Thomas Hoadley

Born: 1949

Thomas Hoadley creates porcelain sculptural objects using the Japanese technique, Nerikomi.Hoadley?s forms reference functional vessels but are, instead, non-functional, sculptural objects.

Nerikomi is a process in which porcelain slabs, colored with stains or ...
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    Thomas Hoadley creates porcelain sculptural objects using the Japanese technique, Nerikomi.Hoadley?s forms reference functional vessels but are, instead, non-functional, sculptural objects.

    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.

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    Apprenticeships & Residencies
    1974

    Apprentice to Malcolm Wright, Marlboro, Vermont

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    Public Collections

    American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California

    Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California

    Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware

    Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, Michigan

    Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, California

    Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina

    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

    Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Tajimi City, Japan 

    Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.

    University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa

    White House Collection, Clinton Presidential Library, Little Rock, Arkansas

    Yale University Museum of Art, New Haven, Connecticut

    Bibliography

    Daniels, Diana L., and Martha Drexler Lynn. The Vase and Beyond, The Sidney Swidler Collection of the Contemporary Vessel. Sacramento, CA: Crocker Art Museum, 2010.

    Frith, Donald E. Moldmaking for Ceramics. Radnor, PA: Chilton Book Co, 1985.

    Herman, Lloyd E. American Porcelain, New Expressions in an Ancient Art. Forest Grove, OR: Timber Press, 1981.

    _______________. Art That Works. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1990.

    Hoadley, Thomas. “Colored Clay section Pattern and Color.” The Studio Potter, December 1994.

    Hopper, Robin. Making Marks, Discovering The Ceramic Surface. Iola, WI: Kraus Publications, 2004.

    Hunt, Bill.  21st Century Ceramics. Westerville, OH: The American Ceramic Society, 2003.

    Lane, Peter. Ceramic Form, Design and Decoration. New York, NY: Rizzoli, 1988.

    _________. Contemporary Porcelain. Radnor, PA: Chilton Book Company, 1995.

    _________, ed. Contemporary Studio Porcelain, 2nd ed. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. 

    Lynn, Martha Drexler. Clay Today. San Francisco, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Chronicle Books, 1990.

    McCready, Karen, and Jan Axel. Porcelain, Traditions and New Visions. New York, NY: Watson Guptil, 1981.

    Monroe, Michael. The White House Collection of American Crafts. New York, NY: Abrams, 1995.

    Ostermann, Matthias. The Ceramic Surface. London, England: A&C Black, 2002.

    Pearson, Katherine. American Crafts: A Sourcebook for the Home. New York, NY: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1983.

    Perryman, Jane. Naked Clay, Ceramics Without Glaze. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.

    “Portfolio.” American Craft, August/September, 1984.

    Waller, Jane. Colour in Clay. Ramsbury, England: Crowood Press Ltd., 1998.

    Whyman, Caroline. The Complete Potter: Porcelain. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.

    Zakin, Richard. Ceramics, Mastering the Craft, 2nd ed. Iola, WI: Kraus Publications, 2001.

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    Lanesborough, Massachusetts

    Citation: Thomas Hoadley, "The Marks Project."
    Last modified April 29, 2026. https://www.themarksproject.org/artists/thomas-a-hoadley

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