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from the issue of December 9, 2004
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Sheldon display examines the 'Ceramic Continuum'
With "Ceramic Continuum: Fifty Years of the Archie Bray Influence," Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery visitors have the chance to view a world-class ceramics exhibition.
Organized by the Holter Museum of Art of Helena, Mont., the exhibition surveys the 50-year influence of the Archie Bray Foundation as the country's pre-eminent center for clay artists. It is open now through Feb. 6.
Included in the exhibit is work by Peter Voulkos, Richard Notkin, Robert Arneson and Jun Kaneko, as well as other well-known ceramists.
Archie Bray worked many years as a bricklayer for his father, who managed a brickyard. He earned a degree in ceramic engineering at Ohio State University and, upon his father's death, took over as general manager and president of the brickyard. During the 1940s, Hank and Peter Meloy, two brothers that invested in pottery, asked Bray to put their pots into the kilns that were used to fire bricks at his brickyard. It was from this concept that Bray decided to start an art center in the brickyard. In 1951 the Archie Bray Foundation was formed.
The Sheldon will offer a symposium in conjunction with the exhibition. "American Ceramics - Then and Now" is scheduled for Jan. 21-22. The symposium explores the growth and development of American ceramics over the last 60 years and will feature Wayne Higby, professor of ceramics at Alfred University in New York state, as keynote speaker. A panel discussion will follow and feature Patti Warashina, who has taught at the University of Washington for 25 years; Josh DeWeese, resident director of the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts since 1991; and Julia Galloway, assistant professor at the School for American Crafts at RIT in Rochester, N.Y. Gail Kendall of UNL's Department of Art and Art History will moderate the panel. Demonstrations by DeWeese and Galloway also will be held in the studios in Richards Hall.
For information about the Sheldon exhibition, visit www.sheldonartgallery.org.
GO TO: ISSUE OF DECEMBER 9
ARTS HEADLINES FOR DECEMBER 9
Exhibition remembers printmaker
Coming to the Ross
Opera to perform Amahl Dec. 11, 19
Pottery sale is Dec. 10-11
Sheldon display examines the 'Ceramic Continuum'
Theatrix Nears End of Fall Season
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