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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.
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