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specialists in contemporary ceramic art 1950-present located on the MASS MoCA campus in the Berkshires | director @leslieferrin

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NATURE/NURTURE with Linda Sikora @sikora.studio .

NATURE/NURTURE with Linda Sikora @sikora.studio
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BlackWare Series: the most recent: a surprisingly formal group now headed to a national Contemporary Ceramics Exhibition curated by Heather Mae Erickson @hmaemaeceramics (2021) and then to the permanent collection of the National Museum of Sweden.
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NATURE/NURTURE in Quarantine with Linda Sikora .

NATURE/NURTURE in Quarantine with Linda Sikora
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Faux Wood, Prototype Group – this series has been active over several years, is ongoing – and is the foundation of the extended group exhibited in Nature/Nurture (the extended group will travel in an upcoming PBS Exhibition). Elemental crockery form, looking back to look forward and back and forth - the best work collapses or blurs its place in relation to time, behavior, aesthetic, value. Between operating as a collection of objects to present a visual and, a group of useful things to employ – it succeeds and fails at both.
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NATURE/NURTURE in Quarantine with Linda Sikora . F

NATURE/NURTURE in Quarantine with Linda Sikora
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Foliage Series: Runs of large kettles and boxes with painted foliage in white, black, and stoneware clay - this prototype group, much more stylized, preceded the Constellation Series, & has scale relationships that are exaggerated which slows the way the work is understood physically. #unitedstatesartists

NATURE/NURTURE in Quarantine with Linda Sikora. @s

NATURE/NURTURE in Quarantine with Linda Sikora. @sikora.studio
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PBS series: Craft and America : Teachers
https://www.pbs.org/craft-in-america/tv-series/teachers/
PBS Craft in America filming Alfred Ceramic Art for Teachers program: Teaching, a more public/performative mode - the privilege and honor of working in a creative community with students deeply engaged in advancing their vision - has impact and value beyond words.
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Assembling a Teapot for Craft in America
https://www.pbs.org/video/craft-america-linda-sikora-assembles-teapot/
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NATURE/NURTURE in Quarantine with Linda Sikora @si

NATURE/NURTURE in Quarantine with Linda Sikora @sikora.studio
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Untitled Drawing Table
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Best described by Glen Brown in his article Linda Sikora: Aesthetics and Agency at the link here. Series or Prototype Groups of ceramic forms, have driven the work for several years now. Surface and form types are at the core and instigate approaches to culture and function, history and primordial pleasures, the palpable and not-so-easily-speak-able, and essential dwelling places of the mind - like hope. Untitled Drawing Table is an unfired work where motifs on plates integrate to become a field on paper made for exhibition. 24 teapots, 20 tiled, 2 jars is a separate Series–being staged in the studio for final format.

NATURE/NURTURE in Quarantine, Instagram takeover:

NATURE/NURTURE in Quarantine, Instagram takeover: Linda Sikora.
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Constellation Bowl
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Recalling May 2019 Constellation Bowl and “watching ground”: Having stumbled in the Andes Mountains January 2019, everything underfoot mattered, differently. Ground, humus, humanity. “The humus grounds the human.”…writes Robert Pogue Harrison about burial. The Constellation Series is for looking down (or up) into. Ready to get back to the humanity and the histories of Medellín, Colombia and Campos de Guitiérrez!! @camposmedellin
Founder: @andresmonzon_ @afmonzon #camposconalfred #robertpogueharrison

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Constellation Series - Staging work to load salt kiln (work on paper templates of kiln shelves)

After sometime, we are continuing our series NATUR

After sometime, we are continuing our series NATURE/NURTURE in Quarantine: Instagram Takeover with Linda Sikora. Check out some behind the scenes views of her thought process, studio and new works!

May 2020: Nature/Nurture at Ferrin Contemporary; spring start-up in the home studio and ongoing Ceramic Art/Alfred COVID 19 planning meetings. Speaking spreads virus/es, say less mean more, engage being (in) relation. On Nature/Nurture and gender and what is seen (thank you Leslie Ferrin), on shadow feminisms and failure (thank you Judith Halberstan); on Gertrude Stein and identity and entity, (“I am I not any longer when I see” GS) and “simultaneous existence of variations” (thank you Lyn Hejinian).
#judithhalberstam #lynhejinian @arts_at_alfred @alfredceramics @alfreduniversity

CERF+ AUCTION | Raising Direct Funds For Artists &

VIRTUAL EVENT PREVIEW COCKTAIL PARTY Thursday, Jun

Ferrin Contemporary is offering a Berkshires Curat

Hollie Lyko, "Lady & Gentleman no. 22", is part of

Michael Simon, "Oval bowl with cut rim", is part o

Rae Stern, "Push Down and Turn", is part of the CE

Kurt Weiser, "Blue and White Cup 1", is part of th

Kadri Pärnamets, "Chevron Pattern Vase", is part

Paul Scott, “Scott's Cumbrian Blue(s), New Ameri

Mara Superior, "Love Birds", is part of the CERF+

Sergei Isupov, "Mother Nature", is part of the CER

Lauren Mabry, "Cylinder 20.10", is part of the CER

Peter Pincus, "Flattened bottle with Inverse Circl

CERF+ AUCTION | Raising Direct Funds For Artists &

LINDA SORMIN live on IG at 1:00 today swipe left f

LINDA SORMIN live on IG at 1:00 today swipe left for details or go to @lindasormin and @gardinermuseum for details - recorded version will get posted for anyone who misses it today.

Current work on view in Nature/Nurture - open by appointment.
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#sequoiamiller @srtmv
#gardinermuseum
#contemporaryceramics #clay #sculpture

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NATURE/NURTURE in Quarantine, Instagram takeover with GISELLE HICKS.
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Thanks for joining me in the studio today. Keep an eye out for some new pillow wall tiles at The Porches Inn this fall in North Adams, MA.
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NATURE/NURTURE in Quarantine, Instagram takeover with GISELLE HICKS..
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This series of work is influenced by decorative textiles such as quilts, weavings, and embroidered tapestries. I think the labor dedicated to creating these textiles, particularly the quilt, is a beautiful gesture to the significance of these everyday objects which are integral to the rituals of daily life. I want this work to reflect the same care, attention, and labor that went into making the original textiles.

The process of slip-casting has its roots in industry and is used to make a form repeatedly, often on a mass scale. When I begin a new project, I first make a prototype of a pillow by carving a block of plaster into the shape of a soft pillow. Next, I make a two-part plaster mold of the prototype. Once the molds are prepared, I pour colored porcelain-slip into the molds, where it sits for an hour at which point I pour out the excess slip. The plaster mold absorbs the moisture from the porcelain slip, resulting in a hollow form with quarter-inch thick walls. When the form comes out of the mold, I draw the pattern into the surface with a sharp stylus. Once the carving is complete I paint a colored slip over the whole design, wipe the excess off, and what slip remains is inlaid into the carved pattern. The unglazed porcelain looks soft and invites the touch.
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NATURE/NURTURE in Quarantine, Instagram takeover with GISELLE HICKS..
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This series of coiled-and-pinched vessels came from a self-imposed assignment to make something using only a few tools. My hope is that the finished piece reflects my skill and control of the material while acknowledging the limitations and idiosyncrasies of my hands and body.
#gisellehicks @gisellehicks #ferrincontemporary #naturenurture #studiovisit #process #handbuilding

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NATURE/NURTURE in Quarantine, Instagram takeover with GISELLE HICKS.
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I begin a day in the studio by making a few sketches, wedging clay and rolling a pile of coils. I work on eight to ten forms at a time, rotating from one to another as they stiffen enough to continue building up the thin walls. It takes about two days to finish a group of vessels. Typically, I work in this rhythm for two weeks before I have enough work to fire. Once the vessels are dry, they are loaded and fired in a bisque kiln, allowed to cool for a day, then sanded and washed in preparation for the glaze application. I dip the pots into a large bucket of glaze to get a thick and even coating. All the work is then fired in an electric kiln to 2230 degrees (cone 6). .
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NATURE/NURTURE in Quarantine, Instagram takeover with GISELLE HICKS.
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I grew up in Southern California and lived all over the country before settling in Helena, Montana. Stay tuned for more images and info on my studio practice.
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#naturenurture @gisellehicks #gisellehicks #ferrincontemporary #contemporaryceramics #artkeepsgoing

FC NEWS & STORIES | GISELLE HICKS We continue our

PETER PINCUS and Arizona State University Art Muse

PETER PINCUS and Arizona State University Art Museum Ceramic Research Center are live tomorrow at 12pm MST. They will discuss process, pandemic and one of his works in the upcoming CERFplus auction on June 19th with Jeffery Sphan Gallery. We are also pleased to announce the opening of ‘Art in the Age of Influence: Peter Pincus/Sol Lewitt on July 11th at our gallery in North Adams, MA. Details to come...
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ASU zoom link: https://asu.zoom.us/j/791064587
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FC NEWS & STORIES | NATURE/NURTURE | Linda Sikora

Kadri Pärnamets Instagram takeover: NATURE/NURTUR

Kadri Pärnamets Instagram takeover: NATURE/NURTURE in Quarantine. “My new work is drawn from my roots. Focusing on the little simple things in nature, like bugs and their sounds, these things give us an understanding of time and space. Wherever I hear the sounds of the first fly in the spring or a mosquito buzz in summer I’m reminded of how important it is to keep balance in our surroundings and to appreciate the annual life cycles that begin from most ordinary and common things. Small matters.” - Kadri Pärnamets, 2020
Featured:
1. “Waggle Dance”, 2019, porcelain, slip, glaze, 11.5 x 6.5 x 6". 2. “Sultry Night”, 2019, porcelain, slip, glaze, 6 x 10.5 x 5.5". 3. “Moor”, 2019, porcelain, slip, glaze, 8 x 9 x 6". Photos by @ferrincontemporary #KadriParnamets #FerrinContemporary #ProjectArt01026 #NatureNurture #artiststudio #artistinquarentine #studioshots #contemporaryceramics #Roots #FloraandFauna #Bugs #Buzz

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