Xiaowen apprehensively having her photo taken in front of the glaze sample forms in what I call the erotic glaze shop. As Freud would say, "Sometimes a phallic glaze sample is just a phallic glaze sample!"
My life in Jingdezhen July 10th 2011 Here are a series of photographs with some accompanying text. I do not have time to write a long explanation about what you see. The days are filled with working in the studio and having fun with friends. A good combination for the summer away from teaching.
The first images are from a party I was invited to by two Jingdezhen Ceramic Art Institute (JCI) students who have worked at Sanbao. T ... 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