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All rights reserved April 1988 3 4 Ceramics Monthly Volume 36, Number 4 • April 1988 Feature Articles European Tile Stovesby Gunther Gotte......................................................25 Gillian Lowndes....................................................................................... 28 Nice Cooling In this age of faster firing, potters are sometimes disappointed in the ACC Southeast Exhibition..................................................................... 30 resulting glaze effects. Utah potter John Neely (above) points out the cause of “ane­ mic” glazes is often not in the firing, but Summer Workshops 1988 ....................................................................... 31 in cooling. His work/research involves ex­ panding the typical firing cycle to include Boat Dreamsby Pete Kuentzel.................................................................... 36 reduction during cooling. See page 48. Woody Hughes by Jeff Cox......................................................................... 41 Selling: Six Success Stories by artist/ consultant Libby Platus (below) offers some Polychrome Slip Carvingby Joseph Godwin ............................................. 46 real examples of artists who have come up with their own unique ways of selling and by John Neely marketing to acquire free Nice Cooling .........................................................................48 publicity, investment back­ ing, higher regard for their Build a $75 Electric Wheel by Jolyon Hofsted............................................83 work, or more profitable pricing. This first article in Selling: Six Success Stories by Libby Platus..............................................84 a two-part series begins on page 84. Boat Dreams Florida artist Pete Kuent­ zel finds inspiration in boats of all kinds— Departments sailboats, fishing boats, freighters. “A boat can transport a person from one place to Letters................................................. 7 Comment: A Ceramics of Ideas another. It can be an adventure to travel Questions............................................ 9 physically or cerebrally. My best traveling by Richard Zakin.................................. 21 is in the construction of the forms.” See Where to Show ................................. 11 Classified Advertising...................... 86 page 36. Suggestions....................................... 15 Itinerary............................................ 17 Index to Advertisers......................... 88 ACC Southeast Exhibition Every year southeast region members of the American Craft Council have a friendly get-together with workshops, lectures and an exhibition. Here’s a quick look at some of the ceramics News & Retrospect shown there; page 30. Karen Karnes/Robert Turner Sculpture in the Netherlands by Michael Rubin....................................... 57 by Marieke Koudstaal................................. 69 The cover “Fireplug,” actual size, perlite Penland Residents Show........................... 59 Alan Caiger-Smith and ball clay fired to Cone 8 in a saggar by Rosalyn Morrison................................... 69 filled with vermiculite and copper, followed Couples at Greenwich House.................... 59 A True Story of Aussies and Yanks by a Cone 06 glaze firing, multiple Cone John Kenny, 1899-1988............................ 61 by Paula Malseed............................................. 71 017 china paint firings, a Cone 017 luster Rosso Fiorentino Majolica......................... 73 firing and a final Guinness World Record............................. 63 firing to Cone 018 Susan Stickney........................................... 65 Robert Ely................................................... 75 for melted glass de­ Indira Johnson........................................... 65 Neil Forrest tails, by Robert Shay by Michael Rubin....................................... 75 (left), faculty artist Joe Mariscal................................................ 65 Diverse Contemporary Ceramics............. 75 at the Ohio State Christine Mark........................................... 65 University, Colum­ Gordon McVay............................................ 87 bus. Photo: Elaine Hopi Fountain Paul Chaleff................................................ 87 by Karen Hebda.......................................... 67 Shay. Nell Hazinski: Formal Play Ren wick Acquires Roloff Sculpture .... 67 by Douglas Gunn.............................................. 88 April 1988 5 6 Ceramics Monthly style. Any polished advertiser would publish November 1984 (page 20) and you will see a sharply focused photo; a tall, willowy mod­ Soldner with nothing on but a belt, and some el in a dress, leaning delicately or touching white paint drawn across his black body, and Letters lightly a spotless clay mixer. a spear in his right hand. But Paul Soldner has designed a short, Or perhaps you’d prefer to see him model squat, round (please look at the other photo the world’s smallest man’s bathing suit, front in the ad), heavy-duty machine. Now look view? (September 1984, page 10) Video Heat at Robin Fletcher. Doesn’t she look like that? There is one drawback for you if you de­ Perhaps the reviewers of “Tozan, A Sec­ Ok, I’ll let you readers disagree, but give her cide to get “turned on” by going through old ond Home” [January issue] are so accus­ 30 years! Soldner ads, ladies. You will have to be con­ tomed to popular “how to” approaches in Soldner is no dummy. The model has some tent with looking at the same man with “a ceramic films and videos that they are unablenice features: an intelligent-looking face and big nose, beady eyes, and a bald head! That’s to appreciate a thoughtful and artistic ren­ a beautiful right shoulder. the Soldner image.” (January 1983, page 14) dition of a serious project. Deborah Horrell says the model looks “short So, forget the December 1987 ad; you see Particularly offensive to this reader was on gray matter.” I disagree. She also says thata lot of things that aren’t there. Look at the the cavalier and offhand reference to the clas­ she thinks the ad may have been designed by old ones, get turned on, and put your money sical shakuhachi (Japanese flute) music. Mr. someone interested in “big-breasted” beau­ where your mouth is. Or, if you’re just a Ono, from Himeji City, Japan, played spe­ ties. Maybe, but he/she sure didn’t pick one weak, complaining female, go buy premixed, cifically at the kiln site, honoring both Yukio for the ad. To prove this, I suggest you do pugged clay from your ceramic supplier, and Yamamoto and the noborigama under con­ as I did. It’s called, “isolate the subject matter let the rest of us enjoy Soldner’s crazy ads. struction. It was from this performance that and analyze it.” Douglas Grimm the flute music was recorded and then used Take two small, plain pieces of