#Southern highland craft guild 2016 series

Asheville, NC: Lark Books, 2002.The headquarters for the Southern Highland Craft Guild is at the Folk Art Center at milepost 382 of the Blue Ridge Parkway in Asheville, North Carolina. Five Hundred Teapots: Explorations of a Timeless Design. “The Nature of Craft and the Penland Experience.” Ceramics Monthly 52, no. Setting Up Your Ceramics Studio: Ideas and Plans for Working Artists. Asheville, NC Lark Books, 2003. Syracuse, NY: Everson Museum of Art, 2000. The Ceramic Surface. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. The White House Collection of American Crafts. The Penland Book of Ceramics: Master Classes in Ceramics Techniques. Asheville, NC : Lark Books, 2008. Conover, NC: Goosepen Studio & Press, 2009. The Living Tradition, North Carolina Potters Speak. Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950 – 2000. New York, NY : Rizzoli International Publications, 2000. The Penland Book of Ceramics: Master Classes in Ceramics Techniques. Asheville, NC: Lark books, 2003. The Nature of Craft and the Penland Experience: Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of Penland School of Crafts. Asheville, NC: Lark Books, 2004. Makers: A History of American Studio Craft. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Robert & Deanna Harris Burger Collection. Function, Form & Fantasy: Ceramics from the Dr.

Teapots Transformed: Exploration of an Object. Madison, WI: Guild Publishing, 2000.įlint Institute of Arts. Postmodern Ceramics. New York, NY: Thames & Hudson, 2001.įerrin, Leslie. The Artful Teapot. New York, NY: Watson-Guptill, 2001. “Natural Narratives.” American Craft (April/May 2010).Ĭlark, Garth. Waterville, OH: American Ceramic Society, 2000.īyrd, Joan Falconer. Design! A Lively Guide to Design Basics for Artists and Craftspeople. Asheville, NC: Lark Books, 2004.īaird, Daryl E. Sherrill is the creator of Mudtools, a company born out of a need to create innovative clay tools for himself.Īimone , Steven. The inspiration for these sculptures comes from his rural environment in the mountains of North Carolina. Next, he looked to glass lampwork to create the glittery small parts of the flowers. These multicolored ceramic botanicals required as many as 4 firings and a process of layering and removing color. He first mastered the art of metal forging which allowed Sherrill to use bronze elements as the structures to hold and display the white stoneware flowers and leaves. To produce this new body of work Sherrill expanded his expertise to include metal and glass.

#Southern highland craft guild 2016 series

These pieces were transitional and led to his next series of plant forms referencing both nature and imagination. Sherrill created a large series of abstracted teapots composed of extruded forms. These techniques can open up new possibilities for anyone working in clay.” This is the thing I would like to communicate and share with others. It is a place to make and manipulate forms. Instead of the extruder being a static tool, just to make an object, I now see it as a workstation like a potter's wheel. It widened my view of what I can do with clay. My involvement in using an extruder has totally changed my thinking about it as a tool. Sherrill states, “I started using my extruder to extrude tubes and then pull tapered, long spouts for my sculptural teapots. Sherrill considers himself a materials-based artist experimenting primarily in the media of clay but also metal and glass. These pieces began Sherrill’s exploration into the possibilities of surface manipulation and glazes which led to the multi-layered glaze technique used in conjunction with post-firing sandblasting.

He went on to make a large body of non-functional work based on the bottle form which led to exploring botanical suclptures completed in mixed media. Michael Sherrill began his career throwing functional work in traditional forms using traditional glazes. Studio sculptor working with clay, metal and glass, North Carolina 2004 Residency International Ceramic Museum, Inchon, South KoreaĢ005 Residency Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, New Castle, MaineĢ006 Residency Arts and Industry, Kohler Company and John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WisconsinĢ010 Residency Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New YorkĢ015 Residency LH Project, Joseph, Oregon