Sharif Bey, Ceramic Artist

More to see on artist website:

https://www.sharifbeyceramics.com/necklaces

 

Ismael Ivo, 1955 - 2021, Brazilian Choreographer and Dancer

A powerful play on the consumption of coffee and its connotations. 

I Had Too Much Coffee is a video work from 2002 with the late choreographer and dancer Ismael Ivo, set to a piano composition by PC Nackt. 

The performance question the economics of coffee and its colonial origins. 

Language Source:

http://ralfschmerberg.de/video/ismael-ivo/

 

Ceramic History

Stone cooking supports used to grill skewers of meat by Minoans in Santorini, Greece circa 1600 BCE. The line of holes in the base supplied coals with oxygen. Many consider modern "souvlaki" street kebabs a direct descendant of this portable food system. Museum of Prehistoric Thera, Greece.

Note: I lifted the image and text from Facebook group History Feels. No confirmation that forms are ceramic. However, if not ceramic, the forms still offer inspiration for our personal projects in our class. 

Here is the link I found to Museum of Prehistoric Thera in Greece:

http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/1/eh151.jsp?obj_id=3325

Vincent Lendering, Student Work, Ceramic Sculpture I

Glazed Ceramic

Left, 8" diameter, 13" height

Right: 10" diameter, 11" height

Images below show how the idea for the two 

featured sculptures (above) developed. 

Above, experimental pieces. 

Five pieces inspired by experimental pieces.

3" to 7" in height. 

 

Ceramics History

Clay tablet with cuneiform

2100 - 2000 BC

Copyright: Trustees of the British Museum

Source Link:

https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/4000-year-old-tablet-recording-workers-wages#:~:text=Developed%20in%20Ancient%20Mesopotamia%2C%20clay,they%20could%20survive%20for%20millennia.

This tablet preserves an account of wages paid to workers 4,000 years ago. 

Developed in Ancient Mesopotamia, clay tablets were used for over 3,000 years. Scribes used a reed stylus to impress characters in moist clay. The tablets were usually dried in the sun or sometimes fired in kilns. 

Documents were often archived in libraries where they could survive for millennia.

Clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia provide an entirely new insight to early medical history. 

(Photo: © The Trustees of the British Museum)

Go to link to read about this clay tablet:

https://sciencenordic.com/denmark-history-medicine/clay-tablets-from-the-cradle-of-civilisation-provide-new-insight-to-the-history-of-medicine/1453651

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/327385

cu·ne·i·form| kyo͞oˈnēəˌfôrm, ˈkyo͞onēəˌfôrm, ˈkyo͞onəˌfôrm | adjectivedenoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets: a cuneiform inscription. • Anatomy denoting three bones of the tarsus (ankle) between the navicular bone and the metatarsals. • mainly Biology wedge-shaped: the eggs are cuneiform.

https://peterborougharchaeology.org/archaeology-skills-techniques/pottery-identification/

Funerary ensemble from a young girl’s grave. 

Southern cemetery of Pydna (Alikes near Kitros), Pieria. 325–300 B.C.E.

This burial of a young girl contained 21 clay figurines, clay vessels, a gold coin of Philip II, and gold jewelry. Young children were often accompanied by large numbers of figurines that have been interpreted as farewell offerings or gifts that were made during the burial ceremony. Ensembles of clay figurines also often accompanied the burials of girls or young women, whose lives were cut short before they could attain marriageable age.

Source:

https://journals.openedition.org/acost/1039

 

Rae Hull, Student Work, Ceramic II

Installation

Ceramic forms installed on mattress covered with striped sheet. 

Successful installation (photos do not show entire installation).

 

Kaley Cleveland, Student Work, Ceramic I, 50 Piece Collection

Ceramic and Glaze

50 pieces, assembled