Community
Boards:
Studio Potter Board of Trustees.
Advisor and committee member, 1986-2002, The Studio Potter is
a not-for-profit membership supported organization that provides services
to an international community of the ceramic artists through a variety
of services.
Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts,
Edgecomb, ME. Past President and current Trustee, 1992–Present.
Watershed is a residency/retreat that provides artists with time and
space to create in clay. Artists from across the country as well as abroad
work in an intimate, non-hierarchical, process-oriented environment for
experimentation, exploration, collaboration and growth. As president
I raised international awareness of this unique residency program, hired
an executive director and organized numerous fund raising events “Paper
Pots,“ “Famous Monday’s,“ and various fund raisers
at collectors homes.
Museum of Ceramic Art/NY. President
of the Board, 2000–present. The Museum, to be built in Long Island
City, will be the first museum devoted to the ceramic arts in a major
city in the United States.
The Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic
Art, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University.
Trustee, Advisor, 2001–present.
K12 Foundation. Trustee,
2002–present. K12’s mission is to instill the spirit of creative
thought, skill and experimentation through the expressive medium of clay.
After thousands of years, clay continues to inform civilization and plays
a crucial role in everyday and artistic life. To that end, K12 supports
teacher education by providing a variety of initiatives to facilitate
and expand classroom knowledge about the geology, history, chemistry,
sociology, geography, aesthetic, and technical approaches to creating
form in clay. K12 provides a forum for identifying exceptional work from
school children across the nation and awards scholarships through juried
exhibitions coordinated with the National Council on Education in the
Ceramic Arts’
yearly conferences. K12 is a not for profit organization that fills a
unique niche in the art and ceramic education of the school child and
is dedicated to the diversity of expression possible in the ceramic arts.
Advisory Board - Tonk Foundation, the
Netherlands. A Ceramic Organization to promote Dutch Ceramics in the
United States. 1999–2001.
Museum of Glass and Ceramics, Portland,
ME. Advisory board. 2003–2004
University Council for Art Education.
Past-President. 1996–1997.
Jingdezhen, China 2004: 1000 Years Celebration
of Porcelain, Advisory board for Planning an International
festival in 2004 celebrating 2,000 years of porcelain making in Jingdezhen.
Ceramic artists, historians, collectors, museum educators, gallery
owners, and art educators gathered for this landmark event.
Consultant-ships:
Westchester Council for the Arts.
2006–present. Curatorial special consultant for All Fired
Up! From October 3–November 30, 2008, more than 50 venues
throughout Westchester Country will participate in a celebration of clay.
The event will encompass museums, multi-art centers, libraries and college-based
galleries and alternative sites as they host parallel exhibitions of
regional, national and international works of art that explore the breadth
and depth of ceramic expression. I meet with various venues (i.e., Hudson
River Museum, Rye Arts Center, Hammond Museum, Lyndhurst, State University
at Purchase) and propose artists and themes that would best suit their
site. In addition, I am working on a wide range of activities that will
provide teacher training, workshops together with symposia designed to
engage students, educators, collectors and the public.
4th and 5th Biennale Icheon, Korea,
2006–present. The Gyeonggi Province government built three museums
in Icheon, Gwangju and Yeoju to develop an international awareness of
their centuries-old ceramic community. Each museum has its separate focus—one
for contemporary ceramics, one to highlight ceramics in the home and
the third to display the finest Korean ceramic history. As the main feature
of the Biennale, the organizers initiated an international competition
and offered more than a third of a million dollars in prize money. I
was chief juror for the Biennale. Currently, I am working as consultant
to the next biennale to identify significant developments and issues
in the field and to propose exhibitions and symposium themes.
Noritake China Company, Nagoya, Japan,
2000–2001. Consultant on reproduction of Art Deco motifs from the
1920's. This was a pilot program making lusterware in Sri-Lanka.
Nicaraguan Government, 1998. Consulted
to develop indigenous crafts of Nicaragua into an export industry. I
ordered wheels, glazes and materials to train local artisans, promote
and help market the products in the US and Europe.
Ceramic Millennium-World Advisory Council,
1998. Advisor to plan the Ceramic Millennium Amsterdam.
Executor:
Dr. Howard Kottler Estate, noted ceramic
artist and teacher. 1990–present. I have maintained the Trust,
created an endowment and donated funds and works of art to several major
museums. In addition, I have organized a retrospective of his work, promoted
gallery representation, and used endowment funds to help underwrite a
monograph, Face to Face, written by Patricia Failing, published in 1995
by the University of Washington Press.
Press
Articles written about me, my work and collection have
appeared in a number of magazines, newspapers and journals as well as
in a Google search under the heading: Confrontational Ceramics. Among
these have been:
Life and Style
Art and Antiques Magazine
American Craft Magazine
American Style Magazine
The Asian edition of the Wall Street Journal |
