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The Future of Ceramics Education: Saratoga Art Center Resident Artists Paige O’Toole and Mark Tarabula

The Future of Ceramics Education: Saratoga Art Center Resident Artists Paige O’Toole and Mark Tarabula

June 04, 2021

The 21st century is emerging as a time of radical change in human interaction.  The digital revolution that brought us into the new millennium pervades every aspect of modern life, from our homes, our schools, and our workplaces, to our very sense of who we are and what we aspire to in life.  For young artists, navigating this new world requires reevaluation of historic norms and a keen sense of how the new artist stands as interpreter and philosopher for a new age. Mark Tarabula and Paige OToole are ceramic artists in residency at Saratoga Clay Arts Center in Schuylerville, New York.  At the beginning of what each hopes will be a long career in the arts, the artists recently shared their ideas about the current state of ceramic education, exhibition, marketing and purpose.

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Pandemic Zoom Group Becomes Forum for Potters

Pandemic Zoom Group Becomes Forum for Potters

April 07, 2021

When Deborah Bedwell transitioned from Executive Director to Trustee of Baltimore Clayworks, she made a point of continuing to teach one class each semester.  Her retirement at the end of 2011 from the organization she and a group of artists founded in 1980 did not curtail her enthusiasm for teaching.  For over a decade, Bedwell has continued to guide potters in a variety of topics in her Thursday morning class.  In March of 2020, she was doing just that when the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered Baltimore Clayworks.  The determination of Bedwell and her students not to be idled led to a response that transitioned from a simple on-line Zoom substitute for class to a generative forum that speaks to the collective nature of the origins of Baltimore Clayworks itself.

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The Art League Reopening for Spring Term

The Art League Reopening for Spring Term

February 27, 2021

As wintery February draws to a close and the evening light is starting to look like spring, there is reason to be hopeful that the long pandemic of 2020 might be coming to a close.  At The Art League of Alexandria, Virginia, nine months of mostly shuttered doors is giving way to registration for a spring session that just might look normal.  Last autumn we featured The Art League and its Ceramics Chair, Blair Meerfeld, in a story about the effects of closures on art communities.  We spoke to him recently about the challenges of re-opening.

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