Next to last entry from summer 2013 in Jingdezhen, China September 21st 2013 The summer got way from me and I could not keep up with blogging. Long 100 degree days in the studio took most of my energy and weak internet at the youth hostel made things too slow. Compound with a camera malfunction that took over two weeks to resolve left me with finishing my blog after returning home. Here we go! ... read more
Asia » China » Jiangxi » Jingdezhen 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