VISCOSITY GLASS GALLERY ROCKS IT WITH ACGA ARTISTS
I have artwork in the window at Viscosity Glass Gallery in Boulder Creek! I’m showing candle screens and tree panels (you have to go inside to see those). You will also find ceramic sculptures by Iver Hennig and lots of gorgeous colorful blown glass from Cristy & Scott of Viscosity Glass.
The gallery is now open Fridays 1-5, Saturdays 12-5, and Sundays 1-4, until 12/18. Check their FB page for updates Xmas week. You can also make an appointment if you’re in town on different days.
It seems as though autumn has at last opened the door to cool weather, colorful trees, and even rain. It’s been quite a year for all of us, in so many ways I think. ACGA continues to grow the organization and to seek better ways to be in inclusive and relevant.
November 19th – December 18th, 2022
Jenni has her ceramic sculpture on display in an exhibit Bodies of Water, at 
Join Miki Shim-Rutter and Jen Lo for this very special two day (not-sleepover) yoga and pit fire ceramics retreat! Each participant will take home their own pit fired artwork.
Ongoing
November 12, 2022 – January 1, 2023
To provide a restaurant-style inflight dining experience, airlines also considered the tableware comprising the meal service set. They carefully conceived their chinaware, flatware, and glassware for presentation, utilization, storage, and durability. Manufacturers often created tableware bearing the airline’s service mark or logo, as well as unique patterns related to national origin, destination, or service promotions. This exhibition presents eight airline meal service sets from the 1960s to the 1980s, along with menus and images of inflight meal services from the time.
California played a central role in the formation of a modern American aesthetic during the mid-twentieth century. Decorative arts and design reflected exciting new technologies and forms of expression. As modernist artists and designers looked beyond traditional methods and towards the future, some also found inspiration in the handmade qualities of crafts. Many of the Golden State’s most innovative artists and designers were women who faced great adversity due to prevailing gender inequality. The most determined women pushed forward, driven by enthusiasm, strength, and creativity.
French author Philippe Burty (1830–90) coined the term Japonisme in 1872 to describe the new fervor for all things Japanese,following Japan’s opening to international trade after a prolonged period of isolation from the West. The increased visibility ofJapanese art and design overseas profoundly affected European and North American audiences as ceramics, ukiyo-e woodblock prints, metalwork, lacquer ware, fans, and textiles flooded Western markets. Japonisme permeated fine and decorative arts, interior design, and graphic arts. Artists such as Vincent van Gogh (1853–90) and James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) were deeply inspired by Japanese art. American silver manufacturers including Tiffany & Company and the Gorham Manufacturing Company were determined to create metalwork as fine as Japan’s. English potteries took heed of Japanese designs to create a plethora of new patterns.
The Winter 2023 issue of American Craft magazine—centered on the theme inhabit—will be hitting mail boxes soon! In the next six installments of
The de la Torre Brothers, Einar and Jamex, are renowned for their large-scale, vivid mixed media sculptures incorporating religious and cultural iconography from their Chicano background. Based in San Diego and in Baja California, they work primarily in glass and lenticular printing. In The Queue, they share how they got into glass, the surreal aspects of making art across the Mexico border, and some of their favorite contemporary glass artists and exhibitions.
The Potters’ Studio
Clay Hand Studios
This month we’re pleased to profile Jan Schachter, a studio potter from Portola Valley, California, who is one of CERF+’s most active and committed volunteers and donors. Jan served on the CERF board from 1992-1997 when Lois Ahrens was the director and only employee. During that time, Jan organized a major fundraising
For the many who knew Paula Ross
I create functional pottery that can be used daily. I hand craft my pieces using slab building techniques.
Discover the story of Edith Heath, founder and designer of Heath Ceramics. Heath transformed the ceramics industry, creating dinnerware from California clay for “Sunday best” and everyday use. Driven by the power of good design, and a commitment to her craft, Heath’s vision continues to live on through her stoneware and tile over 70 years later. Durable, not delicate, simple, yet stylish, Heath Ceramics is an icon of American design.
Ventura County Potters’ Guild
California Modernist Women: Groundbreaking Creativity
Read about ACGA artist Lynne Meade in this article from 
This piece was chosen by juror, Cynthia Brannvall, for THE WILD SIDE at 
Peter Callas: An Enduring Legacy
50 Bowls, 50 States, 50 Woodfires
Patrick Crabb: A Search for the Ancients
ACGA made a fine showing at NCECA in March. 16 Artists were represented each with their own designated space. Sales were brisk and we got fabulous feedback from many people. I want to give a big thanks to Mari Emori for all of her incredible work that she put in to make this event happen and to make it be successful.
And finally I’d like to share with you how vibrant the ACGA board of directors has become as a group. We’ve added new members with new talents and I am genuinely excited for the future of our organization. Now that meetings are on zoom it opens up the possibility for others to at least attend the board meetings so you know what’s going on, or even join the board. If you have any questions please feel free to reach out to me.
I starting working with clay in 2008 and pursued it more seriously after moving to California seven years ago. I use wheel throwing and hand-building to make sculptural and functional pieces. Insects, seedpods, trees, birds, stones, and all sorts of human constructions are as much my teachers as the ceramics I see in museums and galleries. Whenever possible, I use clays that I dig locally.
Lee Middleman’s piece “Jade Sunflower Vase 2022” has been selected
Born and raised in Northern California, Sean Free Alcala is a second-generation maker whose artwork has always been rooted in the natural world. Being inspired by the beautiful beaches and flowing rivers of the west coast, his artistic journey explores the wondrous material of glass as it overlaps with the many dynamic characteristics of water.
On the Strait
May, 2022 • 11 AM–12 PM • In Person & Recorded
Shimmer
The Geologic Editions and Sculpture represents David Ruth’s singular achievement in cast glass. The series of sculptures is formed of composite patterns of rock and ice taken from Antarctica and the Berkeley Hills. This work is the result of more than thirty years of study and experience that employs melding expression of ideas with the formulation of colored glasses. The Geologic Editions represent a continental collision in deep time using patterns of geology to tell a human and geologic story through light. Please join us for a celebration of this glass sculpture at the Marienthal House.
The 2022 National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) Annual
A one-day demonstration workshop with master potter Susie Rubenstein.
Tap Roots: Ceramic Artist Educators of Northern California.
Connected Spaces
Jon Keenan: Recent Work
Mead Kibbey Gallery
R’Evolution
Ahh, what a year it has been!
Due to Omicron breakthrough cases, and in the interest of safe family & friend visits, NCWCA decided to cancel this reception.
Abers has work consisting of kiln-cast glass (below) and clay sculptures on view through January 16 at
Montague is involved in 
Michael has been working over the last few months to open a new space: Dickinson Glass Studio and Showroom, in Sebastopol. They have just announced that “we’re fully open, an operation, and have released class registration for glass flameworking classes in the North Bay. It’s a beautiful space that I’m excited to share more of: as a gallery, working studio, and teaching space. I also have other local artists featured here and plan to host events / would love to feature even more of a variety of artists in the gallery.”
VIDEO TOUR: 
January 21, 2022 – February 27, 2022
The Bay Area has a bounty of talent, an abundance of artists, a cacophony of voices. This show combines work that explores the themes of mortality, memory, decadence, excess, and joy. It challenges your sense of reality, and ponders the question, how did we get to this moment in time?
Solange Roberdeau and Jochen Holz
Life is Not a Dress Rehearsal – Don Reitz
Since 2016, the American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA) has partnered with the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College to produce exhibitions of works by the guest curators of the Scripps College Ceramic Annual. In January of 2022, curator Ashwini Bhat will curate On Fire: Contemporary Trailblazers for the 77th Scripps College Ceramic Annual. Opening earlier in the month in the Vault Gallery at AMOCA, the exhibition Ashwini Bhat: IMPRINTED, Assembling California will debut a new body of work comprising sculptures, photographs, and a video work that are based in direct experiences with the California landscape.
OJAI VISIONS
The Deep South has a unique place in the history of American ceramics. In the Northeast, potters commonly used salt to glaze stoneware in the European tradition. But in the southern United States, where salt was a more precious commodity, potters often applied alkaline glazes on high-fired stoneware. Pottery ranges in color from pale green to dark brown with glazed surfaces that vary from smooth and glassy, to drippy and textured. The technique originated in Han