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Ceramic Artists
See how today's ceramic artists are taking the lessons from old traditions and shaping their work for the future. Meet emerging and established ceramic artists and find out what influences their work. Learn more about the issues affecting contemporary studio ceramic artists and potters. In these articles, you'll find out how working artists make it work. You'll learn about their inspirations, methods, challenges and see examples of some of the best ceramic art being made today. And don't forget to download your free copy of Emerging Ceramic Artists: New Pottery and Ceramic Sculpture. You won't want to miss these up-and-coming ceramic artists who are sure to make a mark on the ceramic art world!
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March 18, 2010
The professors in the ceramic area at Penn State University believe that each student has their own unique way of expressing their thoughts and feelings in clay. As a result we are open to a wide spectrum of self expression: from mixed media installations to the student making utilitarian pots. In the end it’s the qualities and quality of the work that are most important.
March 18, 2010
Bowling Green State University: From Ceramics Monthly’s MFA Factor
The MFA program at Bowling Green State University prepares students to become professional artists and educators. As graduate students explore their ideas, the faculty members serve as guides, helping them navigate the art-making process. Students are encouraged and challenged; through this process they learn to carefully consider their intentions and develop an honest dialog with their work. The small size of the ceramics graduate program fosters an intimate mentoring relationship. Graduates work closely with faculty members to develop a strong body of work while honing the professional skills needed to advance their careers.
March 18, 2010
New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University: From Ceramics Monthly’s MFA Factor
The mission of the Division of Ceramic Art at Alfred is to educate ceramics artists at the undergraduate and graduate level to the limits of the imagination. At Alfred, the faculty believes in the critical development of concept and individual point of view, as well as establishing a solid foundation in materials, process—technology, equipment—and skill. A knowledge of art history, including ceramic art history and a national/international cultural awareness is considered important. The faculty welcome students from around the world and look forward to listening to them. Clearly, the students are the future of ceramic art.
March 18, 2010
The Ceramics area at Ohio University offers an inclusive environment where traditional and nontraditional forms of ceramic making are equally fostered, and emphasis is put on a conceptual awareness and rigor within the making process.
March 17, 2010
California College of the Arts: From Ceramics Monthly’s MFA Factor
Rooted in a critically engaged artistic practice, the graduate program in fine arts at the California College of the Arts helps students to achieve a deeper understanding of their own ideas and practice while gaining greater awareness of the global context of contemporary art.
March 16, 2010
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville: From Ceramics Monthly’s MFA Factor
The graduate program in ceramics at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville encompasses the diversity of approaches currently being explored in contemporary ceramics. Committed to fostering the evolution of ideas and techniques, and broadening the scope of possibilities within contemporary ceramics, the program also maintains a high standard of craftsmanship. A healthy balance of functional potters, vessel-makers and sculptors keeps the studio environment dynamic and engaging. Exploration in other studio areas as well as art history is required as a means to foster artistic growth across disciplines. A strong work ethic, attention to detail, artistic research and craftsmanship are required to successfully complete the graduate program. A positive attitude, which is conducive to working within a large studio community, is essential.
March 16, 2010
Louisiana State University: From Ceramics Monthly’s MFA Factor
The ceramics faculty at Louisiana State University recognizes the importance of inventive personal statements and the experimentation and exploration of visual concepts. We emphasize the marriage of art and craft and try to avoid narrow vocational goals. Divisions between media are considered to have disappeared and the graduate-level student is expected to work as a maturing artist motivated by independent ideas. Our graduate students' interests vary from a strong functional pottery orientation to the concerns of sculpture and conceptual art.
March 16, 2010
University of Nebraska-Lincoln: From Ceramics Monthly’s MFA Factor
The aim of the MFA program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is to help each student find his or her voice as an artist. MFA candidates spend three years developing their thesis-the ideas, concepts, approaches and values that will shape their work, now and in the future. Students are strongly encouraged to take three full years to finish their degrees. This extra time is intended to be a wise and productive investment, resulting in MFA exhibitions that are truly professional.
March 16, 2010
University of California, Davis: From Ceramics Monthly’s MFA Factor
The UC Davis Department of Art's MFA graduate program philosophy is to bring in students of the highest creative caliber and potential, and provide them with a rigorous program of independent research and sustained artistic development. The program recognizes that students are developing into individual emerging artists in the professional art world, as well as, in many instances, becoming art teachers and professors in public and private schools and colleges.
March 16, 2010
The Ohio State University: From Ceramics Monthly’s MFA Factor
Established in 1926, The Ohio State University Ceramics program is one of the oldest in the country. The educational philosophy of the program, which operates inside the larger graduate program in The OSU Department of Art, encourages students to bridge the boundaries of both concept and material. The program promotes a cross fertilization of media and methods and places a high value on intellectual research.
March 15, 2010
Taiwanese potter Po-Ching Fang (pronounced Fong) explains midway through our interview that his vision of nature, like his vision of a cup, is of a world both constructed and organic, and in this combination one finds a universality understood by all.January 20, 2010
Interview with Deborah Schwartzkopf at Mudflat Studio, July 2009
Molly Hatch interviews Deborah Schwartzkopf on her work, how she started, and her life as a working potter.
January 20, 2010
Like a lot of potters just starting out, Schwartzkopf discovered that travel and relocation are part of establishing a reputation and a body of work. Monthly Methods: Pots as Puzzles by Deborah Schwartzkopf
December 9, 2009
Across all studios, our overriding objective is to cultivate and enrich curiosities. We ask the individual to become comfortable with the uncertainties of risks, in exercising the freedom of the graduate experience to explore what they don't know.
December 9, 2009
Nuala Creed's sculptures of precious babies and sweet children draw our attention and entice our interest. Their innocence and helplessness draws out our humanity. The gas masks and weapons strapped to the babies startle and pique our curiosity.
December 9, 2009
As we make lifestyle adjustments to minimize our impact on the environment and do what we can to conserve natural resources, we can't help but be reminded how much we, as humans, will suffer the effects of global climate change, pollution, and species extinction.
December 8, 2009
The idea of making a living as an artist was not taught (at the university) as most students went into academic teaching jobs out of school. I chose not to go that route. Instead, I went directly to New York City. I soon got a part-time teaching job at NYU and then Parsons School of Design as a way to pay the rent. My work progressed and I began to show in a New York gallery.
December 8, 2009
At a very young age, I decided to become a ceramic artist and studied art and ceramics with that intention. I opened my studio immediately after school and began making pottery parallel to my research on more sculptural pieces. Both need absolute concentration and discipline. I chose to concentrate on sculpture.
December 8, 2009
I don't believe I had an initial or conscious reason to pursue ceramic sculpture as a profession; it just evolved through trying different mediums. My father was a metal sculptor and my mother is a potter. I always knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't want to compete with them, so I began in illustration. Eventually I realized I needed to express myself through more expressive materials.
December 8, 2009
I have always been a maker/builder and need the experience of working with my hands. The engagement of my full mind and body to deconstruct and form the world is a way of trying to understand and bear witness to life.
