Michelle Erickson
Curtis Benzle is best known for his paper-thin vessels created using multi-colored porcelain in the Japanese technique known as Nerikomi. Nerikomi is a process in which porcelain slabs, colored with stains or ...
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- Biography
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Curtis Benzle is best known for his paper-thin vessels created using multi-colored porcelain in the Japanese technique known as Nerikomi. Nerikomi is a process in which porcelain slabs, colored with stains or oxides, are stacked, folded, pressed into logs, sliced, arranged and pressed into vessel forms. The resulting vessels are thin walled and translucent. He has also used this technique to create lighting fixtures.
In 2015 Benzle was awarded one ofonly four Individual Artist Fellowships in the Visual Art and Craft categories by the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
" - Apprenticeships & Residencies
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-2012
Artist in Residence, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
2013-2014Professional Fellowship Award, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
- Primary Work Experience
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1993-—
Studio Potter, Michelle Erickson Pottery, Inc., Hampton, Virginia
1995-2001Co-Owner, Period Designs, Yorktown, Virginia
2001-—Contributing Author, Ceramics in America
Other
- Public Collections
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Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York
New-York Historical Society Museum, New York, New York
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
Potteries Museums, Stoke-on-Kent, England
- Bibliography
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Erickson, Michelle, “Dots Dashes and Squiggles: Early English Slipware Technology,” Ceramics in America (2003).
________________, “Swirls and Whirls: English and American Agateware Technology,” Ceramics in America (2003).
________________, “Making a Bonnin and Morris Pickle Stand,” Ceramics in America (2007).
________________, “Making a Moravian Squirrel Bottle,” Ceramics in America (2009).
________________, “Making a Fiance Ring Bottle,” Ceramics in America (2009).
Lark Books, ed. 500 Figures in Clay. Ashville, North Carolina: Lark Books, 2004.
Schwartz, Judith. Confrontational Ceramics. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
Sweet, Marvin. The Yixing Effect: Echoes of the Chinese Scholar. Beijing China: Foreign Languages Press, 2006.
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Citation: Michelle Erickson, "The Marks Project."
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