Museum Exhibition

What is nice about exhibiting in a museum is seeing your work rubbing up against the museum's permanent collections, and the museal way pieces look locked away behind glass - untouchable in the rather hushed museum atmosphere. Quite different to the gallery or Open Studio situation.

Yesterday the exhibition at the Washington County Museum of the Arts in Hagerstown opened - it will run until September.

In an adjacent gallery are two small Henry Moore bronze maquettes. 

And in the gallery itself are two splendid sandstone figures framing a doorway.

 "The Wise and Foolish Virgins (1947), two sandstone sculptures by the Belgian sculptor Ernest Van Wijnants (1878–1964), stand watch at the entrance to the gallery. The figure of the wise virgin holds out a lamp while the foolish virgin covers hers with a chained hand."

My work is immediately on the right of one of these figures and I really enjoyed it's proximity.

   

I also liked the dramatic effect of lit display cases in the dark-walled gallery.
My work in the two cases on the left, Sten Lykke Madsen's on the right.

Beetles on cups

Here is a sequence of my beetle drawings, on paper, on cups, and two of the original models from the Natural History Museum.

I have a cup with me here in Maryland which I am going to put in to the NCECA Cup Sale. IN 2005 I was lucky enough to win one of the "Cup Sale Award"s at NCECA and saw my cup (decorated with termites) suddenly projected full-screen at the Final Members Meeting.

Exhibitions continued

These are two bowls made with Markus Böhm's porcelain which he sent me to try in the last firing of the Olsen Kiln at Guldagergaard - now they are on exhibition in Maryland!

Joyce Michaud outside the Gallery

Firstly, more photos from the exhibition at Howard Community College, seen above, and then some from the setting up of the exhibition at Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown which opens on Sunday at 2:30pm. The museum itself opens at 12 noon and at 1:30pm there will be a recital.

Joyce Michaud is the curator of the exhibition which includes work by 6 artists 

 "Hand Thrown: The Fine Art of Pinched and Coiled Ceramics".

Mary Bowron (USA)

Sten Lykke Madsen (DK)

Joyce Michaud (USA)

Priscilla Mouritzen (DK)

Kristin Muller (USA)

Toni Ross (USA)

Joyce placing her pieces

Kristin Muller

Three of my pinch pots

The town of Hagerstown seen from the museum.

Exhibition at Howard Community College

Exhibition at Howard Community College, originally uploaded by woodfirer.

The exhibtion at Howard Community College, Columbia, Maryland, looks very elegant and is well lit.

Sten 2009

Sten 2009, originally uploaded by woodfirer.

Sten Lykke Madsen looking satisfied with the results of the firing of his works in the Olsen Cross Draught Kiln, Guldagergaard, 2009

Program for the coming weeks

Here is the program for the first part of my US trip which starts on Wednesday - 17th March.

Sten Lykke Madsen is not going to be making the trip but his sensational works are in all 3 exhibitions and I will have a film of him working to show at the workshops.

Program of Exhibitions and Workshops.

Priscilla Mouritzen and Sten Lykke Madsen

Hood College, 

401 Rosemont Avenue

Frederick, MD 21701

Exhibition  Denmark Clay: Imagery & Emotion in Ceramic Art. Priscilla Mouritzen and Sten Lykke Madsen in Hodson Gallery from March 7 - April 4, 2010. 

A reception will be held March 19 from 6:00 - 7:00 pm and will be followed by an evening lecture open to the general public at 7:00pm. 

The Hood College Ceramic Arts Program look forward to a two day course/workshop presented by Priscilla Mouritzen March 20-21, 2010, entitled Denmark Clay: Imagery & Emotion in Ceramic Art. 

Washington County Art Museum

City Park, 

Hagerstown, MD 21741

Priscilla Mouritzen and Sten Lykke Madsen are also taking part in an exhibition at the Washington County Art Museum’s Fulton Gallery entitled Hand Thrown: The Fine Art of Pinched and Coiled Ceramics. The exhibition will be on display from March 28 - September 5, 2010. 

Exhibition opening events and reception will be held Sunday, March 28, with a viewing of the exhibition from 2:30-3:30 p.m. and gallery talk by Priscilla Mouritzen at 3:00. 

The exhibition will run until September 7, 2010.  

Howard County Community College

10901 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia, MD 

Sten Lykke Madsen and Priscilla Mouritzen are participating in an exhibition at Howard County Community College in Columbia, Maryland.  Refined Naivity - The Ceramic Art of Sten Lykke Madsen and Priscilla Mouritzen.

Priscilla Mouritzen will present a workshop for the HCC students on March 25-26 and the work will be exhibited in the Art Department Gallery Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center 230C Howard Community College

The exhibition runs from March 4, 2010 until April 14, 2010.

A reception will be held on March 18, 2010, 5:00-7:00pm and will include a gallery talk at 6:15 pm.  

And then NCECA!

Delivering work

Yesterday I delivered small eranthis vases to the Kunstindustrimuseet's shop in Copenhagen. Here is the courtyard of the museum still with a smattering of snow.

In the foyer of the museum stands this splendid raku vase by Per Weiss

Here are the some of the eranthis vases, and here two lovely porcelain teapots made by Christian Bruun on sale in the shop.

Blue sky in Copenhagen yesterday

The first sign of spring...

Seen yesterday in the back garden

Today I am working on pinched porcelain cups with decoration based on the insects I saw in the Darwin Centre, and some beetles from Kenya. Perhaps there will be a cup for the NCECA Cup Sale amongst them...