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All rights reserved November 1985 3 4 Ceramics Monthly Ceramics Monthly Volume 33, Number 9 November 1985 Feature Articles The May Show............................................................ 24 Long Island Pottery................................................... 29 Allan Winkler by Peter von Ziegesar............................................ 32 The Wiz Glaze: 08-10! by Gerald Rowan .................................................. 34 Taylormade Pottery by Trey South......................................................... 36 Terry Moores.............................................................. 38 Portfolio: Incisive Clay by Frank Boy den.................................................. 39 Sandy Simon: Eccentric Porcelain by Saunthy Singh .................................................. 49 James Stephenson ...................................................... 52 Bartering Your Work by Ross W. Murphy............................................... 53 Think Before You Compute by Joe Weingarten................................................. 83 The Irony of Soft Paste by Michael Forrest................................................ 84 Departments Letters to the Editor.................................................. 7 Where to Show........................................................... 9 Questions..................................................................... 11 Suggestions................................................................. 13 Itinerary...................................................................... 15 Comment: Taking Care of Reality by Lili Krakowski.................................................. 21 News & Retrospect..................................................... 59 New Books................................................................... 80 Classified Advertising................................................ 86 Index to Advertisers................................................... 88 The Cover Sandy Simon in her Benicia, California, studio. Working with a Grolleg-based porcelain, this Midwest-trained potter decorates thrown, altered forms with brightly colored slips and stain-colored frit/clay “rocks.” For more information, turn to the article beginning on page 49. Photo: Gloria DeForest. November 1985 5 6 C eramics Monthly Letters September Comment Protest Potters, Zombies and Others I used to criticize avant-garde ceramics, Hi ya, Ersatz. Gee! You mean that I’ve In response to Harry Davis’s article (Sep­ but now I see how it infuses this craft with just returned from a five-week assistantship tember): Why all the fuss, Harry? If you new blood. There is no need to reinvent the at Arrowmont, located in the Great Smoky feel so uncomfortable with the ever-changing wheel, but new ways to travel can be ex­ Mountains (they don’t call ’em Great for ceramic world, why not crawl inside a never- plored. nothing, ya know!) as a “gofer”? changing casserole, which you probably crank Anna Gundlach I could’ve sworn I was learning stuff from out day in and day out. Lake Park, FI. some of the big guys, such as raku from Rick To answer the question, “What else have Hirsch and Karl Borgeson, single firing from potters always done but produce pots?” I say Toxicity Index Request Steven Hill, and a whole new form from nothing, and that’s it. You might as well work I’m responding to the article in the May Mary Roehm. Also, I thought I saw a lot of on a drill press. issue (“Barium and Glaze Toxicity”) on pos­ the current national trends in crafts by hang­ Harry, you state, “Why not just stick with sible toxicity from glazes containing barium ing out in the school’s gallery. And what about the title ‘potter’ and leave the qualifying ad­ and cadmium. Since so many potters are more all those conversations held over meals with jective ‘artist’ to those who feel insecure or less self-taught and often have little con­ folks from all over the country who’ve shared without it?” tact with current research, I think it’s ex­ similar experiences and introduced me to new It seems that your article is trying to justify tremely important to keep this kind of in­ ones? why you’re a potter. Insecure, Harry? formation up to date and readily available. What a fool I’ve been! All of the above in Thomas Feyrer Would it be possible to establish a column exchange for a few van runs to the airport Burlington, Wis. or a standard place in the magazine to list and a few nights of locking up. Guess I should all such warnings published, with references consider returning my free Arrowmont T- Although I heartily agree with Harry to the original issues for further details? I’d shirt in protest! Davis’s article in the September issue, I would like to see occupational hazards such as clay Barbara Andrew Wiegenstein like to gently suggest that he may be missing dust and firing problems included as well. Cape Girardeau, Mo. the forest while correctly identifying many Betty Pen ski of the trees. My experience is that the potters Joppa, Md. Poisoning the Wells (your kind of potters, Harry) are out there/ I read the first two paragraphs of Jack here—it’s just that we aren’t very visible. In addition to the article you mention, a Troy’s article in the summer issue of I have been a full-time potter since 1961; sampler of articles on ceramic hazards pre­ Ceramics Monthly and quit right there. Why every year I sell everything I am able to pro­ viously published in CM includes:<( Are Lead continue reading someone who poisons the duce. Every October I coordinate a small Glazes Dangerous?” August 1954 and re­ wells of his own argument? Thanks for sav­ craft fair; the other five potters who partic­ printed in this issue, page 34; “Lead and ing me the time, Jack. ipate also make pots full time for a living. Cadmium Release” page 69, December 1977; Name withheld by request While none of us probably makes “great pots,” “Frit Formulas,” May 1978.—Ed. we do share Harry Davis’s goal of making How Do Potters Cope? “simple pots for mundane use that incor­ Need Substantive Discourse I have recently read two articles which I porate a function and a meaningful decora­ The Comment articles I have enjoyed most think would be adaptable to potters. In Es­ tive role.” The main reason that none of us are the ones which dealt with the personal quire, [several] writers discussed in brief, two- are very visible, particularly from the dis­ experiences of the writers. In some of the paragraph sections their lives, economics, tance of New Zealand, is that none of us are pieces devoted to aesthetics I sense a certain publicity, inspiration, daily life, etc. It was involved in the world of grants, publications narcissistic desire on the writers’ parts to hear quite enlightening to see how they lived. The and exhibitions. the music of their own words, with small other article,