Volumes 21 to 25 -- 1992-1997
Volume 21, Number 1
December, 1992
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Japan and Americal: Myth and Reality in Ceramics - with guest
editors Louise Allison Cort and John Neely:
- The Artist in Japanese-American Relations by Peter Grilli
- Leach, Hamada, Yanagi: Myth and Reality by Ellen Conant
- Japanese Ceramics in America: The Early Years by Louise Allison Cort
- Edward Sylvester Morse: Collector by Money Hickman
- The Ikeda Collection at Stanford by Patrick J. Maveety
- Contemporary Japanese Ceramics at the Everson Museum of Art by Ronald A. Kuchta
- Shirayamadani Kataro: First Japanese Pottery Decorator at the Rookwood Pottery by Kenneth Trapp
- Japanese Ceramics: What Americans Should Know by Sasayama Hiroshi
- Who Has It Best - the Japanese or Americans? by Janet Koplos
Seekers - A Contemporary Exchange - more perspectives on Japanese-American
relations, along with personal experiences of Americans in Japan and Japanese in America
- The Floating Welcome Wagon by John Neely
- Catalyst for Change by Morino Hiroaki
- Gaijin by Donna Nicholas
- Delivering the Promise by Rob Barnard
- An Abyss of Freedom by Joy Brown
- A Little Tree Branch by Kajatani Ban
- Accepting Nature's Imperfections by Jeff Shapiro
- Beauty and Spontaneity by Randy James Johnston
- Eyes of the Imagination by Yanagihara Mutsuo
- Time, Place and a Taste of Clay by John H. Stephenson
- Kurosuoba by Nancy Earth
- Out of the Cage by Takamori Akio
- Thoughts From the Back of My Mind by Peter Callas
- Collaborating with Nakazato Takashi by Malcolm Wright (A Conversation)
Also:
Revival Fires: Another Face for Shino by Jim Robinson -
a popular article describing six categories of shino, with nearly 50 recipes;
Charles Fergus Binns: The Father of American Studio Ceramics by Margaret Carney Xie;
San Diego Sixteen;
Journet to Yixing by Richard Notkin;
MacKenzie on Clark by Warren MacKenzie;
Clark On MacKenzie by Garth Clark.
Volume 21, Number 2
June, 1993
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Soda Firing - seven potters share their experience, techniques, and recipes:
- A Process of Discovery by Jay Lacouture
- Soda Firing in Montana by N.R. Rick Pope
- Soda Firing by Bobby Silverman
- Soda Glazing in England by Ruthanne Tudball
- Crying Salty Tears by Val Cushing and Tyler Gulden
- Lowfire Mix and Melt by Robert Flynn
Also:
The View from One Hundred - an interview with Beatrice Wood;
Travels in New Jersey - visits with nineteen New Jersey potters;
Sixth North Carolina Pottery Conference by Mark Hewitt;
Nicaragua Revisited by Mika Seeger;
1992 International Ceramic Symposium in Tashkent, Uzbekistan by Marcia Selsor;
Ecuadorian Potters by Joe Molinaro;
Tharu Potters of Nepal by James Danisch.
Supplement: Peter Voulkos, text and photographs by Jim Leedy
(also available as a monograph).
Volume 22, Number 1
December, 1993
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Dancing with Technology - a foray into the world of high-tech ceramics:
- The Science and Art of Technology by Leonard S. Rubenstein
- A Day at the Lab - a day at Oak Ridge National Laboratory with Paul Menchhofer
- Portfolio - scanning electron micrographs by Laura Riester
- A Potter in Science by Paul A. Menchhofer
- Art and Science by Alexander Zucker
- "a handful of clay" - A Memoir on Oak Ridge by Charles Counts
Also:
The Ceramics of Asger Jorn by Michael Boylen;
The Rock Creek Climbing Kiln, Part 1 by Will Ruggles and Douglass Rankin -
plans, material list, and instructions for building a 120-cubic-foot woodfire kiln;
Catawba Pottery and Its Creators by Joyce Anastasia-Caputo;
Shaping Pots with Stick and Stone: Pottery Making in Papua New Guinea by Joyce Slayton Mitchell;
Edwin and Mary Scheier - an interview;
ACC Fiftieth Anniversary and New Art Forms, Chicago;
The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery by Ann Roberts;
My Impression of American Ceramics by Michio Sugiyama;
Third International Cup Symposium by Marion Munk;
Letter from Kohler by Caroline Detroit.
Volume 22, Number 2
June, 1994
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Today's Standards, Tomorrow's Values - a symposium on the
future of the ceramic arts in higher education, held at NCECA in 1993:
- Values in Clay by Henry Glassie
- Quality and Inequality by Arthur C. Danto
- Toward an Aesthetic of Craft by Bruce Metcalf
- Todays Students On Tomorrow's Values - seven perspectives
Also:
Michael Cardew's Legacy - essays by Jane Herold, Syend Bayer,
Ray Finch, Seth Cardew, Mark Hewitt, Todd Piker, Ivan McMeekin, and Michael O'Brien;
Travel in the Ozarks: A Sense of Place - interviews with 25
Arkansas and Missouri potters;
The Rock Creek Climbing Kiln, Part 2 by Will Ruggles and Douglass Rankin -
firing in theory and practice, raw glazing and decoration (with slip and glaze recipes);
A Small Woodburning Kiln by Peg Udall;
The Hartford Art School Woodfiring Kiln by Lisa Stinson;
The Supermud Woodfire Kiln by Louise Harter;
Woodfire: Learning From the Past by Jack Troy;
Vivika and Otto Heino - Living Pots - an interview;
Fired Building Project by Ray Meeker;
Gaijin Potter by Susan Wallace;
Letter From the Classroom by Caroline Detroit;
Easter Europeans in Tuscarora by Ben Parks;
Carol Nickerson Reaches 100th Year by Nancy Ryder;
C.A.S.T. by Kazuo Nakamoto;
Rick Dillingham by Tom Collins;
Albert Green by John Shedd;
Daniel Cobblah.
Volume 23, Number 1
December, 1994
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In Search of a Unified Theory of Craft - seventeen artists
present their ideas: essays by Sandra Braman, Ellen Dissanayake,
George Woodman, Victor Margrie, Paul Mathieu, Susan E. Crowell,
Howard Risatti, Rob Barnard, Philip Rawson, Michael Casson, Jack Lenor
Larsen, George Kokis, Bruce Metcalf, Winnie Owens-Hart,
Brother Thomas Bezanson, James Melchert, and Mary Iron Eyes.
Colored Clay - eight potters share techniques:
- Ours Is Not Two Reasons Why by Michael Haley and Susy Siegele
- Working With Colored Clay by Virginia Cartwright
- Imagery and Movement by Naomi Lindfeld
- Silent Images by Curtis M. Benzle
- Nerikome and Neriage by Makoto Yabe
- Pattern and Color by Thomas Hoadley
- Celestial Form by Romilla Batra
Also:
Japanese Women Ceramists - Part 1;
Remembering Maria Martinez and Lucy Lewis by Susan Peterson;
People of the Mimbres by Sarah Schlanger;
Coding the Universe by Diego Romero;
Art in the Net: An Overview of Our Cultural Infrastructure by Sandra Braman;
The Celebration of Craftswomen by Eileen Goldenberg;
The International Academy of Ceramics, Prague;
Iris International Ceramics Symposium, Finland by Kendra Conn;
International Ceramic Symposium, India by Premula Pandit;
Packing It In by Nan Rothwell;
Colored Clay Formulas from Buzzard Mountain.
Volume 23, Number 2
June, 1995
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Four Architectural Spaces - stories of four installations:
- Sonora Snake by Nancy Selvage
(including a discussion about formulating a durable exterior clay body)
- Coming to Light: A Mural at MIT by Jim Melchert
- Forest Shrine: Penumbra by Angelica Pozo
- Star Axis: A Theater in the Sky by Charles Ross
Also:
Japanese Women Ceramists - Part 2 by Donna Nicholas;
Potters of South Carolina - sixteen interviews;
Romancing the Clay - an extended interview with Paul Soldner;
The Art of Advocacy by Rick Sherman - step-by-step procedures for arts advocacy;
Letter from Beijing by Cleo Kung;
Music Witness by Jeff Schlanger;
The Kobe, Japan Earthquake by Maya Nishi;
Earthquake Eyewitness by Ayumi Shigematsu;
Letter from Barcelona by Al Jaeger;
Fulbright in Uzbekistan by Marcia Selsor.
Volume 24, Number 1
December, 1995
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What's Clay Got to Do with it? -
discussions about criticism and the ceramic arts held at NCECA 1995:
- First Conversation - Adrain Saxe, Ed Lebow, and Stephen Carpenter
- Second Conversation - Betty Woodman, Janet Koplos, Cliff Garten
- Third Conversation - Mark Hewitt, Janet Mansfield, Emily Galusha
- The Contemporary Pot's Identity Crisis by Gary Kornblau
Is Glaze Dead? - articles about surface treatment, with and without glaze:
- Glaze is Dead - Long Live the New Glaze by Richard Zakin, guest editor
- Is That All There Is? by Mark Burns
- The Missing Link by Mary Barringer
- The Alchemy Canister by John Chalke
- Layering by Barbara Tipton
- Glazes - Honoring the Past and Celebrating the Present by Jeff Oestreich
- My Approach to Glaze by Andrea Gill
- Majolica Glazes: Collection of Formulas by Andrea Gill
- The Skin of the Pot by Frank Boyden
- Unity of Form and Surface by Peter Beasecker
- Surface and Color by Barbara Frey
- An Outsider's Look at Ceramic Surfaces by Thomas Seawell
- A Glazer's Memoir by Jim Lawton
- Thoughts... on the surface by Nancy Jurs
- My Adventures (and Misadventures) with Glazes by Richard Zakin
- Is Glaze Dead? by Harris Deller
Also:
English Slipware Techniques by Irma Starr;
Juan Quezada: Mexican Potter - interview by Bill Gilbert;
Rollerblading Along the Erie Canal - visits with eighteen New York potters;
A Letter From Croatia by Blazenka Soic Stebih;
Travels in Mexico by Michael Boylen;
review of Woodfired Stoneware and Porcelain by Jack Troy (review by David Shaner);
A Tribute to Vivika by Roberta Griffith;
Jingdezhen Kaolin Conference by Roberta Griffith.
Volume 24, Number 2
June, 1996
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The Shape of Ceramic History - first of a two-part series
on the history of ceramics:
- Conversations with the Past by Mary Barringer, guest editor
- A Personal Statement by Tam Irving
- Dialog with the History of Clay by David Shaner
- Pottery in Archaeology by Prudence M. Rice
- Living with and Learning from Traditional Pottery by Lucy Breslin
- Living Pots by Linda Sikora
- Pueblo Pottery-Making, Past and Present by Rina Swentzell
- In History - a poem by Marilyn Andrews
- A Sense of Connection by Sarah Jaeger
- Remembrance by James C. Watkins
- Some Implications of Interactive Media for Ceramic History by Cliff Grabhorn
- History Through Visual Relationships by Richard Shaw
- Bibliography
Majolica - seven articles share techniques and recipes:
- Majolica: What is Majolica? by Linda Arbuckle, guest editor
- Majolica Musings by William Brouillard
- Maiolica by Dierdre Daw
- Random Thoughts on Majolica by Stanley Mace Andersen
- Majolica: The Painter's Glaze by Terry Siebert
- The Love of Pinholes: Crater Majolica by Deborah Groover
- Why I Use Majolica by Walter Ostrom
- Bibliography
- Portfolio
Also:
The Road to Las Vegas - visits with fourteen Nevada potters;
Defiant Decoration: A Short History of Decoration by Robert Kushner;
First Fire by Richard Bresnahan;
James and Nan McKinnell: American Line Blend - interview by Ken Ferguson;
Exhibition in China by Robert Dixon;
Dixon in Qing-dao by Bo Y. Du;
Philip Rawson by David Whiting and Wayne Higby.
Volume 25, Number 1
December, 1996
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Mingei Revisited - articles about Japanese folk art:
- Proposition on Mingei by Soetsu Yanagi
- Mingei and the Life of Soetsu Yanagi by Teiko Utsumi
- Yanagi's America by Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere
- William Morris, Yanagi Soetsu and Popular or Folk Art by Brian Moeran
- Reflections on the Significance of Mingei by Nicholas Wolterstorff
- Mingei and American Ceramics by Ken Ferguson
- Mingei Influence by Randy J. Johnston
- The Mingei Spirit by Warren MacKenzie
- A Mingei Symposium
The Shape of Ceramic History - this second part of the series on the history
of ceramics focuses on teaching:
- Conversations with the Past by Mary Barringer, guest editor
- Material Meaning by M. Anna Fariello
- Notes on the Teaching of Ceramic History by Ginny Marsh
- Echoes: Historicism in Contemporary Ceramics by Carol E. Mayer
- The Mind Alive by Judith S. Schwartz
- Ceramic History as a Means to an End by Margaret Carney
- Ceramics of the Past by Richard Zakin
Crystal Glazes - eight potters share techniques and recipes:
- Crystalline Magic by Julie Brooks, guest editor
- Electric Crystalline Firing by Derek Clarkson
- Crystalline Glazing on Porcelain by Diane Creber
- Crystalline Glazes as Abstract Painting by Sun Chao
- Crystalline Glazing in a Gas Kiln by Ray West
- Native Nevada: Seeding Crystals with Rocks by Carol Sphar
- Working with Crystalline Glazes by Dan Turnidge
- Red Crystal Reduction by Leon Bush
Also:
The Cosmic Tortoise: The Work of Walter Ostrom by Ann Gabhart;
Marguerite Wildenhain: Reflections on her 100th Anniversary by Rol Healy;
Sixteen Connecticut Potters;
Pat Doran's Cancer Journal - intro by Kendra Conn;
Travels in Japan by Gerry Williams;
Journey to a Potter's Mecca by Mary Louise Carter and Phyllis Handal.
Volume 25, Number 2
June, 1997
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The Vessel and the Garden - eight articles about pottery
and landscape:
- The Vessel and the Garden by Cliff Garten
- Paradise Contained: Nature and Culture in Persian Gardens by Sussan Babaie
- Wall Cycle to Ocotillo: A Major Art Project Along an Arizona Freeway by Mags Harries and Lajos Heder
- African Burial Ground Memorial by Margaret McAvin
- Forest Garden by Tom Suomalainen
- A Potter in the Garden by Guy Wolff
- Weather Resistant Pots by John Huggins
- Razor Wire Rim by Frank Boyden
Lustre Decorations - five potters share their experiences,
techniques, and recipes:
- Songs of Life by Beatrice Wood
- A Lustre Potter by Sutton Taylor
- Lustre: Iran to the Bathroom by Liz Quackenbush
- Refiring with Lusters: A Second Chance by Regis Brodie
- Reduced Paste Lustre by Alan Caiger-Smith
Also: James Melchert: Conversations on Time, Chance, and Creative Intelligence -
an edited version of an extended conversation during 1996;
Alabama Travels - visits with twenty Alabama potters;
The Impact of the Japanese Folk Craft Movement on 20th-Century American Ceramics by Mark Hewitt;
An American Ceramist in Ghana by Karen K. Terpstra;
Letter from Ecuador by Helmut Hillenkamp;
Joan Campbell.
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