Ceramic art

Centered Earth needs your help. The ceramics arts studio and gallery is once again helping with the Annual “Soup and a Bowl” event, held by the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank. This event will be held on February 19, 2016 at the Genetti Hotel and Suites located in Williamsport. Besides the great food, raffles, for this this event, each participant gets a bowl to keep. “To Remind people that an empty bowl means that someone is going without food.” Pam Hicks, Programs and Events Coordinator states. Hundreds of bowls are handed out. “Covered Earth Owner Kathy Görg has been a great support of this event throughout the years.” Hicks states. In order to make sure each participant receives a bowl, Gorg will be putting on community nights in their studio. The first Soup & a Bowl Community Clay Night will be held on Monday, October 19th 6-8 P.M. with a second Community Night being held that Saturday, the 24th of October from 1 to 5. During this event, participants can make or decorate a bowl that will then be given later to a participant at the Genetti event. The cost to attend is a non-perishable food donation that will be than given to the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank. Can’t make the Community Days? Groups can schedule an event and pay an extra $5.00 to throw a bowl to donate between now and December 31st.…

Topic 1: Detailed History of Ceramic Analysis in the Maya Lowlands Many influences from around North American archaeology apparently influenced the methods used by researchers when reviewing the historical trajectory of ceramic analysis in the Maya area. To follow this path, an examination of the earliest explorers in the Maya area is necessary. During the time of the first Mesoamerican explorers, such as Catherwood, Maudslay, and Maler, the Southwestern archaeologists have already created a…

The technology began in the heartland of the Inca Empire and later spread the Inca motifs to the remaining provinces and the kingdom’s outskirts. The empire was ethnically diverse, yet they still manage to produce these ceramics. However, each region appeared to posses its specific provincial ceramic style. They made many potteries based on varying shapes. One of the main features of the Inca ceramics is that they did not depict the human form like other communities (Miller 1987: 130). Instead,…

per year between the first year of manufacture and 2003. (Lees-Maffei, n.d.) It now retails for £49 in stores such as Harrods, John Lewis, Selfridges and other various online shops. This not only gives an inclination of its success but also shows that it targets the design conscious and savvy consumer. Starck originally designed the Juicy Salif on a paper napkin, whilst dining at a restaurant on the Amalfi coast, he stated, “this vision of a squid-like lemon squeezer came upon me…” This napkin…

Throughout this paper one of the biggest themes surrounding Islamic pottery is the desire to imitate Chinese porcelain. Islamic potters were almost forced to imitate, instead of recreate, the Chinese because of the lack of technical knowledge and sufficient materials to fire at high temperatures (Cooper 1972). One of the main problems that Islamic potters faced throughout their time periods was that they did not have the necessary ingredients for making true porcelain because they did not have…

The clay cannot be dried because it will shrink so the best way is firing, when the clay turns to a stone-like material. (Redford 2001, 254) Pottery was used for the preparation of food and drink, serving, and storage. If the pottery was going to be used for food, the Egyptians would use surface coating and if it were to be used for beverages, surface compaction was an important technique. Theses ceramics were often leaned against walls or used supports made of pottery or wood. Pottery could…

nation. The religious following paved the way for a new government which in turn paved the way for new industry and trade. Trade grew to new levels when the exchange of goods with China, by both land and sea, put Islamic people in touch with a different culture (Geraty and Herr 1986). At this time Islamic art was still very primitive and trade with China opened up many new doors Chinese pottery had a significant impact on Islamic pottery for many centuries. The Tang dynasty inspired…

Marilyn Levine. She is a ceramics artist that specializes in making clay appear as leather. Unfortunately she is deceased however; she has dedicated her career to making hyper realistic renderings of leather objects that are entirely made from clay. Although many artists refine, vary or shift styles throughout their careers, Levine stuck to the realistic sculpture she devised 35 years ago as a graduate student at UC Berkeley. A viewer of one of her shows described her as the following "In a…

Ceramics, T.R. describes, is like a trap that you fall into. “You make one thing and then you think, well, if I would just do it a little differently. If the glaze would have behaved a little differently, then it would be better and so you do another one. You keep going and it catches you.” Ralph Steiner III, more commonly known as “T.R.” is Bluffton University’s fairly new ceramic professor. Like many students here who take a ceramics class to fulfill their fine arts credit, T.R.’s passion for…

Seals were everyday items in medieval England from 1150 to 1350. Seals were utilized for a variety of exchanges, the most frequent being land agreements, but seals validated any documents that needed proof of identity. A seal has two parts, the wax seal and the metal matrix combined form a seal. Many different social classes within England used them. Seals were attached to documents for selling land, binding serf contracts, or rental agreements within urban settings. Other seal uses included…