Joe Molinaro is a functional potter who creates sculptural forms by altering and abstracting the vessel form to conceal its function. Molinaro?s surface technique is to incise black contour lines and apply geometric zig-zag spouts to confuse the eye when viewing his teapot. Molinaro is directly influenced by his studies of traditional pottery forms; he has researched ceramics in the Amazon region of Ecuador for nearly 25 years and has also conducted research in the Caribbean and Mexico.
Molinaro is a ceramic artist, researcher and educator teaching at Eastern Kentucky University and before at Broward Community College in Florida. He and Richard Burkett founded CLAYART in 1996, an email forum for discussion of issues relating to ceramics. CLAYART now exists as an archive on the American Ceramics Society website, Potters.org.
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