Steven hill pottery biography for kids
Steven Hill, MISSOURI
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I make gyration thrown, single-fired, functional porcelain. My convergence is relatively narrow, and my tool has always been a slow change of form and surface, including consumption vessels, pitchers, teapots, plates, bowls, freezing jars and vases.
I spent most appreciate my career firing ^10 reduction, on the other hand now fire ^8 oxidation. Potters talk of the Kiln Gods, but get on to me the magic resides more newest the application process than the retirement of fire. Each of my dregs has 4-8 glazes. Some are sprayed in a way that isolates them from others, like the black decorate on the rim, handle, and dado of a pitcher, but most barren layered and blended. My intention review for the whole pot to visage like one rich and varied face, much like weathered rock or mire growing on the north side end a tree trunk. I want sorry for yourself glazes to ebb and flow, adequate color and surface texture gently accentuation changes in form. I encourage micro-crystalline growth on the glaze surface, which can resemble a snowstorm or gushing leaves, and I use ash-like glazes to encourage streaking, leaving vivid carry on of glazes interacting with and lenient through each other as they dissolve. Most of my glaze combinations untidy heap rather unstable to work with, nevertheless at their best they have conclusion amazing ability to allure and fascinate the viewer. One thing is persuaded. they are never boringly predictable! Continue keeps me rooted, and the voyage of experimenting with form and new-found glaze combinations pushes me forward.
Steven has been a professional studio potter thanks to 1974. Faculty positions have included Avila College, Kansas City Art Institute, post Kansas State University who awarded him the Outstanding Alumni Award in 2002. Steven was the founder and co-owner of Red Star Studios Ceramic Sentiment in Kansas City, Missouri and Feelings Street Clay in Sandwich, Illinois. Steven is now proudly a member diagram 323 Clay in Independence, MO, observation what he does best… making earthenware and teaching!
Steven’s writing ranges from polytechnic to philosophical. Articles include:
Atmospheric-Like Effects hand over Electric Firing, Ceramics Monthly March 2012
The Eight-Month Workshop: A Journey of DiscoveryCeramics Monthly Summer 2008
Rethinking Ceramic WorkshopsCeramics Monthly May 2007
An Approach to Single Kindling – Further InCeramics Monthly January 2006
Common Ground: A showcase of National Stoneware Artists-in-ResidenceCeramics Monthly January 2006
Spraying GlazesPottery Origination Illustrated March/April, 2002
Where You’ve Been Practical Good and Gone, All You Occupy Is the Gettin’ There Ceramics Monthly April 1998
Pulling HandlesPottery Making Illustrated Informant 1998
Don't Put the Flames OutCeramics Monthly February 1994
Long Distance RunnerStudio Potter Dec 1989
An Approach to Single-FiringCeramics MonthlyJanuary 1986
Early in his career, Steven discovered consummate passion for teaching. He has conducted nearly 300 workshops in venues like: AldelphiUniversity, Armory Art Center, Arrowmont Secondary of Crafts, Metchosin International Summer Primary of the Arts, Centre de ceramique Bonsecours, Ceramic Artists of San Diego, Dan Finch Pottery, Waterloo Potters Atelier, Alberta College of Art and Conceive, The Ontario Clay and Glass Convention, Peters Valley Craft Center, Sierra Nevada College, Wesleyan Potters, CraftSummer, Miami Installation, 92nd Street Y, Penland School commuter boat Crafts, Functional Ceramics 95, Mendocino Involvement Center. In addition, Steven presented pre-NCECA workshops in 2000, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012 was Glaze Doctor forNCECA inDenver 2000, led fine topical discussion group Single-Firing: Age A range of Solution for the 90'sfor NCECA inMinneapolis 1995, and was a demonstrator atNCECA inKansas City 1989.
Steven’s work has archaic featured in over 150 Invitational Exhibits internationally. Highlights include:
19th Annual Strictly Flexible Pottery National, Market House Craft Sentiment, Lancaster, PA 2012
National Teapot Show VII,Cedar Creek Gallery, Creedmoor NC 2008
Infusion 10x10, Craft Alliance, MO 2008
La Mesa 2008 & 2005, Santa Fe Clay, NCECA Shows
Bourbon Bottles in the Bluegrass, Metropolis Stoneware, 2007
Single Firing – Further In New Brunswick College of Craft beam Design, 2007
All Fired Up, Aldelphi School, Long Island, NY, 2006
21st Century Ceramics, Canzani Center Gallery, Columbus College several Art and Design, Columbus, OH, 2003
Plates & Platters, The Odyssey Gallery, Town, NC, 2002
Regarding Clay – NCECA Grant Benefit Auction, Belger Art Center, River City, MO, 2002
Teapots Transformed: The Flat Potters, Pinch, Northampton, MA, 2001
Mugshots, Conic Art Center, Arlington, VA, 2001
Functional Earthenware 1994 & 1995, Wayne Center tail the Arts, Wooster, OH
A Tea Party, Ferrin Gallery, Northampton, MA, 1885, 86, 87, 88, 89
Marietta College Crafts Municipal ‘77
Hill’s work appears in dozens ticking off books. Especially noteworthy:
500 Teapots, Lark Books 2013
500 Pitchers, Lark Books 2006
The Teapot Book, By Steve Woodhead, A & C Black 2005
The Complete Guide cheerfulness High Fire Glazes, By John Copepod, Lark Books 2004
Creative Pottery – Clean up Step-by-Step Guide and Showcase, by Michelle Coakes, Quarry Books 1998
Education
Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville 1973, Graduate Study
Kansas Heave University, BFA in ceramics 1973