Kukuli Velarde

Isichapuitu Series

Donated by Elaine Daniels

21"H 9.5"W 16"L

c. 2000

Kukuli Velarde Artist Biography

In her practice, artist Kukuli Velarde blends indigenous Peruvian culture, philosophy, and religion with European Catholic iconography to confront enduring cultural legacies of colonization. Drawing from visual languages of both indigenous and colonial cultures, the resulting imagery synthesizes and reclaims complexities of mestizo identities. By incorporating portraiture and self-portraiture, Velarde contemplates and reflects on the personal consequences of such histories and how multiple identities and realities can live on, together, in one person. Through her work, Velarde investigates an evolving sense of female identity, while simultaneously exploring the artist's role as witness, critic, and agent of change.

The artist's work is represented in museum collections including the New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum in Taiwan, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Her work was included in the 2021 exhibition New Grit: Art & Philly Now at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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Roberto Lugo

Plate

c. 2019

3/4"H 10" Diameter

Roberto Lugo Artist Biography

Roberto Lugo is a Philadelphia-based artist, ceramicist, social activist, poet, and educator. Lugo utilizes classical pottery forms in conjunction with portraiture and surface design reminiscent of his North Philadelphia upbringing and Hip Hop culture to highlight themes of poverty, inequality, and racial injustice. Lugo's works utilize traditional European and Asian ceramic techniques reimagined with a 21st-century street sensibility. Their hand-painted surfaces feature classic decorative patterns and motifs combined with elements of modern urban graffiti and portraits of individuals whose faces are historically absent on this type of luxury item - people like Sojourner Truth, Dr. Cornel West, and The Notorious BIG, as well as Lugo's family members and, very often, himself.

Lugo holds a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from Penn State. His work has been featured in exhibitions at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, among others. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including a 2023 Heinz Award, a Philadelphia's Cultural Treasures award, a 2019 Pew Fellowship, a Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize, and a US Artist Award. His work is found in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The High Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Brooklyn Museum, the Walters Art Museum, and more.

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Karen Karnes

Covered Jar

Donated by Elaine Daniels

5"H 6.5" Diameter

Karen Karnes Artist Biography

Karen Karnes (November 17, 1925 - July 12, 2016) was a ceramic artist who lived and worked in New York City. She is recognized for her wheel thrown pieces, salt glazed pottery, and her lidded casserole dishes. She attended Brooklyn College where she graduated with a major in design. She then traveled to Italy where she concentrated on her ceramics practice in Sesto Fiorentino, and learned how to use the potter's wheel. Karnes later returned to New York where she started a graduate program at Alfred University to continue her study of ceramics. Karnes and her husband David Weinrib led the first Pottery Seminar at Black Mountain College in North Carolina in October 1952, an incredibly important nexus of artists that pioneered the Studio Craft Movement in the US. In 1954, Karnes and Weinrib decided to relocate to Stony Point, New York, where they established the Gate Hill Cooperative with fellow potters and worked for 25 years. While there, she focused on creating pieces with functionality and developed her signature casserole dish. It is not hyperbole to suggest that Karnes' artwork made a major impact on the idea of accepting functional pottery as a form of fine art in the United States. In 1967, Karnes incorporated salt in her kiln firings while she was teaching at Penland School of Craft and would continue to use salt in her firings until a 1998 fire destroyed her kiln shed. She would continue to fire her work in wood-fueled kilns owned by her colleagues.

Karnes earned several awards and other accolades throughout her career, which includes the Artists' Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1976 and 1988, the American Craft Council's Gold Medal of Highest Achievement in Craftsmanship in 1998, the Medal of Excellence from the Society of Arts and Crafts in 1990, and several more. She is truly one of the most important ceramic artists of the 20th century.

Condition Note: There are two small chips on the rim.

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Japanese Proverb Tsubo

Each 9"H 6" Diameter

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Tsubo Pair

Kyuushuu, Japan

Each within 10"H 10"Diameter

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Unknown Artist

Olive Pitcher

Shapiro Family Donation

9"H 6.75"W 4.5"L

Possibly British Studio Pottery

British Studio Pottery emerged out of both the British Arts & Crafts Movement (characterized by tenets put forth by WIlliam Morris), and the Japanese Mingei Movement. Bernard Leach, a leader of the style was educated in China and Japan, and connected with Japanese pottery Shoji Hamada. They travelled the world presenting their conceptual and technical style. Leach settled in the UK and the Leach Pottery became a center for potters from all over the world to study and emulate their style and philosophy.

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Kopal Seth

Kumbha Gram

5.25"H 6"W 5"L

Kopal Seth Artist Biography

Kopal Seth earned an MFA in Ceramics from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) USA and a BVA in Painting from MS university, Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda.

She was a Resident Artist at The Clay Studio in 2020-2021. Her work has been featured in HyperAllergic, Providence Daily Dose, among many other platforms.

She has shown at various exhibitions in India and the U.S., Amongst which is a solo show at The Clay Studio, PA and group shows at The Gelmen Gallery-RISD Museum, The Lacoste/Keane Gallery, Concord, MA, and Art Centrix Space, New Delhi.

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Lisa Naples

Pitcher

1980s

Shapiro Family Donation

10"H 10"W 3.5"L

Lisa Naples Artist Biography

Lisa Naples runs a studio and ceramic school in Frenchtown, NJ. She earned an MFA from The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) in 1988. She was a Resident Artist at The Clay Studio from 1991-1993. In 2014 Ceramic Arts Daily released two feature-length movies on her work/process and began distributing them around the world. She was awarded the 2012 Ceramics Prize at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show. In 2010 she won "Best of Philly" and also was featured in the book: "Masters Earthenware". She won the sculpture prize at Phillips Mill Art Show in Bucks County, PA several times between 2010-2016. Select solo exhibitions: Michener Art Museum, Smithsonian and Phila. Museum of Art Craft Shows. Lisa has lectured and given workshops across the US. In 2005 she was awarded an NCECA residency in Australia which fundamentally changed her studio life.

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Jill Bonovitz

Set of Bowls

2022

Artist Donation

Each 3"H 6.5"W 7"L

Jill Bonovitz Artist Biography

Jill Bonovitz earned her MS from Columbia University, and did post grad work at Moore College of Art, where she developed her ceramic art practice, and met the four other artists with whom she founded The Clay Studio in 1974. She has participated in many group shows and had numerous solo exhibitions including one in 2019 at Moore when she was honored as a Visionary Woman. She serves on several boards at cultural institutions in Philadelphia and New York, and her work is in public and private collections including the Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, the PMA, and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland.

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Alec Karros

Pitcher

1990s

Daley Family Donation

6"H 6.75"W 4"L

Alec Karros Artsist Biography

Alec Karros is a functional studio potter and was a longtime adjunct professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He earned his MFA from Rhode Island School of Design, and his BFA from the Philadelphia College of Arts, now UArts. He has also taught at SUNY Oswego, the University of Colorado and the University of Washington. He has lectured widely including presentations for the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design, the National Council of Education in the Ceramics Arts, Pratt Institute, The Ohio State University, SUNY New Paltz, and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. He has exhibited nationally and internationally.

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Ron Meyers

Small Jar with Fish

1990s

Daley Family Donation

4.75"H 9.5"W 7"L

Ron Meyers Artist Biography

Ron Meyers holds a 1967 M.F.A. degree in ceramics from the School for American Craftsmen, Rochester Institute of Technology, and B.S. (1956) and M.S. (1961) degrees in art education from State University of New York College at Buffalo. He taught at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC from 1967-1972. He then spent the next 20 years teaching at the University of Georgia in Athens where he retired as Professor Emeritus.

Ron has an extensive history of professional activities within the ceramics community. He has presented numerous workshops and demonstrations in the United States and abroad, most recently at the Lill Street Studio in Chicago, Il, Arrowmont School of Crafts, the Huntington Museum of Art, University of Arkansas at Little Rock and the Curaumilla Clay Studio in Chile.

He was the recipient of the National Council for the Education of Ceramic Arts (NCECA) Excellence in Teaching Award and the Northern Clay Center's 2008 Regis Masters Award which honors senior artists who have had a major impact on the development of 20th and 21st ceramics in the United States.

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Jack Earl

Dog Bowl

8"H 6.25"Diameter

Jack Earl Artist Biography

Jack Earl (1934-2023) was an American ceramic artist and teacher, known for drawing inspiration from his home state of Ohio to create rural pieces "with meticulous craftsmanship and astute details… to where you could smell the air, hear the silence and swat the flies." He earned his BA at Bluffton College in Ohio in 1956, and then taught art in high schools until he earned his MA in art education at The Ohio State University in 1964. His work often involved dogs or the character "Bill", who is said to be a combination of Earl's father-in-law, himself, and others. The titles to his pieces are typically lengthy, stream-of-consciousness narratives that suggest the folk or rural lifestyle. These are intended to add another dimension to the artwork. His work has received a notable response over his decades-long career, especially since he was regarded as "a master at reminding us that within the events we take for granted are moments of never-ending mystery and wonder."

Jack Earl's work was included in the seminal exhibition Objects USA (1969-1971). He had many solo shows including at the Museum of American Craft (now the Museum of Arts and Design) and is held in private collections and major museums including The Clay Studio Collection and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.

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Frank Pitcher

Singing Man

Daley Family Donation

11.5"H 4"W 2.75"L

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Richard Summons

Round Sculpture

Daley Family Donation

5.25"H 6"Diameter

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Susan Biener

Abstract Sculpture

2009-10

6.5"H 4.5"W 3.25"L

Small repaired break

Susan Beiner Artist Biography

A Resident Artist at The Clay Studio from 2005 to 2006, Susan Beiner is a ceramic artist and professor in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. Her sculptural installations expose concern about the effects on the fragile ecosystem of humans, animals, and plants. Her objective is to create an ecological balance between the conflict that has arisen between nature and culture.

Beiner has exhibited nationally and internationally, has received numerous awards and residencies and her work is included in diverse and prestigious collections such as The Yixing Ceramics Museum, China, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, Gyeonggi Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Korea, Princessehof Keramiek Museum, Netherlands, New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan, and the Long Beach Museum of Art, CA to name a few.

She was named Joan R. Lincoln Endowed Professor in Ceramics in 2017. This professorship was created by the Lincoln family in honor of Joan Lincoln's lifelong passion for making, collecting, and supporting ceramic arts.

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Jill Fetteran

Pitcher

Daley Family Donation

6"H 8.25"W 4.75"L

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Karen Kolka

Lower Body Section

Daley Family Donation

13.5"H 5.5"W 4.25"L

Karen Kolkka Artist Biography

Karen Kolkka (1962 - 2023) was an artist and art teacher. Karen's passion was art and teaching art. She joyously and diligently worked to inspire and encourage creativity in everyone she met. She was proud to be part of Springside Chestnut Hill Academy for more than 20 years, having been granted honorary alumnae status in 2017. Her studio at SCH became a sanctuary for her students. It was a space that freed each child's mind to create and encourage their artistic pursuits. In her quiet way, Karen showed her students that their ideas mattered and their voices had a place.

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Robert Winokur

Painters Mug and Brush

Daley Family Donation

Paintbrush: 1"H 2.25"W 14"L

Mug: 3.5"H 7.25"W 3.25"L

Robert Winokur Artist Biography

Robert (Bob) Winokur (1933-2020), a renowned ceramic artist first became interested in ceramics in high school. He pursued his interest at Tyler School of Art earning his BFA in 1956, then at Alfred University, where he earned his MFA in 1958. It was also in 1958 when Winokur married the groundbreaking and internationally-acclaimed artist Paula Colton Winokur (Tyler BFA and BS Ed '58). Together, the Winokurs maintained a shared ceramics studio for more than 50 years. Winokur's practice evolved over the years, with stylized house forms being a recurrent subject. He considered their physical and metaphorical space as vessels themselves.

His works appear in dozens of public and private collections around the world, including Le cite du Ceramics: The Louvre, Paris, France; The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia; International Ceramic Studio, Kecskemet, Hungary; International Academy of Ceramics, Geneva, Switzerland; and the Philadelphia Museum of Art - to name just a few. Among his extensive list of awards and accolades are a Visual Artists Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (1979); an honorary fellow of The National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts (1983); fellowships in crafts by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (2003 and 1988); an American Crafts Council College of Fellows inductee (2002); and a member of The International Academy of Ceramics, Geneva, Switzerland (2004). Winokur is survived by his two children: Stephan and Michael.

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William (Bill) Knoble

Urn

Daley Family Donation

12"H 6.25"Diameter

William (Bill) Knoble Artist Biogrpahy

For 40 years, Bill was a full-time potter and owner of Red Truck Pottery in Chestertown. During his career he served on the New York State Council of the Arts grants panel, the Town of Chester zoning board, the Chester Public Library board, the St. Lawrence County Arts Council panel, and worked with other community and arts organizations. In recent years he operated Red Truck Farm in Old De Kalb and was working toward a Bachelor of Science in Geology from St. Lawrence University. Bill held a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of the Arts (formerly Philadelphia College of the Arts) in Philadelphia, PA.

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Collection by Adelaide Paul

Cup: 3"H 2.5" Diameter

Sculpture: 3.25 2.75 4

Vessel: 7.5"H 3.5" Diameter

Adelaide Paul Artist Biography

Adelaide Paul (b. 1961, Berwyn, Pennsylvania) She lived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 1963 to 1969 and spent the remainder of her formative years in South Orange, New Jersey. Paul earned a BFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University (Summa Cum Laude) and received her MFA in studio art from Louisiana State University in 1996.

Having taught anatomy to veterinary students for eight years as associate director of the anatomy lab at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, Paul has an intimate understanding of animal forms. She explores the relationships among animals and humans through her work. "Animals are anthropomorphized in film, fiction and popular culture," she said in a statement. "They (and their requisite accessories) are hot commodities; like all commodities, they are also disposable."

She has exhibited widely with Garth Clark Gallery (NY), Baltimore Clayworks (MD), DEAN Project (NY), and the Wexler Gallery (PA). Her work is included in many private collections throughout the United States.

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Stanley Mace Anderson

Fruit Bowl

Daley Family Donation

5"H 11"Diameter

Stanley Mace Anderson Artist Biography

Stanley M. Andersen earned his B.A. in Philosophy, B.A. in Sociology, and a Master of Library Science at the University of Iowa before receiving his MFA in Ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1978. He was an Artist-in-Residence at Penland School of Crafts from 1979-1983. In 1983, Stan and his wife bought an old mountain farm in Bandana, NC, near Penland. The pastures, meadows, gardens and woodlands that surround his studio serve as inspiration for the surface decoration of his pottery. He produces utilitarian earthenware pots for the table and kitchen, using the maiolica technique to paint his pieces with strong colors and flowing patterns.

Anderson works with earthenware clay and primarily makes utilitarian ware for the table and kitchen. He uses the Maiolica technique in decorating his pots and fires them in an electric kiln. Anderson wants his pottery to become part of the daily flow of an individual's domestic life and to contribute to the enjoyment of preparing, serving, and presenting food. His style is defined by the expression of line, color, patterns, and their relationship to the pottery forms. He paints his pots quickly and directly on the raw glazed surface, creating liquid flowing lines, splashes of color, and overlaps of brushstrokes that he hopes result in a feeling of exuberance and casual spontaneity.

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Wayne Bates

Tall Pitcher

Shapiro Family Donation

18" 6.5"W 5"L

Wayne Bates Artist Biography

Wayne Bates is best known for functional wheel thrown porcelain bowls, plates, platters, and vases, fired in mid-range oxidation. The pots are sprayed or brushed with engobes. Often the surface techniques are carved in patterns reflecting simple geometry. During his time as an undergraduate at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee, Bates majored in painting. Despite the lack of a strong ceramics program, it was at Union that he first began working in clay. Stimulated by his teacher, Bates took over the small ceramics room, fired the kilns and taught himself how to use the potter's wheel.

His work in graduate school was in the Leach British stoneware tradition. Completely immersing himself in this aesthetic, Wayne copied the forms and used the original recipes for the glazes to learn the art and craft of that style. In Athens, Bates had access to the Peabody Collection of Archaeology, and its extensive collection of drawings of Native American and South American pottery. He also took classes in the history of ceramics with an emphasis in Aztec and Incan pottery. His continued study of the history of ceramics has very much influenced his work as a potter and helped him understand his own work in the great tradition of hand-made functional ceramic objects. He envisions himself able to connect to this vast knowledge, or as he puts it, "To swim in a very deep and wide river of experience."

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Lisa Naples

Cream & Sugar Set

1991

Shapiro Family Donation

Sugar Container: 6.5"H 6.25"W 3.5"L

Cream Pitcher: 6"H 8.5"W 5.5"L

**Comes with a additional third piece in set, a pitcher with a small chip in the lip.

Lisa Naples Artist Biography

Lisa Naples runs a studio and ceramic school in Frenchtown, NJ. She earned an MFA from The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) in 1988. She was a Resident Artist at The Clay Studio from 1991-1993. In 2014 Ceramic Arts Daily released two feature-length movies on her work/process and began distributing them around the world. She was awarded the 2012 Ceramics Prize at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show. In 2010 she won "Best of Philly" and also was featured in the book: "Masters Earthenware". She won the sculpture prize at Phillips Mill Art Show in Bucks County, PA several times between 2010-2016. Select solo exhibitions: Michener Art Museum, Smithsonian and Phila. Museum of Art Craft Shows. Lisa has lectured and given workshops across the US. In 2005 she was awarded an NCECA residency in Australia which fundamentally changed her studio life.

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Mark Johnson

Teapot

Daley Family Donation

6.5"H 7"W 5"L

Mark Johnson Artist Biography

Mark is currently Professor of Ceramics & Foundation at the Maine College of Art. He received his BFA and MFA degrees from Kent State University. His ceramic work explores the relationship between control and chance that is an important part of the soda firing process. Pottery forms, including vases, jars, teapots, platters, and pouring vessels, are surfaced with glazes that interact with the clay body and the soda kiln atmosphere to create a synthesis of material, form, and process. His artwork has been featured in numerous books and periodicals and has been included in over 200 hundred exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout the United States. He has been an Artist-in-Residence at the Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana and the Watershed Center for Ceramic Art, Newcastle, Maine. Mark has received Individual Artist Fellowships from the Maine Arts Commission and the New England Foundation for the Arts/NEA.

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Rob Forbes

Large Bowl

Donated by Elaine Daniels

5.5"H 14.75"Diameter

Rob Forbes Artist Biography

Rob Forbes' career includes work in both the Arts and Business fields. Forbes is best known as the Founder of Design Within Reach and for the vision of a business that has grown into the leading retail destination for modern design in the US. In 2007 Rob formally left DWR to launch Studio Forbes, based in San Francisco, to further his interests in design, culture, and commerce. These interests, and his personal passion for bicycles led him to his new venture PUBLIC. PUBLIC is a design based business with a mission to help us reduce our dependency on cars and think more intelligently and artfully about the way we get around and connect with our cities and communities.

Forbes' academic training includes a BA in Aesthetics from the University of California at Santa Cruz (1974), an MFA from Alfred University (1979) and an MBA from Stanford University (1985). His art career includes ceramics studio work and exhibitions in the US and teaching positions at the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Philadelphia College of Art. During his time teaching at PCA, he exhibited at The Clay Studio. His business experience includes work here and abroad in retail management for Williams-Sonoma, London-based Selfridges, The Nature Company, and Smith & Hawken prior to Founding Design Within Reach in 1998 and PUBLIC in 2009.

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Heeseung Lee

Mug

2000s

Artist Donation

4.75"H 5"W 2.75"L

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Elyse Saperstein

Lizard Tile

2024

Artist Donation

0.5"H 6"W 6"L

Elyse Saperstein Artist Biography

Elyse Saperstein (born circa 1952 - d. 2002) earned an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan and an M.Ed from Pennsylvania State University. She was a Resident Artist at The Clay Studio from 1980 to 1985. She was a Dina Wind Challenge Artist in 1990. Her work was inspired by her travels, including to Peru where she studied Inca architecture and sculpture. Saperstein's work has been shown nationally and internationally in places like Philadelphia, Las Vegas, and China. Her work is held in The Clay Studio Collection.

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Pitcher

Daley Family Donation

10.5"H 5"W 8.5"L

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Ken Vavrek

Boat Vessel 1

1990

Artist Donation

6"H 9"W 12.75"L

Ken Vavrek Artist Biography

Ken Vavrek (b.1939) was 31 years old when he became an art professor at the Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia, a post he maintained for over three decades. In 1974 Vavrek was one of five founding members of The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, PA, where is still an active member of the community.

Vavrek's ceramic wall sculptures project a reserved and elegant physical beauty. Using a pared-down cast of geometric forms, these assemblage pieces propose a relationship between architecture, painting, motion, and play. They are remarkable for the way in which, unlike other assemblage pieces, they do not reveal the method by which they are held together. In comparison to Vavrek's more dramatic earlier works, these pieces converse more easily with the cool Minimalism of Bauhaus design. They located Vavrek firmly in the lineage of a number of iconic mid-20th century modernists. They represent the work of a mature artist at the peak of his powers, employing methodical yet always compelling probes into his own experience and imagination.

Vavrek has exhibited extensively in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. He has received commissions from companies such as the Korman Commercial Properties and ARA Services and his art is featured in the permanent collection of several museums and art centers, including the Milwaukee Art Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Arizona State University Ceramic Center, and the Cleveland Museum of Art.

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Ken Vavrek

Boat Vessel 2

1990

Artist Donation

5.5"H 8"W 14"L

Ken Vavrek Artist Biography

Ken Vavrek (b.1939) was 31 years old when he became an art professor at the Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia, a post he maintained for over three decades. In 1974 Vavrek was one of five founding members of The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, PA, where is still an active member of the community.

Vavrek's ceramic wall sculptures project a reserved and elegant physical beauty. Using a pared-down cast of geometric forms, these assemblage pieces propose a relationship between architecture, painting, motion, and play. They are remarkable for the way in which, unlike other assemblage pieces, they do not reveal the method by which they are held together. In comparison to Vavrek's more dramatic earlier works, these pieces converse more easily with the cool Minimalism of Bauhaus design. They located Vavrek firmly in the lineage of a number of iconic mid-20th century modernists. They represent the work of a mature artist at the peak of his powers, employing methodical yet always compelling probes into his own experience and imagination.

Vavrek has exhibited extensively in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. He has received commissions from companies such as the Korman Commercial Properties and ARA Services and his art is featured in the permanent collection of several museums and art centers, including the Milwaukee Art Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Arizona State University Ceramic Center, and the Cleveland Museum of Art.

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Hayne Bayless

Teapot

Shapiro Family Donation

11"H 4"W 12"L

Hayne Bayless

Hayne Bayless makes hand-built stoneware pottery in Ivoryton, CT. Hayne's interest in clay started in high school, where he discovered an old potter's wheel and kiln gathering dust in a corner of the art room. The art teacher pointed him to Bernard Leach's A Potter's Book, which became his guide. After a college career that spanned four schools and seven attempted majors over 12 years, Hayne emerged with a degree in journalism. He worked as a newspaper reporter and editor in New Haven for 10 years. His interest in clay reemerged, and making pots began to take up most of his time outside the newsroom. Hayne has had the great fortune to be awarded the top prizes at two of the country's most important craft shows: the Smithsonian Craft Show in Washington, D.C. and the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show. He teaches workshops all over the country and abroad.

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Randy Johnson

Lidded Vessel

7.5"H 5.5"Diameter

Randy Johnson Artist Biography

Randy Johnston has had an illustrious 47-year career in ceramics. He is recognized internationally as an artist who has pursued functional expression and brought a fresh aesthetic vision to contemporary form, and for his many contributions to the development of wood kiln technology in the United States. He is professor and department chair emeritus at the University of Wisconsin - River Falls, where he taught ceramics and drawing. His work has been exhibited internationally and he is the recipient of numerous awards, including The Bush Artist Fellowship, granted by The Bush Foundation in Minnesota, two visual artist fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Distinguished Teaching Award in American Arts, from The James Renwick Society of the Smithsonian. Johnston received his MFA from Southern Illinois University and a BFA in Studio Arts from the University of Minnesota, where he studied with Warren MacKenzie. He also studied in Japan at the Pottery of Shimaoka Tatsuzo, who was a student of Shoji Hamada. Johnston has presented hundreds of lectures and guest artist presentations worldwide. He has his work in the permanent collections of, Victoria and Albert, London, UK; Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia), Minneapolis, MN; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO and numerous international, public and private collections.

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Jack Troy

Bowl

2017

Daley Family Donation

3.5"H 8"Diameter

Jack troy Artist Biography

Jack Troy, teacher, potter, and writer, retired from Juniata College in 2006, where he taught for 39 years. He has led over 230 workshops for potters at colleges, universities, and art centers in the U. S. and abroad. His career has taken him to 13 countries, and his work is in many private and public collections, including the Smithsonian Institution, Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park (Japan), Auckland (NZ) Museum of Art and the Kalamazoo Institute of Art.

His first book, Salt Glazed Ceramics, was published in 1977. In 1978 he built Pennsylvania's first anagama-style kiln at Juniata College, and personal anagamas at his home in 1987 and 2006. In 1995 he published Wood-fired Stoneware and Porcelain. His collection of poems, Calling the Planet Home, was published in 2003 and more than 60 of his articles, book reviews, and exhibition catalogue essays have appeared in the major periodicals in his field. The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts awarded him two Craft Fellowships for his work in ceramics, and a Fellowship in Literature for his poetry. He was selected by the Council to make the awards for the 2005 Governor's Awards for the Arts. In 2012 he received the Excellence in Teaching Award from NCECA, the National Council for Education in Ceramic Arts.

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Miniature Ceramics Collection

Elaine Daniels

Artist Donation

All forms within 1.5"H 3.25" Diameter

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Ginger Jar Set

All 3.5"H 4"W 4"L

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Wayne Bates

Plate

Daley Family Donation

2"H 7"Diameter

Wayne Bates Artist Biography

Wayne Bates is best known for functional wheel thrown porcelain bowls, plates, platters, and vases, fired in mid-range oxidation. The pots are sprayed or brushed with engobes. Often the surface techniques are carved in patterns reflecting simple geometry. During his time as an undergraduate at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee, Bates majored in painting. Despite the lack of a strong ceramics program, it was at Union that he first began working in clay. Stimulated by his teacher, Bates took over the small ceramics room, fired the kilns and taught himself how to use the potter's wheel.

His work in graduate school was in the Leach British stoneware tradition. Completely immersing himself in this aesthetic, Wayne copied the forms and used the original recipes for the glazes to learn the art and craft of that style. In Athens, Bates had access to the Peabody Collection of Archaeology, and its extensive collection of drawings of Native American and South American pottery. He also took classes in the history of ceramics with an emphasis in Aztec and Incan pottery. His continued study of the history of ceramics has very much influenced his work as a potter and helped him understand his own work in the great tradition of hand-made functional ceramic objects. He envisions himself able to connect to this vast knowledge, or as he puts it, "To swim in a very deep and wide river of experience."

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Jared Jaffe

Teapot & Cups

1992

Teapot: 9.25"H 10"W 5.25"L

cups: 6.75"H 3.5"Diameter

Jared Jaffe Artist Biography

Graduated from The University of the Arts with a BFA in Ceramics in 1991. Received a MFA in Ceramics from The University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2005. Jared has taught ceramics, glass, 3D design and drawing at; Front Range Community College in Colorado, Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia, Moorestown High School in New Jersey and at Keystone College in PA. He currently teaches ceramics for Central Valley Catholic School, and here at St. Johns Clay.

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John Glick

Pitcher

6"H 8"W 5"L

John Glick Artist Biography

John Glick (1938 - 2017) was an American Abstract Expressionist ceramicist born in Detroit, MI. Though open to artistic experimentation, Glick was most influenced by the styles and aesthetics of Asian pottery. His experience working with ceramics led him to publish several articles about the craft. In addition to producing pottery, Glick began making "landscape oriented" wall panels during the latter part of his career. Known as "the people's potter," he is primarily remembered for his contributions to art and the field of ceramics.

Glick's artwork has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums including the Cranbrook Art Museum, The Morean Arts Center, Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Newark Museum of Art, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. His work is also a part of collections across the globe including the Craft and Folk Art Museum, Delaware Art Museum, Detroit Institute of Arts, Kansas City Art Museum, Gardiner Museum, and Yixing Art Museum.

His works are rarely on the marketplace now and are highly sought after for their technical excellence, and expressionistic glazework.

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Jeff Oestreich

Plate

Shapiro family Donation

3"H 17.5"Diameter

Jeff Oestreich Artist Biography

Jeff Oestreich was first introduced to ceramics by Warren Mackenzie at the University of Minnesota. He earned his BA there and continued his education at the Bernard Leach Pottery in St. Ives, England. Oestreich's functional porcelain or stoneware pots are thrown and then altered or slab built. In the early 1980s Oestreich wood fired, then, he began soda firing. Driven to achieve a personal style, he overlaid the foundations of ceramic art he learned with Mackenzie and at Leach Pottery with a passion for Art Deco design and a ceaseless exploration of glaze and decoration techniques. His signature beaked pitcher is the refinement of a personal challenge to combine form and function elegantly.

A highly regarded studio potter, Oestreich has exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide, his work can be found in the outstanding collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Incheon World Ceramic Center, the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art among others. Every year Oestreich and other artists open their studios for the annual pottery tour in the St. Croix Valley.

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Dean Schwartz

Large Bowl

Daley Family Donation

8.25"H 14"Diameter

Dean Schwartz Artist Biography

Dean Schwarz is best known for thrown stoneware traditional forms that are finished with carved and slip glazed surfaces. He also worked in porcelain.
Schwarz spent three summers with Marguerite Wildenhain at Pond Farm; during the third season, he was her assistant. This time lead to their friendship and respect for each other's work that continued until her death. He also studied with William Daley at Haystack.
In 1979 Schwarz founded South Bear Press with his wife Geraldine and published a number of books in the pottery field including two definitive Wildenhain/Pond Farm volumes.

Beginning in 2007, Schwarz's sons, Gunnar and Lane, took over throwing the pots that their father then decorated when leather hard. The pieces created in this way range from large often 40" tall to mini's under 5".1

Schwarz has built and fired over 100 kilns.

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Large Dish

Signed "Buskin" or "Baskin"

Originally sold by Helen Drutt Gallery

3"H 17.5"Diameter

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Deklena Clark

Platter

1988

Daley Family Donation

2.25" H x 11" W x 13.5" L

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Wayne Bates

Large Bowl

1996

Daley Family Donation

6 "H 12.75"Diameter

Wayne Bates Artist Biography

Wayne Bates is best known for functional wheel thrown porcelain bowls, plates, platters, and vases, fired in mid-range oxidation. The pots are sprayed or brushed with engobes. Often the surface techniques are carved in patterns reflecting simple geometry. During his time as an undergraduate at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee, Bates majored in painting. Despite the lack of a strong ceramics program, it was at Union that he first began working in clay. Stimulated by his teacher, Bates took over the small ceramics room, fired the kilns and taught himself how to use the potter's wheel.

His work in graduate school was in the Leach British stoneware tradition. Completely immersing himself in this aesthetic, Wayne copied the forms and used the original recipes for the glazes to learn the art and craft of that style. In Athens, Bates had access to the Peabody Collection of Archaeology, and its extensive collection of drawings of Native American and South American pottery. He also took classes in the history of ceramics with an emphasis in Aztec and Incan pottery. His continued study of the history of ceramics has very much influenced his work as a potter and helped him understand his own work in the great tradition of hand-made functional ceramic objects. He envisions himself able to connect to this vast knowledge, or as he puts it, "To swim in a very deep and wide river of experience."

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Peter Hays

Vessel Pair

Large Vessel: 11.5"H 7"W 3.5"L
Small Vessel: 4.5"H 3.5"W 2.5"L

Peter Hayes Artist Biography

Peter Hayes (born 1946) is a contemporary sculptor now based in Bath, England, whose work is displayed in public and private collections across the UK, US, Canada and Belgium.

Hayes was born in Birmingham, England, where, aged 12, he was selected to attend the Moseley School of Art. In 1961 he left to study at the Birmingham College of Art before traveling extensively in Africa. Over the course of several years, he worked as a ceramic artist with tribes and village potters who inspired him with the exquisite work they produced using very limited technology and tools. Moving on to India, Nepal, Japan, Korea and New Mexico, he found similar skills and adopted the techniques he learned. In 1982, Hayes came home and built a studio in a disused toll house on Cleveland Bridge, Bath. His work now builds on the techniques and methods he learned during his travels to create ceramic art that is often inspired by memories of landscapes he has seen.

The distinctive appearance of Peter Hayes' ceramic works is partly a result of techniques such as Raku firing he employs but also reflects his habit of submerging pieces in the flowing river beside his studio, or sending them to Cornwall to be washed in the sea, for months at a time. The water washes minerals such as copper and metal oxides into the basic white clay with which Hayes works, creating a characteristic green-blue "blush" in his sculptures along with random elements that make every piece unique. The effect is to create objects that many feel look ancient and perhaps even a little alien. Hayes' work is generally finished by waxing and polishing.

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Natalie Wiete

Vessel

Daley Family Donation

6.25"H 4.75"W 1.5"L

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Matt Wilt

Teapot on Platform

2007

12.25"H 9.25"W 9.25"L

Matthew Wilt Biography

Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Matt Wilt received his Bachelor's degree in Ceramics and Art Education from Penn State University. After completing undergraduate school, Matt worked for two years at Boston Valley Terra Cotta, an architectural terra cotta restoration firm in Buffalo, New York, where he began to work more extensively with plaster molds and imitative glaze surfaces. Prior to pursuing graduate study, he also worked as an apprentice at Moravian Pottery and Tileworks, and traveled extensively in Nepal and Thailand.

Matt completed his Master of Fine Arts degree at Ohio University, in Athens. He was then awarded The Evelyn Shapiro Foundation Fellowship through The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. While working as a Resident Artist at The Clay Studio, Matt continued to show nationally and internationally and taught at several universities and art schools, including the University of Pennsylvania, Moore College of Art & Design and Arcadia University.

Matt has been the recipient of numerous awards. He has received a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Grant, an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, and numerous awards in national juried exhibitions. He has been active as a Visiting Artist at schools such as Syracuse University, Tyler School of Art, Northern Arizona University and Indiana University. Currently Area Head of the ceramics program at Skidmore College, his work is included in the collections of the DeYoung Museum (San Francisco), The Crocker Museum of Art (Sacramento), The Ceramic Research Center (Arizona State University), and many other public and private collections.

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Susan O'Brien

Teapot

Artist Donation

8"H 7"W 4.5"L

Susan O'Brien Artist Biography

O'Brien is a potter. Her work is an amalgamation of past and present, informed by the history and evolution of functional wares and dining rituals. She writes, "My work incorporates decoration, ornamentation, and a playful sense of humor within the context of function. Informed by the history and evolution of dining wares and rituals, my pots expresses nostalgia for both communal celebration and virtuosity in craftsmanship. Sources such as eighteenth-century silver, Faberge' eggs, architecture, and European ceramics are appropriated and exaggerated with subtle irreverence. Referencing the female form, I combine various layers of textural and decorative information by weaving beautiful and sometimes repulsive elements. Working from the framework of the eighteenth-century corset, for example, I combine textures of lace and/or its inverse, lizard skin. This juxtaposition of surfaces and forms simultaneously evokes the urge to approach, and to recoil. Similarly, I employ a subtle semi-translucent satin matte glaze palette, inviting touch as skin or lingerie would. The very nature of functional ceramics is to be viewed and interacted with through touch and use, and is situated within the realm of domesticity. I find the intimate dialogue- from maker, to form, to viewer- vastly intriguing. The fact that my work is intended for the dining room opens the arena to formal interaction, while elements of "femaleness" are rendered sublime. Paradoxically, I invite the viewer to interact with unorthodox textures and anatomy in a public setting, which may be more "appropriate" for the bedroom. My work is an amalgamation of classical form and the unexpected. Metaphorical interwovenlayers of humor, exaggeration, and subtle sarcasm allow me to be somewhat of "The Bad Girl in the Dining Room" while expressing my vision of contemporary decorative functional ceramics."

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Sam Chung

Teapot

Shapiro Family Donation

8"H 9"W 3.25"L

Sam Chung Artist Biography

Sam Chung is a Korean-American ceramic artist living in Phoenix, Arizona. He creates pottery that reframes historical ceramics from a cross-cultural perspective. Sam received his MFA from Arizona State University and a BA degree from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. He also worked as a special post-bac student at the University of Minnesota. He taught at Northern Michigan University from 1998-2007, and has been a Professor of Ceramics at Arizona State University since 2007. He was awarded a U.S. Fulbright Scholar grant in South Korea for the 2021-22 academic year.

He has exhibited his work nationally and internationally including: Harvey Preston (formerly Harvey Meadows), Duane Reed, Tansey Contemporary, Gallery IMA, Soluna Living (Korea), Ann Linnemann Gallery (Denmark), Greenwich House Pottery. Sam's work is included in the collections of The Everson Museum (NY), Crocker Art Museum (CA), Icheon World Ceramic Center (Korea), Guldagergaard (Denmark) and San Angelo Museum (TX). He has also presented numerous lectures and workshops both nationally and internationally.

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Maren Kloppmann

Vessel Pair

Shapiro Family Donation

Both within 7" H x 5.5" W x 1.25" L

Maren Kloppmann Artist Biography

Maren Kloppmann (German, b. 1962) is a Minnesota-based artist renowned for her architectonic porcelain wall sculptures that blur the boundaries between craft, design, and fine art. Both her large and small-scale installations are studies in the reconciliation of biomorphic and architectural structures, creating a visual dialog between their respective aesthetics. Drawing inspiration from modernist architecture and minimalism, Kloppmann describes her approach as "a visual confluence of serendipity and precision, where intuition and intention intersect." Her attentiveness to the three-dimensional qualities of each installation creates a shifting perception of the given space it occupies. Organic and architectonic at once, her artworks are serene studies in line, shape, and negative space. Her distinct palette of hand-mixed glazes allows for nuanced contrasts and soft tensions that enhance both line and contour.

Kloppmann received her journeyman degree in 1984 from the Bavarian Keramik Handwerkskammer. She arrived in the United States the same year to further her studies in ceramics. Following artist residencies in North Carolina and Michigan, she enrolled in the BFA program at the Kansas City Art Institute, later completing an MFA at the University of Minnesota. Kloppmann currently lives and works in Minneapolis, MN, where she has maintained a full-time studio practice since 1997. A three-time McKnight Fellowship recipient, her awards include a Jerome Fellowship and five Minnesota State Arts Board grants. Her work is represented in numerous private and museum collections including the Crocker Museum of Art, the Frederik R. Weisman Art Museum, the Herberger Museum of Art & Design, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

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Decorative Teapot Collection

Shapiro Family Donation

Each within 7"H 7"W 7"L

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Hide Sadohara
Couple

1997

Hide Sadohara Artist Biography

Since receiving his MFA at Kent State University, Sadohara has worked continuously to define his own personal voice. Equally gifted as a potter as he is a sculptor, Sadohara moves effortlessly between both worlds. His most recent work focuses on figurative sculpture.

Sadohara is a keen observer of the world surrounding him. The environment in which he lives and works profoundly influences what he creates. Sadohara depicts images of everyday life, over dramatized and heavily influenced by popular culture. He is particularly fascinated by television programming and how it impacts our society, oftentimes finding the subject matter of his sculptures in the ironic situations fed daily into people's homes. He is equally as interested in the commercialization of the arts and the idea of art objects as a commodity, going to the extent of including recognizable pop culture icons in his work. A master craftsman, Sadohara's work is beautifully executed, sensitively sculpted and skillfully rendered.

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