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Focus Working Potters CERAMICS MONTHLY CERAMICS MONTHLY focus MONTHLY working potters working June/July 2007 $7.50 (Can$9, h 6.50) www.ceramicsmonthly.org 6.50) www.ceramicsmonthly.org Ken Sedberry and Other Working Potters Talk Business focus working potters JUNE/JULY 2007 $7.50 (Can$9, E6.50) www.ceramicsmonthly.org JJ_07_FC.indd 2 5/3/07 9:18:50 AM JJ_07_Covers.indd 2 5/3/07 9:22:54 AM Ceramics Monthly June/July 2007 1 JJ_07_001_009.indd 1 5/3/07 9:30:15 AM MONTHLY Editorial [email protected] telephone: (614) 895-4213 fax: (614) 891-8960 editor Sherman Hall associate editor Jennifer Poellot editorial assistant Brandy Agnew technical editor Dave Finkelnburg publisher Charles Spahr editorial interns Holly Gosselin, Erin Pfeifer Advertising/Classifi eds [email protected] telephone: (614) 794-5834 fax: (614) 891-8960 classifi[email protected] telephone: (614) 794-5866 advertising manager Mona Thiel advertising services Debbie Plummer Marketing telephone: (614) 794-5809 marketing manager Steve Hecker Subscriptions/Circulation customer service: (800) 342-3594 [email protected] Design/Production production editor Cynthia Conklin design Paula John Editorial and advertising offices 735 Ceramic Place, Suite 100 Westerville, Ohio 43081 Editorial Advisory Board Linda Arbuckle; Professor, Ceramics, Univ. of Florida Tom Coleman; Studio Potter, Nevada Dick Lehman; Studio Potter, Indiana Meira Mathison; Director, Metchosin Art School, Canada Bernard Pucker; Director, Pucker Gallery, Boston Phil Rogers; Potter and Author, Wales Jan Schachter; Potter, California Mark Shapiro; Worthington, Massachusetts Susan York; Santa Fe, New Mexico Ceramics Monthly (ISSN 0009-0328) is published monthly, except July and September, by The American Ceramic So- ciety, 735 Ceramic Pl., Suite 100, Westerville, Ohio 43081; www.ceramics.org. 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All rights reserved. www.ceramicsmonthly.org Ceramics Monthly June/July 2007 2 JJ_07_001_009.indd 2 5/3/07 9:33:26 AM Ceramics Monthly June/July 2007 3 JJ_07_001_009.indd 3 5/3/07 9:37:53 AM Ceramics Monthly June/July 2007 4 JJ_07_001_009.indd 4 5/3/07 9:38:24 AM JUNE/JULY 2007 / Volume 55 Number 6 MONTHLY focus working potters 32 What it Takes: Working Potters Nine full-time potters share the experience, knowledge and wisdom they wish they had years ago. 48 No Place Like Home: Doing Business Through Open Studio Tours Artists and organizers of the Toe River Studio Tour discuss the secrets to, and benefi ts of, a well-planned studio tour. features 54 The Many Faces of Iron: An Exploration in Cooling by Dr. Carol Marians Just because you have a Ph.D. doesn’t mean you don’t have to test your glazes. recipe Cone 6 Iron Saturate Glaze 58 Ira Winarsky: Layered Landscapes by Glen R. Brown Sculptures with iridescent molten surfaces are the result of nearly 2000 methodical glaze tests. monthly methods Layers for Luminosity 61 Inside and Out: Trimming Porcelain in Jingdezhen by Xu Yanli In modern-day Jingdezhen, China, an ancient tradition is alive and well. 48 cover: “Octopus Plate,” 10½ in. (27 cm) in diameter, stoneware with wax-resist glaze decoration, wood fi red, by Ken Sedberry, Loafer’s Glory, North Carolina; page 32. Photo: Mary Vogel. XX 61 58 Ceramics Monthly June/July 2007 5 JJ_07_001_009.indd 5 5/3/07 9:41:53 AM departments 10 from the editor 12 letters from readers 14 answers from the CM technical staff 18 suggestions from readers 18 Tip of the Month: Rolling Away 20 upfront reviews, news and exhibitions 30 click and collect pay a virtual visit to the galleries in this issue 64 comment Functional Pride: Putting the Fun Back in Functional Pottery by Mark Hewitt 66 call for entries 66 International Exhibitions 66 United States Exhibitions 68 Regional Exhibitions 70 Fairs and Festivals 72 new books 74 videos 76 calendar 76 Conferences 76 Solo Exhibitions 76 Group Ceramics Exhibitions 79 Ceramics in Multimedia Exhibitions 80 Fairs, Festivals and Sales 82 Workshops 88 International Events XX 94 classified advertising 24 95 index to advertisers online www.ceramicsmonthly.org current features, expanded features, archive articles, calendar, call for entries and classifi eds special listings Summer Workshops 2007 Everything you need to plan your education vacation Gallery Guide Where to see ceramics in the U.S. and abroad Residencies and Fellowships Full listing of professional-development opportunities 28 23 Ceramics Monthly June/July 2007 6 JJ_07_001_009.indd 6 5/3/07 9:42:17 AM Ceramics Monthly June/July 2007 7 JJ_07_001_009.indd 7 5/3/07 9:42:46 AM Ceramics Monthly June/July 2007 8 JJ_07_001_009.indd 8 5/3/07 9:43:26 AM Ceramics Monthly June/July 2007 9 JJ_07_001_009.indd 9 5/3/07 3:47:05 PM from the editor by Sherman Hall The prospect of doing what you love and that is just the fi nancial part of the handling fi nances that are not regular as a means of income is something of a equation. It’s important, and must be and reliable from week to week, month dream for most people. When what you managed properly, but money is rarely to month, year to year? love happens to be a creatively fulfi lling the main motivation for a career in clay. It takes a long time to work these endeavor like making pots, the prospect This is likely not a surprising discovery things out, to fi nd a balance, to sort the can seem too good to be true in many to those who make a living making pots, elements of a career so that they make ways—and you know what they say but it doesn’t mean potters are required sense to you. When that happens, it can about things that sound too good to be to be poor. Still, some diffi cult decisions indeed be a fulfi lling way to make a living. true. But even though there are inevita- need to be made. This is evidenced by the contributions to ble trade-offs with such a career choice, The pressure of generating income our “Working Potters” focus, beginning there are those who will remind you that can have an impact on creative freedom. on page 32. Of course, no one starts out the payoff is worth it. Making pots as Production deadlines can impact the knowing everything they need to know, an avocation, regardless of how seriously actual making process. Order schedules and it can sometimes be a diffi cult road, one pursues it, is inherently different can consume free time. These consid- but the generous potters who offer their from making pots as a vocation. erations can have a very real impact experience, knowledge and hard-earned I’ve spoken on this page before about on one’s attitude toward the making wisdom on these pages are proof positive my dabbling in the professional side of process, and toward the work itself. For that the desire to spend one’s time and pottery, and my realization that it re- instance, there may be pots you love to energy building a career in studio practice quires far more than dabbling to make make—think of the most satisfying pots can be fulfi lled in very real and meaningful it work. Anyone who has felt exhilarated you make—but perhaps they are not the ways. They offer you what they know now, and fulfi lled by selling a piece of work pots that sell well. Would you want to and what they wish they knew years ago.
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