Dates & locations
1975, Purdue University
1977, University of Kansas
1979, University of Kansas [1]
1994, Baker University
1996, Baker University
1998, Baker University [2]
2000, Baker University
2002, Baker University [3]
2004, Baker University [4]
2006, Baker University [5]
2008, Baker University [6]
2010, Lawrence Arts Center [7]
2012, Lawrence Arts Center
2016, Hilliard Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri [8]
2018, Bracker's Good Earth Clays, Lawrence, Kansas [8]
2020, Bracker's Good Earth Clays, Lawrence, Kansas [8] (final one)
Pyrometric cones are pyrometric devices that are used to gauge heatwork during the firing of ceramic materials in a kiln. The cones, often used in sets of three, are positioned in a kiln with the wares to be fired and, because the individual cones in a set soften and fall over at different temperatures, they provide a visual indication of when the wares have reached a required state of maturity, a combination of time and temperature.
Regis Brodie is a tenured Professor of Art at the Department of Art and Art History at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY and a potter. Since 1972, he has been serving as the Director of the Summer Six Art Program at Skidmore College. He also wrote a book called The Energy Efficient Potter which was published by Watson-Guptill Publications in 1982. He started the Brodie Company in 1999 in the interest of developing tools which would aid the potter at the potter's wheel.
Annabeth Rosen is an American sculptor best known for abstract ceramic works, as well as drawings. She is considered part of a second generation of Bay Area ceramic artists after the California Clay Movement, who have challenged ceramic traditions involving expression, form and function and helped spur the medium's acceptance in mainstream contemporary sculpture. Rosen's sculptures range from monumental to tabletop-sized, and emerge out of an accumulative bricolage process combining dozens or hundreds of fabricated parts and clay fragments and discards. Reviewers characterize her art as deliberately raw, both muscular and unapologetic feminine, and highly abstract yet widely referential in its suggestions of humanoid, botanical, aquatic, artificial, even science-fictional qualities. Critic Kay Whitney wrote that her work is "visceral in its impact, violent even, but also sensual and evocative" and "floats between the poles of the comic and the mordant."
Kirsten Lillian Abrahamson is a Canadian ceramic artist.
Grace Nickel is a Canadian ceramic artist and art instructor in post-secondary education.
Jack Doherty is a Northern Irish studio potter and author. He is perhaps best known for his vessels made of soda-fired porcelain. He has been featured in a number of books, and his work has been exhibited widely in both Europe and North America. Articles of his have appeared in various pottery journals and he has been Chair of the Craft Potters Association.
Monica E. Rudquist is a ceramic artist working out of Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is known for her distinctive "spiraling shapes" and works primarily in porcelain. In addition, her work features wheel-thrown functional wares as well as large-scale, abstract wall installations.
Maria Baumgartner is an Austrian studio potter and was professor of ceramics at the University of Arts and Industrial Design Linz.
Paul Dresang is an American ceramic artist and professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Working mainly with glass, porcelain, and clay, Dresang’s “highly individual, sensuous, salt-fired porcelain forms are decorated with an obsessive amount of detail.” He defines his work primarily as “post-modern fertility pieces".” Dresang aims to create surreal images with ceramics by often focusing on everyday items in his work and by exploring “opposing ideas of constraint and breaking free.”. After receiving his MFA, Dresang has gone on to become a highly sought-after potter. He has presented his work in countless group exhibitions, and is featured in many permanent collections nationally. He is currently located in Edwardsville, Illinois.
Stephen Dixon is a British ceramic artist and Professor Emeritus at Manchester School of Art. He is also a satirist, writer, lecturer and curator. He is known mainly for his use of dark narrative and for using "illustrated ceramics pots as an unlikely platform for social commentary and political discontent." From Renaissance paintings and British politics to pop culture, Dixon draws on a variety of sources to "challenge the status quo and inspire new ways of thinking." His interests include the British satirical tradition, commemorative wares, and the development of socio-political narratives in contemporary ceramics. In 2021 Dixon was awarded the prestigious British Ceramics Biennial AWARD for his installation 'The Ship of Dreams and Nightmares'.
Kurt Weiser is an American ceramicist and professor. His work—explorations of the relationship between man and nature through narratives rendered in vivid color—are described as "Eden-like." His work has often taken the form of teapots, vases, and cups, though he has recently begun crafting globes as well. Weiser is currently the Regents Professor at Arizona State University's School of Art.
Susan Collett RCA IAC is a Canadian artist in printmaking and ceramics. In 1986, she graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art, earning a B.F.A. in printmaking with a minor in ceramics.
Karen Thuesen Massaro is a ceramicist working in the United States known for creating unconventional arrangements of sculptural objects through her work. Interested in exploring abstraction, she has experimented with a variety of different themes including the repetition of forms and surface textural change, negative space, and the geometric patterning of natural objects. Massaro creates much of her artwork by taking casts of physical objects, like fruit, molding them out of clay, and decorating them with patterns. Her manipulations make common objects feel less ordinary. These experiments allow her to explore color and form in complex ways.
Chris Gustin is an American ceramicist. Gustin models his work on the human form, which is shown through the shape, color, and size of the pieces.
Michelle Gregor is a San Francisco-based figurative sculptor. She works in mid-fire stoneware ceramic and porcelain.
Michael Frimkess is an American ceramic artist who lives in Venice, California. In the 1950s and 60s, he was a pupil of Peter Voulkos, a prominent figure in the California Clay Movement. Frimkess' pottery is noted for its classical style, employing forms from Greek, Chinese, and Indigenous American antiquity. His wife and collaborator, Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, paints his ceramic pieces, often using anachronistic, contemporary images like Minnie Mouse or Condorito. He is also well-known for his innovative wheel-throwing and firing techniques.
Charmian Johnson was a Canadian artist and potter based in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Donna Polseno is a contemporary American visual artist known for pottery, ceramics, and sculpture.
Victor Spinski was an American artist and professor best known for his ceramic works in the trompe l'oeil style.
Lauren Mabry is an American artist known for ceramic art. Mabry was born in Cincinnati and grew up in Madison, Wisconsin She attended the Kansas City Art Institute and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She is the recipient of a grant from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. She was awarded the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) Emerging Artist award in 2014.
