101. Schein-Joseph International Museum Of Ceramic Art The International Museum of Ceramic art at Alfred houses nearly 8000 ceramic and glass objects, ranging from small pottery shards recovered from ancient http://ceramicsmuseum.alfred.edu/archie/archiebray.html

A Ceramic Continuum: Fifty Years of the Archie Bray Influence Organized by the Holter Museum of Art in Helena, Montana Tour development by Smith Kramer Fine Art Services, Kansas City, Missouri July 28 - September 22, 2002 Public reception Sunday, September 8, 2002 The Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Arts This residency program has been the breeding ground for many emerging artists who have gone on to establish international careers in the field of contemporary ceramic art. These include Val Cushing, John and Andrea Gill, Wayne Higby, Clary Illian, Warren McKenzie, Richard Notkin, Linda Sikora, and Akio Takamori. All have made important contributions in the field and had considerable influence in contemporary ceramics. The Foundation's permanent collection is of growing importance. The ceramics in the collection range from utilitarian pottery, sculptural vessels, and large-scale architectural sculpture. The collection includes ceramics from past resident artists, as well as historical pieces and works from visiting artists, including the pottery featured in this exhibition by world-renowned craftsmen Bernard Leach from England and Shoji Hamada from Japan. The selection also includes significant work from all of the past resident directors of the Foundation: Rudy Autio, David Cornell, Ken Ferguson, Carol Roorbach, David Shaner, Kurt Weiser, Peter Voulkos, as well as work from Josh DeWeese, the current resident director. The enduring visual legacy is unparalleled in today's world of art.

102. Bracker's Good Earth Clays pottery, ceramics, and sculpture equipment and supplies. Includes a variety of raw materials, kilns, accessories, vents, and wheels. http://www.brackers.com/

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103. The Antique Pottery And Ceramic Directory The Antique pottery and Ceramic Directory. Additions/Corrections/Suggestions welcome please Email. Abingdon. Abingdon pottery. American Belleek art pottery. http://www.centuryinter.net/robinsnest/pottery.htm

The Antique Pottery and Ceramic Directory Additions/Corrections/Suggestions welcome please E-mail Please Note: This page was started as personal reference for us to get to sites quickly. As it grew, we decided to share it with others. We are not a pottery experts and therefore cannot answer your questions regarding specific pieces or companies. Thanks for understanding! Abingdon Abingdon Pottery American Beelek American Belleek Art Pottery Batchelder Batchelder Tile Bauer Bauer Pottery SUPER site! Beswick Beswick Quarterly Blue Ridge Pottery Blue Ridge Pottery - lots of info, message board, pictures etc... Blue Willow Willow Ware From The Red Barn Brush McCoy Brush McCoy Buffalo Pottery Buffalo Pottery California Pottery California Pottery From The Red Barn Camark Welcome to the Camark Pottery website Camark Pottery Chalkware Chalkware Museum, Carnival Chalk Prizes Charlotte Rhead Charlotte Rhead Chintz Clarice Cliff Clarice Cliff The Clarice Cliff Collectors Club ~ Homepage. Cookie Jars Reproductions - McCoy Cookie Jars and More... - Mostly cookie jars, neat site though! Cowan The Cowan Pottery Associates Dedham Dedham Pottery Dedham Art Pottery Delft Blue porcelain (Delftware) Delft Blue porcelain (Delftware) Denver White Pottery Denver White Art Pottery ~ Denver Colorado Dresden Dresden China Brandmarks not used by Meißen Procelain Factory Enesco Enesco Corp Home Page English Transferware English Transferware Resource Page - everything you wanted to know and more!

104. Ceramics Kerry Marquis has posted detailed lesson plans including the history of ceramics, examples of pinch, coil, molded, and slab works, and activities for learning. http://pottery.netfirms.com/

Welcome to www.teachpottery.net Home Syllabus Teacher Page s Outline of Assignments Galleries of Student Work Handouts/ ... www.teachart.net Teachers, be sure to check out the pages geared to help you in the classroom. Refer to the Lesson Plans for further details on objectives, assessment, references etc. Or see the Outline of Assignments for a description of each assignment within each unit. Unit One: Introduction and Overview Unit Two: Pinch Pot Construction Unit Three: Coil Pot Construction Unit Four: Slab Construction ... Unit Six: Putting It All Together Each unit in this learning site contains: activities for learning the method of construction for that unit, activities for learning and becoming familiar with the vocabulary of that unit, a ceramic history lesson, lessons for creating one or more ceramic pieces, methods of assessing work and journaling ideas for the unit. Top H ome L ... Feedback Kerry Marquis 2002 Comments and questions may be directed to Kerry Marquis Page last modified: 11 December, 2003

105. Ceramics Consulting Services, Jeff Zamek A service company located in Southampton, Massachusetts, offering solutions to common pottery problems such as glaze shivering and crazing; answers to questions about glaze defects, clay body defects, raw materials, clays, glazes and kilns. http://www.fixpots.com/

Jeff Zamek Ceramics Consulting Services 6 Glendale Woods Drive Southampton, MA 01073 Telephone 413 527 7337 Fax 413 529 2674 fixpots@aol.com As we all know, the only thing consistent about ceramics is its inconsistency! Raw materials, clays, glazes, and kilns, change over time. Remember Albany Slip? If you want technical information; If you want to cut production costs; If you want to lower loss rates; if you want to develop a glaze; If you want to become independent of "stock" clay bodies from suppliers; If you want to buy raw materials and clays from their source; If you want to develop a clay body for throwing, handbuilding, slip casting, ram, jigger; If you want to develop a ceramic product; If you want to change a firing temperature, try reductionfiring, oxidation firing, salt/soda firing, wood firing, raku firing, pitfiring, lusters, decals, or fuming; If your glaze crawls, shivers, crazes, pinholes, blisters, dimples, runs, or just doesn't work; If your clay body fires too light, too dark, too absorbent, shrinks, cracks or just causes problems; You can call 413 527 7337 or write fixpots@aol.com

106. Silsal Ceramics- Handmade Pottery In Jordan & The Middle East Produces handmade pottery inspired by the ancient Arab, Islamic and Middle Eastern civilizations. Jars, juglets, bowls, pitchers and cups. http://www.silsal.com

Middle Eastern, Arab company in Jordan producing pottery inspired by the ancient Arab, Islamic civilizations such as jars, juglets, bowls, pitchers and cups; all handmades, Arabs, Jordan, Middle East, Islam, Muslims, Moslems, pottery, civilizations, dynasty, artfacts, artifacts, museums, handmade, arabesque, Ruqqa, juglets, jars, pitchers, bowls, bronze, scripts, animals, cups, lines, decorations, arts, culture, ibexes, birds, fishes, heraldic, proverbs, Phoenicians, Abbassids, Sessanians, inscriptions. Silsal's pieces draw inspiration from the pottery of the Middle East's ancient civilisations and great Islamic dynasties whose artefacts are today part of the world's museum collections. Our ceramic products are entirely handmade and glazed with our special matte glazes. Each piece is incised and painted to give bas-relief imagery. Silsal's pieces are non-toxic and designed for practical use in the contemporary home. Silsal Ceramics Tel. 962 6 5931128, Fax. 962 6 5930664, P.O.Box 1838, Amman 11118 Jordan E-mail info@silsal.com

107. About.com Search - Find It Now! analysis, pots making vessels throwing ceramics pottery figurines http cs/ceramicsupplies/index.htm (About Arts / Crafts Business) ceramics Porcelain http://ceramics.miningco.com/hobbies/ceramics/

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108. Department Of Archaeology - University Of Southampton Gazetteer collection derived from a survey carried out by Southampton Archaeology for English Heritage on behalf of the Prehistoric ceramics Research Group. Features project description, collections outline and database. http://www.arch.soton.ac.uk/Research/PotteryGazetteer/

text only Gazetteer home Outline Design ... All Research Projects Later Prehistoric Pottery Gazetteer NEW. If you have previously requested download access via our download form you may not have received a response due to changes to our server. The search facility may provide the information you require. If you want data in a different format or access to the full collection please contact the project direct. Users who have already requested information will be contacted directly. These pages describe a Gazetteer of later prehistoric pottery collections in England derived from a survey carried for English Heritage on behalf of the Prehistoric Ceramics Research Group. The project was funded by English Heritage and is based in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Southampton The Gazetteer is a tremendous new resource for investigation of not only later prehistoric pottery but also the later prehistory of England. It includes over 7100 Late Bronze Age to Late Iron Age collections, more than 2000 of which include full publication details. The data are available to search on the Internet, and information may be copied from the browser direct into spreadsheet or database programs.

109. Deruta Geribi Ceramics Home Page Fine italian pottery, tableware, bowls and reproductions. http://www.geribi.com/

HOME PRODUCTS ABOUT US RETAILERS ... REGISTER An easy way to pay with your PayPal account ! List of Available Products REPRODUCTIONS CANDLESTICKS WALL PLATES SMALL PLATES SMALL BOXES SMALL GIFTS Italiano Geribi Ceramics are available for wholesale to retail businesses. If you are interested in selling Geribi Ceramics as part of your business please click here and fill out the following form. A full discounted price list will be available to you shortly. ADVISE TO AOL USERS C A T A L O G U E RETAILERS - Private Area Beautiful Italian desks ... Mirrors NEW Contact us Email us Terms Geribi snc - 2004 All right reserved

110. Andrea Fabrega Miniature Ceramics Porcelain pottery by Andrea Fabrega. Includes show schedule, recent samples, artist bio and contact information. http://www.tinypots.com/

Andrea Fábrega A sample of my great variety of functional wheel-thrown porcelain pots with high-fire reduction glazes Porcelain in Miniature I create wheel-thrown one-of-a-kind functional miniature porcelain vessels under 1-1/2 inches high, finished with a myriad of decorating techniques and firing procedures. I started making miniature pots in an attempt to recapture the sense of play I felt my adult life was lacking. Very soon into this journey, however, I was overcome by the amazing and unlimited potential of porcelain. Pushing the material to perform on a micro scale fascinates me. My goal is to distill the elements of a functioning vessel into a tiny space. I want to draw the viewer in and offer an intense and personal experience; focusing on a such a tiny object can block out for a few moments the larger world, and hopefully evoke ceramics traditions of times past as well as the sense of whimsy which is the reason I was drawn to miniature pots in the first place. Contents Show schedule [I do not sell through my web site, only at my retail shows]

111. Decorative Tiles, Hand Painted Ceramic Tiles And Tile Murals By Balian Offers handpainted and decorative ceramic tiles, murals, nameplates, mugs, and pottery. http://www.armenianceramics.com/

Unique bathroom tiles, kitchen tiles, decorative ceramic tiles, ceramic tile murals, tile art and tile designs from one of the oldest tile studios in the world. ENTER The Spectacular world of the Balian Pottery and Tiles by the Balians of Jerusalem since 1922. The tiles and pottery of The Balian Armenian Ceramics have been exhibited all over the world in various museums and institutions. The zenith being the solo exhibition at the Smithsonian Museum of Washington D.C. in 1992. Our pottery has also been the subject of numerous articles in magazines and newspapers worldwide. These include The Washington Post , The LA Times ,The Chicago Tribune Some copies of these articles can be seen on this web site on the What they write about us page Original and authentic Balian Pottery is sold only at our factory and retail outlet on 14 Nablus Rd. East Jerusalem( and now on our web site). The present location of our factory is where the true form of art known as Armenian Pottery was born. We are the only ceramic studio in Jerusalem producing our own ceramic ware and tiles by methods handed over to us by our grandparents and parents. Since May 23, 2004

112. Paragon Ceramics, Dedza, Malawi Buy your pottery online from Dedza and Nkhotakota potteries. Also offer potting holidays at Nkhotakota. http://www.dedzapottery.com

Welcome To Malawi - 'The Warm Heart of Africa' Manufacturers and exporters of fine hand-crafted pottery, quarry tiles bespoke glazed tiles, firebricks and electrical insulators. home about info products ... comments Background Dedza is the highest town in Malawi and Dedza mountain, reaching up to nearly 7,000 feet, forms the backdrop to Dedza Pottery. The slopes of the mountain are covered with a well managed pine forest that supplies timber and firewood to a wide region. It is a beautiful and unspoilt environment in which to create, and great care is taken not cause any environmental damage in the pottery operations. The pottery was started, as a private business, in 1987 by Chris and Charity Stevens. We export to individual customers all over the world and in 1997 we began exporting to Oxfam in U.K. As a partner of Oxfam we ensure that we follow the conditions of service for our staff drawn up under the "Ethical Trading Initiative". Potting Holidays at Nkhotakota Pottery Comments from Guests : Below are some comments former guests who have attended the residential courses; several have offered to give information to anyone thinking about coming on a course. Please e-mail Chris Stevens at dedzapottery@africa-online.net if you would like to make contact with former guests.

113. AntiqueEast - Fine Asian Antiques & Works Of Art Specializing in Chinese ceramics, snuff bottles, jade, pottery, paintings, and furniture pieces. http://www.antiqueeast.com/

Gallery Services Purchasing Dynasties ... Contact Us AntiqueEast specializes in fine Chinese art and antiques. We guarantee authenticity and ensure that each customer can purchase from us with confidence. We invite you to contact our experienced and knowledgeable specialists for advice on any questions you may have. ceramics snuff bottles jade pottery ... works of art

114. Clay Times Magazine: Clay News, Pottery Techniques, Ceramic Art & Sculpture Sells prepared glazes, colors, clays, forming tools, small equipment, and instructional material to potters, potteries, ceramic artists, and art instructors. http://www.claytimes.com/links.htm

The Journal of Ceramic Online Articles Search Back Issue Index Shop CT Store Order Risk-free May/June 2004 issue (now on sale): Bill van Gilder's "Do-it-Yourself Pottery" Show Comes to Television Scripps College 60th Anniversary Exhibition Julia Galloway's Sumptuous Surfaces Wild Dirt: Painting Clay with Minerals Building Your Own Drum Kiln What's Up with Wiggle Wires Ceramic Links Pottery Education Facilities AFTOSA - Wholesale pottery and craft supplies including accessories such as cane teapot handles, lotion dispenser pumps, oil lamp parts, display stands, and many other items. Free catalog available. Great wax resist, too! AMACO - American Art Clay Co./Brent Art by Carl - Kiln service in Chicagoland, including repairs, upgrades, and ventilation. Axner Pottery Supply - Axner's online store contains the largest selection of pottery supplies, materials, equipment and books in the known universe. High quality products, superior service, and low prices have been their trademark since 1978. Bailey Pottery Equipment - Celebrating 25 years of excellence in the pottery field ... Bailey Pottery Equipment is the outgrowth of two professional potters, Jim Bailey and Anne Shattuck Bailey. Visit their Web site to see the online catalog.

115. Clay Times Magazine: Clay News, Pottery Techniques, Ceramic Art & Sculpture too. To share your pottery stories or ceramic art photographs with other Clay Times readers, please review our submissions page. http://www.claytimes.com/

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116. Rampart Vintage Novelty – Vintage, Retro, Designer Art Eclectic inventory specializing in the artful and whimsical, including pottery and ceramics, metalwork, glass, and bookends. http://www.rampartvintagenovelty.com

Guestbook Contact About Rampart Antiques Norton Photos - ... Picture Tales Main Categories All (501) Bars and Bar Related Items (8) Bookends (7) Clocks (36) ... Woodwork (30) Featuring: Howard Miller, Eero Saarinen, Ray and Charles Eames and George Nelson. Manufacturers include: Knoll, Herman Miller, Thonet and Haywood Wakefield. Random Items more random items... Rampart Vintage Novelty is an amazing vintage, retro; kitsch, oddity and antique store now open on line. Rampart isn’t merely a store, however, it is a totally unique and avant garde "RETAIL EXPERIANCE” This awesome, retro, oddity venue offers top modernism designer names, as well as more obscure modernism sculpture, abstract painting, rare lithographs, incredible, original photographs, vintage clothing galore, antique glassware, hand blown glassware, modernism glassware as well as retro telephones and fantastic oddity and antique clocks. A well-rounded retail adventure, to be sure! Some of the designers contributions include work from Ray and Charles Eames, Eero Saarinen, George Nelson and the many talented designers from the Howard Miller Company. Other manufacturers include, Knoll, Herman Miller, Thonet And Heywood Wakefield. Rampart Vintage Novelty also has a large inventory of art deco classics, arts and crafts items, art nouveau specialties, art pottery and many whimsical ceramics. Bronze sculpture, clay sculpture, marble sculpture and wood and chalk sculpture are also plentiful at this modernism, oddity paradise.

117. Decorating Studio - Pottery flowerpots. Custom designs availible. Expressions in Clay custom ceramic art including plates, vases, bowls, and pottery. Ferrin http://www.decoratingstudio.com/directory_of_links/accessories/pottery.htm

Directory of Links Decorating Articles Decorating ... contact us advertisement Back to Accessories Main Index Pottery 4 Interior Accents - online catalogue includes pottery, silks and floral arrangements, wrought iron, and glass. A and B Design - specializes in selling ceramics by American artists. Agape Southwest Pueblo Pottery - gallery of handmade, painted pottery. NM Alfano Art Pottery - offering limited edition cookie jars and pottery. Fun strange stuff. LA Architectural Ceramics - specializing in tile, porcelain products, pool murals, mosaics, and art pieces. Arkansas Pottery Exchange Artistica - free-hand painted fine Italian ceramics, Majolica and glass. ArtStone by Gabriel Cortez - mosaic style compositions in natural stone for landscaping and interiors. Can. Beaumont Pottery Blue Fox Studio/Gallery - specializing in stoneware ceramics and raku.

118. Santa Cruz Pottery: Functional And Decorative Ceramics" Offers functional and decorative ceramics through their workshop and gallery located in Santa Cruz, California. http://www.santacruzpottery.com/

1642 Mission St. Santa Cruz. Ca. 95060 email us Located on U.S. Highway 1 in the beautiful coastal town of Santa Cruz, California, Santa Cruz Pottery is operated by three partners. Offering a wide array of functional and decorative ceramics through their workshop/gallery, Kevin and Nina Wahl and Joel Magen invite you to visit their pottery. Among the items made there are hand made kitchen and table ware, lamps, dinnerware sets, salt-fired pottery, bath accessories, sushi sets, a wide variety of vases and much more. These Santa Cruz crafts people also offer Wedding registry for Santa Cruz, Monterey Bay Area and Silicon Valley. While visiting Central Coast attractions and shopping consider dropping by the pottery. See the ceramics gallery and tour the facilities. To learn more about Santa Cruz Pottery or to view work by these Santa Cruz artisans, click on the appropriate icon below.

119. Ceramics By The Ceramics Connection Home Of Jameson-Knox Designs And Fine Art De Features hand painted ceramic pottery by JamesonKnox Designs including oil pitchers, venetian pitchers and a collection of vases. http://www.designer-ceramics.com/

Designer Ceramics Order Online Return Policy Contact Information Art Deco Ceramics ... Christmas Gifts JKD Ceramics Collections are from the creative mind of Jameson-Knox. Custom hand-painted ceramics are offered in the Plum, Olive and Tuscany Ceramic Collections. In addition, our Ceramic Coaster Collection and our Additional Ceramic Items sections offer a unique blend of custom hand-painted, art deco and imported European decals. A wide variety of selections and styles from various ceramic pitchers, ceramic tea sets, ceramic coffee sets, ceramic drink coasters, ceramic pill boxes, ceramic goblets, crosses, ceramic kitchen essentials and more. We hope you enjoy your on-line ceramic shopping experience at Jameson-Knox Designs. Most JKD products ship within 2 weeks. A confirmation will be sent via e-mail when order is shipped. The Wonderful World of Ceramics at Jameson-Knox Designs Long ago, in the Stone Age, after humans had learned to make a fire, it didn't take long before she discovered that anything made of clay became permanently hard after being in a hot bonfire for some time, creating the first primitive ceramics. Communities all over the world learned to make ceramic pots and fire them in bonfires. The methods used were very similar. The discovery that fire made soft crumbly clay shapes permanent is really the beginning of ceramics, although when and where humans first recognized this is still a mystery which may never be completely solved. Archaeologists used to believe that ceramic objects were not made until well after 10,000 BC. But in recent years scientific tests on small ceramic objects found on Stone Age sites (in eastern Europe) suggest that humans discovered the principle of using a fire to bake clay or create ceramics at least 30,000 years ago.

120. Japanese Pottery - Ibaraki Ceramic Art Awards Exhibition Review Ibaraki Ceramic art Museum Exhibit of Contemporary Japanese pottery. http://www.e-yakimono.net/html/awards-ibaraki-2001-jt.html

Return to Who's Who A to Z Menu WHO'S WHO If you don't find it here, enter your search term above Click here for Photo Tour Menu The evolution of ceramic form By ROBERT YELLIN for The Japan Times Click here for Photo Tour of Winners The creative journey for many an artist begins with an inner dialogue, a conflict, questioning. A voice in the inquisitive mind doubts existing rules and boundaries while challenging the artist to redefine and broaden them. Work by Sueharu Fukami Work by Tatsusuke Kuriki Work by Yo Akiyama Work by Yasuyoshi Sugiura In traditional Japanese pottery, few succeed in making any real "progress" with age-old forms. There's not much improvement one can make to a chawan (tea bowl) or chaire (tea caddy) per se. Yet, if you happen to be a ceramic artist more interested in sculptural forms in a semi-avant-garde realm, it's much easier to find one's own answer to that questioning voice. The rules are nonexistent and it's a wider road. A look at 20 ceramic artists on this artistic path is at the Ibaraki Ceramic Art Museum until June 17 in an exhibition titled, "Leaders of Contemporary Japanese Ceramics Exploring Techniques and Forms for the New Century." The works range from the highly refined to the seriously grotesque. All can be termed objets d'art most have no specific function other than to challenge the artist's own inner voice and the viewer's eye to reassess how they view ceramic art. In tradition-anchored Japan it's essential to have these ceramic artists around (they do exist in the functional world as well), for they challenge the status quo. Some of the roads they follow lead us to sweeping vistas while others take us to dead ends; the destination is not the point though it's the journey, step by step, that has value.

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