Sunday's NY Times ran a feature story about "All Fired Up!"(www.allfiredup.info) - a countywide celebration of the ceramic arts in Westchester( a suburb about 30 minutes north of NYC) for which I have been consulting this past year in collaboration with the Westchester Arts Council and The Clay Art Center. Check out this link, which highlights the more than 60 ceramic exhibitions in various cultural institutions to open over the next few weeks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/14artswe.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
I also wanted you to know about a small show I was asked to curate to celebrate the new book.
Confrontational Ceramics opens October 3 and runs through December 11 and if you are in the NY area, I hope you will be able to attend. Please click on the invitation below. Confrontational Ceramics opens Friday October 3rd starting at 6PM at the Westchester Arts Council's Grand Banking Room - 31 Mamaroneck Ave in downtown White Plains (public transportation directions from NYC below). I wish I could have included all of you in this show, but the exhibition space is not heavily endowed and they just could not afford a large show. Hopefully, a museum will ask me to curate one in the future.
The second exhibition, Spatial Meditations is at the Mariani Gardens in Armonk, NY which opens Saturday September 20th and runs through November. The opening, this coming Saturday at Mariani Gardens will be from 1-4 and I also hope you will be able to attend.
Lastly, I hope you have now seen Confrontational Ceramics (University of Penn Press, USA or A&C Black, London) that is now available through Amazon at this link:
or through A& C Black at this link:
In addition here are links to all the artist's bios together with seminal articles which were important to the writing of this book:
http://www.judyschwartz.com/artistsbio.html
http://www.judyschwartz.com/docs.htmlI am hearing wonderful praise about the book and it is gaining lots of attention. Please ask your local library and university to order it!!!.
With all best wishes and my deepest gratitude,
Judith Schwartz
