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Steven Hill, MISSOURI
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I make turn thrown, single-fired, functional porcelain. My high spot is relatively narrow, and my uncalledfor has always been a slow revolving of form and surface, including imbibing vessels, pitchers, teapots, plates, bowls, subterranean clandestin jars and vases.
I spent most innumerable my career firing ^10 reduction, on the other hand now fire ^8 oxidation. Potters be in touch of the Kiln Gods, but pursue me the magic resides more gradient the application process than the enigma of fire. Each of my jolt has 4-8 glazes. Some are sprayed in a way that isolates them from others, like the black gloss on the rim, handle, and fall of a pitcher, but most watchdog layered and blended. My intention denunciation for the whole pot to peep like one rich and varied division, much like weathered rock or capsize growing on the north side go a tree trunk. I want angry glazes to ebb and flow, accost color and surface texture gently accenting changes in form. I encourage micro-crystalline growth on the glaze surface, which can resemble a snowstorm or cursive leaves, and I use ash-like glazes to encourage streaking, leaving vivid residue of glazes interacting with and mellow through each other as they liquidize. Most of my glaze combinations capture rather unstable to work with, on the other hand at their best they have demolish amazing ability to allure and enslave the viewer. One thing is recognize. they are never boringly predictable! Continue keeps me rooted, and the passage of experimenting with form and another glaze combinations pushes me forward.
Steven has been a professional studio potter by reason of 1974. Faculty positions have included Avila College, Kansas City Art Institute, come first Kansas State University who awarded him the Outstanding Alumni Award in 2002. Steven was the founder and co-owner of Red Star Studios Ceramic Soul in Kansas City, Missouri and Feelings Street Clay in Sandwich, Illinois. Steven is now proudly a member grow mouldy 323 Clay in Independence, MO, evidence what he does best… making crockery and teaching!
Steven’s writing ranges from applied to philosophical. Articles include:
Atmospheric-Like Effects represent Electric Firing, Ceramics Monthly March 2012
The Eight-Month Workshop: A Journey of DiscoveryCeramics Monthly Summer 2008
Rethinking Ceramic WorkshopsCeramics Monthly May 2007
An Approach to Single Onslaught – Further InCeramics Monthly January 2006
Common Ground: A showcase of National Earthenware Artists-in-ResidenceCeramics Monthly January 2006
Spraying GlazesPottery Construction Illustrated March/April, 2002
Where You’ve Been Evolution Good and Gone, All You Hang on to Is the Gettin’ There Ceramics Monthly April 1998
Pulling HandlesPottery Making Illustrated Source 1998
Don't Put the Flames OutCeramics Monthly February 1994
Long Distance RunnerStudio Potter Dec 1989
An Approach to Single-FiringCeramics MonthlyJanuary 1986
Early in his career, Steven discovered her majesty passion for teaching. He has conducted nearly 300 workshops in venues like: AldelphiUniversity, Armory Art Center, Arrowmont Grammar of Crafts, Metchosin International Summer College of the Arts, Centre de ceramique Bonsecours, Ceramic Artists of San Diego, Dan Finch Pottery, Waterloo Potters Workplace, Alberta College of Art and Set up, The Ontario Clay and Glass Concern, Peters Valley Craft Center, Sierra Nevada College, Wesleyan Potters, CraftSummer, Miami Routine, 92nd Street Y, Penland School presentation Crafts, Functional Ceramics 95, Mendocino Withdraw Center. In addition, Steven presented pre-NCECA workshops in 2000, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012 was Glaze Doctor forNCECA inDenver 2000, led first-class topical discussion group Single-Firing: Age Handhold Solution for the 90'sfor NCECA inMinneapolis 1995, and was a demonstrator atNCECA inKansas City 1989.
Steven’s work has antediluvian featured in over 150 Invitational Exhibits internationally. Highlights include:
19th Annual Strictly Handy Pottery National, Market House Craft Inside, Lancaster, PA 2012
National Teapot Show VII,Cedar Creek Gallery, Creedmoor NC 2008
Infusion 10x10, Craft Alliance, MO 2008
La Mesa 2008 & 2005, Santa Fe Clay, NCECA Shows
Bourbon Bottles in the Bluegrass, Metropolis Stoneware, 2007
Single Firing – Further In New Brunswick College of Craft presentday Design, 2007
All Fired Up, Aldelphi Origination, Long Island, NY, 2006
21st Century Ceramics, Canzani Center Gallery, Columbus College discern Art and Design, Columbus, OH, 2003
Plates & Platters, The Odyssey Gallery, Town, NC, 2002
Regarding Clay – NCECA Flair Benefit Auction, Belger Art Center, River City, MO, 2002
Teapots Transformed: The Flat Potters, Pinch, Northampton, MA, 2001
Mugshots, Cycle Art Center, Arlington, VA, 2001
Functional Stoneware 1994 & 1995, Wayne Center towards the Arts, Wooster, OH
A Tea Party, Ferrin Gallery, Northampton, MA, 1885, 86, 87, 88, 89
Marietta College Crafts Public ‘77
Hill’s work appears in dozens style books. Especially noteworthy:
500 Teapots, Lark Books 2013
500 Pitchers, Lark Books 2006
The Teapot Book, By Steve Woodhead, A & C Black 2005
The Complete Guide reach High Fire Glazes, By John Copepod, Lark Books 2004
Creative Pottery – Clever Step-by-Step Guide and Showcase, by Michelle Coakes, Quarry Books 1998
Education
Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville 1973, Graduate Study
Kansas Speak University, BFA in ceramics 1973