Raku Pottery

All artists are influenced by the culture they are from. Our experiences and the environment in which we were raised shapes us, and thus the works we produce as artists. This essay will discuss, compare and contrast two artists from different cultures, and their ceramic artworks, with a focus on how their cultural background has influenced their art. The artists that will be discussed are Janet Fieldhouse, who is influenced by her Torres Strait Islander heritage and Aboriginal artist Dr. Thancoupie Gloria Fletcher.

Ceramic making is still a popular tradition today in the Americas, especially on Native Indian Reservations, like in Western, North Carolina. The use of ceramics, however, is quite different than the way it was used by the natives during the Middle Woodland Period. Today, pottery is mainly made for decoration or art purposes by modern day Americans, but according to Wallis (2011), about 3,000 years ago the use of pottery became a very common use and practiced tradition among the native people who lived during that time period. The Swift Creek culture and the Cherokee Indians had very similar methods in formulating ceramics. The archaeological findings of these artifacts states that one group had been more advanced designs on their vessels. This reason is most likely because of the materials that one group was able to access in their area that the other group did not have available. One group was also more traditional and spiritual in making their vessels, which caused them to create more complex designs and methods while designing their ceramics (Block 2005). By looking at the similarities of both groups pottery styles, archaeologists were able to determine the minor but very distinctive differences, that one group processed in their art, than the other. By comparing each group’s ceramics by looking at

This jar have yei’ii design and is at 8 ¾ tall and 8” wide at the handle. This is one of the Faye Tso’s pottery that have won the Second Prize in 1993 during the Museum of Northern Arizona Navajo Artiests Exhibition. This pieces and with other large pieces of pottery like the vase with yei’iis and human figure and the water jar with horned toads. These clay sculpture were made by Myra Tso, Faye’s daughter and it was to honor her grandfather, who sang and prayed for her. The design of horned toads on the pottery are very special because the toads was use in a ritual for praying. All ritual and ceremonies are essential parts of the Navajo way as well as sand painting art that was inspired by those that created ceremony. The dust from gold, diamonds,

The Sikyatki style of Hopi pottery was the introduction of artistic quality to the yellow pottery of the Anasazi period. From 1400-1600 A.D., the Sikyatki Polychrome style was described as "flamboyance of decoration" on the yellow pottery now being made (Bartlett 6). The geometric designs of the Anasazi period were abandoned for the Sikyatki use of life-form designs and nature designs. These included mammals, birds, reptiles, as well as rain clouds, stars, and sun symbols.

Bethan Gray is an award winning Welsh designer that has an unusual but impressive family origin. Her ancestors originate from an ancient Rajasthani clan that spent many hundreds of years journeying across Arabia and Persia before choosing to remain in the Celtic region of Wales. This very heritage wove its way into being some of Bethan Grays’s main influences and inspirations, which pull ideas shown within craft traditions of both the East and West. These influences are reflected in Gray’s style, showing a clear passion of detail, tactile textures, and extravagant materials such as rare stones, wood, marble and hand-tooled leather. Complex but complementary patterns of dark and light, texture and clear attention shown to the detail that defines her highly unique style. Even while using blacks and whites, Gray is also not afraid

After weeks of working I made a total of three pottery pieces, the one that I spent most time on is a clay pot that was made to look like an ancient greece piece of art. They used as grave markers and many other useful things. Back in ancient Greek pottery was divided into four different areas. These areas are for storage and transport vessels, mixing vessels, jugs and cups, vases for oils, perfumes and cosmetics. Many believed that Greek pottery, unlike today's pottery, was only fired once, but that firing had three stages. When firing their art pieces the kiln was heated to around 920-950 °C. They technically decorated their pieces to tell a old story or to represent something, normally people in a darker shaded color. I chose this culture

Pottery is very beneficial and advantageous to archaeologists as it is a very common and widespread product that leads us to have a greater understanding about the everyday life of the area inhabitants. “Pottery is one of the most common artefacts in ancient sites. Once broken, unlike glass and metal, it cannot be recycled. This makes it very useful to archaeologists,” said Pont. Pont made the conclusion that the red slip pottery was used by the Pompeian’s as tableware with the main purpose of serving food and drink given its characteristically glossy surface. By dipping ceramics in liquid clay and later firing it in an oxygenating kiln is how this gloss is created (Kalnins, 2004) (see figure

Joy Brown is an internationally known artist. She was born in the United States but grew up in Japan with her medical missionary parents. Then she came back to America for college, graduated from Florida’s Eckerd College and later returned to Japan to learn the ways of pottery. She did an apprenticeship in traditional Japanese wood fire ceramics. Brown has worked with clay and wood firing for over 40 years. And for 18 years she has worked with bronze. She has exhibited in galleries and museums in the United States, Europe, and Asia. In 1998, she co-funded Still-Mountain Center; it’s a nonprofit arts organization that fosters East-West artistic exchange.

The goal of this report was to bring awareness to the problems that Perfect Pottery has fallen victim to from the recent, drastic change of moving to the United States. This article is aimed at bringing ideas to the table that would solve many of the situations and difficulties that came with that recent transition.

The artwork is one of the main ways to express the culture of a region or a country. Therefore, art has played a very important role throughout history. When talking about art, the first thing that comes to most people’s minds is probably that art is a painting or it is a sculpture. However, art has many forms of expression, and it closely connects to human’s daily life. Besides paintings and sculptures, art is everywhere around us. I am always interested in how people have linked art with daily life throughout history. For this reason, the two pieces of artwork I chose from my visit to the Museum of Fine Arts are both objects that can be used in everyday life: one is the mixing bowl and the other is an incense burner. Though they are from different cultures, have different making processes, and have a different purpose in usage, they both are good examples to show how artists tried to apply art using different techniques to human’s daily life.

Knowing the date it was painted and where it was painted is important as the vase on its own cannot help us identify and understand its historical context. We can assume that at this time the traditional pattern-based technique to vase painting had not yet kicked in, or it was not well recognized in China. However, the lack of the artist's name, we cannot determine when the painter was active and the possible reason he/she did not employ certain forms. Its form is a blank slate without any decorations except the black dripping glaze (earthenware with a black glaze). This is an 8th-century piece as most pottery during this period were increasingly round-faced and rotund, reflecting a change from the 7th-century

When most people look at a piece of pottery the first thing that comes to mind is the significance of the symbols and the stories behind these symbols. There are some symbols of Hopi pottery that have stories behind them and some that are symbols of either lost significance or the story is unknown. Some of the symbols we think of as symbols, are really the potters own design. Most people make the mistake that symbols and designs are the same thing, but in fact they are very different. Hopi potters, mostly women, have been instrumental in both preserving and developing traditional symbols and innovating designs in response to changes in and challenges to their culture.

When I first researched the term “sabi”, the books that I read before were all written by Westeners. They described the term “sabi” as lean, withered or something that has aged well. However, the deeper I researched into the term, the more I discovered that the term also often occurs in the Manyōshū (Traditional Japanese poems); It has the connotation of desolateness (sabireru means “to become desolate”). 15th Century tea master Shukō, founder of one of the first ever schools of tea ceremony affirmed the importance of the term “sabi” within tea ceremonies. “The concept “sabi” carries not only the meaning “aged” - in the sense of “ripe with experience and insight” as well as infused with the patina that lends old things their beauty” - but also

Personalization can be engraved into the pottery during the drying phase at the right stage during the production process. “Process layouts, also known as a functional layouts, group similar activities together in departments or work centers according to the process or function they perform” (Russell & Taylor, 2014). In the Total Quality Management (TQM) approach a principle number one, according to Russell & Taylor, is that “quality can and must be managed” (2014). With a primary and vested interest by the owner of Angel Pottery to ensure business success, quality of the product will be attended to at every stage in the process of the mug

Mr. Julian who owns and manages a small company called Bentley Customs Ceramics Julian over a last four year manufacturing different ceramics items wants to expand his business. Over a year, he had used electric kilns but having observed that was less cost effective, he is planning to use gas kilns.