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from the issue of October 5, 2006
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Visiting artists offer free demos
The UNL Department of Art and Art History will host three nationally known artists in the ceramics area Oct. 9-10.
| | MULTI-MEDIA - California ceramics sculptor Arthur Gonzalez is one of the three artists visiting the Department of Art and Art History on Oct. 9-10. Pictured is "First Adam," by Gonzalez, made in 2000 of ceramic, cloth, hemp, pencil ends and metal tray. Courtesy photo.
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Rob Silberman, associate professor of Art History at the University of Minnesota, will deliver a free public lecture at 7 p.m. Oct. 9 in Richards Hall, room 15. In "A Tourist Observes the Changing of the Guard: Ceramics from Modernism to Postmodernism and Beyond," Silberman will discuss significant changes in principles and practices from the generation that arose after World War II down to the younger generation of ceramists becoming prominent today.
Silberman teaches courses in film history, the history of photography, and modern and contemporary art history at the University of Minnesota. He writes regularly for The Burlington Magazine, American Craft and other publications.
Also visiting will be artists Maren Kloppman, a Minnesota vessel maker, and Arthur Gonzalez, a California ceramic sculptor.
On Oct. 9, Kloppman and Gonzalez will give demonstrations with Silberman from 8:30 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 2:30 p.m. in Richards Hall, room 118. Additionally, Kloppman will deliver a free public lecture at 3 p.m. Oct. 9 in Richards Hall, room 15.
On Oct. 10, Kloppman and Gonzalez will again give demonstrations with Silberman from 8:15 to 10:45 a.m. in Richards Hall, room 118. Additionally, Gonzalez will present a slide lecture at 3 p.m. Oct. 10 in Richards Hall, room 17.
The demonstrations and lectures are free and open to the public.
Born in Veerssen, Germany, Kloppman lives in Minneapolis, where she is a full-time studio artist. She received her journeyman diploma from the Keramik Handwerkskammer, Germany (1984), received her bachelor of fine arts in ceramics from the Kansas City Art Institute and received her master of fine arts in ceramics from the University of Minnesota.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
Gonzalez was born in Sacramento, Calif., and is associate professor of art at California College of the Arts. He received his bachelor and master of arts degrees from California State University in Sacramento, and he received his master of fine arts from the University of California, Davis.
Gonzalez has been an instructor at the Anderson Ranch in Snowmass Village, Colo., and at the Penland School of Craft in Penland, N.C.
The UNL Clay Club sponsors the visits by these three artists.
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Visiting artists offer free demos
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