James (Jim) Melchert
Nell Hazinski is known for wheel-thrown porcelain and stoneware functional pottery. Signature forms include sauerkraut bowls, ikebana vessels and a variety of functional wares including dinner services, serving pieces, and kitchen wares.
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Nell Hazinski is known for wheel-thrown porcelain and stoneware functional pottery. Signature forms include sauerkraut bowls, ikebana vessels and a variety of functional wares including dinner services, serving pieces, and kitchen wares.
Surface techniques feature floral and line motifs in earth-tone, blue-and-white underglaze, and nerikomi (a Japanese technique in which ?Slabs of different clays or clays colored with stains or oxides, are stacked, folded, pressed into logs, sliced, and arranged to form a vessel.?1Or in Hazinski's practice inlaid into a vessel surface. Hazinski uses shino, high gloss clear, and celadon glazes. Works are most often high fired in either a wood or a gas kiln.
"""1.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerikomi (10/28/2018, 11:30 p.m. ET)
- Apprenticeships & Residencies
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1990
Resident Artist, Arts/Industry Residency Program, Kohler Company, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
- Primary Work Experience
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1952-1956
Tohoku Gakuin Schools, Sendai, Japan
1957-1959Art Professor, Carthage College, Carthage, Illinois (now Kenosha, Wisconsin).
1961-1965San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
1964-1994Faculty, UC Berkeley
1977-1981Director, Visual Arts Program, National Endowment for the Arts
1984-1988Director, American Academy, Rome, Italy
Other
- Public Collections
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Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Baltimore Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa
Icheon World Ceramic Center, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, California
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, Rhode Island
Rose Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, California
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, Washington D.C.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Bibliography
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Falino, Jeannine, ed. Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design. New York, NY: Abrams, 2011.
Koplos, Janet, and Bruce Metcalf. Makers: A History of American Studio Craft. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Melchert, Jim. "Intellctual Space: Coming to Light: A Mural At MIT. Studio Potter Journal, Vol. 23., no. 1 (June 1995). https://studiopotter.org/digital-issue/145
- CV or Resume
- Website(s)
Citation: James (Jim) Melchert, "The Marks Project."
Last modified April 29, 2026. https://www.themarksproject.org/artists/james-jim-melchert
Objects
Collections
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Marer Collection, Scripps College
Claremont, California
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Mr. and Mrs. Fred Marer Collection, Scripps College
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Mr. and Mrs. Fred Marer Collection, Scripps College
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Mr. and Mrs. Fred Marer Collection, Scripps College
Claremont, California -
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Marer Collection, Scripps College
Claremont, California -
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Marer Collection, Scripps College
Claremont, California -
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Marer Collection, Scripps College
Claremont, California -
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Marer Collection, Scripps College
Claremont, California
