Regis Master Series
REGIS MASTERS SERIES
The Regis Masters Series honors senior artists who have had a major impact on the development of 20th century - now 21st century - ceramics. The selected artists from this country and abroad, receive an honorarium, participate in an exhibition at NCC, and deliver a lecture about their life and times. In doing so, they add to the limited stock of oral history of a senior generation of ceramic artists.
In 2004, NCC published
Clay Talks, stories from the edited transcripts of the first 13 lectures and reunions, with color and black & white illustrations.
The Regis Masters Series is made possible by a generous grant from the Regis Foundation. The lectures are co-sponsored by The Minneapolis Institute of Arts. For information on the
2007 Regis Masters Exhibition, click
here.
Ron meyers, 2008 REGIS MASTER
Ron Meyers received his Master's Degree in Art Education from Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. He's been working in clay for over 40 years and recently retired from teaching at the University of Georgia, where he is now Professor Emeritus. His work has been exhibited throughout the country and has been included in NCC's American Pottery Festival for several years. Meyers' utilitarian pots begin on the wheel and are later altered in shape to accommodate various human and animal figures. Images are often depicted in a frightened or angry state, as they sit or seemingly creep across the pots. In the last three years, Meyers has become interested in the process of and surface qualities achieved by wood-firing, and has recently built a small anagama kiln for exploration of this process.
