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All rights reserved 2 CERAMICS MONTHLY June/July/August 1995 3 4 CERAMICS MONTHLY Volume 43, Number 6 • June/July/August 1995 Feature Articles Between Points in Clayby Rob Barnard.......................................................... 39 with Beyond East and West by Jane Addams Allen ............................................ 42 Contemporary Greek Ceramists ................................................................ 46 Susan Eisenby Virginia L. Spaar Rauch ........................................................... 48 Susan EisenThe first American to win the Gran Prix at the “International Biennial of Starting Over in the Mountainsby Geri Anderson...................................................... 51 Ceramic Art” in Vallauris, France, Susan with A New Way of Working by Jonathan Kaplan .......................................................... 55 Eisen produces sculptural vessels by pinch­ ing, paddling and stretching “layer upon Layered Cone 6 and Cone 06 Glazesby Lana Wilson .................................... 56 layer of delicate rhythmic coils and textured slabs”; see page 48. Edgecomb Pottersby Mary Maynard Drake .................................................... 60 with Marrying Production Values and Creative Spiritby Richard Hilton ............... 65 Layered Cone 6 and Cone 06 GlazesStu­ by Tony Natsoulas dio potter Lana Wilson shares the results of From the Feet Up .............................................................. 68 five methods used to achieve unusual glaze The Staples Street Stationby Cornelia Henderson Gates ..................................... 70 effects in the article beginning on page 56. Locating Glaze Materialsby Miska Petersham ................................................ 72 Raku Potter Charles Bohnby Linda Bynum.................................................... 75 Uncharted Territory Contemporary Taiwanese Ceramicsa review by Elena Canavier.................... 79 Up Front Record Sales at Fairs ............................................................................................................. 14 Will Levi Marshalla review by Alex McErlain ..................................................................... 14 Dong Hee Suh ....................................................................................................................... 16 Ceramic Tile in Demand ...................................................................................................... 16 Donna McGee ....................................................................................................................... 16 British Delft ............................................................................................................................ 16 Chick Schwartz a review by Barbara Feldman........................................................................ 18 Jeff Irwin ................................................................................................................................. 20 Erik Bright .............................................................................................................................. 20 Tamotsu Miura ...................................................................................................................... 22 Susan Goldstein a review by Jay Kloner ................................................................................. 22 Edgecomb PottersFrom a one-room Ceramics May Improve Medical Diagnoses .....................................................................24 schoolhouse in 1976 to a complex of four Navy Pilot Turns to Ceramicsby Halina S. Bak ............................................................... 24 studio buildings and three retail galleries Jill Bals .................................................................................................................................... 26 today, Richard (above) and Christine Hilton Elizabeth Fritsch ................................................................................................................... 26 have expanded their business into one of America’s largest art potteries, with annual Anita Belew ............................................................................................................................. 26 sales in the millions. Much of their success A Home for Joe ..................................................................................................................... 28 is attributed to an ever-changing palette of John Stephenson .................................................................................................................... 28 crystalline and copper-red glazes; page 60. The coverRob Barnard throwing at a Departments Japanese-style wheel in his Timberville, Letters ...................................................... 8 Questions ............................................. 108 Virginia, studio. For the past 20 years, he New Books ............................................. 32 Classified Advertising ......................... 117 has been “absorbed in exploring that space Comment: between...predictable beauty and its oppo­ Call for Entries ....................................... 82 True Character of the Maker site, the unaesthetic or homely”; turn to Suggestions ............................................. 90 by Sebastian Blackie ........................... 120 page 39. Photo: Hubert Gentry. Calendar .................................................. 96 Index to Advertisers ........................... 120 June/July/August 1995 5 politics. The soldiers Fusz memorializes and What a tragedy for a plant to take hun­ Letters Mr. Pogany is referring to as having fought dreds of years to reach a size and grandeur on the “Eastern front,” were fighting along­ easily imagined by seeing this picture, only to side the invading Nazi army, their allies, in have it end so ignominiously. Especially Eternal Values one of the cruelest battles of the second when, it seems to me, alternatives are readily Congratulations, Anthony Allison, for World War, on Russian soil, against our available and possibly might even be more putting into words so eloquently what my allies. While it would have been unthinkable economical. wife and I have been feeling about the worldto erect such a memorial under the commu­ Richard C. Schneider, Stevens Point, Wis. of pottery as reflected in Ceramics Monthly nist regime, it is now in their new-found (Letters, April 1995). Your words “complex­freedom that the Hungarians can again The cedar trunks shown in the photo on ity won’t keep a man alive” are so precise andworship heroes of their fascist past. For CM page 37 of the April issue were from fallen trees sum