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  2. Waylande Gregory - Wikipedia

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    Waylande Gregory was born in Baxter Springs, Kansas in 1905. His mother was a concert pianist, and his father was a farmer.From an early age he showed precocious artistic talent, beginning with small sculptures of animals in earth, as well as prodigious musical talent, even composing his own pieces.

  3. Ceramic forming techniques - Wikipedia

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    There are also several traditional techniques of handbuilding, such as pinching, soft slab, hard slab, and coil construction. Other techniques involve threading animal or artificial wool fiber through paperclay slip, to build up layers of material. The result can be wrapped over forms or cut, dried and later joined with liquid and soft paperclay.

  4. Slip casting - Wikipedia

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    Slip casting, or slipcasting, is a ceramic forming technique, and is widely used in industry and by craft potters to make ceramic forms. This technique is typically used to form complicated shapes like figurative ceramics that would be difficult to be reproduced by hand or other forming techniques. [ 1 ]

  5. Akio Takamori - Wikipedia

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    His work is in the collection of the Carnegie Museum of Art, [10] the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, [11] the Museum of Arts and Design, [12] the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, [13] the Victoria and Albert Museum, [14] His work, Alice with Rose, was acquired by the Smithsonian American Art Museum as part of the Renwick Gallery's 50th Anniversary Campaign.

  6. Ceramic art - Wikipedia

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    As one of the plastic arts, ceramic art is a visual art. While some ceramics are considered fine art, such as pottery or sculpture, most are considered to be decorative, industrial or applied art objects. Ceramic art can be created by one person or by a group, in a pottery or a ceramic factory with a group designing and manufacturing the ...

  7. Openwork - Wikipedia

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    Openwork or open-work is a term in art history, architecture and related fields for any technique that produces decoration by creating holes, piercings, or gaps that go right through a solid material such as metal, wood, stone, pottery, cloth, leather, or ivory. [2] Such techniques have been very widely used in a great number of cultures.

  8. Coiling (pottery) - Wikipedia

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    Making a pot with the coiling technique. Coiling is a method of creating pottery.It has been used to shape clay into vessels for many thousands of years. It is found across the cultures of the world, including Africa, Greece, China, and Native American cultures of New Mexico.

  9. Toshiko Takaezu - Wikipedia

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    Toshiko Takaezu (June 17, 1922 – March 9, 2011) [1] was an American ceramic artist, painter, sculptor, and educator whose oeuvre spanned a wide range of mediums, including ceramics, weavings, bronzes, and paintings.