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Here the Life Is by Dick Lehman April 1996 1 Ruth C. Butler.....................................Editor Kim Nagorski...........................Assistant Editor Tess Galvin ...............................Assistant Editor Lisa Politz..............................Editorial Assistant Randy Wax....................................Art Director Mary R. Hopkins.................Circulation Manager Mary E. May.......Assistant Circulation Manager Connie Belcher...................Advertising Manager Spencer L. Davis ........... Publishing Consultant Editorial, Advertising and Circulation Offices 1609 Northwest Boulevard Post Office Box 12788 Columbus, Ohio 43212-0788 (614) 488-8236 FAX (614) 488-4561 Ceramics Monthly {ISSN 0009-0328) is published monthly except July and August by the American Ceramic Society, 1609 Northwest Boulevard, Columbus, Ohio 43212-0788. Second Class post­ age paid at Columbus, Ohio. Subscription Rates: One year $24, two years $44, three years $60. 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Copyright © 1996 The American Ceramic Society All rights reserved 2 CERAMICS MONTHLY April 1996 3 4 CERAMICS MONTHLY Volume 44, Number 4 • April 1996 Feature Articles North American Free Clay Agreement ...................................................... 33 Summer Workshops 1996 ........................................................................... 34 Echizen Stoneware 800Years of Japanese Tradition by Virginia Hillhouse .................................................. 39 Smoke-Fired Pottery by Jane Perryman ........................................................... 42 Frank Philipps Frank Philipps An ex-Marine and police Rollin’ the Dice by Glenn Daly ....................................................................... 46 officer, Oregon potter Frank Philipps Korea’s International Ceramics Workshop by Patty Wouters ......................... 50 wanted control of his life when he decided to work with clay full time: “Brother, when Side Firing you take on pottery, you’re in direct control Where the Life Is by Dick Lehman ................................................................................... 53 of your life—or you’re out of control!” Valuable Offerings Turn to page 46 for more on his work. The Ceramic Sculpture of Indira Freitas-Johnson by Deborah McWatters Padgett ......................................................................... 58 Smoke-Fired Pottery After bisque firing her coil-built vessels, British potter Jane Shifting Focus Perryman patterns the surfaces with smoke From Vessels to Tile Murals by Joan Weissman.................................................. 61 resisted by masking tape and crank clay slurry. The pots are laid on several inches of Functional/Sculptural Concerns by David Cuzick ......................................... 64 wood shavings in a simple stacked-brick 25 Years at Frog Hollow by RachelEsch andKirt Zimmer .................................... 67 Jdln for smoking, which takes 2-4 hours. “By penetrating into the surface, the smoke firing creates patterns of great intensity, which become part of the form. ” A step-by- Up Front step explanation of the process begins on page 42. Gary Erickson ....................................... 14 Liz Quackenbush and Diane NEA Update ......................................... 14 Rosenmiller ...................................... 22 Justin Novak .......................................... 14 From Southern Spain to Southwestern Canada Catalogs on CD-ROM ........................ 16 by Frangoise Melville............................ 22 Cindi Morrison ..................................... 16 Heather Sussman .................................. 24 Brian Northum ..................................... 16 Ticket to Tokyo by David Jones ... 24 A “Dream” Kiln in Pennsylvania MaryLou Higgins ................................. 30 by Kathy Dobash Kantner ................... 16 Royal Ontario Museum Opens Peter Kuentzel ...................................... 20 New Galleries .................................. 30 Contained and Uncontained .............. 20 Jun Kaneko ............................................ 30 Korea’s International Ceramics Workshop Patty Wouters (left) andLenore Vanderkooi were two of six Western participants work­ Departments ing alongside six Korean ceramists at last Ceramics in Multimedia Exhibitions ............ 83 summer’s JINRO International Ceramic Letters ...................................................... 8 Art workshop in Seoul; for more on their Call for Entries Fairs, Festivals and Sales .................................... 86 experiences, turn to page 50. National Exhibitions ..........................................70 Workshops ........................................................... 88 Regional Exhibitions ........................................ 70 International Events .................................. 90 Fairs, Festivals and Sales .................................. 72 The cover Indiana potter Dick Lehman Questions ............................................... 96 set out to fulfill his dream of achieving Suggestions ............................................. 76 Classified Advertising ......................... 102 wood-firing effects while working within Calendar Comment: his gas-kiln limitations; the result is pots Conferences ....................................................... 80 Sacrifice to the Art Gods “that are process-driven, but that are always International Conferences ............................... 80 by Carla Tilghman ............................. 104 just a little out of control”; see page 53. Solo Exhibitions ................................................ 80 Photo: Steve Echols. Group Ceramics Exhibitions .......................... 81 Index to Advertisers ........................... 104 April 1996 If you do not know where to obtain radon is not found within “living envoys,” but in Letters testing kits, call (800) 92-RADON. The kitsthe work itself. We die; our work lives on. will be sent to you with simple instructions May we hope, pray and challenge our­ for performing the tests. They are then sent selves to create pottery that lives and breathes Radon Alert to a lab and the lab will notify you of the as we do. I’m sharing my experience with CM so radon levels. Depending on what they are, Wendy Chambers, Morgantown, W. Va. that other potters can avoid what has hap­ you will have to decide whether or not to pened to me. I was diagnosed with lung have the situation remedied. When choosing University Clay cancer in June 1995. By the time I was diag­ a contractor to do this work, make sure he is As a potter with 25 years experience in the nosed, it was in both lungs and had spread toapproved by the Environmental Protection American university system, I found many of the lymph nodes in my neck. There were Agency. A lot of contractors don’t know Chris Staley’s statements [February 1996 virtually no symptoms, other than some what they’re doing. CM] inaccurate and untrue. shortness of breath. 2. If your radon levels test above normal, Let me point out a few areas that we differ Since I had not smoked in over 19 years, Iplease have a chest X-ray immediately, espe­ in opinion. Staley starts by trying to validate was appalled. But the doctors said that they cially if you smoke. The combination of the his thesis by quoting Bernard Leach. Leach see more and more cases where the individu­ two can be incredibly more lethal than each did write in A Potters Book: “So far as pottery als have not smoked in 20 or 25 years. I one separately. is concerned, school training is a doubtful found this very hard to accept, and began Radon is a radioactive element. The method in any case.” This statement about doing some digging on my own. I discovered danger is real. I have heard and still hear the English school system was
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