nceca 2014: alison ferris, ann agee, ezra shales, tom spleth
DESCRIPTION
Panel: A Hand in Industry: 40 years of the Arts/ Industry Program at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center Panelists will share insights drawn from their areas of research from experiments with materials specific to the Arts/Industry residency program to observations about new intersections between industry, design, and handwork. The panel includes a curator, an art historian, and two artists who created significant work in the program. Alison Ferris Ann Agee Ezra Shales Tom SplethTRANSCRIPT
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arts/INDUSTRYCOLLABORATION AND REVELATION
2The Plastic Earth, 1973
3Jack Earl, The Factory as Toilet, 1974
Tom LaDousa’s and my experience was, on looking back, a mad dash at something… It was a search for our place in a new environment—an environment of time, space, noise, heat, men, movement, materials, and equipment
4Clayton Bailey, Toilet that Flushes Up and Cup, 1979
A change in the forming process has the potential to nurture changes in the thinking process.
5Four Weeks at Kohler, 1974
I don’t see how a man could compete with the factory as a teacher—not only the technical knowledge but the pace, the life, the energy. —Jack Earl, 1976
6Industry and the Artist/Craftsman Conference, 1975
7Jack Earl and Clayton Hill, 1976
8Ian Henderson, 2013
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Ann Agee and associates with Kohler Workers Mural, 1991
10Ron Fondaw, Broken Landscape, 1985
11David Phelps, untitled, 1987
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The foundry was a much harsher atmosphere with the molten metal moving down the aisles and all of the noise. I also recall noticing that the ceramic studio first aid had Band-aids and in the foundry it was stretcher and blanket. —Laurie Spencer
John Grade
Foundry 2003, 2013
13Tom Spleth, 1987
14Tom Spleth, untitled vases, 1985
15Tom Spleth, untitled vases, 2011
16Paul Sacaridiz, Monument, 2001
17Kim Cridler, Foundry, 1999
18Sarah Peters, Big Wig (With Bow), 2001
19Bradley Sunnarborg, 1997
It was like a fast-moving river of materials, equipment and expert builders. I felt guilty when I slept, knowing the river was there always moving and making with seemingly limitless potential.
20Bradley Sunnarborg, untitled, 1997
21Chris Weaver, untitled, 1990
22Chris Lo Sze Lim, Horizon, 2007
23Ken D. Little, Doe, masks in process1988
24Gerhard Hahn, Entropy of Dreams, 2002
25Heimo Wallner, untitled (from the Manhole Covers series), 1996
26Mårten Medbo, 2008
27Michael Sherrill, Like Water, 2006
28Michael Bishop, Study, 2004
29David Packer, The Last of the V8s, 2006
30Alex Schweder, Quahog Peescape, Bi-Bardon, 2001
31Joyce Kozloff, “D” is for Detroit, 1987
321974
33Olen Hsu, 2006
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I felt that I was in the production space of “ready-made.”
Tetsuya Yamada, 2002, 2009
35Susan Beiner, detail of Teapot, 1997
36Shawn Busse, Metronome, 2000
37Jackie Chang, Free Trade #5
38Denise Pelletier, On Coming to Be and Passing Away, 2002–2013
39Phoebe Cummings, Wall, 2008
40Ju Yeon Kim, untitled, 2012
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Theaster Gates, Autonomous Sanitary Ware for Religious Convert, Cross without Redemption, 2010
42Beth Lipman, Still Life after Jan Van Kessel, 2003
43Lesley McTague, Porous Wall: Prototype I (detail), 2013
44Ernest Aryee, untitled, 1996
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Anthony Cioe, New Reflections, 2006
Heidi Lasher-Oakes, Braille Tiles, 2000
46Tom Bevan working in the Pottery, 1998
47Sarah Lindley, Small Chest of Drawers, 2003
48Ann Agee, Lake Michigan Bathroom, 1991
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Justin Novak
Confessional Sink, 2004
50Melissa McGill, untitled from Insiders series, 2004
51Carol Prusa, Silverpoint detail 2011; vitreous china 2013
52Jim Neel, 2008
I just put my head down and made sure I got those two monkeys every day and as many arms and legs as I could.
53Jim Neel, Babel, Installation view, Arts Center, 2008
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ARTS/INDUSTRY
COLLABORATION AND REVELATION
March 23–August 31, 2014
The Arts/Industry residency program
is founded and coordinated by John Michael Kohler Arts Center,
and hosted and supported by Kohler Co.
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NCECA CONFERENCE EVENTS March 18–22
The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) conference in Milwaukee is expected to draw more than 4,000 artists, collectors, educators, students, and ceramics suppliers to the area.
Tuesday, March 18, 8:30 a.m.–3:45 p.m.
Arts Center pre-conference tour
Wednesday, March19, 7:45 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
The Arts Center is one of four stops on this NCECA shuttle tour, starting at the Design Center. They will visit the Arts Center from 10–12 a.m.
Friday, March 21
Thirty collectors will tour the artists studios in the Kohler Co. Pottery and Foundry, stop at ARTspace at The Shops at Woodlake, lunch at River Wildlife, and view the exhibition.
Saturday, March 22, 6:00–9:00 p.m.
Opening reception: free to NCECA attendees
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