Richard Mahaffey on fri 22 feb 02
My favorite Voulkos line is one he said at the Seattle Art Museum in a
show with Rudy Autio. Pete said: "I marvel at a good tea bowl. It is
like holding a universe in your hands." What a great way to describe
what a great pot can hold.
I see where the Ny Times says in it's obit of Voulkos that "His ceramic
art entered a new phase in 1979 when a young potter named Peter Callas
built the first Japanese wood-burning
kiln in this country (in Piermont, N.Y.) and persuaded him to try it."
I can think a couple of kilns out west here that predate Peter's kiln, I
wonder how many others there are. Who really has the first Japanese
woodfire kiln in the US?
Rick
Roger Korn on fri 22 feb 02
Richard Mahaffey wrote:
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> I can think a couple of kilns out west here that predate Peter's kiln, I
> wonder how many others there are. Who really has the first Japanese
> woodfire kiln in the US?
A good question! At NAU in Flagstaff, we claim that Yukio Yamamoto and Don
Bendel were first, in 1976, but claiming doesn't make it so. I'll bet there are
older examples. I'll bet that we have the most, though, with two anagamas and a
five-chamber noborigama, plus a train built by Prof. Jason Hess (a John Neely
student) and numerous others, sometimes ALL firing at once. Also, we've got the
biggest woodpile: approximately two hundred cords, most of it as 50+ foot pine logs
in a deck about 30 feet high, the result of clearing for a neighboring campus of
Coconino Community College.
Roger,
getting set to go back to the Northwet for three weeks of medical BS, plus visiting
claybuds. Gotta get up to Tacoma and meet you.
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> Rick
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cd on fri 22 feb 02
Rick asks, "Who really has the first Japanese
woodfire kiln in the US? "
Roger replies: "At NAU in Flagstaff, we claim that Yukio Yamamoto and =
Don
Bendel were first, in 1976, "
Richard Hotchkiss and Rimas VisGirda held a workshop in the summer of =
1971, outside of Grass Valley Ca. Earth, Air Fire and Water =
participants built a six chambered, wood fired climbing kiln that is =
still occassionally fired. Not only did the students build the kiln, =
the bricks were also constructed onsight. The process is documented in =
Olsen's The Kiln Book.
Anyone have an earlier, documented wood fired, climbing kiln?
Craig
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