Stillness in the Glorious Wilderness: the phrase reminds me of that old riddle about a tree falling in an empty forest. Does it make a noise? How could we know one way or the other? One thing is for sure. The tree doesn’t care.

Looking around Marie Torbensdatter Hermann’s most recent exhibition of work, we may well have a similar feeling: that we are in the presence of pots that don’t quite need us. They are just fine on their own, thank you. Poised atop their handmade clay shelves, microcosms like the implacably calm still life paintings of Morandi, or set out in a neat ring on the gallery floor, these ceramic sculptures have a quiet assurance, an ease that belies the difficulty of their own making.

Glenn Adamson

Jeanne Quinn received her BA cum laude in art history from Oberlin College; she recieved her MFA in ceramics from the University of Washington. She has lectured widely at institutions such as UCLA, USC, Columbia University, the Kansas City Art Institute, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the University of Minnesota, Alfred University, and many others. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado. She lives and works in Boulder, Colorado.

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Paul Sacaridiz (b.1970, Brooklyn, NY, lives and works in Madison, WI) received an MFA (1998) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a BFA from Alfred University (1993).

Since 1997 he has been active in solo exhibitions, collaborative projects and group shows at a diverse number of venues including: The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, the Icheon World Ceramic Center, Icheon, Korea, The Dubuque Museum of Art (IA), The Alfedena Gallery, Chicago, The Northern Illinois University Art Museum and the Ceramic Research Center at Arizona State University. His work has been the subject of reviews and articles in Ceramics: Art and Perception, The New Art Examiner and Art Papers among others. Sacaridiz has been the recipient of residencies at the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, The Ragdale Foundation, The Vermont Studio Center and the Art/Industry Program at Kohler Company.

He is currently an Associate Professor in the Art Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The members of the group are: Dr. Peter Assmann, Linz/Austria; Liesbeth den Besten, Amstelveen/Netherlands; Gabi Dewald, Lorsch/Germany; Mònica Gaspar, Barcelona/Spain and Zürich/Switzerland; Dr. Tanya Harrod, London/Great Britain, Love Jönsson, Göteborg/Sweden, Dr. Louise Mazanti, Copenhagen/Denmark; Prof. Dr. Jorunn Veiteberg, Bergen/Norway and Copenhagen/Denmark; Prof. Edmund de Waal, London/Great Britain.

Sculpture, Tableware and Encaustic Painting. K teaches ceramics, painting and printmaking in Aspen, Colorado at Colorado Mountain College.

Katie Caron graduated summa cum laude from Boston University in 2000, and received an MFA in ceramics from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2009.

Ceramics, Sculpture, Mixed Media Installation Artist. Professor of Art at SUNY Buffalo State.

Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University

Ceramics Department

Crafts and Materials Studies

The aims of the Academy are to present international contemporary ceramics at the highest level, to encourage cultural cooperation through ceramics around the world, and to facilitate communication between ceramists and museum curators, private galleries and collectors, art schools and other professional Institutions.

Philadelphia, PA

Cullowhee, North Carolina

An index of facts my grandma Snyder worked over 30 years on.