Demonstration
Time:
Artist Demos: Tom Spleth & Monica Van Den Dool
Date:
8:00 am –
11:00 am
Richards Hall
Room: 118
560 Stadium Dr
Lincoln NE 68508
Lincoln NE 68508
Additional Info: RH
Contact:
Aaron Sober, aaronsober@yahoo.com
Clay Club visiting artists Tom Spleth and Monica Van Den Dool will be at UNL February 18th and 19th, 2013. They will demonstrating their ceramic techniques at the following times:
2:30 – 5:20 pm, Feb 18, Richards Hall 118
8:00 – 11:00 am, Feb. 19, Richards Hall 118
2:15 – 4:45 pm, Feb. 19, Richards Hall 118
TOM SPLETH
Tom Spleth is recognized as the grandfather of American Studio Slip Casting. He altered a common industrial process and made it something useful for the individual artist/craftsman.
Tom Spleth attended the Kansas City Art Institute receiving his BFA in 1969. He received an MFA in ceramics from Alfred University in 1971. Spleth returned to Alfred University as Assistant Professor from 1978 to 1984. Subsequently he became an Artist in Residence at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Kohler, WI where he created a series of public art commissions for the Cameron Museum of Art, the cities of Raleigh, NC and Durham, NC and for the city of Atlanta, GA. Spleth has exhibited, lectured and taught extensively both nationally (American Craft Museum, Renwick Gallery- Smithsonian Institute, Gregg Museum, Cameron Museum) and internationally (Spannocchia Foundation-Siena, Italy; Frans Masereel Center- Kasterlee, Belgium). Spleth’s work can be found in the public collections of Cameron Museum, Kohler Co. and the RISD Museum among others, in addition to numerous private collections. Tom Spleth lives and works in Little Switzerland, NC.
MONICA VAN DEN DOOL
Monica Van Den Dool creates psychological tableaus through the use of strong, often bigger-than-life-size figurative elements and a narrative that is both personal and accessible. Her work consists of hand-built ceramic sculpture, narrative tableaux, and wall pieces. Generally, it deals with the human inability to comprehend or express our own mortality and connection to the natural world, and plays upon our separation and alienation from these natural and immutable processes. Visual influences range between the natural world, the surreal, the saccharine world of Walt Disney, and the melodramatic scenes depicted on taqueria calendars. Her relationship to clay as a sculptural medium is not invested in traditional concerns about history or process. She has always responded to clay as an almost characterless but intrinsically responsive and visceral material with limitless potential for manipulation.
Monica Van den Dool received an MFA from the Montana State University, Bozeman in 1995. Her work is included in the collection of the Arizona State University Ceramic Research Center among others, and has been reviewed in Artweek, New Ceramics, and Ceramics; Art and Perception. Since 1998 she has taught ceramics at a number of Bay Area universities and colleges including San Jose State University, California College of the Arts, Diablo Valley College, the University of California, Berkeley, and the San Francisco Art Institute. Recent exhibitions include solo exhibitions at the John Natsoulas Gallery in Davis, CA and at Roscoe Ceramic Gallery in Oakland.
2:30 – 5:20 pm, Feb 18, Richards Hall 118
8:00 – 11:00 am, Feb. 19, Richards Hall 118
2:15 – 4:45 pm, Feb. 19, Richards Hall 118
TOM SPLETH
Tom Spleth is recognized as the grandfather of American Studio Slip Casting. He altered a common industrial process and made it something useful for the individual artist/craftsman.
Tom Spleth attended the Kansas City Art Institute receiving his BFA in 1969. He received an MFA in ceramics from Alfred University in 1971. Spleth returned to Alfred University as Assistant Professor from 1978 to 1984. Subsequently he became an Artist in Residence at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Kohler, WI where he created a series of public art commissions for the Cameron Museum of Art, the cities of Raleigh, NC and Durham, NC and for the city of Atlanta, GA. Spleth has exhibited, lectured and taught extensively both nationally (American Craft Museum, Renwick Gallery- Smithsonian Institute, Gregg Museum, Cameron Museum) and internationally (Spannocchia Foundation-Siena, Italy; Frans Masereel Center- Kasterlee, Belgium). Spleth’s work can be found in the public collections of Cameron Museum, Kohler Co. and the RISD Museum among others, in addition to numerous private collections. Tom Spleth lives and works in Little Switzerland, NC.
MONICA VAN DEN DOOL
Monica Van Den Dool creates psychological tableaus through the use of strong, often bigger-than-life-size figurative elements and a narrative that is both personal and accessible. Her work consists of hand-built ceramic sculpture, narrative tableaux, and wall pieces. Generally, it deals with the human inability to comprehend or express our own mortality and connection to the natural world, and plays upon our separation and alienation from these natural and immutable processes. Visual influences range between the natural world, the surreal, the saccharine world of Walt Disney, and the melodramatic scenes depicted on taqueria calendars. Her relationship to clay as a sculptural medium is not invested in traditional concerns about history or process. She has always responded to clay as an almost characterless but intrinsically responsive and visceral material with limitless potential for manipulation.
Monica Van den Dool received an MFA from the Montana State University, Bozeman in 1995. Her work is included in the collection of the Arizona State University Ceramic Research Center among others, and has been reviewed in Artweek, New Ceramics, and Ceramics; Art and Perception. Since 1998 she has taught ceramics at a number of Bay Area universities and colleges including San Jose State University, California College of the Arts, Diablo Valley College, the University of California, Berkeley, and the San Francisco Art Institute. Recent exhibitions include solo exhibitions at the John Natsoulas Gallery in Davis, CA and at Roscoe Ceramic Gallery in Oakland.