“Parade
Ready” – a mixed media teapot by Spirit Lake artist Hank Hall – has
been selected for the juried show “River to River” at Coe College, in
conjunction with the third bi-annual Iowa Clay Conference at The Ceramic
Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
The
River to River exhibit will highlight the richness and diversity of
ceramic art within Iowa and across eleven other Midwest states. The show
runs from September 11-October 3 at the Sinclair Galleries on the
campus of Coe College with a reception on Friday, October 2, from 6-8 pm
is part of the Iowa Clay Conference that weekend.
Juror
for the exhibit is Bede Clarke, Professor of Art at the University of
Missouri since 1992. He received his Master of Fine Arts from The
University of Iowa (1990) and a BFA from Eckerd College (1982). Bede’s
work is found in public and private collections in the U.S. and abroad.
He maintains a studio in Columbia, Missouri, where he produces his
ceramic art work and continues to exhibit worldwide. Currently, he is
working with wheel-thrown wood-fired stoneware vessels and large wall
tiles emphasizing abstract drawing and color. He is interested in making
work, which “like a good meal leaves a healthy, full feeling.”
Hall’s
“Parade Ready” is a combination of bold and whimsical elements. It
includes a wheel-thrown and altered teapot with a mixed media lid and
handle, metal wheels, and a wooden ramp base. The teapot is made of
bisque-fired cone 6 stoneware, sprayed with green glitter paint on the
outside and white-glazed inside.
Hall explains, “My
number one goal when making teapots is to satisfy my own esthetic sense
of what makes for an entertaining, inventive, and personal teapot form.
If others get the same creative kick out of them as I do, it doesn’t
get much better than that!”
Hall creates one-of-a-kind clay, drawing
and mixed media pieces in his home studio in Spirit Lake, IA. After
34 years of teaching art in Marshalltown, Graettinger, and Spirit
Lake and an additional 10 years teaching private classes and running
an art business, he now focuses on developing new work. Several
directions of his imaginative work include teapots with mixed media
embellishments; abstract drawings started with remote-controlled cars
and robots; and colorful abstract paintings. An important early
influence on his art was studying under Bauhaus-trained, master
potter Marguerite Wildenhain
at Pond Farm Pottery in Guerneville, CA in the summers of 1973 and
1974. For more information, contact Hall at 712-330-6007.
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