Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts
Ceramics Program Director / Resident Artist
STEPHANIE ROZENE
Wednesday February 13th, 2008
@ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
1412 Ceramics Studio
SUK-JIN CHOI
Assistant Professor, James Madison University, VA
MFA Ceramic Art, Crand Brook Academy of Arts 2007
MELISSA MYTTY, JOHN CHWEKUN, JULIE SCHUSTACK & AUTUMN EWALT
MFA Students from Cranbrook of Academy of Arts
JULIE YORK
Assistant Professor, Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, CA
MFA Ceramics, NYSCC at Alfred University 2000
LINDA SORMIN
Assistant Professor, Rhode Island of School of Design
MFA Ceramic Art,NYSCC at Alfred University 2003
VALERIE ZIMANY
MFA, Crafts/Ceramics
Japanese Government (Monbusho) Scholarship
Kanazawa College of Art, Graduate School, Kanazawa, Japan
Ceramics Visiting Artist Lecture & Ceramics Student Show
March 24th – 31st, 2006
CAROLINE YI CHENG
Founder of PWS Experimental Factory, a center for creative industries in Jingdezhen, China
Founder & Director of The Pottery Workshop, Shanghai, China
Ceramics Visiting Artist
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
February 27th (Mon), 2006
Ceramics Studio
Ceramics for 4000 years in China has been used as functional tools in rituals, utensils, building materials, etc. The spirit of this tradition lies in the nameless artists, mass production and the art/technique of handmade ceramics. My recent work utilizes the craftsmanship of Jingdezhen artisans, converting their traditional work into new ideas and usage.
BRIAN GILLIS
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Springfield, IL
MFA Ceramic Art, NYSCC at Alfred University 2002
I want to be a fabler; a medium for the interpretation and perpetuation of dormant folklore. I want to establish an orphanage for unrecognized ideology, a store for the trading of tertiary philosophies, a holster for latent socio-cultural modeling tools, fly tape for trapping what trails our kamikaze edification. I want to canonize the mundane by eliciting a dialogue about the nature of the way we are taught to see and effectively perceive the world around us.
CARLOS SAMMARCO
Ceramics Technician/Instructor, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University
MFA Ceramic Arts, NYSCC at Alfred University 2000
Fall 2006 Ceramics Visiting Artist Workshop
Ceramics & 3D Technology by Carlo Sammarco
October 2 – 4, 2006