Someone Had to Make Them: Why Not Me?
| Date/Time: | Thursday, 26 Jan 2012 from 5:00 pm to 6:15 pm |
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| Location: | Kocimski Auditorium, 101 College of Design |
| Cost: | free |
| Contact: | Ingrid Lilligren |
| Phone: | 515-294-8883 |
| Channel: | College of Design |
| Categories: | Arts, performances Lectures |
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Esther Shimazu is a ceramic artist from Honolulu, Hawaii, who is best known for stoneware sculptures of bald, nude, chunky Asian women constructed with hand-building techniques. They are colored with slips and oxides, bisque-fired, hand-sanded, and colored further with rubbed-in and airbrushed oxides. They are then fired to cone 5-6 oxidation and sanded a final time. While often playful in appearance, the work also explores deeper issues of race, gender and beauty.
Shimazu holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts in ceramics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has exhibited throughout the U.S. as well as internationally in Switzerland and Taiwan. She received a Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Purchase Award in 2001 and an Individual Artist Fellowship Award from the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts in 1995.
In addition to her public lecture, Shimazu will present a three-day ceramic workshop from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 28, and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 29, in the College of Design's ceramics studio, 038 Design.
Space is limited; please sign up for the workshop in the studio by Friday, Jan. 20. You must have ceramics experience to participate, but casual onlookers also are welcome!
Shimazu's visit is sponsored by CODAC (College of Design Art Club) and Design Council.