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The Lawrence Arts Center is proud to present the 2007 National Juried Ceramics Exhibition and Symposium. This event brings together 8 incredible ceramic artists to Lawrence Kansas for 2 days of presentations and demonstrations. All of these accomplished artists use clay in a variety of ways to create works that are exhibited nationally. In conjunction with the symposium, the Lawrence Arts Center’s gallery will present a national juried exhibit. This premiere contemporary ceramics exhibition encourages entries both sculptural and functional. The recently constructed exhibition space at the Lawrence Arts Center is suitable for works both large and small. The juror for this exhibit is Dan Anderson. Please refer to the juried exhibition form for more details.
All 8 artists will be demonstrating simultaneously in the Lawrence Arts Center studios. Demonstrating artists will be paired up in groups of 2 working in tandem. Attendees to the symposium will have access to all demonstrations. The line-up is as follows:
Dan Anderson
Education
- 1968 b.s. Art Education, University of Wisconsin-River Falls
- 1970 m.f.a., Ceramics, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Artist information
Dan Anderson recently retired as head of ceramics at the department of art and design at Southern Illinois university in Edwardsville, Illinois. he is a frequent workshop presenter, having lectured and demonstrated at over 60 different places in the last two decades. Dan Anderson has taught at southern Illinois University Edwardsville for the past 32 years, pouring his heart and soul into the ceramics program, bringing it up to the well-known program it is today. Mr. Anderson has had exhibitions all over the world, and won awards and fellowships from the national endowment for the arts, the Archie Bray Foundation and the Illinois Arts Council.
Artist statement
"My artwork, an amalgam of vessel and industrial artifact, is full of irony-handmade replicas of man made objects, soft clay renderings of metal objects aged and impotent reminders of a once powerful age. the oil and gasoline cans represent the machinery that once threatened to devalue the work of human beings. now they seem just like the hardworking humans they served-stoic, dignified, straightforward, but plumb wore out. The usefulness of machines in their original states is limited - as the products of progress, they are doomed to obsolescence - but by recreating them in a "primitive" medium, I believe they will endure through the ages. They have been transformed for enternity into art. in this way, too, I have taken the aesthetic and political ugliness out of industry, reminding everyone that change can be both hurtful/traumatic and positive/healing. Once again underscoring the power of art to uplift the human condition. By firing the oil and gas cans in my anagama kiln, i am convinced that instead of merely heating the clay, the flame and ash have the capacity to alter and enhance my clay cans. The etched surface, created by sustained three to five day firing, imbues a "poetic" richness. What an interesting conspiracy: man/woman, clay and fire."
