I'D? -SAY- Î14AT- ö.Crmios/JS l.TrtE '^WOiMf'S . g M09T • fâsowàïiwe \ '«OSSI ~ BUT GAS KILNS from 2 cu. ft. to 60 cu. ft. All fire to 2500 F — some to 3000 F. Instrumentation for temperature control and a positive con- trol of atmosphere from highly oxidizing to reducing. ELECTRIC KILNS from 2 cu. ft. to 24 cu. ft. Front loading or top loading, — all models fire to 2350 F — some to 2800 F. Fully instrumented. POTTERY WHEELS come in several models, including an electroni- cally controlled variable speed wheel with constant torque. But re- member we still make the old "KICK WHEEL" too for those who prefer it. See our catalog for WARE TRUCKS, FORMULATING TABLES, GLAZE SPRAY BOOTHS, PUG MILLS, BALL MILLS, and many other items for classroom, shop, and studio. Our catalog illustrates a complete line of equipment to go with these kilns. Also available free of charge is our book- craft horizons January/February 1970 Vol. XXX No. 1 4 The Craftsman's World 8 Countercues 9 Calendar 10 Where to Show 11 Books 12 Letters 13 Our Contributors 14 The Listening Eye by Ann McMillan 20 The Jewelry of Art Smith 24 The Scholtens: Artist-Weavers by Bernardine de Neeve 30 African Travelogue: Part II by Margaret Merwin Patch 36 The Ceramics of Robert Arneson by David Zack 42 Exhibitions Next Issue: The March/April CRAFT HORIZONS will feature The John- son Collection, "Objects: USA," Part II, by poet John Ashbery, executive editor of Art News. The Cover: "Well—yes, I'd say that ceramics is the world's most fascin- ating hobby—but . .," polychrome stoneware plate by Robert Arneson, 19" in diameter (1968). David Zack's piece on "The Ceramics of Robert Arneson" begins on page 36. Editor-in-Chief Rose Slivka Managing Editor .Patricia Dandignac Editorial Assistant- Edith Dugmore Advertising Department- Aileen Sedgwick Editorial Board .Robert Beverly Hale Leo Lionni Aileen O. Webb Ceramics. Daniel Rhodes Metal .Adda Husted-Andersen Textiles L'ili Blumenau Wood .Charles V.W. Brooks Bookbinding- -Polly Lada-Mocarski Published bimonthly and copyrighted 1970 by the American Crafts Council, 44 West 53rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10019. Telephone: Circle 6-6840. Aileen 0. Webb, Chairman of the Board: Kenneth Chorley, Vice-Chairman; Donald L. Wyckoff, Execu- tive Vice-President; May E. Walter, Secretary; R- Leigh Glover, Treasurer; Joseph P. Fallarino, Assistant Treasurer. Trustees are: Nicholas B. Angell, Alfred Auerbach, John L. Baringer, Mark Ellingson, Robert D. Graff, August Heckscher, Walter H. Kilham, Jr., Jack Lenor Larsen, Sarah Tomerlin Lee, De Witt Peterkin, Jr., William Snaith, Dr. Frank Stanton, W. Osborn Webb. Honorary trustees are: Valla Lada- Mocarski, Dorothy Liebes, Edward Wormiey. Craftsmen-trustees are: J. Sheldon Carey, Charles Counts, Sam Maloof, Donald Reitz, Ramona Solberg, Peter Wend- land. Membership rates: $10 per year and higher, including subscription to CRAFT HORIZONS. Singie copy: $2. For change of address, give o!d address as well as new with zip code number; allow six weeks for change to become effective. Ad- dress unsolicited material to the Editor-in-Chief, CRAFT HORIZONS, 16 East 52nd Street, New York, N.Y. 10022. Material will be handled with care but the magazine assumes no responsibility for it. Manuscripts will be returned only if accompanied by self-addressed stamped envelope. Second class postage paid at New York, N.Y., and at additional mailing office. The complete content of each issue of CRAFT HORIZONS is indexed in the Art Index and Reader's Guide to Feriodical Literature, available in public libraries. Book reviews published in CRAFT HORIZONS are indexed in Book Review Index. Microfilm edition is available from Universal Micro- films, 313 North First Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48103. The Craftsman's World Above: Silver bowl with plique-a-jour enamel, 41A" in diameter, by Claire Strauss, recent purchase by the Cooper-Hewitt. Left: New York's Andrew Carnegie Mansion, new home of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Decorative Arts and Design. New Quarters for The Cooper-Hewitt Museum Scholarships, Awards, and Grants Two years ago, New York's Cooper Union for the Advancement of The Archie Bray Foundation is offering four $1,000 grants for the Science and Art announced its intention of closing The Cooper independent study of ceramics at the Foundation during the summer Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration. The late founder of the months. Made possible by the National Council of the Arts, the Winterthur Museum in Delaware, Henry Francis du Pont, working monies will be used towards living and working expenses. Selection through a special committee, was successful in having the organiza- of recipients will be based on six slides of work, vitae, and two tion placed under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution, chang- references. Applications must be made by March 15 to: David ing its name to the Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Decorative Arts and Shaner, Archie Bray Foundation, Route 2, Box 344, Helena, Montana Design. Now, secretary to the Smithsonian, S. Dillon Ripley has 59601 . The Architectural League of New York has announced its announced that the Cooper-Hewitt will move to a new home at 1970 Arnold W. Brunner Scholarship competition for projects, Fifth Avenue and Ninety-first Street, the Andrew Carnegie Mansion studies, or research in architecture, or, as related to architecture, a sixty-four room, modified Georgian eclectic quasi-palace, built city planning, mural decoration, landscape and site planning, en- between 1899-1903 by architects Babb, Cook and Willard. Founded gineering, education, crafts, decoration, interior design, and photog- in 1897 by Peter Cooper's granddaughters, Sarah and Eleanor Hewitt, raphy. Special consideration will be given to projects which have the museum in its new home will have adequate space to display the collaboration of any of the above disciplines as a central theme. a collection of decorative art gathered over the years, consisting A maximum stipend of $3,000 will be awarded to the winning sub- of more than 85,000 objects, including one of the finest textile mission. Deadline for submissions is March 31. Programs and ap- departments in the world and the largest wallpaper collection in plications can be obtained by writing to: Chairman, Brunner Scholar- the U.S. ships Committee, The Architectural League of New York, 41 East Under the new administration, headed by director Lisa Suter 65th Street, New York, New York 10021 . Recipients of awards Taylor, programs and exhibitions are being planned to inform the from the National Endowment for the Arts are: Experiments in Art public in the arts of design as applied to architecture and decorative and Technology, New York ($25,000); the Corcoran Gallery, Wash- materials and techniques—drawings, prints, furniture, lighting, glass, ington, D.C. ($10,000); and The Whitney Museum of American Art, ceramics, plastics—and programs for students, designers, and archi- New York ($10,000) . Thirty pieces of jewelry won 1969 Dia- tects. monds-International Awards. These were selected from 1,880 de- Moving into the new premises in 1971, after completing altera- signs submitted by 627 designers from 30 countries. American win- tions and repairs on the Carnegie property, one intention will be ners were Ronald Blanton (California), for a necklace, and Argo and to "bring back certain portions of the house to their original appear- Lehne Jewelers (Ohio), for a brooch . Using a $5,000 grant from ances as much as is possible, including the entrance hall, the dining the Tennessee Arts Commission, the Tennessee Artist-Craftsman's room, the library, and the conservatory," according to Christian Association and the Carroll Reece Museum will purchase work by Rohlfing, administrator of the Museum. Until the move is made, the the state's craftsmen. Inquiries should be made immediately to the collection will remain in the old Cooper Union building, on Astor Carroll Reece Museum, East Tennessee State University, Johnson Place, where some recent craft purchases will be on display: a City, Tennessee 37601. library stair of cherry by Charles Burke; a free-blown, copper-blue glass bottle with swirls of reds, yellows, and browns by Julian Wolff; a silver bowl on trefoil legs with pink plique-à-jour enamel by Claire Ceramic Arts Conference Strauss; and a tiny silver vase with cloisonné enamel by Hilda Kraus. All are from the recent Artist-Craftsmen of New York annual [see More than three hundred persons attended the third annual Ce- CRAFT HORIZONS, July/August 1969]. The museum has also recently ramic Arts Conference at The Pennsylvania State University, Uni- received a gift, an eight-inch asymmetrical yellow-green fumed versity Park (November 21-22). Participants came from sixteen states glass bottle by Israeli lampworker Ariel Bar Tal, from the America- as far away as Washington. Paul Soldner from Aspen, Colorado, Israel Cultural House in New York. Jerry Rothman from the University of Iowa, and Fred Bauer from Our new pilot light reminds you that this quiet wheel is still running. ONE OF OUR CHANGES FOR 1970 SHIMPO-WEST P.O. BOX 2315, LA PUENTE, CALIFORNIA 91746 THIS is not just another wheel The WCS 500 is a very special piece of pot- tery equipment made for the teacher or profes- sional potter whose work load requires more than the typical "good" potter's wheel can offer. The WCS 500 has power: a full horse power's rating and direct gear drive. It has a perfected AC/DC speed control that not only gives a variable speed range of 0 to 200 rpm but provides full torque at all speeds with auto- matic compensation for weight and pressure. This is a wheel made to stand up under con- tinual hours of use in exceptionally demand- ing situations.