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surfing with helen bates - june29, 2008 - usa, canada

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Helen Bates on sun 29 jun 08


Surfing with Helen Bates - June29, 2008 - Canada, USA

Pretty sparse commentary on these, for the most part. Enjoy them anyway...

Pozo, Angelica (Earthen Angel) (Cleveland, OH, USA)
http://angelicapozo.com/
(handmade tile art, mosaic art, public art, architectural ceramics)
http://oac.ohio.gov/search/AIE/ArtistsDirectory/default.asp?strCategoryName=ResidentVisualArts&intEducatorID=81
http://www.cityoforlando.net/fpr/html/PDFs/Pozo%20Poster.pdf
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QLXI3ZoyL._SS500_.jpg
(Juror: "500 Tiles")
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512CXWB6H3L._SS500_.jpg
(Author: "Making and installing Handmade Tiles")

Michael Frasca (Harrodsburg, KY, USA)
http://www.piedmontcraftsmen.org/indv-artist.php?gid=106&aid=36
( high fired wheel thrown and formed functional and sculptural stoneware
pottery vessels, accentuated with wood ash glazes he has developed himself)
http://www.ket.org/cgi-bin/fw_mixedmedia.exe/db/ket/dmps/Programs?do=topic&topicid=MIXM020468&id=MIXM
(click either of the program links to read more and see videos available on
Windows Media Player or Real Player) (Same video of Frasca is shown in
either program)
(Click text " Online Video Available" on either resulting page )
http://www.clayplace.com/images/frasca1.jpg
http://www.grovewood.com/ceramics.php?artist=frasca

Tracy Rosof-Petersen of Palm Beach Gardens throws large pots without a
splash pan
http://76.163.244.237/tracyrosofpetersen.html

Bradley Charles Birkhimer (Thesis for MFA, West Virginia University)
(Morgantown, WV, USA) (PDF)
https://eidr.wvu.edu/files/4573/Birkhimer_Brad_thesis.pdf
(Wonderful integration of ash and fake ash glazes with strong functional
yet attractive forms)
(Worked under Professor Robert Anderson of West Virginia U, Morgantown)

Bisgyer, Susan and Rick (Kingwood, WV, USA)
http://www.ridgetoppottery.com/
good forms and quiet glazes in functional handmade porcelain pottery
based on a common sense of form and color, inspired by the rivers,
oceans and mountains that are an integral part of their lives

Craig Wood (Craig Wood Studios) (Tulsa, OK, USA)
http://craigwoodstudios.com/
(stoneware. cone 6 oxidation; black wax cuerda seca technique)

Roger Cocke (Camano Island Pottery) (Camano Island, WA, USA)
http://camanoislandpottery.com/

Laura Jean McLaughlin (Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
http://laurajeanmclaughlin.com/

Tschacbasov, Nahum (Influence on Craig E Wood) (NY, USA)
http://www.bravurastyle.com/tschacbasov/index.html

Alan Lacovetsky (Alan Lacovetsky (Oak Hammock Marsh, MB, Canada)
(wood-firing potter; ceramics instructor, U. Manitoba, Canada)
(MFA: Ceramics candidate, U. North Dakota, USA)
http://stonewaregallery.com/artists/alanlacovetsky/
http://www.mts.net/~hroggere/artist/alan-lacovetsky.html (9 pieces)
http://www.jonathons.ca/ (enter site, click on "artists", scroll down,
use menu on lower left to choose province of Manitoba, select and click
on "Alan Lacovetsky") (11 pieces)
http://fineartamerica.com/artwork/tag/pottery (4 pieces) (scroll down)
http://www.uniquelymanitoba.ca/exhibitor?name=216 (1 piece) (bio)
http://www.plugin.org/2006/fabfakes/index.html (Scroll down) (1 piece) (bio)
http://www.ndmoa.com/sa07/pages/Alan_Lacovetsky.htm (1 piece)
http://www.gallerieswest.ca/Features/Articles/6-95306.html (1 piece) (PDF)
http://www.canadianclayandglass.ca/GeniusLociCatalogue/AlanLacovetsky.pdf
(1 piece) (PDF)
http://www.umanitoba.ca/schools/art/index.php?sel=EMP&ar=CE&ofs=6&ind=50
(1 piece)
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/ManitobaCrafts/collectionofceramics/artifacts/lacovetsky.html

(1 piece, from 1977)
http://www.khmerceramics.com/newsletters/Jan_Mar_2008_%20h_uk.pdf
(worked on re-creating the traditional Khmer glaze) (PDF)

Helen
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Helen Bates
Belleville, Ontario, Canada
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