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John Stephenson

John Stephenson (1929-2015) was an artist and educator in Ann Arbor, Michigan for over thirty-five years. He began a distinguished career teaching ceramics at the University of Michigan in 1959 after receiving his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Stephenson exhibited nationally and internationally. 

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Vol. 17 No. 2 - Perception, Cover
Perception / Inner and Outer Vision
Henri Poincare, the nineteenth-century French mathematician who discovered fuchsian functions, has written, “Every day I seated myself at my work table, stayed an hour or two, tried a great number of combinations and reached no results.
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Form and Color: A True Symbiotic Relationship
The architecture of Antonio Gaudi made a very strong impression on me when I was traveling in Spain in 1974. Many of Gaudi's buildings are free of the usual sense of angularity and straight line so familiar in most architecture.
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Time, Place, and Taste of Clay
If one thinks of time as moving forward and backward, then place might be thought of as a move in a lateral direction or from left to right; from side to side. The artist, doing significant work, is affected in his or her work by both these notions of location.
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John Stephenson in front of his studio kiln room door, 1988. Photograph by Dirk Bakker.
Remembering John Stephenson
At any time, there might have been a structure suspended from the ceiling, clay clinging to metal, a complex axial rotation looking like swirling water or an auger still wet with unearthed mud.
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