Lisa Kay Orr is an American potter and a teacher of ceramics. Orr has work in both public and private collections, and shows her work nationally as well as internationally. Orr's work can be seen in the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco and in Korea in the collection of the WOCEF. [1]
Orr earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1983 from the University of Texas in Austin. She did post-graduate studies at the Southwest Craft Center in San Antonio and the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. In addition, she studied with Betty Woodman at the University of Colorado in Boulder in 1989, before earning her Masters of Fine Arts at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 1992. [2]
Orr works in earthenware clay, using a variety of processes that include using the potter's wheel as well as a ram press and press molds, often using multiple processes to produce one piece. Her work, which includes platters, bowls and plates, are organic in form and functional in purpose.
Orr's work is primarily influenced by Mexican folk pottery and is characterized by the terra sigillata, stamps, slips and sprigs she uses to finish the surface, and by her layers of multi-colored glazes. [2]
Orr believes that studio pottery is artistically significant and as a result and in collaboration with five other artists, co-founded the Art of the Pot studio tour. This is an invitational tour where nationally known potters are invited to show their work along with the collaborators in their studios. [3]
She has been awarded grants including a Fulbright, National Endowment for the Arts and the Mid-America Arts Alliance. [4]
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Daniel Rhodes was an American artist, known as a ceramic artist, muralist, sculptor, author and educator. During his 25 years (1947–1973) on the faculty at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, in Alfred, New York, he built an international reputation as a potter, sculptor and authority on studio pottery.
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