Links

Here are a few links that you might find interesting

This isn’t meant to be a comprehensive list.

Traditional Ceramic Styles

• A general overview of Medieval Islamic Ceramics from the Art Institute of Chicago.
• L.A. County Museum of Art on Islamic Art
• The Medieval Pottery Research Group
• Getty Museum exhibit on “The Arts of Fire: Islamic Influences on the Italian Renaissance”

Iznik

• An overview of the Iznik Tile Industry
• A book by Walter Denney on the Art of Iznik pottery.
• An exhibit of Iznik pottery at the Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
• A beautiful Iznik tankard from the Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon
• A tile panel from the Gulbenkian Museum
• Guide to Iznik tiles and plates

Persian

• The Rietz Collection of Persian Ceramics
• Landau Traveling Exhibition of Persian Ceramics from the Appleton Museum of Art
• The Ilkhans

Spanish

• A couple of nice images

Mexican

• Ceramics in the Mexican National Museum of Anthropology

Chinese

• An overview of Cermics and Pottery in China; Go to the main page and under “Arts: Handicraft” click on “Earthen and Stone Ware”; don’t miss the section on porcelain—click on “Chinaware”.
• A nice website from the collection of the Asia Society;don’t miss the links to the different parts of the collection on the left.
• From the collection of the USC Pacific Asia Museum

Japanese

• Jomon Women’s Pottery
• More Images of prehistoric Jomon ceramics

American

• Craft in America website highlighting the work of many of America’s finest clay artists

Local Ceramic and Arts Organizations, Studios, Galleries and Centers

• Orange County Artists Guild (go to the gallery page to see work of individual artists)
• The Clay Centre in Carrboro
• Claymaker’s Studio in Durham
• The Crafts Center at NC State
• Carrboro Arts Center
• Chatham County Artists Guild
• FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill
• Bakova Gallery, Hillsborough
• Hillsborough Gallery of Arts
• Cedar Creek Gallery
• Craven Allen Gallery in Durham

Some Interesting Modern Ceramic Artists (This isn’t comprehensive; just some ceramic work I like)

• Adrian Arleo
• Alan Caiger-Smith-Making Lustre (You Tube)
• Some astonishing photos of a Raku firing (Pottery by Dave & Boni Deal)
• Mark Hewitt
• Bennett Bean; an article about his work
• Mathew Metz
• Michael Simon at Cedar Creek Gallery
• Michael Simon
• Steven Forbes-deSoule (wonderful lusterous glazes)
• Matt Jones; his blog that takes on the critic Garth Clark’s dismissal of functional pottery is especially interesting.
• Michael Gustavson
• Mary-Ann Prack
• Jennifer McCurdy
• Halima Cassell; this artist’s carved ceramic work is amazing!

Other Interesting Websites (Mostly Art)

• Serigraphs By John August Swanson
• Work by Iranian Artist Hussain Zenderoudi (you can exit this site; just look for the little “exit” pop-up)
• Painting, Multi-media, and Installation by Shazia Sikander 
• Hand-woven Egyptian Tapestries; in 2004 I visited the Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Academy outside of Cairo and was stunned by the astonishing beauty of much of this work. Don’t miss this site!
• Digital Photo Collages by Tommy Mintz
• The Nicholas Roerich Museum
• Painting by Katherine Sherwood
• Paintings by Pakistani Painter Abdul Rahman Chugtai in the Grosvenor Gallery
• Architectural Ornament by Jay Bonner
• Painting by Dr. Ahmed Moustafa; Mathaf Gallery
• Paintings by Bruce Herman
• Paintings by Brian Rutenberg
• Beautiful stone sculpture by Toru Oba
• Arabic Calligraphy by Pakistani Calligrapher Rasheed Butt
• An Archive of Archictectural Photos (you have to sign up and create a password)
• Anything you ever wanted to know about the academic study of Islam and Sufism at Prof. Carl Ernst’s website