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All rights reserved 2 CERAMICS MONTHLY April 1995 3 4 CERAMICS MONTHLY Volume 43, Number 4 • April 1995 Feature Artides Starting Over by Dano........................................................................................................ 25 Following Anagama Tradition “Thor Arch 191 ................................................................................................. 28 oughly converted to the ancient mysteries Fusz Gyorgy by Gabor Pogdny............................................................................................ 29 of anagama” during a trip to Japan, New Zealand potters Bruce (above) and Estelle Ann Linnemann .................................................................................... 31 Martin share their experience in wood firing a tube kiln. “With an anagama,” they Following Anagama Tradition by Estelle and Bruce Martin ................................... 32 explain, “the potterlfirer takes a lesser role, Summer Workshops 1995 ..................................................................... 36 letting go of control over the end result”; see page 32. Low-Fire-Salt Fuming by Paul Soldner ........................................................................ 41 Built, Thrown and Touched ................................................................ 45 Low-Fire-Salt Fuming Artist/educator Paul Soldner provides “concepts and meth Glenda Taylorby Craig Colgan ........................................................................................ 47 ods I have learned mostly through trial and error” for this previously undocumented Bill Stewart by Shirley Dawson............................................................................................ 50 method of firing; page 41. Four Functional Potters ....................................................................... 53 Eight Steps to Stop Crazing by JeffZamek ................................................................ 82 Worker’s Compensation by Cindy Luciani .................................................................. 84 Up Front Mark Ferri ............................................................................................................................... 12 Obtaining MSDSs ................................................................................................................. 12 Marylyn Dintenfass ............................................................................................................... 12 Pinchen Collection ................................................................................................................ 14 Creative Clay Studios: Ambition and Reality by Cathy Grubman ......................... 14 Grace Bakst Wapner ............................................................................................................. 16 British Ceramics in Holland ................................................................................................ 18 Katrina Rozman .................................................................................................................... 18 Ted Saupe ............................................................................................................................... 18 Smokeless Reduction under a Cardboard Box by Jerry Caplan ................................ 18 Summer Workshops 1995 Resident art Patz Fowle .............................................................................................................................. 20 ist Annabeth Rosen (above) at Watershed Computer Index for Ceramics Monthly by Rick Malmgren .................................................. 20 Center for the Arts in Edgecomb, Maine, evaluates her work in carved brick. For a listing of workshop opportunities at Water shed and other facilities throughout the Departments world this summer, turn to page 36. Letters ...................................................... 8 Ceramics in Multimedia Exhibitions .......... 68 Worker’s Compensation Artist/auditor Call for Entries Fairs, Festivals and Sales .......................... 69 Cindy Luciana takes the mystery out of International Exhibitions ......................... 56 Workshops ................................................... 70 Worker’s Comp insurance; page 84. National Exhibitions ................................... 56 International Events ................................. 73 Regional Exhibitions ............................... 60 Questions ................................................ 76 The cover Florida potter Glenda Taylor Fairs, Festivals and Sales .......................... 62 Video ....................................................... 78 Suggestions ............................................. 64 in her Vero Beach studio. Determining Classified Advertising ........................... 92 how much time to give to career and how Calendar Comment: much to family is a common dilemma for Conferences................................................. 66 today’s artists-mothers. Time well spent International Conferences........................... 66 A 4/4 Beat remains the key to happiness for Taylor; her Solo Exhibitions .......................................... 66 by Eleonore Sumi von Dassow .............. 94 story begins on page 47. Photo:John Eisinger. Group Ceramics Exhibitions ....................... 66 Index to Advertisers ............................. 96 April 1995 5 Letters enough high school science credits (my observations put forward by Britt on Hluch excellent, public, girls-only New York City were as follows: That Hluch “can’t sell any of high school having required only one science his pottery,” that Hluch “hates elitists” and course), I was “saved” from having to spend “especially” hates consumers who won’t buy “Leachiness” Is Not Dead yet another year at a job (while making up his pottery, and that Hluch “hates artists and Despite what others would have us be credits in night school) by a scholarship craftspeople.” Then Britt parrots—in his list lieve, spending pages and pages to attempt to provided by Mrs. Webb. of ten things that he “learned”—that “life prove that ideals professed by Leach are passe, In my time, the first two Rochester years, sucks” for Kevin Hluch and that he “can’t sell dead, completely irrelevant in today’s modern SAC was full of ex-G.I.s, many of whom hadany of his pottery.” construct of art, the assertion they make is “wasted” enough precious time, and were I can only assume that Britt’s fatuous wrong. eager for the no-frills, non-artsy, intense views could have been printed for the sole I would insist that a grain of wheat is a training SAC provided. purpose of filling in a vacant space on the grain of wheat, food