American Pottery Art
Online information about American Ceramic Tile Art from sources other than Resource Library
with an emphasis on representational art
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American Art Pottery was a 2002 exhibit from Christian Brothers University - Art Gallery. [Link found to be expired as of 2015 audit. TFAO is saving the citation for use by researchers.]
American Art Pottery Association website includies recent texts from the Journal of the American Art Pottery Association. Accessed August, 2015.
American representational art pottery, by ChatGPT, 2025
Animal House: Works by Helen Gorsuch and George R. Wazenegger was a 2011 exhibit at the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art. Curator Sommer Toffle says: "This exhibition features a compilation of Raku-fired ceramic animals and mixed media wood collage houses and barns. Gorsuch and Wazenegger are the perfect twosome for bringing together hand-built ornate, expressive, human-like, playful animals surrounded by rich, colorful, textural houses, apartments, light houses and barns" Download the exbibit brochure at the exhibition catalogues page. Accessed 11/16
Ancient Forms, Modern Minds: Contemporary Cherokee Ceramics was a 2012 exhibit at the Asheville Art Museum, which says: "Celebrating both tradition and contemporary innovation in one of the oldest, ongoing ceramic traditions in the world, Ancient Forms, Modern Minds: Contemporary Cherokee Ceramics focuses on the works of 11 contemporary Cherokee potters." Accessed 11/16
At Home with Roseville Pottery was an exhibit held October 18, 2011 through October 07, 2012 at the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art. The museum says: "Roseville Pottery (1890-1954) produced ceramics out of Zanesville, Ohio, for more than sixty years, a testament to the company's ingenuity, creativity, and popular appeal. Most of the Smiths' collection dates from the 1920s to the 1940s, the patterns resonating with the soulful strength of an American public weathering tough economic times." Accessed July, 2014.
Bennett Bean: Be Careful What You Fall in Love With is a 2017 exhibit at the Academy Art Museum which says: "Bennett Bean (1941) is an American ceramic artist....Bean is a quintessential polymath best known as a ceramicist for his treatment of vessels post firing." Also see artist's website Accessed 11/17
Born of Fire: The Pottery of Margaret Tafoya AND Re: Generation: A Survey of Margaret Tafoya's Descendants is a 2012 exhibit at the Arizona State University Art Museum which says: "This unprecedented exhibition of pueblo pottery will provide collectors, students and the public a unique overview of one of the most accomplished potters of the 20th century as well as of her descendants. Margaret Tafoya (1904-2001), a matriarch of Santa Clara Pueblo potters, was a pioneering artist who sustained the ceramic tradition of her ancestors by transforming it from a process for making functional vessels into an art form. " Accessed 10/18
By The Sea: Ceramics by Patricia Griffin is a 2017 exhibit at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art which says: " Patricia Griffin is an expressive ceramist whose unique work captures the natural beauty of the Central Coast.... She continues to perfect her individual style and sgraffito technique. Sgraffito (in Italian "to scratch") is produced by applying layers of color to pottery and then scratching off parts of the layers to create contrasting images, patterns, and texture to reveal the clay color underneath." To read more after exhibit closes, go to "Past Exhibitions" section of museum website. Also see artist's website Accessed 6/17
The China Painting List is an encyclopedic website compiled by porcelain artist R. Janette Graham which contains links to websites concerning porcelain painting. The site contains a search capability by category and region. Selecting the category "China Painters" for the region "North America" yielded 332 matches as of 2/21/13. Accessed August, 2015.
Conversations Around the Table: An American Experience was an exhibit held March 6 - October 4, 2015 at Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. Paul Kotula, Assistant Professor, MSU Department of Art, Art History, and Design and Guest Curator says: "Spanning from the early-twentieth century to the present, the tableware in this two-part exhibition - whether produced in an artist's studio or in a factory - form "conversations" around the currency of key issues in modern American culture. War, economic hardship, and social injustice often brought clarity to the vision of the artists represented here, even if their deliberate desire was to use their objects to celebrate hope, joy, and beauty under difficult circumstances." Accessed August, 2016
Corinna Button: Interfaces is a 2017 exhibit at the Hyde Park Art Center which says: "Primarily focused on female portraiture, Button's treatment of the subject often incorporates multiple angles at once, suggesting an uncanny paradox of femininity. Her work portrays women not as exact likenesses but rather as archetypal figures whose personality is only partially exposed to the surface. Over the past four years, Corinna has built an impressive menagerie of iconic sphinxlike women sculptures in the Oakman Clinton School & Studio at the Art Center. The exhibition presents what happens behind the studio doors to the public and expands the discussion of Button's work to a larger audience." Accessed 6/17
"Dalrymple's D & D Pottery," by James L. Murphy, Roseville Legend, Summer 2006, pp. 1, 6, from the Knowledge Bank, Ohio State University. Includes link to .pdf file. Accessed August, 2015.
"Did Roseville's National Pottery Make Art Ware? The Unanswered Question," by James L. Murphy, Roseville Legend, Fall 2001: 6-7, from the Knowledge Bank, Ohio State University. Includes link to .pdf file. Accessed August, 2015.
Discovering Saar Ceramics is a 2018 exhibit at the American Museum of Ceramic Art which says: "It is not often that a curator discovers an artist whose work hovered below the horizon and remained invisible to art history for more than fifty years. But such is the discovery of Richard Saar and Saar Ceramics. Today the Saar name is synonymous with twentieth and twenty-first century art, given the notoriety of African-American artist Betye Saar, Richard's wife from 1952 - 1970, and daughters Lezley and Alison Saar, renowned sculptors. Richard's artistic talent was equally masterful but his career and creativity are unsung and under recognized." Also see artist's website and image sheet for exhibit. Accessed 5/18
Elif Uras: Nicaea was a 2015 exhibit at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art. Amy Smith-Stewart, curator, says: "Uras's sculptures are made onsite in Iznik, Turkey (originally Nicaea, named after a nymph in Greek mythology), a town celebrated for its tile and ceramic production during the Ottoman Empire. Uras's imagery merges traditional nonfigurative Turkish art with the Western figurative tradition, while also exploring the representation of the female body across cultures." Also see the exhibit brochure in Issuu. Accessed 11/16
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