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Full-Text Articles in Ceramic Arts
East, West And In-Between; Pass It On, Kam Fung, Sita Wong
East, West And In-Between; Pass It On, Kam Fung, Sita Wong
Artists-in-Residence Programme : Exhibition Catalogues
East, West and In-Between
If art is a reflection of the creator, then Wong’s work is a visual collage of influences from East and West. She is interested in creating works where, within one piece, both cultures converse with one another not only through their traditions of material, form and craftsmanship, but also through their original cultural contexts. Her current work elaborates the local culture and craft traditions of Chinese pottery with a modernist and contemporary sense of design.
Pass It On
Clay, a material full of possibilities, is best to describe a class of uninitiated ceramics learners in the …
Black Matter, Kahlil Irving
Black Matter, Kahlil Irving
Graduate School of Art Theses
History as we know it, is inherited. Racism, fascism, white supremacy, and Eurocentric dominance have been presented as normal and acceptable within our society for many years. This has allowed police officers to execute Black American’s and not be acquitted for their horrendous crimes. As an activist I want to challenge the status quo. As an artist I am interested in investigating how I can present ideas embody or reflect contemporary issues and concerns. Using different colors can aggressively change how an object is perceived. Historical objects hold many important.
I explore many mediums, but an anchor material that I …
Dana Weiser Interview, Julia Boucher
Dana Weiser Interview, Julia Boucher
Asian American Art Oral History Project
Bio: Education: University of Colorado at Boulder, B.A in Fine Arts, May 2001. Penland School of Crafts, Attended August2001-May 2001, woodworking and blacksmithing. School of the Art Institute of Chicago, B.F.A, Ceramics, May 2003 & Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, Ceramics May 2004 University of California at Los Angeles, M.F.A in Ceramics, June 2007 & M.A in Asian American Studies, December 2016.
Awards: National Scholastic Art Award in Ceramics, 1997. D’Arcy Hayman Award, 2005. Laura Andreson Scholarship, 2006. Elizabeth Heller Mandell Memorial Scholarship, 2006. Laura Andreson Scholarship, 2007. Finalist in Artist Runway.com, 2008.
Exhibitions: National Scholastic Art Exhibition, Corcoran Museum, Washington DC, …
2017 Mfa Thesis Exhibitions, The University Of Tennessee, Knoxville, School Of Art
2017 Mfa Thesis Exhibitions, The University Of Tennessee, Knoxville, School Of Art
Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture
MFA class of 2017: Jessica Gatlin, Abigail Lucien, Anna Wehrwein, Geoff Silvis, Corinna Ray, Meg Erlewine, Jing Qin, Joshua Shorey, Elysia Mann, and Christopher Spurgin.
The Long Goodbye, Sidney Meret Williams
The Long Goodbye, Sidney Meret Williams
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.
Radical Dissonance And Haunted Gestures: Rupture And Reverence In The Artwork Of Aja Mujinga Sherrard, Aja M. Sherrard
Radical Dissonance And Haunted Gestures: Rupture And Reverence In The Artwork Of Aja Mujinga Sherrard, Aja M. Sherrard
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
This paper serves to establish the studio practice of Aja Mujinga Sherrard within the framework of conceptual art, touching on the flexible use of media, the subversive or political nature of the work, and its relationship to movements and disciplines such as Feminism and Poststructuralism.
The section entitled “Race and Incoherence” addresses the practice of Radical Dissonance—or the creation of ruptures within commonly accepted concepts and social constructions—through the Costuming Kinship Series, 13≠12≠12.2 (Genetics Project), and Body Double. The section entitled ”Art, Loss, and the Unspeakable” traces an emotional shift in her work and speaks directly to the pieces …