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December Issue 2002

Myersart Gallery in Charlotte, NC, Features Works by Alex & Mary Miller and Karen Kammer

Myersart Gallery/Clay on Camden in Charlotte, NC, will present, Celebrating Nature, featuring works in clay by Karen Kammer and husband and wife, Alex and Mary Miller during the month of Dec., 2002.

Works in the exhibition will include a variety of functional and decorative pottery that balances nature's elements with our surroundings. Their works are as varied as their media and techniques, ranging from fine dinnerware to more rustic outdoor pieces. Many of their pieces provide containers for planting, floral display, and Ikebana arrangements.

Mary Miller describes herself as a left brain, math person. She started taking pottery classes fifteen years ago to help balance out her life. Her husband Alex followed her into the craft after making tools that Mary used to create her artwork.

The Millers have taken classes in multiple ceramic techniques and mediums at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts in Michigan and have continued their arts education since moving to North Carolina in 1996. These classes emphasized stoneware and porcelain and included wheel and hand building techniques, mold making and casting, multi-fired sculpture, raku and salt firing, all of which the Millers continue to use in creating their artwork.

"Although we continue to explore the many facets of clay, our work always revolves around nature and its peaceful spirituality," Mary explains.

Karen Huston Kammer also found her love of clay and pottery while taking a class to get away from the pressure of a traveling sales job. She continued taking classes for several years at Spirit Square, Central Piedmont Community College, and Queens College in Charlotte, and at the Arrowmont School of the Arts and Crafts in Gatlingburg, TN.

Kammer quit her full time job in 1993 to devote more energy to clay and develop a signature line. Each piece is handthrown or constructed from slabs. Originally from Florida, her love of bright colors and water influences each of her designs. "I think of my colors as colors of the sea and earth," Kammer says of the combinations of blue, green, white, emerald, periwinkle, black and red glazes she uses.

For further information check our NC Commercial Gallery listings or call the gallery at 704/790-2529.

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