Regional Perspectives and Pottery Tours - Vol. 46 No. 1

Winter/Spring 2018

Regional Perspectives and Pottery Tours - Vol. 46, No. 1

This issue features several articles celebrating the self-guided, regional pottery tour; essays "on place" by panelists from the 2017 Woodfire NC conference; unique perspectives on contemporary urban ceramics and studio practices from several Brooklyn-based ceramists; and, essays by four U.S. armed forces veterans about their post-service lives. Also, a reflection on the 2017 summer conference at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, a 2018 pottery tour listing, and more.

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Editorial: Regional Perspectives and Pottery Tours

By Elenor Wilson

The pottery-tour phenomenon and the fact that geographic location is integral to the identities of both pots and potters are the impetuses for the issue you now hold in your hands (or view on your screen).

2018 Pottery Tours

A Listing of self-guided, multi-stop pottery and ceramics studio tours around North America.

Return to Olari

By Paula Sibrack Marian

The pottery of Olari reflects generations’ worth of knowledge and skill handed down through pottery families, and today it is supported by a robust retail art market.

St. Croix Tour

By Lily Fein

To tour is to journey for pleasure, and before I set off on the St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour, the pleasure I was most looking forward to was the chance to leave the city and drive north through the St. Croix River Valley...

Brooklyn

By Sophie Cornish-Keefe

Whether it is because of the palpable legacy of artists who hatched in its neighborhoods or the certainty of rubbing elbows with countless outside-the-box types in everyday interactions, Brooklyn is a place where people come to be inspired...

Functional Clay

By Jesse Albrecht

I was on my way to a graduate school life-drawing class when, on a giant tv in the student union, I saw a plane fly into the World Trade Center. Three semesters later I was in Iraq, deployed as a medic with the Iowa National Guard.

Secret Badass

By Daniel Donovan

A paramour of mine once called me a secret bad ass. At the time I was at Central Washington University. She, like so many others, was surprised to learn that I was a combat veteran spending his post-army life studying philosophy and fine art.

Holler Full of Arts, Driftless Wisconsin

By Ash Kyrie

My partner, Sarah, and I own ten acres along the Pecatonica river in southwestern Wisconsin, an area known as “Driftless.” The property has become a sanctuary for veterans, mostly family friends, who come as a reprieve from their daily lives.

I Just Make Cups

By Ehren Tool

Working in ceramics, I have the possibility of sharing a beverage and a story with someone 500,000 to 1,000,000 years from now. From my hand to your hand to some point thousands of years in the future.

Holding Space, Embracing Place

By Willi Singleton

"People often think of art as the most highly cultured, the most disciplined, the most organized of human productions [...] but art doesn’t happen unless you let the wild in." --Gary Snyder

Rice and Tea at a Special Station: Creating Memories of Train Travel in Japan

By Louise Allison Cort

In the summer of 1973, I was taking a walk with two young women who were apprentices at workshops in the pottery-filled town of Shigaraki, Japan, when we came across a small shed by the side of the road...

Pots, Purpose, and Place

By Mark Hewitt

Contemporary wood-firing potters are inevitably representative of a continuum of past practices, and as such we speak to the complexity of our past and present.

Pots, Purpose, and Place

By Naomi Dalglish

A pot may take on a meaning beyond what we as makers have imagined, and we try to leave room in the design for that to occur.

Place + Placement

By Ben Richardson

Recently, having my work used in fine dining restaurants, where the work can be seen and enjoyed fully within a theatre of dining, has been a powerful force.

The Pots, the Place, the People

By Marian Baker

I think people buy pots because they want a reminder of time and place and they enjoy a connection to the people here; many return to renew their connection year after year.

Clay! What the...?

By Bob McWilliams

We of the generation in their late sixties are realizing we need to cut back on producing at high volume, throwing too many pounds of clay at one time, and sustaining a rigorous schedule.

Have Pots, Will Travel

By Eric Botbyl

On Saturday morning I drove to Todd Pletcher's ... I’ll admit, as I sipped coffee in my booth that morning, I questioned the wisdom of staging a pottery sale in the midst of a thousand corn fields.

Omaha North Hills Pottery Tour

By Bonita Zimmerman

Rolling through a thirty-mile stretch of northern Nebraska’s Missouri River Breaks, the Omaha North Hills Pottery Tour is a self-guided trek.

An Education in the Handcrafted

By Eden DuPont

Visiting studios and talking with the artists themselves is integral to understanding the varied approaches to making a living as a craft artisan.

The Maker as Superhero: Social Change Through Making

By Natania Hume

We discussed many aspects of the presenters’ stories and the impact of their craft practices on us as participants and on our thinking as consumers, makers, and designers.

Lesson in Mud

A poem by Greg Kerstetter

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