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MONTHLY ART

Volume 25, Number 6 June 1977

Letters to the Editor ...... 7 Answers to Questions ...... 9 Itinerary ...... 11 Suggestions ...... 17 Comment by Stuart R. Thompson ...... 19 New Deal Ceramics: The Cleveland Workshop by Karal Ann Marling ...... 25 Richard Hirsch ...... 32 Judy Chicago: China Painter ...... 34 Tuscarora Pottery School by Anne Schwartz ...... 36 An Armature for Ceramic Sculpture by Maurice Sapiro ...... 42 George Hageman ...... 44 Arabian Luster Glazes by Richard Behrens ...... 46 Portfolio: Bernard Leach ...... 47 Barbecue and Fireplace Firing by Mollie Poupeney .... 59 CeramActivities ...... 81 New Books ...... 101 Index to Advertisers ...... 102

On Our Cover Fluted stoneware vase with temmoku glaze, 14~2 inches in height, by Bernard Leach. Produced in 1959, this thrown form was exhibited recently at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, as part of an extensive retrospective of the potter's work, which is featured beginning on page 47.

Important Announcement Higher costs for producing and printing CERAMICS MONTH- LY, along with ever-increasing postage fees, have made it necessary to adjust subscription rates effective September 1, introducing 1977. As a courtesy, we are offering subscribers an oppor- tunity to renew their subscription (regardless of expiration date) at the current rates of $8 for one year, $14 for two years, or $19 for three years. A special subscription order form is bound into this issue. Orders at these rates must mEDUSQ reach our offices by September 1, 1977. The new rates will be $I0 for one year, $18 for two years, and $25 for three years. POI ERY Publisher and Acting Editor: SPENCER L. DAVIS (SUPPLY) Managing Editor: WILLIAM C. HUNT moist clay & raw materials Art Director: ROBERT L. CREAOER Copy Editor: CHERYL HAYDEN Plus: BRENT wheel & slab rollers (products) Circulation Manager: MARY RUSHLEY Advertising Manager: CONNIE BELCHER CRUSADER electric kilns RANDALL wheels&mixers Editorial, Advertising, and Circulation O[[ices: 1609 Northwest Blvd., P.O. Box 12448, Columbus, Ohio 43212. (614) 488-8236 MEDUSA wedging tables WALKER pug mills West Coast Advertising Representative: Joseph Mervish Asso- JIFFY mixers ciates, 4721 Laurel Canyon, Suite 211, North Hollywood, California 91607. (213) 877-7556 ORTON cones Copyright 1977 Professional Publications, Inc. Serving... Schools. Studios. Institutions All rights reserved. CERAMICS ~,fONTHLV is published monthly except July and August by Professional Publications, for information write Inc. -- S. L. Davis, Pres., P. S. Emery, See.: 1609 Northwest Blvd., Columbus, Ohio 43212. Correspondence concerning subscriptions, renewals, and change of address should be mailed to Stephen Zowojski Jr. the Circulation Department, CERAMICS MONTHLY, Box 12448, Columbus, Ohio 43212. Second Class postage paid at Athens, Ohio, v.s.^. Subscriptions: One year $8; Two years $14; Three years $19. Add $I.00 per year outside u.s.^. 608 Iofayerre ovenue The articles in each issue of CEa^MICS MON'rHLV are indexed in the Art Index and the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature. Microfilm copies and xerographic reprints are available to sub- gron~ hoven, r"n~chLgon 49417 scribers from University MicrofiIms, 300 N. Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106. Manuscripts and illustrations dealing with are welcome and will be considered for publication. 616 • 846-5075 A booklet is available without cost to potential authors, describing procedures for the prepara- tion and submission of a manuscript. Send manuscripts and correspondence about them to the Editor, CeR^MICS ~.Io~T~ILY, Box 1244B, Columbus, Ohio 43212.

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DEPT. CM-5 • BOX 10133 • DALLAS, TEXAS 75207 LETTERS APPRENTICES SIGN Though I do not know about kilns, it out any ill effects in the resulting glaze. In reply to Doug Sassi and Nancy Jurs, is probable that there would be some kind The question and your answer casts May "Letters:" may you both read page 50 of spirit to which the Thai potter would doubt on one of the simplest and best of of the same issue and note the following pray for successful firings. Shelly Cope the Cone 5-7 glazes. Ben 31. Knutson from the article on Elly and Willy Kuch: Santa Fe, N.M. Alamosa, Colo. "The apprentices do not pay for training, FAVORITE GLAZE DEFENDED but instead receive a small income for work. COMMENTS Their production is marked with the work- In the "Answers to Questions" column, I particularly liked the colored photo- shop stamp while EUy and Willy individ- February 1977, you published the inquiry graphs that appeared towards the end of ually mark their own ware." about a Cone 5-7 recipe: 50% Gerstley the year--quite brilliant color reproduc- Edward Higgins borate, 17.5% kaolin, 32.5% flint, and tion as well as photographic technique. Erie, Pa. why it cracked as it dried. I have been D. Yerbury using this formula for three years or so Shrewsbury, England JUNK OUTWEIGHED and never have had the trouble men- Continue your good work! As many tioned. Ninety-nine per cent of the articles con- comments relate, the "quality work" out- The recipe can be found in Conrad's cerning throwing can be replaced with weighs the new "junk." At thirty-five I Ceramic Formulas (page 165) wlaere it practice by the reader--articles such as want to learn how to be better, not just is called "G 210 Bright Gloss." It has a "how to build a bird feeder" seem some- revolutionary. Linda Norris faint purple opalescence and a slightly what amateurish. Daniel P. Brown Quincy, Mich. mottled appearance as do most colemanite Baltimore, Md. glazes; and I have used the following MORE SPIRITS coloring oxides : BAD AIM I much enjoyed Charles Lakofsky's "O 3% Copper Carbonate ...... Green I've tried throwing on the wheel but I Ye Gods," (April 1977 CM) and have ¼% Cobalt Carbonate ...... Blue spin so fast my aim is terrible! another direction he might follow. In 1% Chromium Oxide ..... Clear Green Anne Dalin Thailand it seems that everything has a 3% Manganese Dioxide ...... Pink-Tan Avenel, N.J. spirit, and a shrine for that spirit to dwell 10% Vanadium Pentoxide ...... Tan in. Before a house is built, a spirit house 4% Manganese Dioxide, 4% Cobalt Share your thoughts with other CM read- must be built both on a specific day and Carbonate, V2% Copper Carbon- ers--be they quip, query, comment, or ad- in a specific place to guarantee protection ate, 3% Rutile . . . Two-tone Green ','ice. All letters must be signed, but names against evil. Even buses and ears are I have seen variations of this formula, and will be withheld on request. Address: The blessed by the monks to please each ve- have myself varied the amounts by as Editor, CERAMICS MONTHLY, Box 12448, hicle's spirit. much as four per cent for Cone 5-6 with- Columbus, Ohio 43212.

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Finally. easy repair. And they're multi- A whole new line of UL sided, for even firing. listed Cone 10 kilns, from the There's a ventiiated switch- company you've come to depend box, to keep components cool on. and trouble-free. A reversible Skutt. bottom slab, for double life. And It's true we've taken our a year-long warranty on both time. With good reason. The high parts and labor. temperature kiln is a problem- Plus, each and every kiln is prone creature, so we've worked backed by our 24-year old repu- slowly getting the bugs out. 1 tation for quality and service. Result: a line of Cone 10 And our network of distributors, kilns, all UL listed, for safe, dur- nation-wide. able service. And all designed to Skutt's new line of Cone 10 handle high temperature firing kilns: all in all, well worth the techniques, special clays, spe- I wait. cial glazes. Skutt Ceramic Products, Inc. Our Cone 10's are built in 2618 S.E. Steele Street sections, for easy brick removal, Portland, Oregon 97202

Y~ "[@LISTEDi 8 CERAMICS MONTHLY Answers to QUESTIONS

Conducted by the CM Technical Staff

0 I have been searching /or good containers for shipping pots 14.87, Fe~O::--0.09, SIO._,--75.56, loss on ignition--2.04, and to exhibitions. Since the piece is generally returned after shrinkage--15.4% at Cone 10. If plastic vitrox remains unavail- showing, the container must be relatively permanent and re- able through your usual sources, one supplier recommends a usable. Any suggestions?--L.]. direct substitution of" One of the best reusable containers is the commercially manu- PLASTIC VITROX SUBSTITUTE factured fiber drum with a metal lid and rims at the top and Kingman Feldspar ...... 45% bottom. Fiber drums are exceptionally strong and come in a Edgar Plastic Kaolin (E.P.K.) ...... 17 variety of sizes from small "hatboxes" to large drums in excess Flint (325 Mesh) ...... 38 of fifty gallons. Many large manufacturers as well as ceramic 100% suppliers receive goods in this type of container and occasionally may release these without charge. Another good source might 0 My friend and I got into a discussion about the origin o[ the be the "Barrels and Drums" section listed in the yellow pages word "celadon.'" He contends it is a translation o/ a Chinese of your telephone book. word, yet I remember hearing that its origin was European. Can 0 My experimentation has been confined to ash glazes, basically you settle the argument?~H.H. using a formula of: According to a definition in Chinese Stoneware Glazes by Paul E. Grebanier, the term "celadon" is probably French in origin. ASH GLAZE (Cone 9-10) Applied to a variety of stoneware glazes ranging in color from Plastic Vitrox ...... 55-90% gray and green to blue, blue-green, and olive, the color results Various Ashes ...... 10-50 from small concentrations of iron when fired in reduction. The Clay ...... 0-35 name was adopted in 17th century France when a particular shade of gray-green was in vogue. The color's popularity was 100% I have obtained excellent results with this recipe fired in a gas based on the hue of the costumes worn by the shepherd Celadon, kiln but now have been informed by my supplier that his source in Honor~ d'Urf~'s five-volume pastoral romance, L'Astrge, a of plastic vitrox has ceased production. What can I substitute to favorite work of the period. produce the same results?--C.A. Plastic vitrox, a feldspathic clay mined in California, continues All subscriber inquiries are given individual attention at CM; to be available on a limited basis. Used as a high silica source of and, out of the many received, those of general interest are potassium and alumina in clays and glazes, the mineral can selected for answer in this column. Direct your inquiries to the produce a porcelain-like body when finely ground. One analysis Questions Editor, CERAMICS MONTHLY, Box 12448, Columbus, is: CAO--0.22, K._,O--6.81, MgO--0.20, Na~O--0.29, A1203- Ohio 43212. Please enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope.

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You love to throw pots and you hate trimming them, The wood is precision machined, nine ply imported or rather.., it's not the trimming but getting it in birch laminate, sealed with three coats of polyurethane the center and keeping it there, that's where the varnish. The fittings -- two sets of sliders, mounting rub comes in. brackets and central hub are all solid brass.

The Giffin Grip does it. It is a device for centering OK, but how does it work? When the top plate is and holding in place a leather hard pot. It works with turned clockwise the three arms move as one to little pots, big pots, short ones, tall ones, round sides and gently corral your pot into the center. It is self locking straight sides, upside down or right side up. It won't and releases with a counter clockwise turn. let go or mark your pots and is constructed entirely It works and it's made to last. The Giffin Grip. of the highest quality materials available.

giffin grip 12" wheel model -- $132.00 plus shipping, 14" model -- $140.00. Custom sizes available. Dealer inquiries welcome. Patent pending. For a detailed brochure write: Brian Giffin, Giffin Earthworks, Box 4057, Boulder, 80306 ITINERARY

Send your show announcements early: Jersey 07060, or call (201) 755-6885/ The Great Houdini Show and Sale," is "Where to Show," /our months before 731-2562. open to ceramists. Juried by slides. Fee: the event's deadline; "'Where to Go/" at $50. Deadline: September 16. Write: least seven weeks be~ore the month o/ INDIANA, FORT WAYNE Nandra, 730 Ravine Road, Plainfield, New opening. Direct in/ormation to Itinerary July 9-10 The "Three Rivers Festival Jersey 07060, or call (201) 755-6885/731- Editor, CERAMmS MONTHLY, Box 12448, Arts and Crafts Show Outdoors" is open 2562. Columbus, Ohio 43212. to craftsmen. Deadline: June 17. For further information write: Mrs. Betty Newton, 1707 Kensington Boulevard, Fort MARYLAND, GAITHERSBURG WHERE TO SHOW Wayne 46805. September 21-25 The National Craft Fair is open to all craftsmen in the U.S. ARKANSAS, LITTLE ROCK INDIANA, MUNCIE Entry deadline: July 20. Juried: five October 14-November 13 The 20th September 30-October 2 "The Honor Continued on Page 13 Annual Delta Art Exhibition is open to craftsmen born or residing in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennes- see, Oklahoma, and Texas. Juried by slides. Deadline: August 26. Fee: $5 (limit of 2 entries in any one or two categories). $3,000 in awards. Write: Townsend Wolfe, Director, The Arkansas Arts Center, MacArthur Park, Box 2137, Little Rock 72203.

COLORADO, GRAND JUNCTION September 17-18 The Grand Junction Art Festival is open to craftsmen. Awards. Fee: $20. Deadline: August 1. Write: Grand Junction Art Festival, Ltd., 706 Rood Ave., Grand Junction 81501.

COLORADO, MANITOU SPRINGS July 3-5 3rd Annual Freedom Fair is open to craftsmen. Juried. Fee: $15. Commission. Deadline: June 21. Write: Commonwheel, 903 Manitou Ave., Mani- tou Springs 80829. September 3-5 3rd Annual Labor Day Fair is open to craftsmen. Fee: $10. Commission. Deadline: August 24. Write: D Commonwheel, 903 Manitou Ave., Mani- tou Springs 80829.

CONNECTICUT, GLASTONBURY September 10-11 "On the Green '77," out of T Fall Art Show and Sale is open to crafts- men. Write: Glastonbury Art Guild, c/o Mrs. Harriet Pfeifer, Box 304, Glaston- bury 06033. Increase your creative output with Mayco Colors! Cut down the hours it IDAHO) COEUR D'ALENE can take to come up with that just-right August 5-7 "Art on the Green" 9th hue. Mayco, producer of America's fin- Annual Arts and Crafts Outdoor Festival est co~ors, can supply you with a full is open to craftsmen. $2,000 in awards. Fee: $3.00 per entry. 20 per cent com- palette of thoroughly tested Glazes, mission. Deadline: July 18-30. For further Underglazes, One Strokes, Accents and information write: Citizens Council for the Stains. You'll find a Mayco glaze or com- Arts, Box 901, Coeur d'Alene 83814. bination to suit every need and concept, and all so easy to use! They're homog- ILLINOIS, PEKIN enized for easier application and they September 23-25 "Annual Anniversary fire at Cone 06. Send for your free color Fine Crafts and Arts Festival," is open to chart and see why master craftsmen ceramists. Juried by slides. Fee: $50. and teachers rely on Mayco Colors. Deadline: September 9. Write: Nandra, 730 Ravine Road, Plainfield, New Jersey 07060, or call (201) 755-6885/731-2562. MAYCO ®COLORS INDIANA, ANDERSON 20800 Dearborn St., Chatsworth, Calif. 91311 October 7-9 "Mounds/Anderson Anni- Dealerships Available versary Fine Crafts and Arts Celebration," is open to ceramlsts. Juried by slides. Fee: $45. Deadline: September 23. Write: Nandra, 730 Ravine Road, Plainfield, New J ]une 1977 11 I r" I ,, PORTABLE DOWNDRAFTS PATENT PENDING PROFESSIONAL KILNS

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ITINERARY in awards. Fee: $3.00. Deadline i Novem- UTAH, PARK CITY ber 5. Write: Jayn Wells, Beck Center August 20-21 8th Annual Arts Festival Continued [rom Page 11 for Cultural Arts, 17801 Detroit Avenue, is open to ceramists. Juried by four 35mm Lakewood 44107. slides. Fee: $15. Deadline: July 8. Write: 35ram color slides required. For further Park City Chamber of Commerce, Box information write: Noel Clark, National OHIO, MARIETTA 758, Park City 84060. Crafts Ltd., Gapland, Md. 21736. September 30-October 2 Indian Sum- mer Arts and Crafts Festival '77 is open NEBRASKA, SCOTTSBLUFF VERMONT, ARLINGTON to all artists and craftsmen. Juried by Art Fair, sponsored by October 7-10 Green Mountain Craft August 5-7 slides; due July 15. Entry fee: $25. Scottsbluff-Gering Chamber of Commerce, Fair is open to ceramists. Juried by slides. November 5-December 3 Marietta Col- West Nebraska Arts Center, and the North Fee: $40-$50. Deadline: July 20. Write: lege Crafts National '77 is open to all Platte Valley Artists Guild, is open to all Green Mountain Craft Fair, William and artists and craftsmen. Juried by slides; due artists. Fee: $10 outdoor space; $15 tent Holly Patrick, Directors, RD #1, Arling- September I0. Fee: $I0 for three entries. space. Entry deadline: July I. For further ton 05250. $5,000 in prizes and awards. For informa- information write: Art Fair, Box 62, tion on both events write: Arthur Howard Scottsbluff 69361. VERMONT, MANCHESTER Winer, Marietta College, Marietta 45750. October 1-2 Craftproducers Craft Fair NEw JERSEY, LAYTON at Bromley is open to 50 exhibitors. Fee. ONTARIO, HALIB URTON September 24-November 13 "The Gour- Juried by slides. Deadline: July I. Write: July 6-17 Haliburton Highlands Guild met's Choice" is open to craftsmen in all Riki Moss, Craftproducers, Inc., Box 92, of Fine Arts 15th Annual Juried Summer media involving the preparation and serv- Readsboro, Vermont 05350. Exhibition and Sale of Arts and Crafts is ing of food (accompanying recipes en- open to ceramists. Deadline: July 3. couraged). Juried by slides. Deadline: Write: Haliburton Highlands Guild of VERMONT, MOUNT SNO~,r August 3. For further information write: Fine Arts, Box 339, Haliburton K0M 1S0. October 7-10 2nd Annual Festival of Molly Mechem, Peters Valley Craftsmen, Craft is open to 50-70 craftsmen. Fee. Layton 07851. PENNSYLVANIA, PHILADELPHIA Juried by slides. Deadline: July 1. Write: November 3-6 The Philadelphia Craft Riki Moss, Craftproducers, Inc., Box 92, NEW JERSEY, PERTH AMBOY Show is open to craftsmen. Juried by Readsboro, Vermont 05350. September 18 "On the Boardwalk," is slides. Fee. Deadline: July 2. Write: The open to craftsmen. Cash prizes. Fee: Women's Committee at the Philadelphia WASHINGTON, TIETON $8.00. Deadline: September 12. Write: Museum of Art, Box 7646, Philadelphia July 9-10 The Tieton Square Art Fair Mary Stepash, P.A. Cultural Arts Commis- 19101. is open to all craftsmen. Space is limited sion, City Hall, Perth Amboy 08861. to 50 artists. Fee: $7.00. 10% commis- sion. Deadline: July 1. For further infor- NEW YORK, TUXEDO SOUTH DAKOTA, BROOKINGS mation write: Betty Dilley, Tieton Friends July 29-31, August 6-7, 13-14, 20-21, July 9-10 Brookings Summer Folk Art Festival is open to craftsmen. Fee: $15. of the Library, Box 100, Tieton 98947. 27-28, September 2-5 The Renaissance Festival of the Arts is open to craftsmen. Deadline: July i. Write: Josie Yost, Juried by slides, a sketch of proposed booth Brookings Summer Folk Art Festival, Inc., WASHINGTON, YAKIMA Box 555, Brookings 57006. design must be submitted, and period July 2-4 Whistlin' Jack Lodge Festival attire is required. Fee: All six weekends, is open to ceramists. Fee: $25-$35. Juried $350; first three weekends, $200; second SOUTH DAKOTA, SPEARFISH by slides. Deadline: June 15. three weekends, $220. Deadline: June 30. August 12-14 "Festival in the Park" is September 3-5 Whistlin' Jack Lodge Write: Creative Faires, Ltd., 65 Main open to craftsmen. Fee: $5.00. Deadline: Festival is open to ceramists. Fee: $25-$35. Street, Westhampton Beach, N.Y. 11978. July 1. Write: JoAnn Foster, Festival Juried by slides. Deadline: August 15. Secretary, 335 Main Street, Spearfish October 1-9 5th Annual Invitational NEW YORK, WESTBURY 57783. Fair Art Festival is open to craftsmen. June 25-26 The 4th Annual Westbury Juried by slides. Fee: $85-$100. Deadline: Outdoor Art Exhibit is open to craftsmen. TENNESSEE, GATLINBURG September 1. For information on all festi- Juried. Fee: $25. Deadline: June 17. August 11-13 North American Arts and vals, write: Ruth Wyman Reese, 4210 Write: The Greater Westbury Arts Coun- Crafts Fair #1 is open to ceramists. Fee: Terrace Heights Road, Yakima 98901. cil, 600 Old Country Road, Room 306, $45. Deadline: July 8. Write: Dennis Abe, Garden City, New York 11530. Box 283, College Park, Maryland 20740. WHERE TO GO NORTH DAKOTA, FARGO TENNESSEE~ GERMANTOWN July 28-30 The Art and Craft Show on September 17-18 The 6th Annual Re- ALABAMA, BIRMINGHAM the downtown mall is open to ceramists. naissance Crafts Fair is open to craftsmen. July 23-September ll "Thirty-five art- $500 in prizes. Fee $20. Juried by slides. Fee: $40. Deadline: September I. Write: ists in the Southeast," an exhibition with Deadline: July I. Write: Red River Street Richard West, c/o Rivertown Fairs/Knud- ceramics; at Birmingham Museum of Art. Fair, c/o Debbie Sherwood, 1629 N. 7th son Leather and Silver, 722 S. Highland Street, Fargo 58102. St., Memphis, Tennessee 38111. ALASKA, ANCHORAGE June I-August 31 Marietta College OHIO, COLUMBUS TENNESSEE, LA'WRENCEBURG Crafts National '75 Touring Exhibition; December 2-4 The Ohio Designer August 20-21 The 6th Annual David at Alaska State Council on the Arts, 360 Craftsmen Winterfair of Fine Contempo- Crockett Arts and Crafts Festival is open "K" Street, Suite 240. rary Crafts is open to all ceramists. Fifteen to ceramists. Fee : $6.00-$12.00. Deadline : $100 awards. Juried by slides. Fee: $70 August 10. Write: Box 611, Lawrenceburg CALIFORNIA, Los ANGELES per booth and $5 per category entered. 38464. through June 19 "The Art of the Deadline: August 31. For further informa- Manchus," includes porcelain and over- tion write: Ohio Designer Craftsmen Win- TENNESSEE, TOWNSEND glaze enamel ware of the Ch'ing dynasty terfair '77, Claire Wright, Chairman, Box September 23-25 The 4th Annual Tuck- (A.D. 1644-1912) ; the Los Angeles County 5692, Columbus 43221. aleechee Cove Arts, Crafts, and Music Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd. Festival is open to ceramists. Jurled by June 24-26 Los Angeles Municipal Arts OHIO, LAKE~,'OOD slides. Fee: $25-$35. Deadline: August 1. Department 25th All City Outdoor Art November 4-5 "Proscenium 77," a ju- Write: Mrs. Jean Pullon, Box 176, Town- ried exhibition, is open to ceramists. $1,500 send 37882. Continued on Page 65

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16 CERAlll ICS MOXTHLY SUGGESTIONS from our readers

SHORTENED FIREBOX shape, responds more readily to pulling with less cracking and To cope with the rising cost of propane, we developed a way stress. --Jody E. Temple, Glendora, Call[. to get one-third more pots in the kiln. We use a two-burner system with both in the front, flanking the LEATHER SLEEVES door. The firebox was shortened to only Tired of burning my arms while lifting pieces out of the raku sixteen inches back into the chamber in- kiln, I cut the sleeves from an old leather jacket and stapled stead of the full width so it occupies much them to asbestos gloves. The leather reflects heat and does not less room. A gap was left at the junction char. --Trevi Terrell, PainesviUe, Ohio of the bag wall and the target brick so that flame is directed into the back of the firing BEAD PRODUCTION chamber. With this method, shelves can be A small plastic pill bottle can be used to punch quantities of positioned from wall to wall at the rear of the kiln, yet firing beads from a slab. Pressure inside the bottle ejects the clay plugs, temperature is still even. --Michael Upp, Celina, Tenn. which are pierced in the center with a plastic straw. Leather- working stamps may effectively texture and decorate the surface. BLISTER FILLER --Cheryl E. Halsey, Springfield, S.D. Several coats of clear nail polish applied to the jagged edges TRIMMING GAUGE of glaze blisters will smooth and fill the blister, leaving no trace of the application. The tough polish also prevents glaze from Who has not cut through the bottom of a pot when trimming the foot? The guesswork can be removed from trimming, along being chipped off during handling. --Toby Trail, Williamsville, N.Y. with the temptation of making the bottom just a trifle thinner, by premeasuring the exact thickness of the base. Hold a chopstick BAT RACK or dowel, vertically next to the pot, sight across the lip, and mark To minimize warping, Masonite bats used for throwing can the wood. Next place the stick in the pot and again mark the be dried and stacked upright in a plastic dish drainer. height. The distance between the marks represents the thickness --Martha Erlbacher, Cape Girardeau, Mo. of the bottom. Now the pot can be trimmed to the precise thick- ness desired. --Mort Malkin, Brooklyn, N.Y. SLAP HANDLES BEFORE PULLING Handle pulling can be accomplished more efficiently if the clay DOLLARS FOR YOUR IDEAS is first elongated into a cone, then slapped on the wedging board CERAMICS MONTHLY pays up to $5 /or suggestions used. Send and squared like a tall pyramid with a gentle slap/dragglng ).our ideas to CM, Box 12448, Columbus, Ohio 43212. Sorry, but action. The compacted clay mass, now closer to the finished we can't acknowledge or return unused items. The "KICKER"

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IT'S SATURDAY and you're stuck Marc Bellaire instructions in August watching the kiln. While it's doing its and was able to do the design very thing, you've done yours: you've well without copying, which made me trimmed a few pots, glazed, and most happy . . ." mixed some clay--what the devil do Well, not much has happened, I'd you do now? You've even finished say. Seems we're . . . huh, what's this? your Blinky Burger with fries and "Dear Editor: I didn't think I quadruple-thick shake, whose consis- would be able to hold still for painted tency and taste both remind you of birds, fruit, etc .... but Bellaire does light-brown engobe. "Say, why don't I such a fine job . . . I can't complain. flip through the decal catalog, that's Glad to see you also started the much- usually good for a few laughs?" You needed stoneware section..." search the glazing area for the catalog A stoneware section--are the low- and discover instead, buried under fires and enamels on the way out? half-used bags of some odd ball clays And . . . what's this? and frits, covered with both clay and "Dear Editor: I have read your NOWZ ordinary dust, piles of old issues of magazine from the first day on. At CERAMICS MONTHLY. You grab the first I was thrilled and didn't miss a November 1955 magazine and the word. Now, you have become a sec- A Good Kiln first entry in the Letters column mo- ond-rate magazine, filled with elemen- mentarily arrests your scanning: tary stuff. How about some technical Need Not Be "Gentlemen: We are very proud of information . . . Enough of overglaze our newest book, Exploring the Hand painting, flower making, etc. Let's see Arts, and we are sending you an ad- some good sculptors at work; a good Expensive vance copy . . . (The book) discusses wheel man; some creative souls . . . many arts and crafts projects . . . The the ceramic industry and some of their Save up to 37% using a few stress throughout is on imagination, problems and techniques; merchan- pleasant hours to fit together ingenuity, and good taste . . . We feel dising . . . for the craftsman; etc." one of our easy-to-assemble that (it) is certainly not limited to use The craftsmen are on the attack! kiln kits. Fun to do m efficient by girls or Girl Scouts .... " What will happen to the low-fire to use. Step by step instruc- Gee, I wonder if that's where good people.., and to Bonnie? In hunting tions for assembly and easy beautiful firing. taste in ceramics originated. Investi- the answer, you notice a big to-do in gating this issue further you happen May 1957 Letters on the "Aftermath These Are Kilns Made By upon: "A Project For Children-- of a Show." Hmm. Seems to be some People Who Do Ceramics and Bonnie Shows How to Make . . . dissension within the ranks--people Know What o Kiln Has To Do. Napkin Rings." Photographs show the not liking the way John Craft, Ken- creation of a slab-made and a coiled neth Bates, and particularly Peter Commercial Kiln Kit ring, both without getting your hands Voulkos have juried. My goodness, 24"x24"x27" deep ...... $269.00 dirty! Well, hardly dirty. look at the letters, such upsetness. And Studio Kiln Kit 18"x 18"x 18" deep ...... $137.95 On the very next page you find what are these "new directions" the "The Diary of a Potter-Turned-Jewel- writers keep referring to? What new Hobby Kiln Kit 12"x12"x131/2" deep ...... $ 89.95 er" but decide you're probably not directions? Man, '57 must have been ready for that and exchange this issue some year. Send for free brochure. for the next in the dusty pile. October You get up and check your kiln-- 1956--we11, I wonder what's hap- the damper needs closing just a touch pened in a year. You quickly learn --return to your seat, and settle down WESTBY that the pulse of the day is best to November 1960: Ceramic Supply & Mfg. Co. gauged in the Letters section: "Please give us more about making 620 N. 85th St., Seattle, Wash. 98103 "Dear Editor: . . . I followed the Continued on Page 21

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20 CERAMICS MONTHLY COMMENT Braque once said: 'A painting that Continued [rom Page 19 does not disturb you, what good is it?' Could this also be applied to the field beautiful, simple pottery--leave out of ceramics? If so, the sculpture by the grotesque and 'arty' stuff." Win Ng and the pot sculpture by Grotesque and art), stuff? Say . . . in the December issue I wonder if that has anything to do of CM must both, certainly, be good. with the "new directions" back in When things like these, produced by 1957. The question is still ringing in people of otherwise great skill and your mind when your eye slips down technical ability, are given serious the page to spy: consideration by publications and gal- "Your notice came . . . to resub- leries, I am greatly disturbed. Let us scribe . . . but I'm sorry to say the not lead ourselves to believe that magazine contains nothing of value to spontaneity and vigor of execution me. Your issues in 1956 and 1957 I must produce results such as these." treasure and plan to keep. That was Hmm. The new directions must be try • • • before the 'stoneware' age took over alive. But that Georges Braque--I completely and there were still ideas think he had a point. I mean, how in other fields of ceramics, even china much time do we have before we turn painting and porcelain." back into dirt . . . maybe even into The Stoneware Age! And it must clay? Sixty? Seventy? Eighty? And, have begun around 1957 . . . which is okay, you take off ten or fifteen years confusing, come to think of it. Didn't for being a pimply-faced kid who the stoneware age begin in China a couldn't care less about clay, and few years back . . .? Ah well, no what've you got--maybe fifty good, matter. You envision an archaeologist clay-conscious years. Not much time, two thousand years from now, un- really. So we probably had best spend earthing fragments of our civilization, that precious little time looking at, piecing them together, and calling this thinking about, dealing with pots that the beginning of the Second Stone- disturb us, fundamentally disquiet our ware Period, or, on the other hand, thinking, either positively or nega- the Decline of the Great China-Paint- tively. I mean, why blow these years ing Period. Layer by layer he digs always looking at comfortable, wishy- down into the site of some potter's washy stuff? Yeah, that's it. workshop or university, you muse, This resolved, you go back to dig- plowing through Minimal, Funk, and ging through the pile, continuing to Pop periods. Suddenly--eureka! he come up with quiet reading, and de- hits upon a not wholly homogeneous ciding you must be in the doldrums of but clearly distinct layer of... stone- recent clay history you are about to ware. Stunned, unbelieving, he quick- quit when--holy mackerel, the lid's 120 PLUS ly carbon dates the fragments and . . . blown off! Wow, these people aren't Chemicals & Raw Materials yes, there is no doubt about it: at this mincing words in February '66: bulk auantlties available site stoneware was in evidence in "Ceramics is like . . amateur Clay Bodies A.D. 1957! stoneware, sculpture, porcelain, painting . . . where hobbyists expect earthenware, cone 6 & I0 flame- After checking the kiln--thing's to 'learn how' in ten easy lessons. I ware really sounding good--and increasing have a college major in ceramics, plus Tools Scales Sieves the reduction, you return and pick up a B.A. in art, and I feel I've only Kick & Electric Wheels your studies of recent clay history with begun! Why can't we convey the idea amaco, brent, estrin, max, the January 1962 issue. The Letters that good design and creative results shimpo, skutt, soldner

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THE GREAT DEPRESSION of the 1930's evokes dismal , a unique clay workshop sponsored by images of urban breadlines and rural desolation--a specter the Cleveland branch of the WPA/FAP compiled an of "one-third of a nation," in Franklin Roosevelt's words, unmatched record of technical novelty, productivity, and "ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished." Paradoxically, the interaction between the artist and his community. The Depression should also recall an unprecedented and direction of the city's ceramic art in this era falls into unparalleled renaissance in the American visual arts two distinct phases, both participated in and guided by under federal patronage. The New Deal's "Brain Trust" Edris. From 1933 until 1939, she focused on obtaining supported the belief that the destitute professional artist, recognition for ceramic sculpture as a legitimate form of like the unemployed bookkeeper or steelworker, was fine art, equal in aesthetic stature to traditional stone entitled to financial assistance, and that his skills, like and metal sculpture. From 1939 to 1941, she concentrated theirs, merited preservation as a vital national resource. on adapting ceramic: techniques to the large-scale archi- So throughout the decade following 1933, the Federal tectural embellishment of public buildings, thereby ex- Art Project of the Works Progress Administration tending the medium of ceramic art into new areas of (WPA/FAP), and her sister agencies, employing artists monumentality and social impact. at a subsistence wage averaging $95 a month, fought to A 1932 graduate of the Cleveland School of Art, Edris make art an intrinsic and respected feature of a richer took advantage of a fifth-year scholarship there to partici- American cultural life. pate in a collaborative ceramics program launched by During the past several years, art historians have begun three institutions: the Cleveland School, the Cleveland to recognize the crucial role played by these New Deal Museum of Art, and the Cowan Pottery. Centered in the programs in setting the stage for the global hegemony school of art, Guy Cowan's workshop was an experimental of American art in the post-war period. Jackson Pollock, laboratory, encouraging local artists in the production of Arshile Gorky, and other key figures in the emergence a limited number of nonutilitarian sculpture in the ce- of Abstract Expressionism were nurtured through the ramic medium, and studying artistic applications of thirties by federal paychecks. But concentrating exclusive- colored clays and glazes. William Milliken, director of ly on the "fine art" of painting and the painters of the the Cleveland Museum of Art, responded to the activity New York School who won prominence after the De- at the Cowan studio by inaugurating a "ceramic sculp- pression tends to shortchange developments and innova- ture" category in his annual May Show of juried art, tions in other media, such as ceramic art. Worse yet, it and Cleveland connoisseurs began to demand enlarged, also obscures the fact that the government-funded renais- multiple editions of the one-of-a-kind works in clay. sance of the New Deal era was nationwide; that it Milliken heralded the potential of this art form--scaled flourished as vigorously in mid-America as it did in to the domestic interior and the deflated pocketbook of Gotham, and attained some of its most remarkable human the Depression buyer--as "down to earth, representative and artistic successes far from the galleries of Madison of life today." Avenue. Under federal patronage, Cleveland, Ohio, be- Edris was next involved in the first of the New Deal came a regional center of particular importance in the ~i't agencies, the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), history of American ceramics. Under the leadership of a pilot program which operated only five months in the

Unglazed ceramic masks o[ Liszt, Brahms, and Beethoven, circa 1938, by Alexander Blazys, Cleveland artist in the New Deal's WPA/FAP program.

25 Above t'reliminary sketch, ca. 1939, by George Vander Sluis, [or a ceramic map o[ the Cleveland •letropolitan Housing Authority's Valleyview Homes.

°.~ Left An earl)' photo o[ the installed l'alleyview map, designed by LeRoy Flint and modeled in terra cotta by Henry Olmer, 1940. A visitor's guide to the complex, the mural depicts the razing o[ the

J: previous decaying neighborhood .~..: and idealizes the worker- residents.

26 CERAMICS hIONTHLY Above Ed~i~ Eck/mrdt, ca. 1936, ceramist /'dirc~to~ o/t/,' Above Four am~1~)'moz~ arti,t, ilzdi~'i(lually dc( oratc Cleveland sculpture and ceramics division o[ the ware in the ~!'PA/FAP program supervised by WPA/FAP. Edris, 1935. Below "'Immigrant Family," unglazed earthenware, 1938, Below "Rima,'" glazed earthenware, 17 inches in by Frank (;clztot of the Clcr'cla~zd II'PA !FAP. heigl~t, by Edris Eckhardt.

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d Unfired terra-cotta tiles, 1939-1940, designed [or Woodhill Homes, a Cleveland housing project. In the trial state is "Grain Harvest" (left) by Louis Regalbuto, and in progress is "'Young Gods" (right) by John Tenkacs. winter of 1933-1934 and provided specific, quick-to- was an important factor in determining how project complete assignments to individual artists. She gained efforts should be geared. Narrative ceramic sculpture first-hand experience in the practical value of art to the was clearly preferred in Cleveland to other types of community after being asked to provide sculpture for the ceramic art. Cleveland Public Library. In consultation with the staff, Because of her outstanding PWAP service, Edris was she conceived the idea for two types of small-scale sculp- made director of the Cleveland sculpture unit when the ture for use in childrens' library programs: the Mother WPA/FAP began local operations in 1935, a position she Goose series of eight brilliantly colored figures, all under held until the WPA art program, which had passed into eight inches in height, and the larger Rima group, based state control, was liquidated in 1941. From the outset she on W. H. Hudson's Green Mansions, then popular with determined that sculpture in Cleveland would be synon- adolescent readers. ymous with ceramic sculpture. She had observed, during One of the primary tenets of the federal aesthetic her work with PWAP, the time invested and the expense which gradually emerged in the 1930's was that the connected with stone and metal sculpture. While several financial plight of the American artist--a plight which huge limestone figures had been completed during the predated the Depression---could be attributed to isolation Cleveland PWAP period, the danger that Congress would from the people. . The solitary artist, who periodically suspend work-relief funds made the choice of an easily descended from his loft to present work in a gallery to an and quickly worked material such as clay a logical one elite few, had lost touch with the tastes and needs of the for the sculptural medium. The choice was further public at large. Both the financial upheaval of the Depres- strengthened by the aims of the work-relief program, sion and the public service orientation of federal art which endeavored to concentrate most of its budget on patronage nudged :the artist back into contact with a wages rather than materials. broader lay audience. The WPA was also committed to work-relief for as This was the effect of Edris's exposure to the modest many artists and artisans as possible, so Edris was pre- needs of the civic ;library and its heterogeneous reader- sented with a diverse group of co-workers consisting of ship. Her work there was acclaimed, and examples were aspiring sculptors and painters, art students, commercial included in an exhibition of the best of regional PWAP artists, and industrial craftsmen who shared a common work, which traveled to national shows in Washington trait: the general lack of practical experience with either and New York. While a number of ceramic vases and sculpture or ceramics. She was expected, within weeks, decorative fireplace tiles were made by other artists for to weld this assortment of personalities into a productive the library, these traditional products of the ceramist's working unit, emerging with works of art which met fed- skill were not popular. Since federally subsidized art was eral criteria of artistic quality and public acceptability. destined to be allocated to co-sponsoring tax-supported Her solution to this problem was the Alice in Wonder- agencies, public acceptance of particular kinds of work land series, the prototype for all the sculpture her group

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:i "Johnny Appleseed" and "'Woman with Apple," bas-relie[ terra-cotta plaques by Edris Eckhardt, 1939-40, designed [or WoodhiU Homes.

created through 1939. The Alice series consisted of five secure twenty-five per cent of its funding from other pieces, from 4% to 7~ inches in height, suggested by public sources. In many cities and states where the episodes in the famous Lewis Carroll story. Edris made WPA/FAP had made no impact, the ruling spelled doom. molds of two to fifteen or more parts from her original But project art had won such a secure place in Cleveland clay models. Team members then assembled the molds, that Ernest Bohn, director of the Cleveland Metropolitan poured slip, tooled castings, applied under- and over- Housing Authority, assumed financial sponsorship of glazes, and supervised firings. FAP regulations encouraged Edris's group in what was now entitled the WPA Ohio use of local materials whenever possible, so the figures Art Program. were cast from a slip made of fine grade Ohio clay and The group was installed in expanded studio facilities twenty-five per cent flint. at one of the authority's housing blocks, and began work The workers were rotated from one step of the opera- on several major embellishments for Valleyview Homes, tion to another, which allowed everyone to contribute to a renewal project then under construction. Some artists each aspect of the finished work, and to learn all the designed ceramic models for playground animal figures, requisite phases of ceramic design and execution. Con- which were executed in enlarged cast stone versions by siderable creative latitude was allowed and encouraged, a commercial firm. Others modeled a massive terra-cotta especially in glazing, so that each figure was strikingly map for the facade of the community building. Test different from all the others. This originality carried firings to determine: shrinkage, trials of glazes resistant to over into the design of the master models. Of the more industrial smog, and competing proposals for dividing than 130 designs generated in this 4-year period, more the map into square and irregular shapes consumed than 80 came from team members who had been intro- months of effort. The finished panel combined a useful duced to ceramics by working on the Alice series. visitor's guide with depictions of the decaying neighbor- The majority of the early WPA pieces produced by hood cleared for public housing, and idealized representa- Edris and her colleagues dealt with juvenile themes, in- tions of worker-residents. cluding a series based on Charles Dickens, A.A. Milne, Decorative sculptural panels were no novelty in Ameri- and Rudyard Kipling. However, in the years just pre- can architecture, with cast and carved stone insets a ceding 1939, a perceptible shift occurred away from common form of embellishment. However, the Valley- cheerful fantasies for children and toward works of view map was relatively inexpensive, the finished panel greater sculptural force and broader iconographic mean- and its many preparatory studies costing the housing ing. Indicative of this movement are Frank Gentot's authority only $352, and displayed the potential of ce- "Immigrant Family" and Alexander Blazys's decorative ramic enrichments, which led to further work for the masks of famous composers. WPA Ohio Art Program. In July of 1939, Congress demanded that any local Henry Keto was assigned to design a series of twenty- project which wished to continue to function, thereafter four glazed tiles to sheath the pilasters of an open passage

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Above Five-piece Alice in Wonderland series o[ glazed, Glazed terra-cotta tiles depicting the European heritage cast earthenware, 5 to 7 inches in height, 1935-36. of the people o[ Cleveland were designed and Produced by artists in molds Edris made [rom clay produced by division artists [or VaUeyview Homes: models, the figures were the first work project o[ the (right) "'Water Carrier (Polish)" by Emily Scrivens, fledgling sculpture and ceramics division. (far right) "'Girl with Duck (Galician)" by Henry Keto.

30 CERAMICS MONTHLY between the administration and community buildings, fruit swags, purely decorative compositions, and native immediately to the left of the Valleyview map. His nar- animals. Each distinct type of theme was employed in a rative sequence traced the development of the area from separate area of the complex. Thus, a cluster of two or the days of virgin forest through the industrial present. three adjoining buildings could be singled out and unified Fluent, simplified designs, glazed in reds and blues, added into a perceptible "neighborhood" by the use of similar a welcome touch of color and vitality to the geometric decorative devices, and at the same time, the unique ap- severity of the plaza. The historical theme was amplified pearance of each panel readily distinguished the building. by an additional group of twenty-four tiles, whose topic The Eckhardt studio was disbanded when the outbreak was the European heritage of the people of Cleveland, of World War II ended the federal arts projects. Govern- which were proposed for the exterior walls of the admin- ment priorities were changed and there were increased istration building. job opportunities in defense-related industries. But now, Shortly after trial plaques of this group were com- more than thirty years later, it may be time to reassess the pleted, a second housing complex, Woodhill Homes, be- work of Edris Eckhardt and her colleagues. They have came available for adornment. The ethnic theme was left us an admirable vision of what American humanism transferred to a decorative cycle for the exteriors of the in the arts might still accomplish. brick apartments. The Russian, Polish, and other ethnic subjects became part of a projected ensemble of thirty- KARAL ANN MARLING is an art historian with an eight much larger plaques or panels, four of them as large interest in the iconographic and economic aspects o[ as four by six feet. Each panel was to be made of four to ceramics. She is currently on the art history [aculty at six tiles. The subject was expanded to include infants with Vassar College. Richard Hirsch

CLAY VESSELS by Richard Hirsch (Mahant, Massachu- drawing and painting at the Art Students League (New setts) were featured in a two-man exhibition at New York York City), and later received an M.F.A. degree from City's Theo Portnoy Gallery from January 14 through The School for American Craftsmen, Rochester Institute February 12. The artist's work included soda-fired raku of Technology. He is currently an assistant professor of containers with black and gray engobes ; some of the forms ceramics at the program in artisanry of Boston University. showed the effects of spraying with metallic oxides after Dan Dailey, also represented in the show, presented removal from the kiln. The 33-year old artist first studied mixed-media sculpture and functional objects.

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Above "'Autumn," thrown raku, 36 inches in height.

Above, right "'Nocturne No. III,'" thrown and assembled soda-fired raku, 38 inches in height.

June 1977 33 Judy Chicago: China Painter FROI*I A BACKGROUND in painting, graphics, sculpture, performances, and environmental works, feminist Judy Chicago has turned to china painting in an effort to in- crease the permanency of her work and to fuse surface, image, and form. Continuing to challenge what has been labeled women's traditional art forms, the Santa Monica artist first studied china painting by attending classes at a local hobby ceramics shop. The resulting objects were displayed at the Ruth S. Schaffner Gallery, Los Angeles, January 4 to February 5. Porcelain plaques, sometimes with fabric, wood, or Plexiglas, were combined in series, including two six-part works exploring liberation, and a triptych altar piece celebrating female spirituality. The objects were reinforced with the artist's words prominently placed on a gallery wall: "As my work draws increasingly on resources of other women and women's various skills, so it draws upon our heritage--ancier.t goddesses, myths and stereotypes, present-day attitudes toward women, women's yearning expressed in the butter- fly as an image of liberation and resurrection." Further documentation was provided by a "Scrapbook of Re- sources" containing the definition: "Feminist art is art that reaches out and affirms women and validates our experience and makes us feel good about ourselves."

"'Is the Danger Drawing Nearer or Receding?" [rom "Full o[ Hope and Starting to Fly," the series "'Views [rom the Womantree," china-painted porcelain with china painting, wood, porcelain, 16 inches in height. and [abric, 22 inches in width.

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June 1977 35 Tuscarora Pottery School by AN~ SCHWARTZ

IN THE HIGH RANCHING COUNTRY of northern Nevada is glaze materials, study pottery-forming methods, and con- the town of Tuscarora. It sits on a mountainside in what struct kilns and wheels--while the experienced potter was once a booming gold and silver mining area; broken could return to the basics of clay; water, and fire." machinery and old mine shafts remain as vestiges of By 1973, the school had a new studio--a geodesic dome that time. There are now only eight permanent residents, built by a student and Dennis--with more kilns and a post office, and some houses in the town, besides the wheels. He was teaching full-time then at Pitzer College, facilities of the Tuscarora Pottery School, which was California, and except for a program arranged by Pitzer founded by Dennis Parks. that allowed fourteen of its students to spend nine weeks The school was begun more than ten years ago when during the term studying in Tuscarora, the pottery school I)ennis and a group of students converted an old carriage operated only in the summer. But a sabbatical from shop into a studio and rented Tuscarora's nineteenth- Pitzer and an additional year's leave of absence allowed century hotel for student housing. The group made a him to work further on the school, and during the second kick wheel, and built the first kiln of bricks pressed from year a few student-apprentices were enrolled. The result clay, local sand, and sawdust. Dennis recalls, "My desire was a decision to break away from formal education. to establish a school began when I first visited Tuscarora "I . . . couldn't bring myself to selling my goat, eating in 1962. I saw that the climate, landscape, isolation, and my chickens, and going back down to Pitzer, so I mailed the quiet could be stimulating, particularly to the urban in my resignation." He and his family now reside in potter. The beginner could learn to use local clay and Tuscarora year-round.

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Students room at the Tuscarora Hotel, built in 1861 Besides skiing or ice[ishing in the winter, and year-round in Palisades, Nevada, and moved to two other mining hiking, an extracurricular pastime is swimming in towns be[ore coming to its present site in 1898. the "'glory hole,'" a [looded mine.

June 1977 37 t~ t The school has been able to buy the hotel and provide an apprenticeship more than a course, occurs during the individual rooms, except in the summer when students fall and spring sessions when students work under Dennis's must double up. Seven students can be accepted during guidance, but otherwise independently and in an environ- the fall or spring term, and ten to fifteen for each of ment integrating a basic understanding of clay and glaze the three two-week summer sessions. Tuscarora Hotel is with the development of craftsmanship and clay aesthet- equipped with a kitchen and rooms for living and dining; ics. The other consists of three two-week summer pro- cooking and other household chores are shared. grams each of which concentrates on a single aspect of The original kilns have been replaced during the last pottery; held last summer were kiln-building, salt-firing, few years by others built with student help: two for and native clay workshops. Some guest instructors have stoneware, a large one for salt, and a small raku kiln, been (Colorado), Joe Soldate (California), all downdraft and oil-fired. The geodesic dome studio Jeff Schlanger (New York), Mary Will (Canada), and contains six kick wheels, as well as a collection of ceramics Pete Kuentzel (Florida). books and periodicals. Dennis's office and gallery are in Dennis envisions Tuscarora as a place where students the hotel's old mail room. He recently constructed a learn from each other as well as from a teacher. The building containing a new glaze room and a studio for practical education includes prospecting for minerals and himself, with plans to add a second-floor gallery. using them in glazes and in a workable earthenware clay. Two different programs are offered. One, resembling Local raw materials are almost ready-made for potters,

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40 CERAMICS MONTHLY for when the gold and silver ores were mined and clay. He likes "the intimacy of the raw clay and glaze processed nearby, sand and clay were separated into piles. bond," and cites the economic advantages of single firing Sagebrush was burned in the mills, leaving large amounts by reducing the fuel bill and shortening work time. of ash, which by itself makes a useful glaze. Attending Tuscarora Pottery School is not only an Pottery at the school is practiced as an economically education in making pottery out of the land, but also in feasible craft; techniques are taught which consider the living off the land. Assistance is available in learning cost of materials and firing, with all of their ware--raku, stone masonry, carpentry, wine-making, preserving, gar- salt, and stoneware--single fired. Dennis learned the dening, hunting, and fishing. For entertainment there is method while studying with Paul Soldner. They were the local swimming hole and the Tuscarora Tavern, experimenting with salt firing, and because of the while the mountains offer good hiking, cross-country precedent of early American ware, they tried only glazing skiing, and icefishing in the winter. Sometimes members the inside of forms. The pots did not crack when glaze of the pottery school get together with the valley ranchers was applied, and they matured in the kiln as usual. Some for a celebration, like the Fourth of July lamb roast. crawling was evident, but this was corrected by using The nearest town, Elko, is fifty-two miles away, and a glaze with a higher proportion of clay. Later, Dennis the last miles to the school are on an infrequently traveled applied single-firing to stoneware, and has developed dirt road. Yet this isolation is one of the school's assets, recipes, many from local clay and ash, as well as a glaze along with its mountain location, freedom, space, and the application system that does not create stresses in the desert countryside.

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4 metal rod within and, chemically, the Fiberglas compo- An Armature for sition is similar to clay. To construct sculpture over the armature, a silhouette is cut from the screening. Excess material is left below Ceramic Sculpture the feet for firm attachment to the base, and above the head for a suspension string. The initial clay build-up is by ~IAL'RICE SAPIRO best applied while the armature is lying on a flat surface. Pressing the clay firmly onto the screening will insure complete attachment. A slab may be used to form the base and placed beneath the suspension point. The figure is then tied in position, the pose established, and the feet joined to the base. Modeling may now proceed in the usual manner, as if working on a traditional pipe A GLANCE AT ceramic sculpture from past civilizations or wire armature. The figure can be built up with small shows that sculptors have always had to deal with the pellets of clay, and a modeling tool used to remove the necessities of structural support. For them, as well as the excess. Because the Fiberglas armature is flexible, altera- modern sculptor, the engineering of a clay work may be tions in the sculpture are easily accomplished. For an necessary for its eventual survival. upright figure, one point of suspension will suffice, but To help solve construction problems, I began several some stances may require additional points. years ago to search for an armature material which When the clay will support itself, the suspension string would be stiff for support, yet as flexible as the shrinking may then be cut. Excess Fiberglas can be clipped off after clay. The material would need to survive a 2300°F firing slow drying, or after bisque firing. without deformation, and be compatible with glaze. A very slow bisque is necessary, especially if the sculp- Fiberglas window screening meets all the requirements. ture is thick. For electric kilns, an overnight firing on low Each small opening in the screen provides a firm heat, followed by at least six hours on medium, then high anchor for the clay, and the small strands have sufficient heat until Cone 06 is reached, will allow chemical water elasticity to move with drying and firing shrinkage. The to escape without cracking the form. If the sculpture green strength is greatly increased, somewhat in the is to be glazed, dipping or pouring are good techniques. manner of stressed concrete being strengthened by the I use a clay body that is slightly underfired at Cone 6

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3, 4. The suspended [igure is attached to 5. Some forms may require more a clay base by extra screening. than one cord for support.

June 1977 43 George Hageman

WORK BY THE FINE ARTS and photography faculty of the University of Dayton (Ohio) was displayed February 6 through March 2 in the school's library. Ceramist George Hageman contributed three temporary construc- tions based on the cross form, commenting that "Crosses are a most ancient form-image which have many associa- Right "Tan Cross," insulating [irebrick and tions. These three relate to my present teaching at a pri- masking tape, 88 inches in diameter. vate Catholic institution." The compositions, conceptual in nature, were formed from bags of clay, insulating fire- Below "Cross," bagged clay with masking brick, masking tape, and wood. and wooden strips, 10 [eet square.

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June 1977 45 Arabian Luster Glazes by RICHARD BEHRENS

DURING THE NINTH CENTURY~ Arab GLAZE I (Cone 08) Each of these glazes was fired to potters developed a glaze technique Lithium Carbonate ...... 0.8% maturity at 1740°F (950°C), cooled which was extensively used on Span- Nepheline Syenite ...... 43.8 to 1340°F (725°C), and the reduc- ish ware during the Moorish occupa- Frit 3223 (Ferro) ...... 55.4 tion started and continued at 1260- tion and later on Italian and French 100.0% 1320°F (680-710°C) for approxi- ceramics. Add: Bentonite ...... 2.0% mately forty minutes. Reduction is The process in one of its ramifica- A bright garnet-red glaze may be pre- continued as the temperature is al- tions can be of value to today's potters pared by adding I% tin oxide and lowed to drop rapidly to l160°F with either gas or electric kilns. It 0.5% copper carbonate to this recipe. (625°C) and the kiln closed and consists of firing a glaze (traditionally cooled naturally. A simple pyrometer containing copper) to its maturing GLAZE II {Cone 08} is helpful in controlling the firing point followed by cooling to a low, Lithium Carbonate ...... 4.8% procedure. red heat, then changing the kiln at- Whiting ...... 14.5 For experimenting with your own mosphere to a smoky reduction for Frit 3223 (Ferro) ...... 57.0 glaze recipes, or for addition to the about one hour. Kaolin ...... 16.6 glazes listed here, the following color- Reduction may be started in an Calcined Kaolin ...... 7.1 ant combinations are suggested: electric kiln after the glaze has cooled 100.0% Bismuth Oxide ...... 0.25% from its maturing point to approxi- With 0.5% copper carbonate and 1% Vanadium Green Stain ..... 7.50 mately 1340°F (725°C). The classic powdered bismuth metal added to Bismuth Oxide ...... 0.25% procedure of introducing mothballs Glaze II, a brilliant lustrous copper Silver Chloride ...... 0.25 through the kiln's peephole may be surface is formed. Bismuth metal is Vanadium Blue Stain ...... 7.50 used to maintain a light plume of brittle and may be readily powdered smoke from around the kiln door. Or in a mortar. Bismuth Oxide ...... 0.25% paraffin, cut in convenient lengths Red Iron Oxide ...... 2.00 and wrapped in aluminum foil, may GLAZE Ill {Cone 081 Silver Chloride ...... 0.25 also be used as a reduction-producing Strontium Carbonate ...... 12.3% Copper Carbonate ...... 0.50% fuel, as can charcoal, twigs, or motor Whiting ...... 6.9 Silver Chloride ...... 0.25 oil. Potentially toxic gases are the Frit 3223 (Ferro) ...... 49.2 Tin Oxide ...... 4.00 by-product of all such combustion, so Nepheline Syenite ...... 24.5 excellent ventilation should be main- Kaolin ...... 7.1 Bismuth Oxide ...... 0.50% tained around the kiln. 100.0% Vanadium Yellow Stain .... 5.00 Because the electric kiln's atmo- When 1% tin oxide and 0.5% copper Bismuth Oxide ...... 0.25% sphere is so static, little carbonaceous carbonate are added, a bright, lus- Cobalt Carbonate ...... 2.00 matter is needed for reduction; and trous copper surface will result. For a Silver Chloride ...... 0.25 since the temperatures at which this brassy luster, 0.5% copper carbonate, process is conducted are relatively 0.5% silver nitrate, and 0.5% pow- Bismuth Oxide ...... 0.25% low, no noticeable deterioration of dered bismuth metal are added to the Silver Chloride ...... 0.25 electric elements occurs. glaze. Vanadium Green Stain ..... 7.50 A fuel-burning kiln may be reduced Bismuth Oxide ...... 0.50% in the usual manner by controlling the GLAZE IV [Cone 08] dampers or regulating the air-fuel mix Lithium Carbonate ...... 4.7% Silver Chloride ...... 0.25 Vanadium Yellow Stain ..... 4.00 at the burners or firebox. Strontium Carbonate ...... 22.3 Recipes maturing between Cones 08 Frit 3223 (Ferro) ...... 46.0 Smoke reduction is easy to achieve and 4 can be used in smoke reduction. Nepheline Syenite ...... 27.0 but does require careful control. Vari- The alkaline borate glazes are well 100.0% ations from firing to firing, in the adapted, although batches with fritted Add : Bentonite ...... 2.0% absence of instrumentation, may be lead may also be formulated. Some With a 1% addition of silver nitrate, minimized by record keeping and by Cone 08 glazes which include a lead- a somewhat yellow iridescent silvery close adherence to an established and less frit are offered for trial: surface results. reproducible technique.

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To HONOR the occasion of the artist's ninetieth birthday For the first time in my life I thought, 'Yes, decoration on (January 5), the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, pots -- not painting on canvas or drawing in our sense of the staged the first full-scale retrospective of Bernard Leach's word -- what on earth do you put on pots?' The brushes work ever presented in England. The two-month exhibition were long and floppy. The pigments were syrupy. I found it held through May 8 included approximately 200 ceramic extremely difficult to do anything with them. But something works, drawn from over sixty private and public collections. occurred to me... so I drew... It came back within the Beginning with his first pot produced in 1911, to 1973 when hour from the kiln and into my hands while still very hot. failing eyesight made it impossible for him to continue work- The pot was removed from a red hot chamber, taken out ing, the one-man show illustrated a lifetime endeavor to with other pots, and set on tiles outside to cool. understand the achievements of past unpretentious "... I was absolutely dumbfounded and enamored on craftsmen, to test them for relevance, and to find among the spot. I thought to myself, 'l've got to do that... I must! them valid inspiration. "Between the subtle opposition and Where can I find someone to teach me?' It took myself and interplay of centrifugal and gravitational force," said Leach, some friends about three months to locate a teacher. I was "between straight and curve.., are hidden all the potter's introduced to Ogata Kenzan, a very simple, charming, old experience of beauty. Under his hands the clay responds to man living in the poorer part of northern Tokyo." emotion and thought from a long past, to his own intuition Bernard Leach soon became attracted to the qualities of of the lovely and the true, accurately recording the stages of Japanese raku, Korean pottery, Chinese ware of the Sung his own inward development." dynasty, and later the Medieval folk pottery of Europe and Hailed as the greatest living western potter and, in his England. The conveyance of these appreciations through own words, "a courier between east and west," Bernard his books, lectures, and his own apprentices has helped to Leach was born in Hong Kong, where he lived for ten years. firmly establish such ware as the paradigm for ceramic The son of an English colonial judge, he moved to London objects in the eyes of many studio potters and art historians and was educated in drawing and printmaking at the Slade alike. His most famous text, A Potter's Book, first published School of Fine Art. Bernard became influenced by the in 1940, is still in print in its eighteenth American edition. writings of Lafcadio Hearn* and, at the age of twenty-one, Bernard Leach was unique in his desire to learn from he left England, traveling to Korea, China, and Japan for Japan's culture and tradition, yet his receptivity and artistry eleven years. caused many Japanese to learn from him. He was so well Of his first experience with clay, he says, "... I was asked regarded that, when his workshop was destroyed by fire, a by a group of actors, poets, and artists to come to a benefactor offered to rebuild the studio and kiln, on the Japanese tea party... It was sort of an informal introduc- condition only that he be allowed to use it after Bernard had tion to the Ceremony of Tea, although there was no care- left Japan. mony that day. We sat about the floor, on matting -- no Returning to England in 1920, Leach established a pot- shoes ever in the house. Between us were little saucers and tery in the village of St. Ives in Cornwall, spending almost pigments with brushes, looking very difficult to do anything sixty years there. His philosophy has modified the extensive with. And they said, 'Come and write a poem. Here's a pot tradition of the Orient and offered it to the rest of the world to write it on.' I said, 'I don't think I write poetry.' They said, -- presenting standards to those in countries without a long 'Well, couldn't you paint something, decorate something?' ceramic history. "Rules ask to be broken if they are not of our own making," said Leach, "but principles if they are *Patricio La fcadio Tessima Carlos Hearn (1850-1904) was a Greek-born author of kish descent deep and wide enough can be suggestive and helpful. who immigrated to the United States in 1869. and eventually became a reporter for the Sunday Cincinnati Enquirer. He later moved to Japan and became a citizen, changing his name to Yakurno Whether we verbalize them or not we are aware of them, Koizumi, and taught at the Tokyo Imperial University. An author and compiler of folklore, among his and from this angle or that, individually as well as histori- books are: In Ghostly Japan; Glimpses o fUnfamiliardapan; Out of the East, Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation; and Some Chinese Ghosts (a set of legends). cally, they form the invisible core of standard and tradition."

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IN THE PREHISTORIC ~WORLD was the reality of clay, the mental regulations is easier than it may seem. The back- magic of hands to form it, and the mystery of fire. Curi- yard barbecue or a fireplace, fueled with combustibles osity, and the willingness to take a risk, were two impor- such as charcoal briquettes, can be used to fire clay. tant elements that inspired early inventors of the primi- While a variety of bodies may be successful, typical tive kiln to produce the ceramic forms we admire in earthenware is best adapted to this method when mixed museums today. From this beginning, the knowledge of with thirty to forty per cent sand or grog to withstand the clay has evolved into a complex technology that baffles shock of fast rising temperature. To more completely new ceramics students who encounter the "need" for experience the process, local clay may be dug, perhaps in wheels, expensive or complex kilns, and higher education that part of the garden where nothing grows readily. Clay in order to proceed. Yet even today in much of the world which can be formed and dried in one piece will generally the simple stone age process continues to exist as a viable fire. Sieved fireplace ashes, sawdust, coffee grounds, and and functional tradition. Folk potters in Africa, Mexico, other body fillers can be added to clay for additional Middle and South America, as well as Indians of the drying and firing stability. American Southwest, have been recognized for their Small pots may be formed by any method and should artistry in producing handbuilt ware fired in dung or open be air dried, then thoroughly dried by placing on a floor bonfire kilns. heating register, in an oven, or on the food grate of a The urban or suburban potter with a desire to use an barbecue. The ware is taken directly from warming to the open fire will find that adapting primitive methods to a fuel grate of the barbecue, surrounded with charcoal for populated area and staying within local fire and environ- even heating and insulation, soaked with charcoal lighter,

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1. In preparation for firing, charcoal briquettes are 2. Preheated ware is placed among the briquettes. 7"he poured onto the fuel grate. pot wrapped in paper and foil will be carbonized.

5. Blackware may be produced by firing with 6. To simultaneously fire a number of pots, slice.~ of combustibles inside a Iidded can. pressed fuel logs provide additional heat.

and ignited. Pots can be removed after a half hour in the and thus the carbonized finish characteristic of traditional red heat of the coals, or left until completely cold. blackware. If the pot is burnished prior to drying, it will Depending upon how the ware is placed, its surface have a glossy surface after firing. effects will vary. When fired among the briquettes, body There are many usable styles of barbecues and suitable color will range from shaded tan, red, and brown to gray fuels. The enclosed, cylindrical smoker comes closest to and black. For an overall terra cotta color, ware can be duplicating kiln construction, while barbecues with lids fired in an unlidded tin can to protect it from direct and vents make safe, contained fires possible if fuels are contact with the flame. Wrapping a pot in paper towels used which do not emit a great deal of flame. As skill with or newspaper and then putting it in a lidded metal can or this method increases and larger pots are fired, a fireplace enclosing it in several layers of heavy-duty aluminum foil may provide more space for ware. will produce a contained, smoky atmosphere during firing, Small amounts of wood bark or pressed sawdust log

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slices produce very hot fires and a temporarily carbona- MOLLIE POUPENEY, an Orin- ceous atmosphere in an enclosed barbecue; the smoke can da, Cali[ornia, ceramist, is also an be regulated by opening or closing the lid. Potters with oil painter, creator o[ the syndi- access to dried dung fuel may use similar firing proce- cated cartoon strip "'Out to dures. Adequate amounts of both fuel and firing time will Lunch," and a registered nurse. sufficiently harden the ware, but if the clay can be A previous article by this artist, scratched easily with a nail, or appears crumbly, retire "'Rosa Real de Nieto: Mexican with more fuel and for a longer time. Potter," appeared in the May Remember that the first potters had no teachers--only 1974 issue o[ CM, and explored the mud beneath their feet, the magic of their hands, and techniques in the production o[ the mystery of flame. They did well, and so will you. traditional blackware.

June 1977 61 9. Unglazed ware may make contact 10. Ware may be preheated on the 11. Smoke cookers such as during firing. Burnishing when green /ood grate of a hot barbecue or in this are also usable/or [iring produces the glossy finish. a regular kitchen oven. pots among the coals.

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64 CERAMICS MONTHLY LESLIE CERAMICS ITINERARY LYITIPIC KILflS SUPPLY CO. Continued /rom Page 13 Since 1946 Festival; Barnsdall Park, 4800 Hollywood Blvd. Olympic CALIFORNIA, PALO ALTO June 14-July 31 The 4th Annual Ce- Torchbearer ramics and Glass Exhibition; at the Palo Alto Cuhural Center Main Gallery, 1313 Gas Kilns Newell Rd. CALIFORNIA, REDONDO BEACH June 1-30 An exhibition of ceramics by Patrick S. Crabb and Yoshiro Ikeda; at Tanega-Mahr Gallery, 214 Avenida Del Norte. CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO June 14-July 31 The 4th Annual Ce- ramics and Glass exhibition by the San Jose State University and San Francisco Complete Chemicals State University Potters' Guilds; at the Raw Materials & Equipmen÷ Palo Alto Cultural Center. August 11-14 The Second Annual Pa- cific States Crafts Fair; at Fort Mason. Catalog - $1.00 CALIFORNIA, SAN MARCOS Free to Schools & Institutions June 25-July 22 "Purchase Award Ex- hibit," of ceramic sculpture; at the Boehm Gallery, Palomar College, 1140 West Mis- 1212 San Pablo Ave. sion Rd. BERKELEY, CA. 94706 (415) 524-7363 COLORADO, DENVER July 13-17 The Rocky Mountain Na- tional Craft Fair; at the Adams County Fairgrounds. COLORADOj FORT COLLINS June 18-19 Judson Pottery Annual NEW SOURCE OF Spring Show and Sale, featuring kitchen- and tableware; at Judson Pottery, 100 POTTERS' SUPPLIES Gregory Road. IN THE COLORADO, GRAND JUNCTION MonJ'L 2821(3 July 15-August 7 "Objects '77/' a craft DELAWARE VALLEY exhibition including ceramics; at the West- Close to 309 Expwy. & Pa. Tpk. ern Colorado Center for the Arts. Olympic has incorporated the high quality standards of Its electric kilns Into the Torch- COLORADO, GREELEY bearer Gas Kilns. Portable gas kilns offer many June 13-15 The National Council on advantages such as low initial cost, convenient ORTON CONES movement for demonstration firings, or for use Education for the Ceramic Arts 1977 in situtations where space does net permit the L & L KILNS conference; at the University of Northern installation of large permanent kilns. write: The Olympic Torchbearers will fire to cone 10 KEMPER TOOLS Colorado. For further information using natural gas, propane, or butane, and may Herb Schumacher, NCECA Program or WHEELS he easily adjusted for oxidation, reduction, DINACK Chairman, Art Department, University of raku firing. The multiple burner configuration KINGSPIN TURNTABLES Colorado, Greeley 80639. gives the Torchbearers very even heating char- Northern acteristlcs, fast controllable firing times, and WALKER JAMAR PUG MILLS economical operation. COLORADO, VAIL Three Torchbearer models are available. The NORMAN KILNS & EQUIPMENT June 17-19 "Colorado Clay Sympo- first, Model 1827G measures 17½ inches in CORKS - SPONGES - BRUSHES sium" with slide lectures, panels, and dis- dlamctor by 27 inches deep, and has a volume ceramic sculp- of 3.95 cubic feet. The next larger size, Model PREPARED LEAD FREE GLAZES cussions on contemporary 2327G, is 23-3/8 inches in diameter and 27 ture. Featured at the conference will be inches deep, glvng 7 cubic leer of volume. The GLAZE CHEMICALS & COLORANTS Doug Baldwin, Tom Beldon, Garth Clark, largest shown here is Model 2827 G and hell a tiring chamber 281/4 inches wide and 27 inches STANDARD CERAMIC MOIST CLAYS Lukman Glasgow, Ken Little, Art Morri- deep with 10 cubic feet of volume. All mcxlels son, Joyce MoW, Jacquelyn Rice, Tom are built in rings and may be easily enlarged Rippon, John Roloff, and Richard Shaw. with additional rings or decreased In size to conform exactly to your tiring needs. For further information wrlte: Randy Milhoun, Director, Vail Art and Critical Studies Center, Box 114, Vail 81657 or POT~~PLIES call (303) 476-4040. Distributorships Available In Some Areas

CONNECTICUT, BERLIN D/vision of August 26-28 Americraft Crafts Expo; HAUGEN MANUFACTURING, INC. at the Berlin Fair Grounds, Route 72. i 2222 North Pacific St.-Seattle, WA 98103 CONNECTICUT, DANBURY Phone (206) 632-0120 July 15-17 The 3rd Annual Great Dan- Ph (215) 247-2010 Hours Mon-Frf 8-5 Sat 8-12 Continued on Page 66 June 1977 65 ITINERARY August 26-September 24 Ceramics by Art Center Fair and Festival; at Beverly Catharine Hiersoux, Warren Hullow, Isa- Art Center, 2153 West lllth St. Continued [rom Page 65 bel Parks, and Susan and Steven Kemen- bury State Arts and Crafts Fair; on yffy; all at Following Sea Gallery, 1441 ILLINOIS, EDWARI)SVILLE Yankee Expressway. Kapiolani Boulevard. July 16-17 Mississippi River Festival Art and Craft Fair; at Southern Illinois CONNECTICUT, GUILFORD IDAHO, COEUR I)'ALENE University. May 15-June 26 "Utilicraft," a show of August 5-7 "Art on the Green" 9th Annual Arts and Crafts Outdoor Festival; functional crafts for the home; at Guilford ILLINOIS, HOMEWOOD on North Idaho College Campus. Handcraft Center, 405 Church St. June 11-12 Ridge Art Association ju- IDAHO, SUN VALLEY ried show; at Washington Square Mall, CONNECTICUT, MADISON 177th at Halsted Street. August 13 Madison Association of July 1-3 "Three Approaches to Clay," Democratic Women 4th Annual Arts and a workshop with Ken Little, Steve Rey- Crafts Fair; on the Green. nolds, and Jim Romberg. ILLINOIS, LISLE July 21-August 4 "Low-fire Sculptural August 20-21 8th Annual Four Lakes CONNECTICUT, NEW CANAAN Ceramics," an exhibition by Richard Shaw. Art Fair, at the Four Lakes Ski Area. August 13-20 Ceramics by Elizabeth July 29-31 "Low-fire Sculptural Ceram- MacDonald; at The Silvermine Guild of ics: Decals and Casting," a workshop with ILLINOIS, MT. VERNON Artists, 1037 Silvermine Road. Richard Shaw. September 10-1l First Annual Cedar- August 5-7 Photo images and clay, a hurst Craft Fair; at the iVlitchell Museum. CONNECTICUT, NEW MILFORD workshop with Bob Shay. June 1-26 Ceramics by Joseph Detwiler, August 8-September 1 "Salt-fired Ce- INDIANA, ANDERSON Elizabeth MacDonald, Lorene C. Nickel, ramics," an exhibition by . June 17-19 "International Convention Robert Parrot, Todd Piker, and Daniel August 15-19 "Salt-fired Ceramics," a Fine Crafts and Arts Occasion"; at Zulawski. workshop with Don Reitz. For further in- Mounds Mall. June 29-July 31 Porcelain by Risa and formation on all workshops write: Sun Lewis Dimm; all at The Silo, Hunt Hill Valley Center for the Arts and Humani- INDIANA, C HESTERTON Farm, Upland Road. ties, Box 656, Sun Valley 83353. June 11-12 "Outdoor Fine Arts Gal- September 2-30 "Functional Porcelain," lery"; at Harold Rogers-Lakewood Park. HAWAII, HONOLULU by Stan Loll; all exhibitions at the Potato June 17-July 16 An exhibition of ce- August 6-7 Chesterton Art and Crafts Gallery, Sun Valley Center for the Arts Fair; at St. Patrick's School Grounds. ramics by Nina Gaby, Harvey Sadow, and Humanities. William Wilhelmi, and Robert Winokur. July 22-August 20 Ceramics by Sana ILLINOIS, CHICAGO INDIANA, HOMER Krusoe, Elsa Rady, and Paul Soldner. June 18-19 The 2nd Annual Beverly June 18-19 Homer Festival of Arts and D m D New! MINNESOTA CLAY Catalog II II • More pages! • Packed with clay | II and pottery technical information! • New products! | II • New kiln installation information! • New tools and II techniques! Send $2.00 for your copy. II FREE to schools & institutions. m MINNESOTA CLAY 8001 Grand Ave. So. | II Bloomington, Mn. 55420 NAME ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP | II SCHOOL AFFILIATION D m m m D 66 CERAMICS MONTHLY Crafts; on the streets of Homer.

INDIANA, INDIANAPOLIS June 11-12 The 22nd Annual Talbot Street Art Fair; on Talbot St. near the Herron School of Art.

MAINE, CUMBERLAND August 12-14 United Maine Craftsmen 8th Annual Craft Fair; at Cumberland Fair Grounds.

MAINE, OGUNQUIT July 29-August 17 Clay-Dream Boxes by Cathi Madsen; at Maple Hill Pottery Craft Gallery, Perkins Grove.

MAINE, PORTLAND July 9 Portland Rotary 3rd Annual Crafts Festival; at the main shopping plaza, Congress Street.

MARYLAND, ANNAPOLIS June 1-30 An exhibition of ceramics by Jane Conlon. July 1-31 An exhibition of ceramics by Kathy Adler; both at Thought Gallery, 76 East Street.

MARYLAND, COLUMBIA through June I0 The 2nd Annual Art of Ceramics Exhibition; at the Antioch Columbia Visual Art Center.

MASSACHUSETTS~ CUMMINGTON July 16-17 The 2nd Annual Craftpro- CERAMIC GLAZEMAKING GLAZE PROJECTS POTTER'S WHEEL PROJECTS ducers Fair; located on Route 9, between by Richard Behrens. This text by Richard Behrens. This unique edited by Thomas Sellers. The will prove valuable to all those book covers the formulation proiects in this handbook pro- Northampton and Pittsfield. who want practical information and application of a variety of vide step-by-step instruction on on formulating and usincJ glaz- LEAD-FREE qlazes in all firing a variety of special throwin9 es. Batch recipes in all firing ranqes. An invaluable tool for techniques. Wind bells, lamps, MASSACHUSETTS, GREAT BARRINGTON ranges are included= and many those who llke to experiment bird houses and feeders, musi- special qlazemaking techniques with glazemakinq. Includes a cal instruments and teapots are June 1-30 A one-man exhibition of are covered. 64 pages $3.95 special glossary of materials a few items you'll find pre- soda-fired pots and raku pieces by Jeff which is an excellent reference sented. 64 pacjes $2.00 DECORATING POTTERY source. 64 pages $3.00 Zameck; at Simon's Rock College, Library. by F. Carlton Ball. This book CERAMIC PROJECTS explores easy methods of THROWING ON THE edited by Thomas Sellers. An decoratinq pottery with clay POTrER'S WHEEL outsfandinq selection of proj- MASSACHUSETTS, YARMOUTH PORT sllp and glaze. Those who lack by Thomas Sellers. A complete ects for the classroom, home June 2S-October 31 Old King's High- skill and confidence in drawing manual on how to use the pot- and studio. Each project intro- and palntlnq will find special ter's wheel. Covers all basic duces a different method of way Galleria Juried Prize Exhibition, in- pleasure in discoverinq these steps from wedging clay to workinq in clay. Fountains, eluding ceramics; at the Galleria, 358 Old decorafinq techniques. making specific shapes. Clear- planters ewalry bottles and 64 paqes $3.00 ly describes every detail uslnq severa ether un que items are King's Highway, Route 6A. UNDERGLAZE DECORATION step-by-step photo technique. presented. 64 pages $2.00 by Marc Eellaire. Thh complete 80 pacJes $4.00 BRUSH DECORATION handbook has all the answers FOR CERAMICS MICHIOAN~ DETROIT on materials, fools and tech- COPPER ENAMELING by Marc Bellaire. A fascinating June a-July 10 Pewabic Student Show. nique. Step-by-step projects are by Jo Rebert and Jean O'Hara. book on the use and care of profusely illustrated. A practi- Recoqnlzed as the best in basic brushes. Shows how to make July 10 Pewabic Raku Demonstration cal guide for the beginner. instruction, this elaborate hand- designs for decorating ceramlcs and Annual Raku Exhibit and Sale. 64 pages $3.00 book has over 200 photographs. using just three basic brushesl Recommended by leading the watercolor, liner and through July 10 Pewabic Pottery Com- I DEALER INOUII~IES INVITED I enamellsts and teachers. square shader. Excellent manual memorative Exhibit honoring the Pottery's 64 pages $2.00 for beginners. 64 pages $3.00 70th anniversary; all at MSU/Pewabic Pottery, 10125 East Jefferson.

MICHIGAN, TRAVERSE CITY July 30 The Traverse Bay Outdoor Art Fair; at Civic Center, 1125 West Gate. Please send me the following: [] Throwing on the Wheel $4.00 MISSISSIPPI, JACKSON [] Ceramic Glazemakincj $3.95 ~ Copper Enameling $2.00 July 2-4 3rd Annual Mississippi Crafts BOOK DEPARTMENT [] Decorafincj Pottery $3.00 [] Potter's Wheel Projects $2.00 Jamboree; at the Mississippi Trade Mart. Box 12448 Underglaze Decoration $3.00 [] Ceramic Proiects $2.00 Columbus, OH 43212 [] Glaze Projects $3.00 [] Brush Decoration $3.00 MISSOURI, BETHEL I enclose [] Check [] Money Order [C)h;o residents add 4% sales tax) August 5-6 1977 Mid-American Pot- tery Show and Workshop; at Northeast Name Missouri State University. Write: Clyde Address Bureh, Director, University Crafts Pro- Continued on Page 68 City State .Zip.

tune 1977 67 ITINERARY NEW JERSEV, LAYTON saltware by Jenny Lind; all at Clay and Continued [rom Page 67 through June 12 "Raku," third national Fiber Gallery. exhibition. gram, Northeast Missouri State Univer- June 25-July 17 "Crafts-in-the-Parks" NEW YORK, BUFFALO sity, Bethel 63434. Grant Recipients" Show, with ceramics by August 2-September II "Far Eastern Michael Arntz and Wayne Higby; both at Art in Upstate New York," an exhibition the gallery, Delaware Water Gap National MISSOURI, KANSAS CITY including ceramics; at Albright-Knox Art Park. June 4-25 Ceramics by Shane Snod- Gallery. grass and Asanta Adu-Darko; at Good NEW JERSEY, PERTH AMBOV Earth Clays, Inc., 3054 Southwest Blvd. NEW YORK, GARDEN CITY September 18 "On the Boardwalk," art June 5-22 Long Island Craftsmen's exhibit and sale; Sadowski Parkway. MISSOURI~ ST. Louis Guild 13th Annual Exhibit of High School June 5-29 "Weaving and Ceramics," Crafts; at the Ruth S. Harley University NEW JERSEY, UPPER MONTCLAIR Center Gallery, Adelphi University. exhibition includes stoneware and porce- July 5-July 29 Ceramic sculptures by lain by Don Pilcher; at Craft Alliance Marian E. Held; at Gallery One, Mont- NEW IRVINGTON-ON-HUDSON Gallery, 6640 Delmar Blvd. clair State College. YORK, September 16-18 Westchester Crafts- NEBRASKA, CHADRON NEW MEXICO, JEMEZ SPRINGS men's Renaissance Festival; The Carriage June 1-30 "Hands in Clay," an invita- August 21-September 2 Jemez Bodhi House, Lyndhurst. tional exhibit of fourteen ceramic artists Mandala Zen Center offers a workshop including Clayton Bailey, Mike Chipper- with Robert Piepenburg. Write: Jemez NEW YORK, ITHACA field, Jim Darrow, Keith Knoblock, Ken Bodhi Mandala Zen Center, Box 44, Jemez August 6-13 24th Annual Craft Fair Little, Tom Malone, Tim Mather, David Springs 87025. Ithaca; at Ithaca College. Middlebrook, Miska Petersham, Fred Shepard, Cathy Sher, Paul Soldner, Tom NEW MEXICO, SANTA FE NEW YORK, NEW YORK Turner, and Dennis Voss; at the Fine Arts June 19-September 6 The 1977 South- July 3-4 The Lincoln Center of the Gallery, Chadron State College. west Crafts Biennial competition; at the Performing Arts Festivals of American Museum of New Mexico. Craftsmanship; at Lincoln Center. NEBRASKA, SCOTTSBLUFF September 4-5 3rd Annual Family Day August 5-7 Art Fair; at 18th Street NEW MExico, TAGS Crafts Fair; at the New York Botanical and Broadway. June 4-July 2 "Clay Forms" by Ralph Gardens. Pardington. NEW HAMPSHIRE, CONCORD July 9-August 6 Ceramics by Gloria NEW YORK, RHINEBECK August 2-7 44th Annual Craftsmen's Graham. June 21-26 "Craft Fair 12" a summer Fair; at Mr. Sunapee State Park. August 13-Septernber 10 Porcelain and market with craft demonstrations, work-

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NEW YORK, ROCHESTER through ]uly 10 "Far Eastern Art in Upstate New York," an exhibition includ- ing ceramics; at Memorial Art Gallery.

NEW YORK, SCARSDALE EXT June 6-10 Monumental Ceramic Sculp- &HANDLE MAKER ture, a workshop with Jeff Schlanger (out- A time saving must for professional porters. doors, weather permitting). Ideal for schooh. Easily makes handles, Portfolio Photography, a foot rims, kiln furniture, tubes, mirror June 13-15 frames, pots without a wheel and many other workshop with Lou Garbus. For further forms. Saves many times its cost in a few information on both workshops write: YM- months of use. Solid steel construction, YWHA of Mid-Westchester, 999 Wilmot lifetime guarantee. Extruder, one-inch round Road, Scarsdale 10583, or call Wayne die, and two blank dies with instructions Kartzinel at (914) 472-3300. $65.00 F.O.B. Scott Creek. through June 25 "5 American Craft Artists," including ceramics by Sharon shapes.The,ew Solids, Extruder hollow tubes0,e K,t--ov.r from 1" to 2V2" 50 KIT Bloodworth and David Ashley Halsey; and in diameter. Squares, cylinders, triangular tubes glass by Michael Pavlik; at The Crafts- or any combination. Blank dies available to man's Gallery, 16 Chase Road. cut your own shapes for beads, handles, tiles, flutes, etc. Complete set of 12 dies, inserts NEW YORK, SETAUKET and bracket $32.00 F.O.B. Scott Creek. July 16-17 12th Annual Outdoor Show, Add 6% sales tax in Callf, Send check or money order to: including ceramics; at Gallery North, North Country Road. SCOTT CREEK POTTERY NEW YORK, SMITHTOXVN 482 Swanton Rd. Davenport,Ca. 95017 (408) 426-5091 June 18-19 Smithtown Township Arts Council 2nd Annual Juried Craft Show and Sale; at Knox School, St. James.

NEW YORK, SYRACUSE through June 19 The Syracuse Ceram- ics Guild 28th Annual Exhibition; at the Everson Museum, 401 Harrison Street.

NORTH CAROLINA, ASHEVILLE July 11-15 The Craftsman's Fair of the Southern Highlands, exhibit and sale; at Take a tip from the experts... the Civic Center. use the Orton 3 Cone System. NORTH CAROLINA, WINSTON-SALEM June 7-1l The American Crafts Coun- This dependable system is used by advanced cil National Conference 1977; at Wake hobbyists and professionals to get dependable Forest University. For more information firing results time after time. write: ACC/NC '77, 44 W. 53rd Street, You will get greater enjoyment from your New York, N.Y. 10019. hobby, have a better product, discover your July 3-4 Brookstown Festival III, in- kilns personality and better understand the cludes ceramics; the streets of Brookstown. effect firing has on your ware. November 4-6 14th Annual Piedmont Crafts Fair; at the Memorial Coliseum. The Orton 3 cone system uses three cones in sequence. The "Guide Cone" is one number NORTH DAKOTA, FARGO cooler and the "Guard Cone" one number July 28-30 Art and Craft Show; on hotter than the "Firing Cone." the downtown mall. When the Guide cone starts to bend, your ware is approaching maturity. Deformation of the OHIO, CAMBRIDGE firing cone tells you that firing is atthe correct August 12-14 The Salt Fork Arts and point. Bending of the Guard Cone indicates Crafts Festival; at Cambridge City Park. that you have exceeded the best point in the time temperature relationship. OHIO, CINCINNATI through September 1 "Environmental Sculpture," by ceramist Roy Cartwright; in Mt. Airy Forest.

OHIO, CLEVELAND July 13-August 21 The May Show in- cluding works by Ohio's Western Reserve Continued on Page 7l

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OHIO, COLUMBUS July 3-31 An exhibition of crystalline Everything a Potter porcelain by David Snair; at Helen Win- nemore's, 150 East Kossuth. Needs is avaiJable

OHIO, LAKEWOOD at Byrnes tn June 18-19 1st Annual Beck Center Summer Arts Festival; at Beck Center, • Flanders, N.J. 17801 Detroit Avenue.

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72 CERAMICS MONTHLY COMMENT Excited, and with renewed enthu- So that's what the ugly, far-out clay Continued [rom Page 21 siasm and vigor you forge ahead looks like! You're amazed: sofas, through the years• Random issues are clothing--you'd never have guessed• not the poor or mediocre, just because searched but all appears quiet except You turn the pages of the issue and • . people don't know the differ- for a few "irregular" clay things from see the pictured results of the Ceram- ence?" the 25th Ceramic National exhibition ics International '73. Hmm . . . hey! Ah, the taste thing again--and now pictured in January 1969. Then, there This is it[ Look at that thing. And... somebody's got to take the responsi- it is, the front of the June 1972 issue here, on this next page, that's not bility to raise the public's standards. showing a "Covered Mouth Box." exactly your average flower vase. The Letters go on: Man, that's gotta be it, you insist, But the traditionalist's counterat- "I have enjoyed CM over the years that's got to be an "appalling thing" tacks persist, as in December 1973: as a source of... good, middle-of-the- like the pottery someone commented "Huzunga! The 'Ceramics Gen- road examples of the contemporary on in an earlier Letters column. iuses' have struck again; this time in ceramics scene. Imagine my surprise Thinking it over, you hedge, if you the form of 'Ceramics International when I received the November issue take away the mouths, what do you '73.' And the first prize 'Rose Styliet' and saw the imaginative and lively have, really, but a box? I dunno ...... Wow!! Far outtt! How free, how teapot on the cover! Congratulations I+ this the new direction? creative . . and glazed too . . on unbending a little bit, CM . . . I You may never find out, for you're Thanks for not making it a 'cover hope now that you'll let your readers now in the midst of a clay war. In story•' " see more of what is really going on the May 1973 Letters a volley is fired Pushing onward, you see that the among the younger potters around the from the right: left, apparently recovering from the country." "I'm weary of photos of works that initial shock of the assault from the Good, middle-of-the-road exam- look as though they had met with right, has regrouped and . . . and, ples? I thought that those terms were violence, or were made by barbarians. yes, is coming off the ropes and is mutually exclusive. But the letter does Let's keep America civilized no mat- fighting back! But the counter-funk tend to confirm what you had sensed ter what the current fashion!" forces maintain their attack, as in --that the unsettled quiet was only "Sorry, but I dislike the articles on May 1974's comment: vaguely masking what was "really the 'ugly far-out' pottery, i.e., over- "Please, no funky pottery . . . (it) going on." But what was it? stuffed sofas, articles of dress, etc." Continued on Page 75

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74 CERAMICS MONTHLY COMMENT and stupid they can be! When I study resolution; what's it all about, this ce- Continued [rom Page 73 the work of another potter and I ramics? How can so many people feel judge myself to be better than he is, so strongly this way or that about is a symbol of a declining culture." I offer constructive criticism. If he is clay? Are potters to be forever polar- To think, in reviewing these twen- better than I am, I look and learn." ized? You long for an answer, but ty-odd years of a ceramics publication, This writer's point is well taken; time and your magazines are running you may be witnessing the decline of you realize that the language the last out. Then, there it is, January 1976 the American way of life. You're ten years or so has been a bit vehe- Letters, and the first real light in your dumbfounded, your otherwise laissez- ment. Moreover, as you now think of overcast disposition : faire, clay-preoccupied mind struck it, the language was rarely descriptive. "In regard to the controversy over silent by the situation. There's more Just what is appalling and ugly-- flmk vs. functional work in exhibitions to this than I had suspected. other than a sense of righteous supe- and shows, perhaps CM could gener- A year's worth of magazines and riority-what, really, do these words ate a series of articles from a number another check of the kiln later and point to about a clay object? of well-established jurors . . . they there is a new development; in May And you begin to wonder how does must approach the matter of selec- 1975 the voices of moderation ascend: one, after studying the work of an- tivity with a philosophy of craft which "When I was a child I spent most other potter, judge himself to be bet- has come through their own processes of Sunday morning looking forward ter? Maybe that's not even the right as craftspeople .... Then they could to . . . the big Sunday paper. First, question. I mean, okay, I'll look at speak to such questions as: What is I would tear through to read the the clay object of another potter, and tile function of shows as a part of our comic strips . . . This habit has car- judge it. But what has that to do with • . . culture? What is the educational ried over into adulthood and now . . . my work? I agree we should offer impact of shows? Does the art out- when (my CM) comes, the first thing constructive criticism, but that better weigh the craft in objects they select? I read is still the comic strip, or what business--is that the right question? Should the craft category in its mod- is titled 'Letters.' I find it very amus- It's 1976 and you're down to the ern application be redefined?" ing that so many constructive, open- last two issues in the shop. You're also Finally, someone is asking questions minded, sensitive, and creative artists down generally• When you started instead of issuing ultimatums, and desire to show in print just how reading you were looking for enter- they are good ones. What is art and destructive, narrow-minded, spiteful, tainment. Now you're looking for a Continued on Page 77 f lri:o, A,v-- I

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INVITATIONAL EXHIBITION published monograph on the artist, which decoration, approximately 5 inches in A total of 30 artists recently partici- contains a candid autobiographical text height, (below/. pated in the Sixth Invitational Ceramic interspersed with black-and-white and color Cynthia Bringle is currently a resident Exhibition held at Eastern Michigan Uni- photographs of her ceramics and other functional potter at Penland School o[ versity, Ypsilanti. The show reflected a media. According to the artist, "I want Cra[ts, Penland, North Carolina, where nay life to be a spit against the wind." For further information regarding the monograph, write: Exhibit A, Gallery of American Ceramics, 1708 Central Street, Evanston, Illinois 60201.

CYNTHIA ROOT The Visual Arts Centre, Montreal, re- cently featured porcelain and raku works by Cynthia Root, in an exhibition titled, "Contrasts in Clay." The objects evolved from small bowl forms with carved rims, and progressed to closed forms embellished with thin layers and ~pines suggesting sea

Carolyn ]udson Cynthia Bringle movement away from traditional pottery she lives and operates a full-time produc- techniques with an emphasis on sculptural tion studio. CERAMmS MO,XTIJI,V pub- forms. Among the works shown at the lished a portfolio on Cynthia Bringle in exhibition were monumental "Pairs," by December 1974. Carolyn ]udson (above), glossy glazed stoneware, 17 inches in height. Joe Zajac SYLVIA HYMAN The porcelain works of Sylvia Hyman were featured at the Martin Wiley Gallery, Nashville. March 20 through April 30. Cynthia Root urchins, petals, and seeds. Most porcelain pieces were glazed with a soft white matt and oxidation fired to Cone 9. Contrasts with the body were achieved with crushed glass and metal filings which melted into pools of black and dark copper blue. Shown from the exhibition is a wheel- thrown glazed porcelain bowl with carved rim, 2 inches in height. Raku bowls and lidded jars made from a heavily grogged white sculpture clay were also exhibited. Fired in a wood- burning kiln, the pieces were decorated with a white crackle glaze, and reduced in sawdust or pine needles to produce a black surface.

CYNTHIA BRINGLE In an effort to stimulate more com- munity involvement in the arts, an exhi- bition of functional pottery and workshop by Cynthia Bringle were recently pre- S)hia tlvman Joe-Zajac sented at Arizona State University, Tempe. Previously focusing on production pottery, contributed a raku container (above), 23 Among the objects presented was a thrown, the artist now emphasizes a more sculp- inches in height, with sprayed oxides, a glazed porcelain bottle with black brush tural direction including free-form works white crackle glaze, and lusters. constructed from thin sheets of porcelain. Shown from the show is a glazed slab form Send news and photos, i[ available, on a firebrick base, 10~2 inches in height. MONOGRAPH about people, places, or events you Concurrent with the retirement of Ruth think will be o/ interest. We will be Duckworth from formal teaching at the pleased to consider them [or use in this RETAILERS' ASSOCIATON Midway Studios 'of the University o[ Chi- column. Send items to: CeramActivi- At an exploratory meeting held in cago, is an exhibition through June 17 at ties, CZaAMICS MO.~THLV, Box 12448, Baltimore during February, approximately Exhibit A, Gallery o/ American Ceramics. Columbus, Ohio 43212. 80 business managers voted to form the Featured at the exhibition is a newly- Continued on Page 83

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2,CvA~Ts~LtP+/v+ ..... The 29th Annual Ohio Ceramic and Sculpture Show was held January 9 Wlrrenvilte. Illinois 60SSS through February 28 ~ + ~+++~ at the Butler In- ~ +'T stitute o[ American +'~,i++,][p,tl~++ Art, Youngstown, I~\~ Ohio. From the 506 ~~ Stoneware Glazes entries submitted, '~I -~I~L ( Dry Blended ) P. Donald-lil+ , i .' son, assistant cura-"qr~+.+),~¢"---~+ Many new and original formulations tot of the Corning • Heavy cast iron flywheel S0 Cone S colors and effects Glass Museum, New I~.E. Goslee • Molded fiberglas pan, 24 x 36 x 4"', removable for York, selected 151 for display. Among cleaning $4 Come 10 oxiclafiom and reducflcm • Welded steel frame, painted gray 1S0 Coae 06 (Including leadless) these was the stoneware falcon shown (above), glazed and incised, 9 inches in • Commercial.type bail bearings Please write for description and prices. • 30' wide. 24 deep• 34" tall, Weight 140 Ibs. height, by M. E. Goslee, Cleveland• Two • Construction and movable parts guaranteed in works given awards are shown (page 91): normal use for 12 months ARTEX MFG. CO, "Three Torsos," a footed raku bowl, 13y2 • Mail orders should be accompanied by 25% de- posit, balance C.O.D. 12131 871 inches in diameter by .lerry Caplan, Pitts- Price S,?.10 f.o.b. Ft. Worth, Texas, plus state and $894 Blackwelder Sf.. Culver Cify CA 90230 burgh; and a porcelain mixing bowl with local taxes where applicable. Price subject to Continued on Page 91 change without notice. S15 crating charge.

]une 1977 89 RK-37 RAKU TONGS TOOLSTHAT T,E ,A,D

Kemper Tools does it again! Raku potters everywhere are asking for our latest design in Raku tongs. These tongs are the most versatile design yet; made to easily grasp a variety of sizes and diameters of Raku ware for transfer from kiln to Raku finishing vessel. Built of tough, lightweight 1/2" tubular steel, these tongs will withstand extremes of temperature, yet give the potter maximum control. Long, cylindrical handles allow maximum safety and insure a firm grip on delicate ware. The new Kemper RK-37 Raku Tong. Kemper quality... Kemper versatility. Only Kemper Tools craft the hand. Available at Kemper Distributors and Dealers. KEmPER TI)I)LS KEMPER MFG., INC. • P. O. BOX 545 . CHINO, CALIFORNIA 91710 PHONE (714) 627-6191

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90 CERAMICS MONTHLY ~ OPUS SYMPOSIUM CERAMACTIVITIES CLAY Snow Mountain Ranch, Granby, Colorado Continued [rom Page 89 YMCA of the Rockies light-blue crackle glaze, 12½ inches in diameter, by Mark Spezza, Athens, Ohio. Augusl 11-12-13-14 Others receiving purchase awards were (Plan to arrive Thursday Aug 11-4 pm for eveninq meol)

Instructors: DAVE 9LAKESLEE ~ Broomfie|d CO GARY DULEFF ~ Sharlden CO GLEN POSTER ~ Industry CA BILL HOSKINS -- Denver CO 808 LeDONNE ~ Sister Bay WI Jerry Caplan 91Z LITrELL ~ Bryan TX Edward Carome, South Euclid, and Mary DIANE MELTON ~ Sedalia CO Francis Warran, Shaker Heights. Awarded JIM MELTON ~ Sedal;a CO prizes were Robert Hasselle, Cincinnati, FRANCIS SPORER ~ Fulton MO for his "Lidded Jar," and Susan Abramo- Program to include: PAUL SOLDNER ~ Aspen CO Youngstown, for "Puzzle Jar." ritz, Marketing The invitational section of this year's Wheel Techniques exhibition included ceramic works by . Kiln Design Yoga and the potter Creative Dreaming Glaze Application Salt and Fuming Studio Organization Raku Techniques Production Pottery

Special program for handicapped using NEW wheelchair potter's wheel. maximum 20 people in this area College credit/4 wk. adv. registration/Airport shuttle bus/Food and Lodging Write for brochure: OPUS/702S Meadowbrook Lane/Sedalia, CO 8013S

Mark Spezza Steven and Susan Kemeny[[y, McKean, Pennsylvania; and Ohioans Harry Izenour, Ashtabula; , Grand Rap- ids; Charles Lako[sky, Bowling Green; FREE BUILDING INSTRUCTIONS and Robert Mihaly, Lakewood.

BROWNSTEIN/DILLINGHAM Moreau Gallery Three, St. Mary's Col- lege, Notre Dame, Indiana, featured a tdeu Kila two-man exhibit of ceramic works by Mark Brownstein and Rick Dillingham. The former, a graduate student at the Univer- USE OUR DURABLANKET ,- BECKY HOLDS THE RAKU BUILDING INSTRUCTIONS AND IS SHOWING f THE DURABLANKETTM OUR SUPER STRONG CERAMIC FIBER BLANKET IS EASY TO WORK WITH. WE ALSO HAVE MANY OTHER CERAMIC FIBER PRODUCTS FOR THE POT- TER. WE ARE ABLE TO SHIP WITHIN ONE DAY OF RECEIPT OF YOUR ORDER. (WE ARE CARBORUNDUM'S POTTERY REPRESENTATIVE)

Mark Brownstein slty of Notre Dame, exhibited, among SUPERAMICS others, the low-fired salt-glazed form GENE MUCHOW - President 1613 DIXIE HIGHWAY shown above, 15 inches in height. The (813) 937-2776 HOLIDAY, FL 33599 work of Rick Dillingham, a student of the Continued on Page 93

June 1977 91 "ve Industries

Here, at Creative Industries, we have been producing a professional quality potter's wheel for over five years. During this time, our wheel has evolved into one with a level of quality and ruggedness unequalled in the field today. The quality of the components and craftsmanship is consistently superior. Our extraordinarily low prices prove what dealing direct with the manufacturer can mean. Our wheels offer performance superior to all others on the market, regardless of price. But, when you do consider price, you begin to understand the total value of our machine. The ~ Medium Power Wheel is powerful enough for center- ing at least 35 pounds of clay. It's an excellent choice for 90% of all potters. Price: $260.00 plus shipping If you're one of the 10% who needs more power, the High Power Wheel is for you. Producing 1 1/3 horsepower, this wheel is stronger than you are! Price: $360.00 plus shipping Both wheels offer welded steel construction and smooth variable speed control.

For detailed information write: This 125 pound pot was thrown by David Ferrin at Stoneware 'n Stuff in La Mesa, Calif. Creative Industries, P.O. Box 343, La Mesa, Ca. 92041

POTTER'S PRIDE LOOK AHEAD TO THE NCMA TRADE SHOW -- CONVENTION AND SEMINARS Q Kiln Kits I( e JULY 27-31 Kilns (Show Dotes, July 28, 29, 30)

$ GAS The 16fh Annual National Ceramic Manufacturers Association Trade Show -- Convention & Seminars CONE 10 Nat. or L.P. Gas Make p]ans now to attend the only manufacturers' trade show in the industry. At the Chase Park Plaza Hotel, St. Louis, Missouri. Open to studio owners, dealers, distributors, teach- ers (for the trade only). Kiln Kits This is your best opportunity to meet the manufacturers, to 4 cubic ft ...... $280. catch up on the newest industry developments and to place orders for all your requirements, 8 cubic ft ...... $350. for delivery in advance of the fall season. 12 cubic ft ...... $495. For further information and hotel reservation forms write or phone, NCMA, 59 E. MAIN STREET, MOORESTOWN, NEW WRITE FOR LITERATURE JERSEY 08057. PHONE (609) 23¢-0330. A-| KILN MANUFACTURERS 369 MAIN STREET And for your convenience: Contact the NCMA for informa- RAMONA, CALIFORNIA 92065 tion about concurrent Sessions I and II of the NCMA Teacher PHONE (714) 789 - 3310 Certification Program, July 31, August I and 2.

92 CERAMICS ~'IONTHLY • Recommended books on ceramics from the'

CERAMACTIVITIES BOOK DEPARTMENT Continued from Page 91 Pueblo Indians, shows the influence of the New Mexico community of which he has ORDER ANY OF THESE SELECT TITLES been a craftsman/member for the past i~ ON OUR MONEY'BACK GUARANTEE. WE PAY POSTAGE • four years. Working primarily with coils and other handbuilding techniques, the 3 NEW TITLE,S

SALT-GLAZED CERAMICS by Jack Troy This is the first book for potters on the technique of salt glazing. Technical information deals with clays and slips, their composition and effects, and glazing, with emphasis on surface color and texture. Also discussed are sodium- bearing substitutes for salt which can increase the ver- satility of the medium. A section on the special salt kiln presents three separate kiln types: catenary, sprung arch, and castable. The author discusses basic considerations such as location, loading factors, fuel source, and ventila- tion, and demonstrates how to build a salt kiln step-by- step. Setting and stacking considerations, safety factors during firing and unloading, and salt kilns as a potential source of pollution are dealt with at length. $17.9S

THE POTTER'S COMPLETE BOOK OF CLAY AND GLAZES by James Chappell This easy-to-follow, cross-referenced handbook contains 1,500 clay-body and glaze formulas, with instructions for Clay bodies are discussed Rick Dillintlham mixing, application, and firing. own to adjusting for defects. artist shuns glazes which he considers in detail, from digging your "gaudy," preferring to use stains~ hand Glazes covered include stoneware, earthenware, single- rubbing, and polishing to create a soft fire, wlde-firing-range, porcelain, slip, salt and vapor glaz- luster. Pictured is a dung-fired container ing, and cup and spoon measure glazes. Glaze defects, form, broken and reassembled, 15 inches testing, and adjustments are discussed. Results of both in height. Photos: Tim Garbacz. oxidation and reduction firing are noted for each suitable ! clay body and glaze type. Clay feldspar and frit analysis CASSEROLE COMPETITION charts, reference material, and a llst of glaze compounds Kitchen Port, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michi- and substitutions are included. $25.00 gan, displayed entries in a February ce- ramic casserole competition. Nearly 150 THE RESTORER'S HANDBOOK OF participants submitted 300 casseroles, each CERAMICS AND GLASS of "a well- filling the simple requirements by Jean-Michel Andre fitting lid," and being able to withstand t~'mperatt,re~ ~,p to 450°F. The exhibition The author demonstrates how, from a heap of debris that apparently will never recover its original beauty, a work of glass or ceramic art can be recreated under the re- storer's experienced hands. Jean-Michel Andre, a fourth- generation restorer, describes in detail the various steps: cleaning fractures, piecing together fragments using dif- ferent methods of gluing, and finally retouching the sur- face and glazes. The appendices includes a brief glossary for this trade, a glimpse of the materials and equipment used, and a classification of types of pottery. $20.00

m mm m mmm m m mm mm m m m m m m mm mm mmm m mmm CERAMICS MONTHLY Book Department Box 12448, Columbus, Ohio 43212 Please send me: [] SALT-GLAZED CERAMICS @ $17.95 [] COMPLETE BOOK OF CLAY AND GLAZES ~b $25.00 HANDBOOK ~ $20.00 Chris (;.~ti~ [] THE RESTORER'S included 31 pieces from the final judging, Name in a variety of styles ranging from humor- Address ous contemporary to traditional. The work was judged by studio potter City_ .State "/'ip Pottery, Farm- John Glick, of Plum Tree I enclose [] Check [] Money Order (Ohio residents: add 4% Sales Tax) Continued on Page 95

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~c'~.lle (~latj ~alle~'ll will be devoted exclusively to the exhibition and sale of quality works in the clay medium. It will include representative works of ceramic artists from the U.S. and Canada. The gallery will provide discriminating patrons with a warm, receptive and spacious environment. If will also maintain a large reference-sllde library and projection room featuring the works of participat- ing artists for the benefit of patrons, artists and students, and for private and commercial research or commission purposes. Throughout the year there will be special exhibits of the works of individual artists and frequent lec- tures and films which will be of interest to both artists and the general public. The gallery will be open every afternoon except Monday and on Friday and Saturday evenings. Cj'ke OJa6t ~a//e~tj welcomes the interest of ceramic artists. To receive our brochure explaining ex- hibition and sllde-library applications, direct inquiries c/o The Stone Village Art Center, 1701 Probert Road, Jackson, Michigan 49203.

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94 CERAMICS MONTHLY True Yenturi Burners CERAMACTIVITIES I These efficient cast iron burn- ers are guaranteed not to back Continued [rom Page 93 burn even when using propane. They are rated at over 85,000 ington, Michigan, along with Karen Gun- BTU/hr., and can be turned down to a very small candle derman, assistant professor at the College flame. of Wooster (Ohio). Receiving the $500 first prize was Chris "Write for literature" (,u~ti~t. a ~t~ldent :~t .,ll.¢,ed l'rti;ersity, CALIFORNIAKILN CO., INC. 3036 S. Oak St., Santa Ann, CA 92707 (714) S46-3071 WEBCO SUPPLY CO. INC. DISTRIBUTORS FOR Alpine ~ Amaco m Bluebird Brent ~ Cress ~ Lockerble Max ~ Randall ~ Soldner ]hn Ct,,,*/I/, ~ J Shimpo West ~ Walker who submitted a glazed stoneware casserole SILICON CARBIDE SHELVES (shown page 93). Jim Chalkley, also from CLAY FASTS 13/4'' TRI. Alfred, received a purchase award for a FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY. glazed porcelain entry (above). I For Free Price List Write: P.O. Box 6054, Tyler. Texas 75711 TOBY BUONAGURIO 214/595-3426 Ceramic sculpture by Toby Buonagurio was presented in a one-man show at Gal- lery Rebecca Cooper, Washington, D.C., 9~L1. A CLAY CO, at Mudvitle " INc. KILNS • WHEELS TOOLS CLAY a RAW MATERIALS e • ETC. for Elements for ANY kiln Potters • Schools a Earth People Contact Bob Gray for quantity prices Kiln parts 5272 Hwy. 42, Ellenwood, GA 30049 Kiln controls m new m parts m repairs Kiln brick with element grooves or plain Pyrometers and Thermocouples Sold only by New kilns -- Dyno and Econo-Kilns Authorized Dealers CLASSROOM ARTS 1147 E. Elm P.O. Box 384A, Chagrin Falls, Ohio 44022 Fullerten. Callf. 92631 {216) $43-8251

Toby Bu,~tm,.,., ~,, from September 14 through October 2. AEGEAN SPONGE CO. Featuring representational forms of low- POTTERS' WHEELS Imports from Greece fire clay shoes and monuments, her works We stock and sell the leading potters' wheels --LOCKERBIE, ROBERT BRENT, OSCAR PAUL, Silks, Elephant Ears, Wools are constructed of cast, handbuilt, and SHIMPO-WEST, SPINNING TIGER--wheels fo & Synthetic (Fine.Pore) Sponges extruded forms, with lustered, painted, flt every need and budget. Send large stamp- and flocked surfaces. Shown is the artist's ed addressed envelope for brochures. Write for Price List CAPITAL CERAMICS, INC. "Snow/Ice Star Shoes," handbuilt clay 2174 South Main St. (801) 466-6471 4459 W. 56 St., Cleveland, O. 44144 with glitter. Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 466-6420 Toby Buonagurio is currently assistant professor of ceramics at Stony Brook Uni- ELECTRONICFLAME IGNITION z'ersity, New York. 12"Aluminum Wheel Heads KIT FOR GAS KILNS $60./p,,t. $22.50 Ppd. 4-6 wk. for delivery; F.O.B. OHIO DESIGNER/CRAFTSMEN Ohio Designer/Cra/tsmen have selected Calif. res[dents add 6% sales tax Send Check or Money Order to: Edris Eckhardt, (Cleveland), glass and ce- CONE 10 STONEWARE CAMPBELL PACIFIC !100 E. Wardlow, Long Beach, Ca. 90807 ramic artist, to receive the 1977 Out- standing Craft Award. A graduate of P.O Box 643, San Jose. CA 95111 Cleveland Art Institute, the artist em- barked on a teaching career in 1933, and taught ceramics, enameling, and glass at DISTRIBUTORS WANTED the institute, Western Reserve University, ' FULL LINE OF CORK PRODUCTS the University of California at Berkeley, WRITE ON YOUR COMPANY and Notre Dame. LETTERHEAD In 1953, she began a search for the CORK PRODUCTS COMPANY, INC )roduction of gold glass onee used by the 250 PARK AVENUE SOUTH Continued on Page 97 NEW YORK, N Y 10003

]une 1977 95 TAKE IT WITH YOU! tl ¢ all new A kiln designed especially for RAKU. Constructed of a steel shell with new rigid vacuum*formed insulation. Inside dimensions 16"x24". Lightweight -- only 18 Ibs. which makes it easy to lift off Dots. It's portable so take it with you to the beach, the mountains, even the desert. Included with the kiln is a brass needle valve. 10 ft. high pressure hose, venturi burner for propane use and Raku instruction manual. Put Hydraulic Power FIRING TIMES $160.00 1st. firing: 20 - 40 mins. [ Shipping: East of Rockies $10.00 to work for You Consecutive firings: 10 - 20 rnins. ] West of Rockies $5.00 The basic principle o Write for our free brochure all about Raku. hydraulics has been L THE RAKU KILN FROM PEACH VALLEY for years in industria Route • Box lOl, NewCastle, Colorado 81647 machinery. Hydraul units are used to stol automobiles, drive h~ ram presses and pov. a multitude of pieces of high powered equip- ment. Why? Because the hydraulic principle is strong, depend- able and versatile. There are few mov- ing parts to break or We have put this sarr to work in the new V SUPEREXTRUDER to load and clean. T Superextruder has b~ for the production-o user because it holds of clay. It eliminate: for great physical .~ GAS KILNS operate. The aluminum die is i easily changeable and is large enough to accommodate several shapes and sizes. And, like all equipment in the i! WCS line, it is backed by 30 years of experience and service in the ceramics industry. For more information please write or see a WCS Distributor near ,/oil i

For detailed information on downclrafts, updrafts and CKC Kiln Kits, ranging in size from 1 to 31 cubic feet, write for your free copy of our new catalog.

TM We.., vcs P°t'eryEOu'0r ent Su00"es 14400 Lomitas Ave. Dept. 311 City of Industry, CA 91744 (213) 330-0631 96 CERAMICSMONTI{L'¢ FRICTION DRIVER ,,C~A~FT,.94r~Distributors of: Fits most electric driven potter'n ~,~, ~ SHIMPO, BRENT, ~ wheelnauch aa Randall etc. CERAMACTIVITIES ~" ~, ~ SKUTTsWALRUS, $5.5o. 3 for $15.00 ~ ~1~ • ~ SPINNING TIGER Continued from Page 95 .oi; 727Zoo ~ t'~'~ ~& MAX, WHEELS ancient Late Romans. In addition, she is ,r~__. ~J. CRUSADERs L&L, ~tt recognized for extensive work in utilizing MO,O. sw.,,. / the investment casting process for sculp- AIM, AND SKUTT KILNS • ALSO 15A-- 125 V AC tural glass forms. For further information Leclerc looms, Kemper tools, clays, NORMALLY CLOSED on Edris Eckhardt, see "New Deal Ceram- $3.95ea. 3 for $10.S0 ics: The Cleveland Workshop" beginning potter, sculptor & weaving equipment, on page 25 of this issue. teapot handles, cork, spigots etc.. • Send for new 88 pg.catalog $1.50 • HEAVY CLAY 3ALVIN [~2E UPPER ~'K)N'ICL~IR. N.J. 0~43 The Old Market Cra/tsrnen's Guild, Omaha, Nebraska, hosted a month-long L 6, L KILNS clay show and three-day workshop in the DRYING BATS old fruit and vegetable district of the city. 1/2" Hiqh Density Hardboard. • . . the most complete line! Led by Randy Schrnidt, professor of ce- Sizes fo fit your wheel, pin. Location drilled. Reasonable. The only kilns with patented DYNA-GLOW ramics at Arizona State University, "Heavy Write for more information. element holders. Write for information. Clay" workshop participants built a hard- L and L MANUFACTURING CO., Box 348 Beaver Creek Productions, 144 Conchester Rd., Twin Oaks, Pa. 19104 Star Route 1362, Glenwood, Ore. 97120.

$30.00 will bring you postpaid . . . 100 INDIAN TAN RAWHIDE LEATHER Island Crafts Studio would like to communicate with producing craftspersons THONG STRAPS, 72-inches long. Can who might be interested in participation be cut for hanging poffery and ceramics. in close-knit crafts colony. Living accom- Sample on request. 2 for $1.00 modations in former tourist home. We are KLECKNER'S SUPPLY CO. particularly interested in hearing from 23.11 Carnage Ave., Far Rockaway, N.Y. 11691 experienced poffers who would consider this as a semi-permanent location. Facili- ties for potters exist now; facilities for other crafts would be added. Reply to: SAN DIEGO - Kickwheel kit -- Mod-B THE LAKE ERIE ISLANDS WORKSHOP (metal parts) $49.50. Full llne of potter's Rand) Schmidt 2085 Comell Road, .1~'210, Cleveland, O. 44106 wheels, gas and electric kilns. Gas klln parts, pucj mill, chemical, scales etc. Catalog S1.00. brick catenary arch kiln. Local ceramists Brochure on selected items free. Ph. 424-3250. experimented with wet firing and baking soda as a substitute in salt firing. Accord- WAY-CRAFT ing to Meredith Horton, workshop pub- 394 Delaware St., imperial Beach, CA 92032 licist, "It is once again convincing that in three days and three nights as much POTTERY knowledge and new exchanges can become KRAFT KORNER as important as a longer time spent going FOR SALE I/__ "Ar stocrat of Crafts" to school." It K New Catalocjue $2.00 5 minutes to the sun drenched 10% discount with first $10 order or more Randy Sehmidt is shown making soft Complete line of supplies for: brick out of a sponge, which is cut to the Pacific Ocean, at the foot of the Decoupage Maorame BeadedFlowers Painting majestic Santa Monica Mountains, Leaded Glass Tole Painting Enameling Silver~mithing appropriate shape, dipped in slip, dried, .Marge Wennerstrom and fired, burning out the sponge. in the heart of lucrative West Los 5864 Mayfield Road, Cleveland, Ohio 44124 Phone: Angeles' booming craft market, on 442.1020 major commercial boulevard. PETER LEWIS Complete storefront operation The Stebbins Gallery, Cambridge, Massa- with volume pottery retail market, chusetts, recently displayed the ceramic pottery supplies, plants, and ceramic Wittels Potters Wheels, Inc. works of local artist Peter Lewis, and in- equipment including Shimpo and P.O. Box 18010, Denver, Colorado 80218 Cress dealerships. Variable speed electric potters' Extraordinarily spacious 4000 sq. wheels. Portable yet durable. Write foot studio space with internal patio. for information. Continuous pottery school for beginners through advanced level workshops, studio and kiln space rentals, and production pottery facilities. Partial list of equipment includes 15 Shimpo wheels, 30', 16', and 8' ,,°for Dickinson updraft kilns, etc. school and Highly profitable business opera- studio? tion, excellent lease, established 5 years serving the greater West Los Angeles area. Peter Lewis eluded in the exhibition were a series of Interested parties please contact: Bill and Judy Greathead : Mill mix wheel-thrown and handbuilt raku forms ." drudgery with white crackle and copper luster glazes. THE POT FARM • creative The ceramist combined thrown and press 2909 Santa Monica Blvd. :lion. molded elements, firing the finished forms Santa Monica, California at least three times and reducing, using 90404 Continued on Page 99 1--213--828-2448

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In an effort to give the potter Ceramists who know say ~ "THE BEST GLAZES AND UNDERGLAZES ARE IN THE WEST AT the ultimate in kiln control. WESTERN." For more information, please write or see a WCS Distributor Catalocj $1.00 near you. O (Free to Schools and Institutions) TM -- WCS Pottery Equipment -- & Supplies 14400 Lomitas Ave. Dept. 504 r~~ WESTERNCERAMICS SUPPLY COMPANY City of Industry, Calif. 91744 1601 HOWARD ST. SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. 94103

98 CERAMICSMONTI-IL¥ TOYOBI CERAMACTIVITIES ing for Small Manufacturers, Handbook of Financial Record- Continued [rom Page 97 Small Business Finance, Far Eastern Art keeping for Small Stores, and Guides for Specializing in conteinporary Jap- straw, with clay stencils. Shown is one of Profit Planning. several "phony teapot" covered jars, un- For a free copy of one or both of the anese ceramics from old masters glazed earthenware, 7 inches in height. lists mentioned above, or for further in- like Hamada ShiSji to young prize formation, write the Small Business Ad- winners. SUSAN EISEN ministration, Washington, D.C. 20416, or Greenwich House Potter>', New York contact the nearest S.B.A. field office in Bo\ 1(136 City, hosted an exhibition of ceramic works cities throughout the United States. An,,(lllia -~[;.llion B'. :ll~poinlnlenl: hv .?urza,'o "l'tw artist, a ~rad,~lte of San lose FORSALE Loft, Japanese-designed production poffery and showroom in high traf- fic location of N.Y.C. Efficient, ful- ly-equipped: kilns, Shimpos, wheel areas, materials, rack space. Living facilities/fixtures. Successful Spring Street business. 1212) 925-4642

Coming up next m Susan Eisen Our September "Back-to-Work" Issue Brandeis University graduate now has a studio in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. Titled "Out of the Earth," the show featured a pinched container with added slabs and coils (shown), 7 inches in Summer session, height, with ruby-rust glazed interior. weekend workshops, State Unicersity, studied with Dacid Mid- _ fall/winter/spring his contemporary sur- CRAFT BUSINESS ASSISTANCE dlebrook, continuing realist traditions through slip-cast works. internships, Ceramists considering the possibility of According to Elena Lafland, "Humor is ~ resident craftsmen, beginning a craft business will find a num- essential to this series in which the artist Store & Gallery. ber of related publications available free pay, }~oina~e to tl('r mother's bos~lir3g ac- ~.~Z. Applications for U.S. Government Small Business from the accepted. Administration. Among those potentially residency useful to craftsmen are: Analyzing Your ~Z Brochures available Cost of Marketing, Numerical Control ~_~- on all programs. for the Smaller Manufacturer, Delegating Work and Responsibility, What is the Best Selling Price?, Locating or Relocat- ing Your Business, Problems in Managing a Family-Owned Business, Reducing Air Pollution in Business, Business Plan for Small Manufacturers, Incorporating a Small Business, Checklist for Going Into Business, Interior Display: A Way To Increase Sales, Legal Services for Small Retail and Service Firms, Preventing Re- tail Theft, Pointers on Display Lighting, Getting the Facts for Income Tax Re- porting, Sound Cash Management and Borrowing, Insurance Checklist for Small Spi)il <,; "7~; Business, Keeping Records in Small Busi- tivities. Her intent is to comnninicate with ness, Marketing Checklist for Small Re- the audience by giving them something to tailers, Handicrafts, Home Business, Retail- laugh about . . ." Shown from the exhibi- ing, Recordkeeping Systems--Small Store tion are (top) "Strung Along in Life . . .," and Service Trade, Wholesaling, Inven- 21 inches in height; and (above) "Spirit tory Management, Training for Small of '76," 9 by 6 inches; both are low-fired Business, and Financial Management. The whiteware. I YWCA ~'~ full list of free publications and an order Craft Students League | blank are listed in SBA-115A. CERAMICS INVITATIONAL women and Men / Booklets available for sale through the Plymouth State College, of the Univer- Ceramics, Glaze Chemistry / sity o[ New Hampshire, hosted the First 34 Other Fine Arts and Crafts l government printing office are listed in YWCA of the City of New York | SBA-115B. Ranging in price from 40¢ to Annual Ceramics Invitational, October 31 610 Lexington Avenue at 53rd Street ~J $2.70, among its titles are: Cost Account- Continued on Page 102 For Registration, call 755-4500 (

June 1977 99 Bennington ~~ Workshops Garth Clark "Palette of Fire" 15-1ecture series on A Century of Ceramic Art IThe July5 - 10 i(iln on the campus of Bennington College Bool- in southwestern Vermont --the relationship between clay and mainstream art and design --the role, purpose and perspective of ceramic art in the 20th century --the dualism of art and craft --the role of visitors to the medium: Picasso, Chagall, Miro, others.

Tuition, nlaterials, room, board. 5160. Studio space extra.

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100 CERAMZCS MONTHLY Name of Program: PRODUCTION CRAFTS CURRICULUM (Seven quarters vocational) Dates: July 5-September 21,1977 (Summer Quarter) NEW BOOKS Place: HAYWOOD TECHNICAL INSTITUTE Length of Course: 7 quarters, each 1 1 weeks SALT-GLAZED CERAMICS ware. "/'he book includes several articles on Area of Instruction: Clay, Fiber, Wood, Metal by Jack Troy archaeological digs, and covers such diverse topics as sgraffito wares of the Pennsyl- Name of Instructors: Ruth Kelly, In this the first contemporary book on salt Clontz, Arch Gregory vania Germans, slipware from New En- Wayne Raab, Gary glazing for potters, the attthor presents a gland and the Middle Atlantic states, the For further information, write: variety of information on the history, tech- blue decorated stoneware of the Shenan- Haywood Technical Institute niques, theory, materials, and equipment P. O. Box 457, Clyde, NC 28721 doah Valley, works of the Moravian 0hone: (704) 627-2821 involved in this specialized medium. A potters of North Carolina, and the early chapter is devoted to each of the following products of the kilns at Williamsburg. areas: origins of salt glazing, information Some chapters are devoted to specific on clays, slips and glazes, form and surface forms the clay roof tiles of Zoar (Ohiol, OPENING decoration, the salt kiln, stacking and kiln POSITION early pottery lighting devices of Pennsyl- setting, sources of sodium as a vapor glaze, Director of the Joe L. Evins Appalachian vania, and batter jugs. Others concentrate Center for Crafts, now under construction the salt firing schedule, and special con- in Dekalb County, Tennessee. Center is a on specific potteries, potters, or types of siderations. Additional information on unique regional facility which will operate ware. 160 pages: 450 black-and-white illus- educational marketing and development pro- pollution aspects of salt-glaze firing is grams, scheduled to open in January. 1979. trations. $6.95 paperback and $12.95 in provided. Bibliography and a materials Responsibilities: development, personnel, fi- hard cover. Univerre Books, 381 Park nancing, program planning and implementa- suppliers list. 156 black-and-white and 36 Qualifications: earne4 degree with New York, N.Y. 10016. tion. photographs; 160 pages. $17.95. Az'enue South, specialization in one or more crafts media; color five years experience in crafts field including Watson-Guptill Publications, 1515 Broad- teaching and minimum of two years admin- a'ay, Net,' York, N.Y. 10036: also available istrative experience. THE CRAFTS BUSINESS ENCYCLOPEDIA Salary: low to mid $20.000's. Starting Date: /rom the CM Book Department. July l, 1977. Apply to: Tom Bacchetti, Ex- by Michael Scott ecutive Director, TENNESSEE ARTS COM- MISSION, 222 Capitol Hill Building. Nash- legal considerations, man- ¢ille, TN 37219. THE POTTER'S COMPLETE BOOK OF CLAY Financial and AND GLAZES agement, marketing, pricing, production, of by James Chappell publicity, shipping, and taxes are some the general categories of business activity The author, a teacher and Arkansas studio discussed in this reference work for fldl- or THE LAKE ERIE ISLANDS WORKSHOP potter, has tested approximately 1500 for- part-time crafts producers. Specific entries at Put-in-Bay, Ohio mulas for clays and glazes, and presents alphabetically within these categories are ~nnounces a workshop -- August 15-19, 1977 them with instructions for mixing, use, listed and cross-referenced. Ahhough en- There are firing, and finished resuhs. tries vary widely in length, the following PRACTICES: recipes for raku, Egyptian paste, earthen- is exem- PRODUCTION STUDIO listing for "'Ledgers and Journals" Procedures and Considerations in Operatinq Your ware, stoneware for both low and high plary: "Ledgers and journals are book- Studio: Management and Marketing. Conducted firing, and porcelain bodies--plus stains, by JOE ZELLER, studio potter, Cha;rman, Dept. of keeping records in which the various finan- Ceram;cs, Cleveland Institute of Art. slips, and glazes to fit--spanning a range cial transactions of husiness are indicated. from Cone 016 to 15. The book contains "The journal is the initial method of THE LAKE ERIE ISLANDS WORKSHOP sections on mining local clays, ovenware, 2085 Cornell Rd., ..--210, Cleveland, O. 44106 keeping the records, and no extensive rangetop bodies and glazes, recipes for bookkeeping expertise is required. Many single firing, procedures for obtaining businesses keep several jom'nals: one in effects with commercial glazes, and a which to list all sales, one for expenses, collection of crater, crackle, break-through, Assistant Professor Art Dept. one for wages, one for acc(mnts receivable, crystalline, and flow recipes, along with To teach three courses per semester: Intro and so forth. ceramics, advanced ceramics and advanced defect adjustments. There is a chapter on seminar in special ceramics topics, such as compli- etc. Supervise limited the typical metallic oxide colorants, citing "While some la,ge firms with glazes, kiln construction, keep number of independent studies students. Ad- their major characteristics, expanded by cated financial dealings may also minister ceram;cs program, order supplies, a maintain equipment. Quali- charts of colorant blends as well as the several ledgers for different purposes, supervise facilities, the fications: MFA n ceramics plus 4 years aca- fired resuhs from individual oxides and crafts business usually has only one: demic and professional experience. Evidence opacifiers in different base glazes. A dic- general ledger. The information recorded of professional accomp;ishment through ex- the en- hiblHons, technical papers, etc. Academic tionary section contains clay and glaze in the general ledger is based on year appointment starting September 1977. tries in the journals, and is listed side by Send resume to Box 57C. Waterman Building. materials, their sources, and substitutes. UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT, Burlington. Ver- Clay and feldspar analyses and a list of side in cohmms marked 'debit" (expenses mont 05401. An Affirmative Action Employer commercial frits for both the United States or liabilitiesl and 'credit" (income or and the United Kingdom are presented in assetsl, according to the nature, type, or of the transaction. While an expe- the appendix: clay equivalents are shown source MOVING SOON? for the U.K. Included are a reading list rienced tmokkeeper can maintain a satis- us at least and a glossary/index: 444 pages. $25. factory ledger for an uncomplicated busi- If you move, please notify new Publications, 1515 Broad- ness operation, it is usually wise for a small 4 weeks in advance, giving both Watson-Guptill send your business to engage the services of an and old addresses, and way, New York, N.Y. 10036: also available label from magazine wrapper to keep the ledger up-to-date address [rom the CM Book Department. accountant MONTHLY, Box 12448, entries to CERA,~tlCS periodically on the basis of journal Columbus Ohio 43212. or other records which the owner main- THE ART OF THE POTTER tains." Redwore and Stoneware Entries cover a variety of suhjects in- Edited by Diana and J. Garrison Sfradllncj cluding such diverse considerations as col- FOR SALE Designed for the collector, or the potter lection procedures, estimated taxes, leases, and seeking more knowledge of his ceramics mailing lists, mail order selling, overhead, Small farm with pottery heritage, this compendium of articles, pre- sales representatives, trademarks, and greenhouse. Solar heat. Beautiful viously published from 1922 to 1974 in wages, among others. 297 pages; $10. setting. Near Aspen/Vail, Cola. Antiques magazine, discusses 17th through ttarcourt Brace ]oz'anovich, Inc., 757 Call (303) 984.2246 19th century American redware and stone- Third Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10017.

]une 1977 101 CERAMACTIVITIES Others represented at the invitational Continued from Page 99 were David Cox, Ogden, Utah; Jeanne Otis, Tempe, Arizona; and William Hunt, Dennis Parks • Tuscarora, Nevada 89834 through November 23. After reviewing a Columbus, Ohio. large number of slides, the faculty selected fi~e artists whom they felt represented WHITE HOUSE CRAFTS Ceramic tableware and glassware by Short Courses American craftsmen were used at the First in Weaving, Enameling, Lady's traditional White House luncheon for U.S. Senators' wives in May. The ob- Pottery, Wood Carving, jects were chosen by Rosalynn Carter, with Woodworking, Blacksmithing, assistance from the National Endowment [or the Arts, in recognition of a growing Recorder, and Folkdancing. trend toward use of functional art in every- day American life. The JOHN C. CAMPBELL Ceramists selected were Roberta Bloom, FOLK SCHOOL, David Schietinger Marblehead, Massachusetts; Cynthia Brin- gle, Penland, North Carolina; contemporary work in clay across America. Harriet and Brasstown, N.C. 28902. Michael Cohen, Amherst, Massachusetts; Shown from the exhibition are (above) Dora Delarios, Culver City, California; (704) 837-2775 "Long Film Strip" (detail), 8 x 72 inches, Lewis Dimm, Livingston, New York; Seth Duberstein, New Paltz, New York; John Glick, Farmington, Michigan; Barbara Grygutis, Tucson, Arizona; Catharine HIDDEN VALLEY POTTERY Hiersoux, Kensington, California; Derek Summer Workshops Marshall, Center Sandwich, New Hamp- July 3-30 shire; Duke Miecznikowski, Mannlngton, Hidden Valley Resort located ~n the West Virginia; Todd Piker, Cornwall mountains of Pennsylvania is a natural Bridge, Connecticut; Ron Propst, Penland, setting for the artist. The Pottery offers North Carolina; Anne B. Shattuck, East- 4 sessions with Randy Myers for the be- ham, Massachusetts; and Lewis Snyder, qinning and advanced potter. Instruction Murfreesboro, Tennessee. will include handbuildincj, wheolthrowing, Samples of each craftsman's work were raku, and stoneware firing. Attend one or all sessions. For a unique experience in later placed on display at the Renwick clay, write: Gallery, Washington, D.C. The Crafts and Carol Townsend Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, will ac- Hidden Valley Resort photo silk screen, underglaze, and raku, by quire representative settings from the RD ~6, Somerset, PA 15501 David Schietinger, Ludlow, Vermont; and luncheon for its permanent collection, and (814) 445-6014 above, "Perennial Potatoes," stoneware and the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, twine by Carol Townsend, Daemen Col- Sheboygan, Wisconsin, also plans an exhi- lege, Buffalo, New York. bition based on the table settings. 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Enameling • Wood • Papermaklng • Puppetry • Beaver Creek ...... 97 Reid ...... 9843 Garner - ...... 73 Rewa rd ...... Dulcimer Construction & Playing Bennett ...... 84 Geil ...... 12 Bennington Robbins ...... 75 College ...... 100 Giffin ...... 10 Contact: Director Craltaummer Big Creek ...... Robinson ...... 89 100 Good Earth ...... 89 22 Hleatend Hall Bluebird ...... 83, 85, 87, 89 Rovin ...... 98 Hammill & Gillespie ...... 90 Miami University Book Salem ...... 97 Dept ...... 67. 82, 88. 93 Heywood Institute ...... 101 Oxford, Ohio 45058 Brent ...... Scott Creek ...... 69 Cover 4 Hidden Valley - ...... 102 Byrne ...... 71 Shevry's ...... 86 Hiro ...... 94 Shimpo ...... Covet" 2 California Kiln ...... 95, 96 Industrial Minerals ...... 78 Skutt ...... 8 J. Clay ...... California Pot-Tools ...... 84 82 Soho ...... 99 Campbell ...... 22 Kcmper _ ...... 90 Soldner ...... 76 Keramos ...... Campbell Pacific ...... 17. 95 100 Stewart 77 Kiekwheel Pottery ...... Campl~ell School ...... 102 77 Studio Supply ...... 68 Kleckner's ...... THE Capital ...... g5 97 Sun Valley _ ...... 99 Cecas Klopfenstei ...... 89 8~ Superamics ...... 91 NAPLESMILL Center Press Kraft ...... ~ " Tennessee Arts ...... 101 Ceramic Coating ...... L & L ...... 97 71 Thomas-Stuart ...... 78 SCHOOLOF Geramic Fiber _ ...... L & R ...... 87 82 Thompson ...... 76 Ceramic Stm'e ...... Lake Erie Workshop .... 97, 101 73 Toyobi ...... 99 ARTS& CeramiCorner _ ...... Leslie ...... 65 87 Tucker's ...... 70 Chilton ...... Marietta Collesze ...... 17 CRAFTS 23 Tuscarora ...... 102 Classroom Arts ...... 95 Max ...... 79 University of Vermont ..... 101 Summer Sessions Clay Art ...... 79 Mayco ...... 11 Clay Devil ...... 63 Medusa ...... 5 Van Howe ...... 5 Weekend Workshops Clay Gallery ...... 94 Memphis Academy ...... 101 Vcelln ...... 76 Clay People ...... 18 Menco ...... g WCS ...... 96, 98 Fall - Winter - Spring Cone l0 ...... 9,5 Metro ...... 97 Walker Jamar ...... 97 Concenfraflons Conway ...... 75 Miami University ...... 102 Welsh ...... 84 Cork Products ...... g5 Minnesota Clay ...... 66 Way-Craft ...... 97 Write or call (710) 374-6386 Webco ...... 95 for Craft Students ...... 99 NCMA ...... 92 complete information. Creative Industries ...... 87. 92 Naples Mill ...... 102 West Coast ...... 80 NAPLES MILL SCHOOL Creek Turn ...... 72 North Star ...... 4, 16 Westby ...... 19 Box 567, Naples. NY 14512 Cress ...... Cover 3 Oak Tree ...... 87 Western ...... 98 Crusader ...... 74 Ohio Ceramic ...... 87 Witteis ...... 97

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