THE NEW HAMPSHIRE INSTITUTE OF ART EXHIBITS WORKS BY MASSACHUSETTS POTTER MARK SHAPIRO
11/08/2010Manchester, NH – The New Hampshire Institute of Art presents, Mark Shapiro: Bottles and Other Muses, from November 8 to December 5, 2010 at the French Building Gallery, 148 Concord Street. The opening reception will be held on November 17, 2010 from 5pm – 7pm in the French Building Gallery.
Mark Shapiro is a potter working in western Massachusetts. He is a frequent workshop leader, lecturer, panelist, curator, and writer. His interviews of Karen Karnes, Michael Simon, and Paulus Berensohn are in the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution and he is editor of a book on Karnes published by University of North Carolina Press this past September. He is a contributing advisor to Studio Potter Magazine and is on the advisory board of Ceramics Monthly. His own work was featured in the 4th World Ceramic Biennial in Icheon, Korea, and is in many public collections including the Mint Museum (NC), the Newark Museum (NJ), the International Museum of Ceramic Art, (Alfred, NY) and the Racine Art Museum (WI).
All exhibitions are free and open to the public. For more information on this exhibition contact Andrew Lucas, Gallery Director, at alucas@nhia.edu. For the entire exhibition schedule please visit www.nhia.edu. All buildings are wheelchair accessible.
The New Hampshire Institute of Art offers a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree along with non-credit Continuing Education and Certificate programs. The New Hampshire Institute of Art is the only independent college of art in New Hampshire and Vermont and is nationally accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design and is a candidate for accreditation by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.
Related Programming
Mark Shapiro Lecture: Golden Ages in American Pottery and Today’s Scene
November 17, 2010, 7 pm to 9 pm, French Building Auditorium. Free admission.
Mark Shapiro will speak on the influences early American stoneware and postwar ceramics have on contemporary studio pottery. Shapiro argues there were two “golden ages” for American potters: the late 18th and early 19th centuries, during which jug-makers flourished firing large salt-glaze kilns, and the American craft movement when studio potters rediscovered handmade high-fired ceramics that synthesized Japanese aesthetics with modernist impulses. He will place current potters and his own ceramics in the context of these traditions and offer an assessment of how the contemporary age fits into this history.
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