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Permutations, Casey Beck

School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work

I make pottery not only out of a passion for my material, clay, and for the complex processes of wheel throwing and atmospheric firing, but also out of a passion for living with, using, and sharing handmade objects. For me, using pottery daily is an act of celebration. My philosophy of making pots comes in part from the particular history of utilitarian pottery that has developed over the last sixty years in Minnesota and Western Wisconsin, where I went to school and began my career as a potter. More recently, the form language that I employ in my work has …

Floral Alchemy: Decorative Porcelain Tableware, Stacy Lynn Larson

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports

This written thesis accompanies and addresses work shown in my Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition, Floral Alchemy: Decorative Porcelain Tableware, at West Virginia University. Within this document, I address my research, inspiration, and process as I created the body of work shown in my thesis exhibition. My personal fascination with plants and flowers stimulates my research in the relationship between flora and humankind. Throughout history, plants have consistently had a deep impact on human culture as seen in mythology, language, ritual, art, and medicine. With an understanding of this historical context, I analyze my personal connection with flowers in …

Horse Cave Heritage Festival, 2013 (Fa 1400), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1400. Audio, photographs, and narrative stage logs documenting the Horse Cave Heritage Festival, an annual September event in Horse Cave, Kentucky celebrating local heritage with craft artisans, antique vehicles, children’s activities, food, music, and other attractions. Includes interviews and a narrative stage hosted by the Kentucky Folklife Program.

Infection Intensity And Prevalence From Perkinsus Marinus In The Eastern Oyster, Crassostrea Virginica (Gmelin 1791) And Their Association With Salinity, Temperature, And Sex In South Carolina Estuaries, Deja E. Best

Theses and Dissertations

This project aimed to identify the associations between the infection intensity and prevalence of Perkinsus marinus infection (i.e., Dermo ) in the Eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin), with extrinsic environmental factors such as changes in salinity and temperature along with oyster host factors such as sex ratio. The objectives of the study were to: (1) identify significant associations between the dependent variables, P. marinus prevalence and infection intensity, in relation to salinity and water temperature which may be affected by climate change; and (2) identify any intrinsic factors related to sex (i.e., male, female, intersex, and indeterminant) that may affect …

An Attribute Analysis Of Precontact Ceramics Of 21mo20, Kc Roberts

Culminating Projects in Cultural Resource Management

The multicomponent site 21MO20 was partially excavated from 1982 to 1988 under the direction of Douglas Birk and the Institute for Minnesota Archaeology. While these excavations focused on the Fur Trade era fort at this site, numerous Precontact artifacts and features were also discovered. This Precontact assemblage includes a vast quantity of ceramic sherds, including the majority of four vessels and 11 other diagnostic specimens that span the Woodland tradition. A complete attribute analysis of these specimens provides invaluable data to not only begin to develop a culture history of the Precontact components of this site, but also creates a …

Evaluation Of Some Selected Gap-Filling Materials Used In Restoration Of Archaeological Pottery Excavated From Tell Basta In Sharkia: An Experimental And Applied Study, Walid Kamel El-Ghareb

Journal of the General Union of Arab Archaeologists

تقييم بعض مواد الاستكمال المستخدمة في ترميم الفخار الأثري المستخرج من تل بسطة بالشرقية: دراسة تجريبية وتطبيقية [Ar]

الفخار الأثري الذي تم الكشف عنه بتل بسطة بالشرقية هش ومكسور، ومعظم القطع الفخارية المستخرجة من الحفائر تعاني من فقد لأحد الاجزاء مثل البدن أو الفوهة أو المقبض أو الحافة أو القاعدة، ومثل هذه النوعية تحتاج إلى عمليات استكمال حيث تعد من أهم عمليات الترميم والصيانة لتلك النوعية من الآثار الفخارية. وتعتبر عملية الاستكمال بمثابة إعادة احياء تاريخي للفخار بالتعرف على معالمه الاجتماعية والاقتصادية والدينية. وتم إجراء تقييم لبعض مواد الاستكمال المختارة بإجراء العديد من التجارب والاختبارات كتعيين وقت التشغيل ودرجة الانكماش …

2023 Addendum To The Rough Cilicia Kiln Site Ceramics (Syedra, Delice, Biçkici, And Antiochia Ad Cragum): An Update To The Kiln Sites, Nicholas K. Rauh

Rough Cilicia Archaeological Survey Project, 1996-2011

This addendum summarizes the ceramic remains recovered by the Rough Cilicia Archaeological Survey Project at four posited amphora kiln sites in the survey area: the Syedra Kiln Site, the Biçkici Kiln site, the Antiochia ad Cragum Kiln Site, and the Delice Kiln Site. All four sites were identified early on during the survey (1995-1997). The survey team conducted grab collections and triaged dozens of sherds recovered by 1997, before returning the bulk of these fragments to the field. A representative sample of the amphora fragments together with context ceramics for each site was conserved at the Alanya Archaeological Museum. In …

Silhouette, Andy Bissonnette

School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work

As a potter, I am deeply interested in the union between form, surface, and function. I believe these elements are intrinsically connected and the most successful pots are able to balance all three in a way that is both aesthetically pleasing and practical. From the proportional relationship between the foot and rim, to the way a glaze breaks or pools across an articulated surface, each detail is crafted with intention and care. Silhouette is a metaphor for how I conceptualize and conceive each of my pieces. It’s a way to explore form through both an aesthetic and practical approach. My …

The Day Before The Day, Marlaina Lutz

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

The reason any particular moment has the potential to change the course of your life is because of the accumulation of meaningful moments that happened in between. The in between is where care happens. It’s where acts of kindness are done without witnesses and where vulnerability is met with an unconditional reception. It’s where trust is built and where our darkest and brightest parts become exposed. Can you remember what you did the day before you decided someone was your best friend? Or what you did the day before you spoke to a parent for the last time? What about …

The Birds That Embrace Both Illusions: An Intersemiotic Translation Of All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace By Richard Brautigan, Veronika Yadukha

Comparative Literature M.A. Essays

This essay analyzes the influence of various worldviews on Richard Brautigan's poetry, which form his particular language. A combination of Zen Buddhism, Japanese aesthetics, American poetic tradition, and echoes of the philosophy of absurdism are some of the core themes that serve as mechanisms for Brautigan's poems.

For each chapter of the book All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, I make an intersemiotic translation transposing Brautigan's poems into ceramic tea bowls. By combining different art forms and translating from an abstract symbolic art – poetry – to a form of applied art that is much more physically …

The Role Of Style In Community Identity And Group Affiliation: An Archaeological Study Of Virgin And Kayenta Branch Ceramics, Daniel Melvin Perez

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

This research focuses on the Virgin Branch heartland of the North American Southwest, an archaeological area spanning southern Nevada, southwestern Utah, and northwestern Arizona. The interplay of Virgin Branch community identity, group affiliation, and social interaction over time, between ca. 300 B.C. and A.D. 1225, is considered intra-regionally and in the context of interactions with neighboring Kayenta Branch populations of northeastern Arizona. The principal question for this research is: How is Virgin Branch group identity communicated and reflected through expressions of technological and painted designs styles on pottery amidst intra- and inter-regional events and interactions over time? Support for this …

Tracks Magazine (Issue #1: Bridge), Sophie Gill, The Tracks Magazine Team

Education

Tracks magazine is an art and literary magazine based in Worcester, MA. It was established in 2022 during the senior capstone sequence within the Community, Youth, & Education Studies department at Clark University. Tracks was created with the desire to provide another outlet for artists in the area to share and connect with others with the wider goal to explore the potential of art to enact social change and build community.

This project is for the entire main south neighborhood. This magazine is structured differently than most. Instead of having a small group of people create and determine the entirety …

La Cerámica Ecuatoriana Del Periodo Formativo. Las Culturas Valdivia, Machalilla Y Chorrera, José Luis Pano Gracia

Tejiendo imágenes. Homenaje a Victòria Solanilla Demestre

Nos proponemos en este artículo hacer una reflexión sobre la cerámica que se produjo durante el periodo Formativo o Preclásico en el área andina septentrional (3500-500 a.C.). En especial, sobre las figuras de cerámica que se desarrollaron en las culturas del país que hoy denominamos Ecuador, principalmente las pertenecientes a los yacimientos de Valdivia, Machalilla y Chorrera. Asimismo, trataremos de establecer las oportunas comparaciones con las que se dieron en las tierras del antiguo México, como es el caso de las pretty ladies o mujeres bonitas que tan abundantemente salieron en las excavaciones del yacimiento de Tlatilco. Sin olvidarnos tampoco …

Pottery Horizons Of The Jalul Ceramic Assemblage In The Iron Age Iia-C From Square G4 In Its Historical And Geographical Context, Michael Christian Orellana Mendez

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

This is a dissertation abstract.

Ryan Hitt Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

University Archives Finding Aids

The Ryan Hitt Collection (800 C.E. - 1600 C.E.; 2 linear feet) is a collection of pottery shards, points, and plumbs found by the donor hunting for artifacts in fields and woods.

Ceramics And Life In Tandem, Katharine Lee Robbins

LSU Master's Theses

From the ground up, my work emerges slowly. As each coil is added, I am conscious of how my body is interacting with the rich red clay body. Each time I press clay between my hands, the material reacts and changes. It gives me comfort to feel a tangible response as I push my body into the clay. The cyclical process of art making becomes my daily ritual. Each step is repeated over and over again until it becomes ingrained in my body’s existence.

As I add coils to my work, particularly the large sculptures, I continuously circle around each …

Sweet Nothing, Austin Riddle

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

These pots were made as companions for you and your home. A vase for your table, full of freshly picked flowers as you and your partner eat breakfast and plan your day's activities. Large platters and compartment trays to present home-cooked meals with friends on a warm summer evening. Whiskey sippers that nestle in warm hands, topped off as needed from a half-empty bottle of Jack Daniels.

As a maker, I play these moments on repeat in my mind. As a designer, these scenarios direct the formal elements I develop for each piece. Pushing out an exaggerated belly on a …

The Shape Of Faith: Understanding God Through Pottery, Kenton Ke

Undergraduate Theses, Professional Papers, and Capstone Artifacts

The Bible uses the relationship between a potter and the clay as a metaphor to describe the relationship between God and humans. “Yet you, Lord, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.” (Isaiah 64:8, NIV). This paper will expand on this metaphor, and draw parallels between the development of personal relationships with God and the complicated processes of pottery making.

Enduring Traditions: The Collared Pithos Of Transjordan, Trisha Gallimore Broy

Dissertations

Problem

The collared pithos is a very tall, ovaloid, ceramic storage vessel peculiar to the southern Levant. Through the data that has emerged from Cisjordan a general consensus has developed that the collared pithos is part of an Iron Age 1 tradition that ended in the early years of the Iron Age 2. The data from Transjordan, however, is less familiar in discussions of the vessel, as it has only been added to the corpus within the last few decades. Preliminary indications from excavations in Transjordan reveal a different chronological scope and evolution of form than is observed in Cisjordan. …

Postcard: Collections Of The National Museum. Glass. Pitcher.

Tim Johnson Postcard Collection

This black and white photographic postcard features a still life of a pitcher in a museum. It has hand painted decorations and a handle. Printed text is on the back of the card.

Postcard: Collections Of The National Museum. Three Colors Decorated Glass

Tim Johnson Postcard Collection

This black and white photographic postcard features a still life of a bowl in a museum. It has hand painted decorations and has a crack on the left side. Printed text is on the back of the card.

Postcard: I Am At El Portal Del Are S.A. Exclusive Mexican Art

Tim Johnson Postcard Collection

This color photographic postcard features a market style interior room. Merchandise is on the left and right side of the aisle. A woman is behind a table on the left side. Stairs on the right lead up to a second floor shopping area. Several people stand in the background. Printed text is on the back of the card.

Postcard: Mercado La Victoria Puebla, This Market Is Notable For The Slab Talavera Poblana 107

Tim Johnson Postcard Collection

This color printed postcard features an illustration of the marketplace in Pueblo, Mexico. An illustration of rows of goods and wares line the front of a brick building and a covered marketplace. Customers walk in front of the items on display on the ground. There is printed text at the bottom and top of the card.

Postcard: 762: The Mercado (Market Place), Tijuana, Mexico

Tim Johnson Postcard Collection

This color printed postcard features an illustration of the marketplace in Tijuana, Mexico. An illustration of a row of outdoor markets include a roof covering the row. Each shop is filled with goods. One customer is standing in front of a shop with the shopkeeper inside the covered area. Printed text is at the top of the card.

Postcard: Mercado Juarez (Market Juarez), Ciudad Juarez, Chih.

Tim Johnson Postcard Collection

This color photographic postcard features a market style interior room. A man and woman stand behind a counter that displays goods and wares. A woman approaches the counter. Pottery, baskets and other goods fill the foreground and background. Printed text is on the back of the card.

Postcard: Typical Market, Mexican Curiosities, Mexico, D. F.

Tim Johnson Postcard Collection

This color photographic postcard features a market style interior room. A man and woman stand behind a counter that displays goods and wares. A woman approaches the counter. Pottery, baskets and other goods fill the foreground and background. Printed text is on the back of the card. Handwriting is on the back of the card.

Postcard: South Of The Border, South Carolina At The N.C. - S.C. Border

Tim Johnson Postcard Collection

This color photographic postcard features four photographs. The top left image is of a pinata in the shape of a cow. The top right image is a blue mask. The bottom right image is a miniature figures of a Mariachi band. The bottom left image is of several matching pots. Printed text is on the back of the card.

Postcard: El Mercado, "The Market"

Tim Johnson Postcard Collection

This color photographic postcard features a market style interior room. White walls contain imported wares. Tables and racks contain blankets, cloths, hats and other imported goods. Printed text is on the back of the card.

Postcard: Centro Artesanal De Co. Juarez, Ceramic And Potter's Art Section

Tim Johnson Postcard Collection

This color photographic postcard features a gallery style interior room. White walls contain artwork. Display cases and tables portray pottery of similar color or type of clay on display. A woman in the middle of the room looks at a display. Windows line the first floor on the left. More artwork is visible on the second floor.

Postcard: Centro Artesanal De Co. Juarez, Educational Section

Tim Johnson Postcard Collection

This color photographic postcard features a gallery style interior room. White walls contain ceramic masks and artwork. Pottery is on a table and chests are in the middle of the room. A woman stands in front of one of the tables. Spectators are in the background looking at art. Printed text is on the back of the card.