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All rights reserved 2 CERAMICS MONTHLY November 1992 3 4 CERAMICS MONTHLY Volume 40, Number 9 • November 1992 Feature Articles Alev SiesbyeThe secret of this European Alev Siesbye ........................................................................................................30 potter’s coil-built stoneware bowls is “in keeping her art as direct as possible, in not Functional Ceramics: Renewed Commitment by Phyllis Blair Clark................ 32 [going] beyond what their shapes and sizes 18th-and 19th-Century American Ware ........................................................34 dictate, in knowing when to stop”; page 30. Emerging Talent ................................................................................................38 Valdez Flashfiring A series of accidents Part 1 (combined with interest in exploring the The Clay War by Barry Targan ......................................................................................... 44 postfiring potential of reheating surfaces with a propane torch) led to a new method A Russian Night by Rafael Saifulin ..................................................................................49 for controlling copper matt finishes; learn how, beginning on page 52. Ail Environmentally Safe Spray Booth by Bill Campbell ....................................... 51 Valdez Flashfiring by John Ramer Sherrill....................................................................... 52 The Clay WarThough historical fiction, this story captures the essence of potters the Portfolio: world over who find emotional as well as Jerry Rothman by Elaine Levin ........................................................................................ 55 economic sustenance in devoting their lives to working with clay; page 44. Up Front U.S. Pottery Olympics............................................................................................................ 10 Discoveries at Burghley House............................................................................................. 10 Table Topics............................................................................................................................. 12 Third California Clay Competition ..................................................................................... 12 Organic Abstractions.............................................................................................................. 14 Michael Paul Wilcox............................................................................................................... 14 Hungarian Folk Pottery.......................................................................................................... 14 Dutch Abstract Sculpture Show........................................................................................... 14 Gene Anderson........................................................................................................................ 16 A Russian Night Clay forms are the “can Kaj Franck................................................................................................................................ 16 vas” for the brooding, introspective, some Sandi Rolfe................................................................................................................................ 18 times wistful underglaze drawings of Rafael Elizabeth Raeburn .................................................................................................................. 18 Saifulin, an artist living in a small town near Saint Petersburg; page 49. Clay in Motion......................................................................................................................... 20 Lee Stoliar.................................................................................................................................20 Emerging TalentArtists at least five years Obituaries................................................................................................................................. 20 removed from school are recognized in this session at the National Council on Educa tion for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) annual conference; see works by the 1992 partici Departments pants beginning on page 38. Letters ....................................................... 8 Group Ceramics Exhibitions ...................... 70 Ceramics in Multimedia Exhibitions ............ 72 New Books ..............................................24 An Environmentally Safe Spray Booth Fairs, Festivals and Sales ............................ 76 “Scrubbing” the exhaust air with water Call for Entries Workshops ............................................... 76 drastically reduces particulate emissions; an International Exhibitions ........................... 64 International Events .................................. 78 explanation of the action and a sketch of the National Exhibitions ................................. 64 Video ........................................................80 booth appear on page 51. Regional Exhibitions ......................................... 66 Fairs, Festivals and Sales ................................... 66 Questions ................................................. 82 The cover Never one to shy away from Classified Advertising ............................ 84 controversial subjects, California artist Jerry Suggestions ..............................................68 Rothman is currently working on a timely Calendar Comment: series of sculptures that point out American Conferences .............................................. 70 Sex, Art and Rock ’n Roll social and political follies; see the portfolio International Conferences .......................... 70 by Paula Gustafion .............................. 86 beginning on page 55. Solo Exhibitions ....................................... 70 Index to Advertisers .............................. 88 November 1992 5 Letters properties valued by Yanagi, and refutes course, there’s always another way, but theirs Yanagi’s conclusion that the greatest beauty has worked for many of us; therefore, we can can only be found in folk craft, in the crudestsay, “We did this ourselves.” sense of those produced cheaply and in quan Kathy Koop, New Wilmington, Pa. Gossip Column! tity by a community of craftsmen. Tsuji Ceramics Monthly continues to be interestmura’s products are delightful, spectacular Carlton Ball Legacy ing, informative and full of gorgeous pot and varied—results achieved by few potters, a It was with great sorrow that I read of pinups. But my favorite parts are the Letters, fact attested to even by the pages of CM. the passing of Carlton Ball. I studied with Classifieds and Comment columns. Now if Bernard O’Reilly, Worcester, Mass. Carlton at the University of Southern Cali CM would just run a gossip column.... fornia in 1960-61. He seemed a shy man Bette Drake, Cleveland Grand Gesture until