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Author: Richard Fairbanks
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Author: Richard Fairbanks
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Author: Dixie Parker-Fairbanks
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781517539665
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Languages : en
Pages : 380
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The first time Richard Fairbanks' hands touched clay his future was assured. At an earlier age, Dixie Parker recalls strongest memories of a desire to paint. When the handsome young professor arrived on the Drake University campus, the shy, dowdy sophomore art student describes a mystical-magical force upon "hearing" Richard's name, knowing with certainty they would someday marry. For two decades the couple's tenuous connections flowed through Richard's university teaching and Dixie's professional coming of age at the vibrant Des Moines Art Center during its greatest transition. Each artist had opportunities to meet and learn from great art personalities of that period. Richard's 1960 Fulbright grant to Finland brought contact with designer Kaj Franck, glass master Oiva Toiikka, and most notably potter Kyllikki Salmenhaara at the famed OY Wartsila-Arabia manufacturing firm. Dixie's curatorial, teaching and painting skills were honed at the museum with New York guest painters Nicolas Marsicano, Will Barnet, and Jimmy Ernst. Seven years after arriving in Iowa, Richard acceptance of a cut in rank and pay to return home to teach at Central Washington College was stunning. For Dixie, with romantic dreams unrealized, and her passion for painting escalating, there was equal incentive to move on. Job offers included a one-person art department in Athens, Ohio and enticing invitations to relocate in New York to further stretch her artistic wings. With scant notice after returning to the Northwest, Richard flew into Des Moines on a stopover after his first of many European research journeys. On a humidly hot Sunday morning, the dashing professor proposed marriage to Dixie, a woman who had finally found her personal and professional footing and had no hesitation accepting. This account of the Fairbanks' shared life brims over with highest of high and lowest of low experiences. Much is related through compelling journals, personal and business letters, accomplished art exhibitions, museum and university recollections, studio work and shared far-flung travels. Since Richard's death mid-career in 1989, their bond continues through Dixie's two-decade effort to preserve the unprecedented collection of Richard's ceramics, educational archive, and their folk art collection. In the end, the author assures us that the miracle of love prevails."
Author: Dixie Parker-Fairbanks
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ISBN: 9780615276526
Category : Potters
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Author: Richard Fairbanks
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ISBN: 9780295978321
Category : Potters
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"Essential Passions: Fairbanks-Salmenhaara Letters 1959-1986 is a very personal account of the lives of Richard Fairbanks and Kyllikki Salmenhaara as told through their correspondence and journals. It celebrates a friendship spanning nearly three decades, linking two remarkable potters who remained connected despite the oceans, miles, years, and cultures separating them." "At first it seems remarkable that such a bond could remain between two people who spent, in reality, less than 500 days together during the twenty-two years they knew each other. But if one contemplates the contemporary ceramics world, even from one's own narrow perspective - it is easy to recall how many instantaneous, lifelong friendships have been formed with "only" the common bond of clay. What is revealed is that which is most attractive about ceramics - the intimate, long-term people connections formed by the sharing of a passionate love of clay."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author: Dixie Fairbanks
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ISBN: 9781979467650
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Languages : en
Pages : 422
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The first time Richard Fairbanks' hands touched clay his future was assured. At an earlier age, Dixie Parker recalls strongest memories of a desire to paint. When the handsome young professor arrived on the Drake University campus, the shy, dowdy sophomore art student describes a mystical-magical force upon "hearing" Richard's name, knowing with certainty they would someday marry. For two decades the couple's tenuous connections flowed through Richard's university teaching and Dixie's professional coming of age at the vibrant Des Moines Art Center during its greatest transition. Each artist had opportunities to meet and learn from great art personalities of that period. Richard's 1960 Fulbright grant to Finland brought contact with designer Kaj Franck, glass master Oiva Toiikka, and most notably potter Kyllikki Salmenhaara at the famed OY W�rtsil�-Arabia manufacturing firm. Dixie's curatorial, teaching and painting skills were honed at the museum with New York guest painters Nicolas Marsicano, Will Barnet, and Jimmy Ernst. Seven years after arriving in Iowa, Richard acceptance of a cut in rank and pay to return home to teach at Central Washington College was stunning. For Dixie, with romantic dreams unrealized, and her passion for painting escalating, there was equal incentive to move on. Job offers included a one-person art department in Athens, Ohio and enticing invitations to relocate in New York to further stretch her artistic wings. With scant notice after returning to the Northwest, Richard flew into Des Moines on a stopover after his first of many European research journeys. On a humidly hot Sunday morning, the dashing professor proposed marriage to Dixie, a woman who had finally found her personal and professional footing and had no hesitation accepting. This account of the Fairbanks' shared life brims over with highest of high and lowest of low experiences. Much is related through compelling journals, personal and business letters, accomplished art exhibitions, museum and university recollections, studio work and shared far-flung travels. Since Richard's death mid-career in 1989, their bond continues through Dixie's two-decade effort to preserve the unprecedented collection of Richard's ceramics, educational archive, and their folk art collection. In the end, the author assures us that the miracle of love prevails.
Author: Matthew Kangas
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 514
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Matthew Kangas captures the essence of the debate as to whether those working in craft media are artists or not, covering all crafts media with a special emphasis on ceramics.
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Category : Ceramics
Languages : en
Pages : 746
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Author: Matthew Welch
Publisher: St. John's University
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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"Body of Clay, Soul of Fire" will delight art lovers, potters, and collectors, as well as everyone who is interested in Japanese and Benedictine traditions. Richard Bresnahan is a preeminent American potter and an ambassador for the natural environment. Reared on a farm in North Dakota, he graduated from Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota, and apprenticed as a potter in Japan. Returning to Saint John's, where he is an artist in residence, he built a massive wood-burning kiln, which, with its innovative flame flues and water channels, dwarfs all other North American kilns. By digging his own clay, using local seeds and hulls as glazing materials, and firing with deadfall, Bresnahan also practices a brand of environmentalism worthy of his Benedictine surroundings.
Author: Dixie Parker-Fairbanks
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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"Silent Sunflowers is a opportunity to look beyond the current ethnic struggles in Yugoslavia, to glimpse some of the treasures which enrich an important part of Europe. We hope there can be perhaps greater understanding of this area by seeing the arts and crafts of its people and that an effort will continue to be made to protect, preserve, and enjoy the cultures where many Americans find their roots."--BOOK JACKET.
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Category : Ceramic sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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