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'tis a gift... 2010 Holiday Exhibition and Sale
Sales Gallery and Gallery M
November 21, 2010 – January 2, 2011
Northern Clay Center opens its 20th annual Holiday Exhibition and Sale—'tis a gift…—the Sunday before Thanksgiving. Bring family and friends to shop among the extraordinary selection of beautiful functional gifts this holiday season at the Clay Center. Once again, NCC has the widest selection in the region of hand-made ceramics from more than sixty local and national ceramic artists. Everyone on your gift list can appreciate unique pots and ceramic sculpture created by outstanding contemporary craft artists. And if you find the choice overwhelming: give a gift certificate that will gladden the hearts of friends and family. Our 20th annual 'tis a gift…: Holiday Exhibition and Sale offers quality and variety that will make everyone's season brighter!Participating artists are:
Jennifer Allen, Martye Allen, Judith Altobell, Posey Bacopoulos, Megan Bergström, Nicholas Bivins, Margaret Bohls, Birdie Boone, William Brouillard, Kevin Caufield, Rebecca Chappell, Kristin Cheronis, Victoria Christen, Michael Connelly, Sandra Daulton Shaughnessy, Andrea Leila Denecke, Josh DeWeese, Paul Dresang, Sanam Emami, Gary Erickson, Jil Franke, Willem Gebben, Steve Godfrey, Bill Gossman, Katharine Gotham, Ryan Greenheck, James Grittner, Richard Gruchalla & Carrin Rosetti, Butch Holden, Bob & Cheryl Husby, Mike Jabbur, Sarah Jaeger, Eric Jensen, Matt Kelleher, Kristen Kieffer, Maren Kloppmann, Gib Krohn, Steven Young Lee, Lee Love, Warren MacKenzie, Tim Marcotte, Ruth Martin, Laura McCaul, Jan McKeachie Johnston, Ron Meyers, Mike Norman, Jeffrey Noska, Jeffrey Oestreich, Elizabeth Robinson, S. C. Rolf, Monica Rudquist, Irene Saito, Pete Scherzer, Deborah Schwartzkopf, Johanna Severson, Laurie Shaman, Aaron Sober, Will Swanson, Munemitsu Taguchi, Christy Wert, Geoffrey Wheeler, Emily Free Wilson, Tara Wilson, Michael Wisner.
Holiday Open House
Part of a long-standing tradition, NCC will celebrate the opening of 'tis a gift… with a festive Holiday Open House. Shop our galleries for gifts or make your own in the Center's studios, where kids and adults of all ages can create and decorate colorful candle screens and ornaments. Kids and parents can alternate between the front and back of NCC for secret present shopping. Clay work will be fired and available for pick-up beginning December 1. There is a fee of $5 for the hands-on workshops to cover the materials and firing fees.Additionally, artists will perform demonstrations on the potter's wheels. NCC's knowledgeable and friendly tour guides will be on hand to walk visitors through the building. Delicious cake and coffee will be served to further indulge your senses. Bring your friends and family!
Russ Orlando
Gallery A
November 21, 2010 – January 2, 2011
Detroit artist Russ Orlando will be creating a new piece/event for Gallery A in conjunction with this year's Holiday Exhibition. In previous exhibitions, his work has included performance and photography as a complement to his ceramic work. As a conceptual artist his work pushes the limits of the medium while still embodying its essence.Russ Orlando received an M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and a B.F.A. from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He currently is an adjunct professor at Wayne State University. Orlando has received a Kresge Artist Fellowship for Visual Arts, a Michigan Artist Grant and a Carl Milles Merit Scholarship at Cranbrook. His work has been exhibited throughout the U.S., most recently at The Detroit Institute of Arts in Detroit.
Russ commented about the upcoming exhibition at NCC: "I would be hard-pressed to think of a more expressive material than clay, which makes it so appropriate for my work, work that seems to revolve around uncovering the self, where the self is its own preoccupation. In this exhibit, the work concentrates on self-portraits in some manifestation, addressing issues that would likely remain embedded in my memory otherwise. Here, these notions are allowed to come to the surface. This allows for realizations that push my work further in the direction it needs to go.
I suppose performance is the most immediate delivery of the self-portrait that I know. I have always valued performance's uncertainty, never quite knowing how it will resolve. Perhaps it lets me confront my need to control an outcome, because I simply cannot. The task is surrendering to an idea.
What makes a piece of mine endure for me is if it evokes something about myself that I didn't know was there."
Part of the exhibition included a performance during our Holiday Open House
It Was 20 Years Ago Today... :An Exhibition and Teaching Collection
Gallery M and A
September 25 – November 7
Northern Clay Center announces a special exhibition commemorating its first twenty years. It Was 20 Years Ago Today…:An Exhibition and Teaching Collection will open to the public on Saturday, September 25, 2010. This exhibition is part of a year of special events celebrating the Center's 20th birthday. As part of the festivities, the Center will also host an exhibition reception and Big Birthday Bash on October 16th.
This exhibition will focus on the past ten years as well as highlighting some of the pieces from our teaching collection, which were acquired during our ten-year retrospective. Since our tenth anniversary the exhibition program has continued to showcase some of the best ceramic work in the world from emerging artists and potters to established masters. Along the way we added an additional gallery space and began to receive support from the Windgate Foundation. Both have had a tremendous impact on the scope and scale of the exhibition program.
Pottery, sculpture, installations and other objects by over 400 artists have been included in NCC exhibitions over the past ten years. The Center's exhibition committee worked with the staff to curate a representative sampling of the work of artists who push the limits of clay in form and meaning, such as Nina Hole's monumental temporary sculptures, David East's utopian landscapes, Judy Onofrio's mixed-media exotic ladies and birds. The sampling includes artists whose work epitomizes wonderful utilitarian pots, such as Malcolm Davis, Mary Barringer, and Ayumi Horie. It includes artists and potters whose work has been exhibited at a range of career stages, from emerging Jerome Artists to mid-career McKnight Artists to influential Regis Masters. And, it includes artists from locations as close as studios at Northern Clay Center to as far away as Australia.
Members of the exhibition committee who participated in the selection process were: Kelly Connole, Maren Kloppmann, Jeff Oestreich and Rob Silberman. Staff members were Jamie Lang, exhibition director and Emily Galusha, director. Works by the clay artist members of the selection committee are included in the exhibition.
Confirmed participating artists as of June are: Linda Arbuckle, Chuck Aydlett, Mary Barringer, Megan Bergstrom, Margaret Bohls, Andy Brayman, Nino Caruso, Rebecca Chappell, Sam Chung, Kelly Connole, Cynthia Consentino, Malcolm Davis, Andrea Leila Denecke, David East, Gutte Eriksen, Edith Garcia, Arthur Gonzáles, Katharine Gotham, Ursula Hargens, Mike Helke, Tony Hepburn, Nina Hole, Ayumi Horie, Satoru Hoshino, Farraday Newsome & Jeff Reich, Cindy Kolodziejski, Jamie Lang, Beth Lo, Peter Lupori, Janet Mansfield, Tony Marsh, Andrew Martin, Connee Mayeron, Jan McKeachie Johnston, Paul McMullan, Judy Onofrio, Walter Ostrom, Lawson Oyekan, Don Reitz, Nick Renshaw, Mary Roettger, Annabeth Rosen, Irene Saito, Pete Scherzer, Tatsuzo Shimaoka, Forrest Snyder, Patti Warashina, Kurt Webb, Janet Williams, Robert Winokur, Tetsuya Yamada, and Lucy Yogerst.
We plan to publish a catalogue of the exhibition along with an updated history of NCC and selection of essays, for volume 2 of our history in 2011. As we did with the 10th anniversary exhibition, we hope to acquire the objects in the exhibition to add to our teaching collection. In addition to generous donations from a number of the selected artists, we are raising funds to assist the purchase of the remaining objects. If you are interested in contributing to the NCC acquisition fund, please call Emily Galusha or Jamie Lang.
20th Birthday Party Bash and Regis Masters Reunion
Northern Clay Center and Minneapolis Institute of Arts
October 16 and 17
Following the 20th anniversary version of the American Pottery Festival we will keep the good and interesting times going with a special weekend in October. Big Birthday Bash
On Saturday night, October 16, from 7 to 11 pm, the Big Birthday Party Bash will be at the Clay Center. This party will mark a return to NCC's history of rollicking parties, with dancing and music and food and drinks. Tickets will be $35, and will include tapas and other small bites from around the world, a champagne toast, celebratory cupcakes and lighting of the birthday candles. In honor of the 20th anniversary signifier of china, we will feature small dessert plates by many of the noted potters represented and exhibited by NCC over the past years. This will be a chance to see all those people you used to see at NCC, the people you still see here, and the people you will see in the future, and to congratulate yourselves for your part in making this the best region in the country for clay people. 
NCC's “house band”—the Swamp Boogie Kings—will re-assemble under the leadership of potter/blues man Chuck Solberg. (They may be joined by a surprise and noted guest singer.) We will clear out the wheels, polish the floors, hang the disco ball, and prepare to dance the night away. Fair warning: at least one couple who met and danced at the 10th anniversary party ended up at the altar—if you're looking for love and a good time, come to NCC on the 16th!
Regis ReunionThe birthday party will tickle your toes—the Regis Reunion will tickle your mind. As part of our look back at both the field and NCC, we have invited all the Regis Masters who are still with us to return for the 20th birthday party and two reunion roundtable discussions, similar to the two earlier versions that delighted everyone who heard them. Sixteen of the 23 Regis Masters have been invited to return; as of print date, nine had indicated they planned to attend. They include: Nino Caruso (2004), Val Cushing (2005), William Daley (1998), Warren MacKenzie (1997), Janet Mansfield (2002, tentative), John Mason (2005), James Melchert (1998), Ron Meyers (2008), Don Reitz (2007), and Patti Warashina (2009).
Our current plan is to schedule two discussions, beginning at 12:30 pm and 2:30 pm, on Sunday, October 17, each running an hour and a half, with a half-hour break in between. These will take place in the Pillsbury Auditorium at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2400 Third Avenue in Minneapolis. Tickets will be free, on a first-come, first-serve basis. (Both discussions will be taped, and made available later on the Internet.) As were the first roundtable discussions, these will be informal conversations among the participants and with the audience about old questions and new issues in the clay world, about long lives and creative work, and the need to keep creating. We expect a full house, so we advise arriving early to the MIA. Many of the Masters plan to attend the birthday party, so you will have a chance to talk with them informally there as well.
On Friday, October 15, NCC will honor the returning Masters at a special food and wine tasting event. This event is designed to be a small fundraiser; tickets will be $125 per person. Space is very limited, so we advise early reservations.Whatever events strike your fancy—join us to celebrate 20 years of showing, teaching, and making ceramic work, and the potters, artists, teachers, students, volunteers, collectors and users, board members, staff and funders who have made it all happen.
Six McKnight Artists
Gallery M and A
June 18 – August 22
New work by 2009 recipients of McKnight Fellowships for Ceramic Artists awarded by Northern Clay Center—Ursula Hargens (Minneapolis) and Maren Kloppmann (Minneapolis) will be on exhibition in Gallery A. Gallery M will feature the work of four McKnight Resident Artists: 2008 residency recipients Ilena Finocchi (California), Elizabeth Smith (Arkansas), Yoko Sekino-Bové (Pennsylvania), and 2009 residency recipient Cary Esser (Missouri).
Ursula Hargens received her M.F.A. from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University and completed post-baccalaureate studies in ceramics at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Canada, where she also spent this past summer teaching. Hargens' highly decorated earthenware pots have been featured in such exhibitions as 20 Below - 32 Above, Moorhead State University Gallery, Moorhead, Minnesota; Master Artists Exhibition, Armory Art Center, Palm Beach, Florida; 8 Fluid Ounces III, Shaw Center for the Arts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Art of the Pot Exhibition, Authenticity Gallery, Austin, Texas; and Bay Area Potters' Invitational, Trax Gallery, Berkeley, California.In addition to planning the construction of a studio adjacent to her home, Hargens also began work on a series of wall tiles. The modular tile molds—some square, others with scalloped edges— are combined to form larger works of varied sizes and shapes. This new focus has provided an opportunity for innovation since the expanded surface requires new decorating solutions.
Maren Kloppmann received her M.F.A. from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, her B.F.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri, and her Journeyman Diploma from Keramik Handwerkskammer in Germany. In addition to being featured in NCC's sales gallery, Kloppmann's work has earned her two prior McKnight Fellowships from Northern Clay Center, as well as two Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grants and a Jerome Ceramic Artist Project Grant from NCC. Recent exhibitions have included In the Niche, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Abstraction, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Minimal Contrast, Trax Gallery, Berkeley, California; and Art & Objects, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis.Kloppmann's new series uses formations of pillow shapes and wall panels in porcelain to create wall installations that "reference forms which are archetypal and architectural in quality." Defining architectural and sculptural principles, her objective is "to make conceptual space tangible through a confluence of imperative visual elements." This new work is modular in nature, with each element constructed by hand, revealing subtle imperfections that Kloppmann says, "energize a visual language of austerity."
Ilena Finocchi currently resides and maintains a studio in Stockton, California. She received her B.F.A. from Youngstown State University in Ohio and her M.F.A. from the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. Her ceramic wares have been included in such publications as Surface Design for Ceramics (Lark Books), Ceramics Monthly, 500 Animals in Clay (Lark Books), and China Ceramic Artists 2005. Finocchi has presented lectures at Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania; the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts in Helena, Montana; and the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her gallery representation includes Santa Fe Clay in New Mexico, Glass Growers in Pennsylvania, and the Ferrin Gallery in Massachusetts.Finocchi describes her work with clay as “the connection to my childhood and means of communicating in a way I cannot do with words.” Through her use of metaphorical symbols, she explores stories from her childhood and the ways in which adulthood now interacts with those memories. Finocchi often employs bird imagery to represent herself in her narratives. Additionally, she references nature, life, and death, as well as specific memories of her father and his personal collections. Typically, Finocchi uses earthenware clay, often smoke-fired, combined with other elements such as wood, rope, and lighting. You can see more of Ilena's exhibition work online at http://www.ilenaf.com/website/Artwork/Pages/McKnight_Resideny_Show.html#0.
Elizabeth Smith is currently an assistant professor of fine art at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway, where she has taught since 2001. She received her M.F.A. in ceramics from the Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and her B.S. in studio art and art history from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. Her pots can be found at the Lillstreet Clay Studio in Chicago, Illinois and at the Lux Center for the Arts in Lincoln, Nebraska. Recent exhibitions include Cups at Red Star Studios in Kansas City, Missouri; a solo exhibition at Mississippi Valley State University in Idebena; Consider the Cup at the Artisan Gallery in Northampton, Massachusetts; Post Millennium Exponent at the University of Kansas in Lawrence; and Cup: The Intimate Object IV at the Charlie Cummings Clay Studio in Fort Wayne, Indiana.Smith cites her New England upbringing and memories of mandatory family dining as driving forces behind her pottery aesthetic and dedication to function. Additionally, she is interested in the Victorian era, specifically the “decorative excesses” of 18th and 19th century European porcelain. While in residence at NCC, Smith explored decoration as a way to map experience, breaking her exploration up into seasons, “the aesthetics of spring, summer, fall and winter.” Her interest stems from the strong connection between “the sensory impact of the seasons on one's body and the sensory impact of a well-made pot...” Smith chose to communicate this idea through the creation of complex wall forms constructed from multiple slip-cast elements, a great departure from the functional works she’s been known for.
Yoko Sekino-Bové began her artistic studies as a graphic designer, receiving her B.F.A. from Musashino Art University in Tokyo, Japan. Additionally, she received an A.A. degree in advertising design from Glendale Community College in California and an M.F.A. in ceramics from the University of Oklahoma in Norman. She currently teaches ceramics and Japanese brush painting classes at Sweetwater Center for the Arts in Sewickley, Pennsylvania and at the Pittsburgh Japanese School in Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania. Sekino-Bové has lectured and demonstrated extensively on surface decoration techniques along the east coast. Her functional wares have been featured in such publications as Surface Designs for Ceramics, 500 Plates and Chargers,500 Cups,(all Lark Books) and Clay Times. Additionally, her work has been exhibited in such shows as Echoes and Whispers, at The Clay Place, Carnegie, Pennsylvania; Flora and Fauna, Isadora Gallery, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Starbrick Clay National Cup Show, Starbrick Clay, Nelsonville, Ohio; Feats of Clay XXII, Lincoln Art Center, Lincoln, California; Winterfest 2008, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, Maryland; and Mondrian Goes Flowers, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Sekino-Bové's artistic ambition “is to create something meaningful and delightful, to remind people that there are still many amazing moments in our lives and to celebrate those moments.” Her porcelain functional work employs the imagery of plants and animals to convey her emotions and curiosities. She likens this process to creating a wildflower bouquet, “a mixture of random choices and selective chaos, inspirations and the anticipation for something unexpected.” During her residency, Sekino-Bové developed an array of cone six glazes and explored their possibilities in electric oxidation firings. Ultimately, she hopes to publish her research and share her new palette of glazes in a ceramic periodical.
Cary Esser received her M.F.A. from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University and her B.F.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri, where she has been Professor and Chair of Ceramics since 1996. Prior to that she was an Artist-in-Residence at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, where she taught drawing, sculpture, and architectural ceramics. Esser has presented workshops and lectures across the country and her ceramic work has been featured in such publications as Clay Times, Ceramics Monthly, American Craft, and Surface Decoration (Lark books). She was also recently featured in PBS’ Craft in America Episode V: Process, along with her colleagues George Timock and Victor Babu, as well as many recent students from the KCAI ceramics department. While in residence, Esser employed her newly developed mold system to create tile and relief forms in repeated units, to be decorated with monoprint images of winter tree limbs and architectural floor plans, specifically depicting 10th century Byzantine churches.
INsideOUT
Gallery M
March 26 – June 6
This group exhibition will include sculptures by four contemporary ceramic artists who create objects that explore the idea of enclosing or disclosing spaces, such as those created by traditional vessel shapes as well as more abstract forms. Yih-Wen Kuo and Virginia Scotchie focus on the exterior surface of contained spaces, like the skin of a house, making us imagine the interiors; occasionally they cut into the surface to give us a teasing glimpse of what’s inside. Steven Heinemann and Anne Hirondelle focus on the interior spaces, cutting or altering the walls to expose the insides of the forms—as Heinemann notes, stretching the idea of a bowl as a container of space. An opening reception for the exhibition will take place on Friday, March 26 from 6 – 8 pm. 
Art Smart
Gallery A
May 6 – June 6
This multi-generational invitational group exhibition will showcase the clay work of selected Twin Cities high school ceramics teachers and their students. Inspired by NCC's College Bowl series, this show highlights the talents of not only Minnesota's amazing high school ceramic art educators, but also its next generation of ceramic artists. Each of the educators was invited to select two of their most promising high school ceramics students to exhibit alongside their own clay work. Educators were selected based on their past involvement in NCC's various art educator workshops, classes and programs.
Art educators include: Barry Braun (Wayzata High School); Lisa Buck (Mounds Park Academy); Terry Chamberlain (Hopkins High School); Lane Connolly (Mayo High School); Nancy Hanily Dolan (Wayzata High School); Pat Fair (Robbinsdale Armstrong High School); Jil Franke (Breck School); Nancy Gallas (Eden Prairie High School); Angela Heida (Andover High School); Lisa Himmelstrup (Central High School); Sarah Hjelmberg (Coon Rapids Senior High); Kent Miller (Johnson Senior High School); Paul Moeller (Roseville High School); Alison Nieber (Chaska High School); Randy Schutt (Creative Arts High School); Tricia Schmidt (Woodbury High School School); Jan Suter (John Marshall High). 
ArtHealthy
Gallery A
March 26 – May 1
Northern Clay Center presents an exhibition featuring clay work created in our fall and winter partnerships with 55+ers at Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, Episcopal Homes, Ebenezer Ridges, Ebenezer Park Apartments and the Martin Luther Campus. In addition to clay objects made by residents and clients, this exhibition will include work by program directors and recreation therapists, as well as NCC teaching artists Kevin Caufield, Ann Fendorf, Marian Lucas, Angie Renee Lund, and Lucy Yogerst, all of whom led clay instruction with these partners. This exhibition is made possible by NCC's Wallace Foundation Excellence Award Grant.
This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the 2010 Society for Arts in Healthcare's (SAH) 21st Annual International Conference: Partners for Health, which will take place April 28 - May 1 in Minneapolis. The conference will provide opportunities for healthcare professionals and artists alike to participate in hands-on workshops, explore model programs, and learn about best practices and cutting-edge research in the arts in healthcare field. This conference will be part of a greater community wide celebration of arts in healthcare throughout the month of April, which will include gallery exhibitions, workshops and open houses. For more information about the community celebration, visit the Midwest Arts in Healthcare (MAIHN) Web site at www.maihn.org.
Opening Reception Friday, March 26, 6 – 8 pm
Exquisite Pots
Perkins Center for the Arts - Moorestown, NJ
March 13 – April 10
Three Jerome Artists
Gallery M
January 15 – March 14, 2010
The 2010 Jerome Artists Exhibition will feature the work of Jane Gordon, Cynthia Levine, and Roberta Massuch, each of whom was awarded a 2009 Jerome Ceramic Artist Project Grant by Northern Clay Center. The awards recognize artists who have displayed strong artistic development to this point and promise further growth during the term of the grant and in the future. An opening reception for the artists will be held on January 15 from 6 - 8 pm. Jane Gordon received a B.F.A. in ceramics from the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities. Over the past few years, she has created several outdoor installations, which explore the relationship between nature and humans. She incorporates her site-specific ceramic multiples into particular outdoor environments and combines them with elements of plant and animal life. “Installation work is exciting to me,” she states. “I enjoy its flexibility, involvement with site, and ability to immerse the viewer physically in the work.”
Cynthia Levine received a B.A. in French with a minor in studio arts from the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities. Following a residency with Richard Bresnahan at St. John's University Levine discovered the dramatic effect that flashes of soda or drips of ash had on her coil-built vessels. “At this time,” she states, “the primary focus of my work is the coil-built vessel, which provides me with a defined arena from which I can explore my sculptural and formal interests.” For this project grant she focused on translating her ideas about volume, space, and containment into a more vertical format. In 2005, she received a Jerome Artist Project Grant from NCC, as well as an Artists Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. 
Roberta Massuch received her B.F.A. from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb and was a studio assistant and artist-in-residence at the Worcester Center for Craft in Massachusetts. She was a 2008 Fogelberg Fellowship recipient and maintains a studio at NCC, where she teaches both adult and children's classes. In August 2009 she received a two-month studio assistantship from Penland School of Crafts. Massuch's work incorporates soft and firm slabs of earthenware, which are combined by pressing and folding each component together, creating tension with the form. These soft, playful forms evoke feelings of childhood and comfort. Support for this exhibition and the individual artist's grants is provided by the Jerome Foundation, St. Paul.
Fogelberg and Red Wing Fellowship Exhibition
Gallery A
January 15 – March 14, 2010
Northern Clay Center presents an exhibition featuring the work of 2008 Fogelberg Fellowship recipients Rebecca Chappell and Roberta Massuch, and 2009 Red Wing Collectors Society Foundation Award recipient Peter Jadoonath. An opening reception for the artists will be held on January 15, from 6 to 8 pm.
The Fogelberg Fellowship provides emerging ceramic artists an opportunity to be in residence for up to one year at Northern Clay Center. It is intended to support young artists developing their ceramic body of work while immersing themselves in a community environment that encourages an exchange of ideas and knowledge with other ceramic artists.
Rebecca Chappell received her M.F.A. from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2008 and her B.F.A. from the Cleveland Institute of Art. Chappell has participated in solo and group exhibitions across the US. Additionally, her work has appeared in several publications, including Ceramics Monthly, Ceramics: Art and Perception, and Clay Times. Chappell's simple, elegant porcelain forms are highlighted by minimal marks and transparent glazes. For past years, she has been working on a series of multi-part vases, each one individually designed to hold a different, specific type of flower. She states: "I am interested in making objects that require subtle, playful interactions. I see them as objects that need attention and care from an outside force. They ask to be considered and noticed; in fact, they depend on it." Roberta Massuch was awarded a 2009 Jerome Ceramic Artists Project Grant. Massuch's functional and sculptural earthenware is delightful both in form and imagery. Those who visit NCC's exhibition galleries between January and March will find her work featured in the Fogelberg Exhibition as well as the Jerome Exhibition. Please read more about Massuch's recent work in the above exhibition.
The Red Wing Fellowship is made possible by the Red Wing Collectors Society Foundation. It is presented by Northern Clay Center to a deserving individual pursuing a career in pottery or studying or researching the historical aspects of the pottery industry.
Peter Jadoonath attended Bemidji State University where he earned a B.F.A. in studio ceramics and painting in 1998. His studies at Bemidji provided the “foundation of creativity” for Jadoonath that continues to have an influence on his work process and his development of new ideas. He is currently co-owner of Toppot Clay Studio, and a member of Back Alley Gallery located in St. Paul. He exhibits work at local and national festivals as well as local galleries. Jadoonath teaches at Northern Clay Center and at Fired Up, where he is a studio technician. In 2007 he received a Jerome Ceramic Artist Project Grant.Jadoonath creates stoneware pottery that focuses on “texture, gesture, and building a sculptural presence.” The work he creates is narrative, animated, and open to suggestion and interpretation by the viewer. “I find inspiration from scientific mystery, unexplained history, small complex ideas, and large simple ideas,” says Jadoonath. “Through my craft it is important for me to honor timelessness, tradition, ancestors…. I strive for this by following my intuition, seeking self-realization, working hard, and gathering the patience to take risks.” Jadoonath’s pots are formed using the basic clay building concepts of “squeezing, paddling, throwing, pinching, coiling, folding, smashing, polishing, and carving.” The surface treatment is then built up with layers of colored slips and stains as well as layers of “pitted glazes and thin washes of glaze,” creating a skin that transforms and enhances the textured surfaces of his work.