Bill Griffith
Michael Corney is known forwork in porcelain that is both thrown and altered or slab built.While his forms are conventional,Corney?s tablewares including mugs, tumblers, plates, covered boxes, and teapots often include imagery ...
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- Biography
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Michael Corney is known forwork in porcelain that is both thrown and altered or slab built.While his forms are conventional,Corney?s tablewares including mugs, tumblers, plates, covered boxes, and teapots often include imagery of skulls, dominoes, and natural images. He uses stains, glazes and underglaze to create the surface imagery. He also hand builds pieces using cube forms.His work is influenced by California Funk forms and imagery.
Corney uses a stream-of-consciousness approach to imagery that can include painted faces, images from nature and game pieces including dice and dominoes. He often uses black silhouettes and icons from popular culture combined in ways that demonstrate his willingness to mix things up to create edgy scenes and narratives. There is a clear sense of humor in his work.
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1985
Artist in Residence, International Workshop of Ceramic Art, Tokoname, Japan
2012Artist in Residence, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, Maine
2016Artist in Residence, Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, Montana
- Primary Work Experience
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1972-1987
Art Instructor, Connersville High School, Connersville, Indiana
1985-1987Art Department Chair, Connersville High School, Connersville, Indiana
1987-2008Assistant Director, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee
2006-2015Director, Artists-In-Residency Program, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee
2008-2015Program Director, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee
2015Outreach and Partnership Liaison, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Other
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Arkansas Arts Center. Little Rock, Arkansas
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. Gatlinburg, Tennessee
City of Orlando Permanent Collection. Orlando, Florida
Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute. Jingdezhen, China
San Angelo Museum of Fine Art. San Angelo, Texas
Tennessee State Museum. Nashville, Tennessee
The Haan Museum of Indiana Art, Lafayette, Indiana
therosenfieldcollection.com
Tokoname Cultural Museum. Tokoname, Japan
- Bibliography
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Fairbanks, Jonathan, Angela Fina, and Christopher Gustin. The Best of Pottery vo. 2. Bloomington, IN: Quarry Books, 1999.
Fina, Angela, Fairbanks, Jonathan, and Christopher Gustin. The Best of Pottery v.1. Bloomington, IN: Quarry Books, 1998.
Griffith, Bill. “A Pitcher with No Handle.” Ceramics Monthly (December 2011).
_________. “Clay Culture, Collecting Stories.” Ceramics Monthly (October 2014).
_________. “Sensuous Surfaces.” Ceramics Art & Perception 43 (2001).
_________. “Tennessee Clay Ways.” Ceramics Art & Perception 41 (2000).
Horn, Robyn. Living with Form: The Horn Collection of Contemporary Crafts. Little Rock, AR: Bradley Publishing, 1999.
McRary, Amy. “Teacher, Potter Bill Griffith Found His 'Tribe' at Gatlinburg's Arrowmont.” Knoxville News Sentinel, September 3, 2016.
Minogue, Coll, and Robert Sanderson. Wood Fired Ceramics: Contemporary Practices. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.
Scala, Mark, Benjamin Hubbard Caldwell, and Robert H. Hicks. Art of Tennessee. Nashville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2003.
“The Function of Vision.” Ceramics Monthly (December 1997).
Tourtillott, Suzanne J.E. 500 Cups.: Ceramic Explorations of Utility and Grace New York, NY: Lark Books, 2004.
- CV or Resume
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Jeffrey Kuratnick
- Website(s)
Citation: Jeffrey Kuratnick Bill Griffith, "The Marks Project."
Last modified April 29, 2026. https://www.themarksproject.org/artists/bill-griffith
Objects
Collections
Clay Art Center, Port Chester, New York
United States
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Clay Art Center, Port Chester, New York
United States
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Dallas, Texas
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