Atmospheric firing allows for chance to collaborate with control in the final surface of a piece. A common perspective among the artists featured in this issue is valuing the variations and irregularities achieved in handmade work that is fired in atmospheric kilns.
The artists featured in this issue strive for an evolving balance in their practices, using their skills to express creativity and ensuring the forms they make maintain both the passion for what they do and function in generative ways for their audiences.
The articles in this issue demonstrate how the artists developed a self awareness, then used this knowledge to focus on subjects of importance to them, while creating narratives that invite the viewer’s participation.
In this issue, we cover the topic of galleries with a behind-the-scenes perspective, discussions on the ways artists get selected for representation or exhibitions, and, woven throughout the issue, artists’ thoughts on how they promote and sell their work.
Atmospheric firing allows for chance to collaborate with control in the final surface of a piece. A common perspective among the artists featured in this issue is valuing the variations and irregularities achieved in handmade work that is fired in atmospheric kilns.
The artists featured in this issue strive for an evolving balance in their practices, using their skills to express creativity and ensuring the forms they make maintain both the passion for what they do and function in generative ways for their audiences.
The articles in this issue demonstrate how the artists developed a self awareness, then used this knowledge to focus on subjects of importance to them, while creating narratives that invite the viewer’s participation.
In this issue, we cover the topic of galleries with a behind-the-scenes perspective, discussions on the ways artists get selected for representation or exhibitions, and, woven throughout the issue, artists’ thoughts on how they promote and sell their work.