989 ......................... 86 Plagiarism and Wood Firing by Terry Davies .................................... 22 Index to Advertisers ......................88 News 8c Retrospect Danish Potters 1950s design has given way to a variety of ideas about simplicity Free Summer Workshop Listing................ 65 Daleene Menning ........................................ 68 and natural materials; see some of these potters’ latest works starting on page 57. New Views in Toronto Clayton Thiel ...............................................70 by Heidi Burkhardt ................................. 65 William Yonker The coverWayne Higby and a “land Ceramics in the Pretty Big One.................. 65 by Michael Rubin .................................... 72 scape bowl” nestled in hay (his raku fuel Jim Kraft ...................................................... 66 Indiana Illusions and Realities .................... 72 of choice). The wooden, lidded box is a chamber he built specifically for post Marja Hooft/Danielle Janssen.................... 66 Beth Changstrom ........................................ 72 firing reduction. Higby’s revealing auto Martha Gittelman Retrospective ................. 66 Jerry Caplan ................................................. 78 biography, “A Search for Form and Place,” begins on page 27. Photo: Steve Myers. Gail Kristensen ............................................ 68 Teco Art Pottery .......................................... 78 December 1989 5 commendCeramics Monthly for patience and Letters the space awarded to this person. His catalog of old-timers reads like a who’s who of American ceramists; and, as I recollect, most have been mentioned in CM. However, he did leave out one fine ol’ timer, my neighbor, Paul Soldner. Warren MacKenzie on Pricing As for the third annual Marble Colo Maybe it’s a small point, but it is really rado Art Fair, he’s right! Not only were irritating to read again and again [see No there crocheted ducks; but, when you vember Letters] that my approach to pric squeezed them, they pooped jelly beans— ing my work (so that people can easily an astute fact that our detractor somehow afford it and use it in their everyday lives) overlooked.is dependent upon supplementing my pot No, I was not the only potter there. A tery income with a teaching salary. For the neighboring potter had above-average, last four years, I have not been teaching, ex wheel-thrown tableware, too. Adjacent to cept for short workshops which are actually that booth was a sculptor with fine wood an expense to me. In those four years, my and bronze sculptures that could grace the income from pot sales alone has exceeded finest gallery collection. Down the line, what I used to get from teaching. What is another potter, whose skill with brush and the explanation for those people who teach eye is a challenge to decal specialism, had and charge high prices for their work? Is it pieces as op/pop art as you can get. The the cushion of the academic salary that marble sculptor was also remarkable, with allows them to raise their prices? semiabstract sculptures. This was his first No one seems to have caught on to the show; and behind him, his mentor fact that the pots I make are simply con had children and adults enthusiastically ceived and can be easily and quickly madechipping away at a vertical block of mar by any competent potter. I make a lot of ble. On display were his very sophisti pots in a year’s time. At the same time, I try cated, double-helix sculptures, carved out to keep looking for those qualities in pieces of 3-foot-high blocks of our local, pure which will lift them above the ordinary white, Colorado Vule marble—a subtle tour utilitarian pot. Not all of them succeed. But de force that eluded the ken of our detract those that do are there for anyone who can ing commentator. recognize expression and respond to it. Be The alleged real estate booth was in cause I want to keep my prices down, I stead an informational display set up by the refuse to ship pots, since packing and mail newly revived Colorado Vule Marble Com ing take me away from the studio. My show pany. The marble quarrying operation in room is set up so that people select and our town was closed down back in 1941. pack their own pots without my having to Among significant monuments that were stop work to wait on them. This, of course, fabricated from this marble are the Lin cannot work everywhere, but it is possible coln Memorial and the Tomb of the Un where I live. This location was selected with known Soldier. that in mind, and it has worked well. The fair encouraged “art in

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