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Copyright © 1996 The American Ceramic Society All rights reserved 2 CERAMICS MONTHLY November 1996 3 4 CERAMICS MONTHLY Volume 44, Number 9 • November 1996 Feature Articles 11th Annual San Angelo National ...................................................................... 35 Porcelain Slip Glaze by Joseph Godwin ............................................................................. 41 Gleanings: A Potter in China by Jack Troy ................................................................... 46 Martina Zwolfer by Monika Lehner ................................................................................... 52 A Million Pounds of Clay 30 Years at Pottery Northwest by Matthew Kangas ....................................................... 54 A Ceramic Mural for Santa Catarina by Gene Anderson ............................................. 57 Marlene Miller by Barbara Melcher Brethorst ...................................................................... 61 Gleanings: A Potter in ChinaAlong with with Psychological Undercurrents of Marlene Miller’s Figures 19 other artists, Pennsylvania potter Jack a review by Bill Butler ........................................................................................................... 63 Troy (shown above with a Jingdezhen wheel- thrown porcelain vase) visited China for six Beyond Graduate School by Elaine Olafson Henry......................................................... 65 weeks last summer, staying for a month in Jingdezhen (the “Porcelain Capital of the Don Davis by Alice Daniel .................................................................................................. 68 World”). “The trip proved an opportunity New York Influences by Tobias Weissman....................................................................... 70 for growth through adaptation of one sort or another,” Troy says. “I can honestly say Ceramic Folklore by Ivor Lewis........................................................................................... 98 that not a single day passed when I wished to be elsewhere”; turn to page 46. 11th Annual San Angelo NationalJuror Up Front Michael Monroe selected 124 works by 114 artists for this major ceramics exhibi­ Mitch Yung ............................................ 10 Netting Clay tion, on view recently at the San Angelo MardiWood ........................................... 10 by Graham M. McLaren .................... 16 (Texas) Museum of Fine Arts; page 35. Peter Krijnen ......................................... 10 William Wilhelmi .................................. 20 The Artful Cup ..................................... 10 Kevin D. Mullavey ............................... 20 Ceramic Art and Archaeology Miranda Thomas .................................. 22 Project in Belize Ceramics in Northern California ... 22 by Ellen Bedell and Ceil Leeper ........... 12 Mass and Meaning ............................... 22 Warren Mather....................................... 14 Delia Robinson ..................................... 24 Sherry Karver ........................................ 16 Leah Hardy ............................................ 24 Kit Davenport ...................................... 16 Surface + Form .................................... 24 Don Davis Using glazes and oxides to enhance rather than cover the surfaces, Departments North Carolina potter Don Davis does not want decoration to overshadow the forms. Letters ...................................................... 8 Solo Exhibitions ................................... 82 “It is important for me to allow the clay to New Books ............................................. 26 Group Ceramics Exhibitions ............. 83 speak,” he explains; see page 68. Video ........................................................ 30 Ceramics in Multimedia Exhibitions . 86 Call for Entries Fairs, Festivals and Sales ..................... 88 The cover Illinois artist Marlene Miller International Exhibitions ..................... 72 Workshops ............................................ 90 defining facial features on a large head United States Exhibitions ..................... 72 International Events ............................ 94 formed from a solid mass of clay; built Regional Exhibitions ............................ 74 Questions ............................................... 96 without an armature, her figures are hol­ Fairs, Festivals and Sales ...................... 74 Classified Advertising ......................... 100 lowed out when leather hard, starting from Suggestions ............................................. 78 Comment: the top. Turn to page 61 for more on her Calendar The Journey by Hollis L. Engley ... 102 work. Photo: Clarence Lynxwiler. Conferences ........................................... 82 Index to Advertisers ........................... 104 November 1996 5 seemed to ignore my feelings about my Geraldine Gesell from the University of Letters work—implying that I was too green for it Tennessee, after conducting research with her to actually have intent and meaning—and on Crete. I could not have done this repro­ continually gave me advice that had little to duction without her expertise and guidance. MacDonald Kudos do with me or my pots.) Students interested in working on this What a treat it was to open the mailbox Superior professors sometimes take cri­ excavation on Crete should contact Dr. and find David MacDonald there, in the tiquing one step further than necessary. One Gesell at the University of Tennessee, Clas­ October issue of CM. Brantley Carroll’s prof whisked me away from my space one sics Department, Knoxville 37996. Each photographs of David’s work captured the afternoon and drove me to his studio to show summer several students are invited to assist warmth, energy and narrative qualities of the me what he was working on, illustrating that in this research. pieces. Richard Zakin’s text, describing he too was dealing with a suggestion he had Ted Saupe, Athens, Georgia technique, makes readers want to see more of made to me. Another prof lent me some of David’s reduction-fired stoneware. her own books that reminded her of subjects Copper Matt Conundrum CM is testimony to the fact that every I was interested in pursuing, and even walked Regarding the recipe for Mark’s Copper honest