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Shino Takeda grew up on Kyushu island in southern Japan. Kyushu has a rich history of ceramics and arts. Shino’s mother admired and collected both. When Shino was a child her family would travel all around Japan to look at different art shows and visit ceramic artists studios. Shino’s work is an appropriation of those more traditional Japanese art forms mixed with all the freshness of today’s New York City
All Shino’s work is hand-build and one of a kind that is searching for perfect imperfection, tracing memories, and making a story that connects the old to the new.Continue reading
Chris Vaughn is a Massachusetts native, living, working, and making in northern Vermont. Chris is the Studio Manager and an instructor of pottery and screen printing classes at the Burlington City Arts Clay and Print Studio, a community art space in Burlington, Vermont. His relationship with clay began in 2007, with an introductory wheel-throwing class during Christopher’s junior year at St. Michael’s College. He caught the clay bug and hasn’t looked back since.
