Mark Shapiro Ceramics

1925 born new york new york.

Mark shapiro ceramics.

1967 faculty penland school of craft penland north carolina. He is frequent workshop leader lecturer panelist curator writer and mentor to a half dozen former apprentices. Mark shapiro has made wood fired functional pots in western massachusetts for the past twenty years. Mark is reporting from the 2010 nceca conference in philadelphia this week and will join the sawdust dirt bloggers thereafter.

With an undergraduate degree in anthropology and a half dozen years working as a sculptor in new york in the early 1980s he returned to his early passion for pottery which he felt provided connection intimacy and accessibility that sculpture for him lacked. 2016 died morgan vermont. Mark shapiro s interest in early american stoneware is an ongoing inspiration for his work which includes the exploration of bottle flask and other domestic forms. The colors on his stoneware are the result of wood firing.

His own work was featured in the 4th world ceramics biennale in icheon korea and is in many public collections including the smithsonian institution the mint museum. 1951 1952 graduate fellow new york state college of ceramics alfred university alfred new york. Artist ani kasten creates ceramic artwork vessels sculptures and wall pieces by hand at her studio in shafer minnesota. 1954 1979 gate hill cooperative stony point new york.

1946 ba brooklyn college brooklyn new york. His work is often altered by paddling or carving thrown forms. Mark shapiro has made wood fired functional pots in western massachusetts for the past 25 years. Mark shapiro is a potter in western massachusetts.

Kasten s pieces incorporate stoneware porcelain found clays rocks and natural earth materials from nearby the studio. Pots spoke of tactility nourishment and community in way that was totally. Master classes in ceramic techniques. Gallery the gallery which used to be attached to the house and reportedly once housed fugitive slaves as part of the underground railroad now stands to the left of the old stone pool nestled back almost into the woods.

Mark shapiro is a potter workshop leader and occasional curator from worthington ma.