Into the Fourth Week and all is well July 7th 2010 My blogging has been tempered by spotty Internet connections and overwhelming desires to work in the studio after dinner or go into Jingdezhen and have fun. I will have a second entry to submit very shortly after this to get back up to date.
Studio work has been productive with the help of Gu Jia to assist me. I have a dozen coil-built stoneware forms and another dozen slipcast forms. With a ... read more
Asia » China » Jiangxi For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more
Professor Gary Erickson, Art Department - Ceramics, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN has been traveling to China for nine years. He has done artist residencies at the Sanbao Ceramic Art Institute in Jingdezhen, China and now rents his own studio in town. Summer 2011 he had a solo exhibition of his sculptural work at the Jingdezhen International Academy of Ceramics gallery. He received a 2013 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant to ship work back to Minnesota for a fall exhibition at Concordia University in St. Paul. This will be the first time he has shown his Jingdezhen crea... full info