Shirley Johnson, potter. Home Excelsior, MN Education M.A. in English Literature University of Wisconsin Worked at MacKenzie pottery for 9 years Artist Statement "I make pots for use - bowls for soup or cereal, cups for tea or wine - all meant as much for the hand as for the eye. I am interested in the way a pot, hand held, seen close up, reveals itself: the rhythms of its making, the character of clay and glazes, the marks of fire as well as those subtle modulations of form that give a pot both its emotional content and its fitness for use." Description of Work Wheel-thrown porcelain and stoneware Recent Exhibitions * 2002 Centering: Clay and the Midwest, Free Hand Gallery, Los Angeles, CA * 2001 American Shino, Babcock Galleries, New York, NY * 2000 Everson Ceramic National Syracuse, NY * 1997 Tracing Tradition Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota Warren MacKenzie, Wayne Branum, Guillermo Cuellar, Barbara Diduk, Shirley Johnson, Randy Johnston, Michael Simon, Sandy Simon, Mike Thiedeman * Clay * Pottery * Teacher
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