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A RECENT EXHIBITION AT THE national museum in Kielce, Poland, located in the historic Krakow Bishops' Palace, Cmielow Ceramics in the Collection of the National Museum in Kielce, opened up [...]

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (2 February--16 June, 2013) and Seattle Art Museum (17 October, 2013-5 January, 2014) THE 1983 PERU'S GOLDEN TREASURES EXHIBITION TOURED widely but concentrated on gold; [...]

DESPITE A LAVISH NEW DOWNTOWN MAIN BUILDING, the early history of the Seattle Art Museum is largely the history of what went on in its original building in Volunteer Park, [...]

The article focuses on the rising acclaim of Toshiko Takaezu's ceramics posthumously, with retrospectives and increasing auction prices highlighting her significance. Topics include Takaezu's transpacific education and influences, her natural synthesis of Japanese ceramic traditions and her diverse artistic output beyond ceramics.

The article discusses an exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, which explores the origins of ceramics and its ties to ancestral and indigenous cultures. Topic include It highlights the works of several artists who use ceramics and other materials to perpetuate contemporary environmental and earth art, drawing connections between the past and future through dirt and mud.

A critic of the ceramics arts comments on the myth when he was labeled as the 'neglected ceramics artist' in 1985. He highlights the brief history of clay criticism since 1945.

Danny Perkins' glass sculptures can be likened to the grunge scene of Seattle. Like the music, clothing and attitude representative of grunge, the sculptures seem to rebel against the conventional purity of glass art.

The Salty Dog handmade pottery cooperative was founded in Jul 1975 by graduates of the University of Washington School of Art. Three of its seven founding members are still part of the cooperative. Although members share expenses for building upkeep, they create and market their art independently.

Dante Marioni, a master glass craftsman based in Seattle, WA, has never had any formal academic training in the medium. He began blowing glass at the age of nine and has mastered the craft through working with various master craftsmen.

Fairbanks, who died in 1989, was an artist and teacher who was among the last of the US modern ceramists trained in Europe. His unusual creations were graceful and earthy. His education, career and influences are analyzed, and several of his glaze recipes are detailed.

The 76-year-old resident of Sheridan, OR, discovered his love of wood sculpture in the 1940s, but did not pursue it as a career until 1952. Trained as a Protestant minister, his work is influenced by his love of nature. He uses figurative reliefs and, in larger pieces, creates a pictorial wood grid.

Seattle ceramist Tim Foss is a 30 year-old potter whose designs of cups, platters, vases, pitchers and teasets are attracting considerable attention regionally and nationally. Turning decorative surface covering on it head, Foss breaks numerous good design rules in order to use the pot as a platform for gently commenting on social issues such as homeless beggars, family life, childhood, sexual relationships and urban-development problems.

The article presents the discussion on the work of Paul Metivier, an artist including outraged protests and growing awareness of systemic racism within the U.S.

Pottery Northwest director Jean Griffith has created an exhibition of 93 clay artists featured by the cooperative over the past 30 years. The anniversary exhibit is entitled 'A Million Pounds of Clay: Thirty Years of Pottery Northwest, 1966-1996.'

The Seattle Art Museum held a symposium on contemporary glass design. Participants at the symposium discussed the aesthetics of glass sculpture and its use in expressing concepts such as civilization and enlightenment, as well as the definitions of art and craft.