“The potter Hamada Shoji said that a good bowl should be larger on the inside than the outside. My work is an ongoing exploration of the possibility that a tactile physical form might contain an expansive interior, a generous space, a site for the imagination and the thinking of thoughts, both intimate and immense.
I’m interested in objects with interiors and also the spaces between them. Still lives, diagrams, molecules, tilings, and aggregations each demonstrate the possibility of arrangements to be both complex and organized, formal and narrative, abstract and personal.
I work through a combination of old media and new media; forming clay directly by hand or in tandem with digital modeling and computer controlled machines. This way of working demands a continuous movement between the abstract and the concrete, between information and manual skill. The potency of this combination seems to come from the resistance it creates. The made thing demands a bodily commitment, providing an insistent reminder that even thinking takes shape through the textures and friction of the mind."
Del Harrow lives and works in Fort Collins, CO with his wife,
potter Sanam Emami and their son, William. He is an Associate
Professor at Colorado State University where he teaches Sculpture,
Digital Fabrication, and Ceramics. His art practice spans genre’s of
sculpture and design, and integrates traditional manual and skill based
forming pro-cesses with digital fabrication technology.
Harrow has been invited to lecture widely on his own work and on the
intersection of digital fabrication and craft in contemporary art and
education. His work has been exhibited recently at The Milwaukee Art
Museum, The Denver Art Museum, The Arizona State University Art
Museum, Vox Populi Gallery, The Museum of Fine Art in Boston, Haw
Contemporary in Kansas City, MO, and Harvey Meadows gallery in
Aspen, CO.
http://www.delharrow.net/
Jeff Campana is Assistant Professor of Art at Kennesaw State University and a nationally exhibiting ceramic artist working primarily in functional pottery and sculptural vessel form. He was a long-term artist in resident and Windgate Fellow at the Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Art in Helena, Montana.
As an active exhibitor, Jeff Campana has had work in more than 100 exhibitions of national or regional scope and has been featured in numerous magazines and books on the topic of ceramic art. In the summer of 2016, He returned to Helena, Montana as a resident artist at Studio 740 where he completely reinvented his studio practice. The new work, a product of a deconstructed mold system, debuted in the Fall of 2017 in the international exhibition Breaking the Mold at Eutectic Gallery in Portland Oregon.
A master of wheel throwing and mold making, Jeff Campana's major research interests are now based in computer aided design and the transformation of digital file to ceramic production via a variety of additive and subtractive tools such as SLA 3D printing and CNC milling.
http://jeffcampana.com/
Michelle Laxalt earned her MFA in Ceramics as a Welch Fellow at Georgia State University, and her BFA from the University of Nevada, Reno. She creates sculptures using an array of materials, many of which serve as reminders of the body. She has exhibited nationally in both invitational and juried exhibitions. In July 2016 she was an artist in residence at the Vermont Studio Center, and her work was showcased at Aqua Art Miami in December 2016. She recently had a solo exhibition at the Holland Project Gallery in Reno, Nevada, and is currently working and living in Atlanta.
http://michellelaxalt.com/
Rachel K. Garceau received her B.A. in Fine Arts from Franklin Pierce College (NH) in 2003, she continued her ceramic education through studio assistantships, workshops, and residencies at various studios, schools, and museums including Haystack Mountain School of Crafts (ME) and Vendsyssel Kuntsmuseum (DK).
Rachel completed the Core Fellowship at Penland School of Crafts (NC) in 2013 where she engaged in a two-year material exploration, shifting her focus from clay to include metal, paper, and fiber.
As a 2013-2014 Artist-in-Residence at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts (TN), Rachel returned to ceramics through mold making and slip casting. Utilizing these processes, she produces series of large porcelain forms and then introduces them to found environments, inviting others to experience these altered spaces.
http://rachelkgarceau.com/
