Friday, April 7, 2023

Alfred Ceramic Art Museum (4/7/2023)

Friday, April 7, 2023
Finally, on our third try, the Alfred Ceramic Art Museum was open! It is located next to the New York State College of Ceramics at the Alfred University campus.
Alfred Ceramic Art Museum (2014, by Kallmann,
McKinnell and Wood of Boston) and the sculpture
 Wave  (2019, by Eva Hild of Sweden)
A sunnier view of the museum (KSS)
Selections: The Archive:
Boat-Genoa-Ohio (1971, by Jack Earl)
New York State College of Ceramics Commemorative Plate
1900-2000 (1997, by Irma Starr) (KSS)
Head with Colored Paper (1989, by
Gertraud Mohwald) made with stoneware,
shards, and paper (KSS)
Bar Mit Kugel (2021, by Linda Cordell),
translates to Bar with Ball; better
would have been Bär mit Kugeln
After the Catch (1974, by Patti Warashina) (KSS)
Message Gestures Pot (1970,
by Howard Kottler)
Message Gestures Pot detail
3 Leg Vessel in Future Furniture (2022, by
Jolie Ngo) includes 3-D printed prcelain (KSS)
Paul S Briggs: Knot Stories (inspired by Black Poetry:
Paul S Briggs: Knot Stories Overview (KSS)
Kalief Browder: Cell Persona (2022)
Lift Every Voice, Poetic Justice (2022) (KSS)
Hyperbole: Knot Story (2022)
Back to Selections: The Archive:
Landscape (1981, by Nancy Carman)
American Modern Espresso Sets (c 1937, by Russel Wright,
designer for Steubenville Pottery)
Cross-Continental (con)Fusing: The
Space Between
(2017, by YehRim Lee) (KSS)
Cross-Continental (con)Fusing: The
Space Between
 detail (KSS)
Terracotta Tales (2016, by Kelsey Zwarka) (KSS)
Pink Tubes Green Plugs II (2022, by Jackie Head) (KSS)
Vase (250 BCE-250 CE, from Colima, Mexico)
Covered Form (c 1982, by Ted Randall) (KSS)
As we continued onward to Buffalo, NY, we missed a turn.
Our corrected route took us on Wilkens Road, a seasonal
road: meaning it is not maintained Nov 1-Apr 1!



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