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Influences |
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Val Cushing was my mentor and teacher at Alfred University, Alfred, NY. He was a strong and supporting educator who really cared about his students. A great potter with super communication skills. |
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David Shaner is my Montana "hero" in ceramics, always challenging and supporting me to excel. His wife Ann and family were the epitome of the life style I admired. David's inspiring interpretation of forms in nature through clay is the finest 'wabi sabi' that any American has lived. As a native Montanan I feel deeply akin to him. |
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Don Reitz has always been the amenable spirit of being a "ceramist's artist" and inspiration for so many potters. His warm personality and easy manner of communication rapidly accomplish mountains of greatness. |
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Peter Voulkos,
another Montanan, left pots in the studio at Bozeman that I saw as an undergraduate.
His reputation as a world wide renown artist in clay never overshadowed his down-home ability to apporoach up coming ceramists with sensitivity and encouragement. I admired Pete throughout his career because of his challenging manner with the material and ideas. He awakened me to the possibilities as I encourage my students. |
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Paul Soldner showed me the adventure in clay, what the possibilities are, and how collecting pots of great artists was important to rich development. |