Mud Matters Issue #5

Cover top to bottom: 1 Patrons dinner 2006 2 Susan Beiner, Synthetic Reality (detail), 2007, glazed porcelain. Photo: Darien Johnson 3 Christina West’s Tangle (detail) is just one of the many ceramic objects available for auction during the 2008 Ceram*A*Rama: Soul on Fire gala benefiting the CRC.

Ceramics Research Center

Ceramics Research Center M U D M AT T E RS

Issue No. 5

Fall 2007

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Since my elementary school days struggling with academics, and being awakened to the world of art, I became convinced that the potential of art could develop the whole person. This has been a guiding principal throughout my professional museum career. Whether providing access and learning opportunities to school children, offering internship positions for university students, mentoring younger curators or advancing the field through exhibitions and publications, it has been extremely gratifying that ceramics has been a central part of my life.

It is my great pleasure to serve the field. Your support, encouragement and guidance are invaluable to the success of ASU Art Museum’s Ceramics Research Center. I have many of you to thank for everything you have done, it is appreciated and valued!

With gratitude, Peter Held, Curator of Ceramics

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1 Peter Held 2 Renegade Clay is just one of the exhibitions that earned Peter Held and the CRC the 2007 CLAY Award. Photo: Craig Smith

In Memoriam

From the Curator

When Linda Schlenger, founding chair of the Friends of Contemporary Ceramics, called to inform me of the wonderful news that the Ceramics Research Center and I were to receive the 2007 CLAY award for advancing the field of ceramics, it came as a great surprise. I come to work everyday and I’m surrounded by hundreds of beautiful objects, interact with a wide array of visitors and travel around the country to lecture, visit museums and patrons. I consider myself fortunate doing what I do — this has been true for the last 35 years as an artist-turned-curator.

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Rudy Autio (1926–2007)

Mary Scheier (1908–2007)

Rudy Autio, a leader in the contemporary ceramics movement, passed away in June after a short illness.

Known for his clay vessels with activated surface drawings, painterly plates and silkscreen prints, Autio was recognized as the “Matisse of Ceramics” for his vivid color and masterful drawing. His career spanned 55 years.

Mary Scheier, a pioneer of the modern studio pottery movement known for her elegant forms, died in May in Green Valley, Arizona. Her work, along with that of her husband and collaborator, Edwin, were featured at the CRC in the 2005 exhibition, Desert Classics. Many fine examples of their work are in the ASU Art Museum’s permanent collection.

Born during the Depression in the rough-and-tumble mining town of Butte, Montana, Autio drew inspiration from his immigrant Finnish heritage and working-class background. He drew widely from universal mythological themes. He spent most of his career teaching at the University of Montana from 1957 to 1984, where he influenced two generations of artists.

Scheier was known for her finely thrown utilitarian pots, which she complemented with her own glazes formulated early in her career.

Prior to his time at the university, Autio, with his former classmate Peter Voulkos, were the first resident artists at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana. In tandem, they set a standard of artistic achievement, helping the Bray establish the international reputation it now enjoys.

Planning Your Next Visit The ASU Art Museum Ceramics Research Center is part of the Herberger College of the Arts at Arizona State University and provides unparalleled access for the hands-on study and enjoyment of ceramics. The collection encompasses more than 4,000 works of contemporary ceramics, a number of which are on permanent exhibition in open storage.

ASU Art Museum Ceramics Research Center Northeast corner of 10th Street and Mill Avenue, Tempe, Arizona 85281 Tuesday – Saturday, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Free docent-led tours are available by appointment. Please call 480.965.2787.

Peter Held, curator of ceramics, 480.727.8173 or Peter.Held@asu.edu or crc@asu.edu

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Although diminutive in size, Autio was larger than life — a humble man of mythic proportions who provided inspiration for all whom he encountered through hundreds of workshops, lectures and world travels. He leaves behind a vast and cohesive body of work that has become notable in the ceramics world.

She studied art at the Art Students League, the Grand Central School of Art and the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts. She was the director of federally sponsored art centers in Big Stone Gap and Abingdon, Virginia when she met her husband in 1937. They married and traveled the country as puppeteers until 1939, when they settled in Glade Spring, Virginia to set up their first studio. In 1940, the couple moved to Durham, New Hampshire.

They taught at the University of New Hampshire until 1968, when they moved to Oaxaca, Mexico. By 1978, they had resettled in Arizona. Though the couple did not always work on the same pieces, they worked side by side until her death.

3 Contemporary ceramics pioneer Rudy Autio passed away in June 2007. He was known as the “Matisse of Cermamics” for his use of vivid color and masterful drawing. 4 Mary Scheier, known for her finely thrown utilitarian pots passed away in May 2007. She and her husband, Edwin, worked side-by-side for 60 years. 5 Detail: Scheier’s studio

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Making News

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Feats of CLAY The ASU Art Museum Ceramics Research Center and its Curator of Ceramics, Peter Held, received the 2007 CLAY Award (Ceramic Lifetime Achievement Award), from the Friends of Contemporary Ceramics, the leading organization of ceramic collectors, art dealers and curators in the U.S. The award is given for lifetime achievement in advancing the field. On June 1, Held traveled to New York City with ASU Art Museum patrons and university officials to attend the awards dinner.

“Under Peter Held’s able stewardship, the ASU Art Museum’s Ceramics Research Center has organized and presented exemplary exhibitions of contemporary ceramics. These exhibitions contribute scholarship and heighten the awareness of the ceramic arts,” said Linda Schlenger, founding chairman of the FCC. Past recipients have included J. Stewart Johnson and The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Ulysses Grant Dietz and The Newark Museum; Louise Cort and Freer Gallery of Art; Arthur M. Sackler and the Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution; Janet Mansfield and Ceramics Art and Perception magazine; and ceramic artist Peter Voulkos.

1 Roger Robinson, Peter Held and Sara Lieberman at the Friends of Contemporary Ceramics Award Dinner where Held accepted the 2007 CLAY Award. 2 Nora Naranjo-Morse, Three Spirit Figures, micaeous clay, stains, variable dimensions. Gift of Sara and David Lieberman 3 Peter Shire, Hourglass Teapot, 1984, glazed porcelain, 22 3/4 x 13 1/2 x 5 5/8”. Gift of Joanne Rapp, The Hand and The Spirit Gallery

Former Vice President Al Gore visits the CRC During his April 2007 visit to Arizona State University to present his sellout lecture, “An Inconvenient Truth,” former Vice President Al Gore visited the Ceramics Research Center where a post-lecture dinner was held.

Gore enjoyed the exhibition Raku: Origins, Impact and Contemporary Expression and greeted patrons as well as ASU President Michael Crow and his wife, Sybil Francis.

Former Vice President Al Gore with CRC Curator of Ceramics Peter Held. Gore attended a dinner hosted at the CRC following his speech at ASU Gammage. Photo: Tim Trumble

Innovation and Change molds clay’s future Clay is one of the oldest art materials known to humanity, used for both utilitarian purposes and creative expression. It has recorded the life of prehistoric civilizations, reconstructing the lives of ancient humans for archeologists and historians. Pottery from Africa, Asia and Greece inspire with their sophistication, decoration, beauty and the stories they unfold.

What made clay a meaningful medium in the past translates to its future. Innovation and Change: Great Ceramics from the ASU Art Museum Collection highlights 80 masterworks by many of today’s leading artists, offering a panoramic survey of the potential of clay as an expressive art form. The objects on view range from functional ware for everyday use to more expressive sculptural forms.

With each successive generation, artists have forged a new voice within the ceramic idiom. Borrowing freely from different time epochs and cultures, incorporating new technologies and materials, as well as being more fluid among art media, ceramists are not limited by past traditions, but continue to expand the medium’s potential. This exhibition, and the collection it highlights, showcases the infinite range of creative expression, recording humankind’s evolution and activities, providing a legacy for future generations.

Innovation and Change commences a four-year national tour in fall 2007 and will travel to 13 museums nationwide.

The exhibition has received major support from the National Endowment for the Arts American Masterpieces: Visual Arts Touring Program and is managed by Smith Kramer Fine Arts Services.

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2009 NCECA conference converges on Phoenix After several years of discussions and planning, the 43rd Annual National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) comes to Phoenix in April 2009. The last conference hosted in Arizona was in 1991.

The 43rd annual conference will be held April 8–11, 2009 and headquartered at the Phoenix Convention Center. The theme is Ceramic Interface: From Dawn to Digital, which spans past traditions while exploring the leading edge of the field. More than 100 exhibitions will be hosted by museums, galleries and artists studios throughout the Valley. NCECA board members expect 6,000 attendees with a $6 million economic impact. ASU Herberger College ceramic faculty members Susan Beiner and Sam Chung, along with Peter Held, will serve as onsite liaisons.

Eden Revisited: The Ceramic Art of Kurt Weiser Eden Revisited: The Ceramic Art of Kurt Weiser, curated and organized by Peter Held, curator of ceramics at the ASU Art Museum Ceramics Research Center, surveys Weiser’s work from the 1970s to the present, offering a panoramic survey of his artistic development. The exhibition includes ceramics, study drawings and prints drawn from the museum’s permanent collection, the artist, as well as private and public collections nationwide.

A 96-page color, hardbound catalog by Held accompanies the exhibition and includes Weiser’s early works and essays about his work

by Edward Lebow, award-winning arts writer, and Ulysses Grant Dietz, curator of Decorative Arts at The Newark Museum.

Eden Revisited is funded by a generous grant from the Windgate Charitable Foundation and provides comprehensive support for the entire project, a rarity in the field of contemporary craft.

“The ASU Art Museum Ceramics Research Center is honored to receive this grant, recognizing Kurt Weiser’s extraordinary talents in the ceramic arts,” Held says. “The upcoming exhibition and publication highlights his technical virtuosity and a creative vision that spans 30 years of artistic excellence.”

The exhibition starts its two-year national tour of eight museums in November 2007. The ASU Art Museum hosts the exhibition in February 2009, coinciding with the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts annual conference in Phoenix. This exhibition catalog is available for purchase in the ASU Art Museum Store.

1 Kurt Weiser, Abduction Jar, cast porcelain, China paint, 18 x 11”. Collection of Barbara and Donald Tober 2 Pen and ink drawings from Weiser’s notebook 3 Weiser in studio, 2007 4 Young Weiser riding high.

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Eden Revisited Exhibition Schedule

February 14 – May 16, 2009

November 1, 2007 – January 6, 2008

ASU Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona

Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, Oregon

June 26 – September 13, 2009

February 12 – April 19, 2008

Erie Art Museum, Erie, Pennsylvania

Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, Washington

January 22 – March 20, 2010

May 30 – August 25, 2008

Society for Contemporary Craft Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana September 30 – December 21, 2008 Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, Utah

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April 29 – June 27, 2010 Southwest School of Art and Craft San Antonio, Texas

Sid Cohen: Volunteer Extraordinaire Sid Cohen, a Phoenix art collector and museum patron, along with his wife Elaine, recently retired after successful business careers. Always committed to the arts, the local arts community and a long-time supporter of the ASU Art Museum Ceramics Research Center, Sid recently became a volunteer, working at the CRC two days a week.

Currently, Sid is cataloguing the Susan Harnly Peterson Archives. His long-standing personal friendship with Susan, his love of ceramics and his interest in education add a depth to this invaluable project. In the future, the Susan Harnly Peterson Archives will be placed in an online database, making this important part of ceramic history accessible to the world.

Volunteer Sid Cohen is working to catalogue the archives of his friend Susan Harnly Peterson at the CRC.

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Calendar of Events

Following the Rhythm of Life: The Ceramic Art of David Shaner Through January 6, 2008 This fall, the CRC presents a comprehensive retrospective on the ceramic art of David Shaner (1934–2002), which includes 60 works drawn from the ASU Art Museum’s permanent collection, the Shaner Family Collection and other public and private collections.

His works from graduate school at Alfred University, his tenure as director at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts (1964–1970) and his studio years in Bigfork, Montana (1970–2002), provide an in-depth overview his career as a ceramist.

A 124-page hardcover catalog featuring multiple views on Shaner’s work and world view, with essays

by Jack Troy, Conan Putnam, Hollis Walker and exhibition curator Peter Held, accompany the exhibition.

This exhibition catalog is available for purchase in the ASU Art Museum Store.

Jan Fisher Memorial Lecture Series 2007-08 The CRC presents the inaugural Jan Fisher Memorial Lecture Series. Named in honor of Jan Fisher, an art _ history graduate student and active CLA (Ceramics Leaders of ASU) member who passed away in February 2006, the series brings both established and emerging women ceramic artists to the Phoenix community.

While on campus, all of the participating artists meet with art students and become acquainted with the ASU Herberger College of the Arts programs. Support for this series is provided by Mr. and Mrs. Cole Fisher, their family and friends at ASU.

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Inaugural Lecture: Patti Warashina, March 20, 2007 2

Internationally acclaimed ceramic sculptor Patti Warashina’s divergent influences include Asian ceramic traditions, Surrealism and California-funk ceramics. A major figure in the development of studio ceramics and professor emeritus at the University of Washington, Warashina is credited with bringing

1 David Shaner (1934 – 2002), Kiva, 1990, porcelaineous wood-fired stoneware, 15 x 13 x 7”. Shaner Family Collection 2 David Shaner throwing at the wheel in the Archie Bray Foundation’s pottery room, 1963. Photo: Archie Bray Foundation Archives

national recognition to Northwest ceramics and influencing a new generation of contemporary ceramic artists. She is best known for her humorous figurative sculptures with whimsical themes expressed through low-fire, highly colored images. Often satirical, her dreamlike autobiographical sculptures are seductive and playful, yet explore provocative subject matter.

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Julie York, September 11, 2007 Julie York describes her art as “a reflection of how she sees.” York’s mixed-media sculpture and installations reflect a dynamic intellectual and visual exploration of her day-to-day experiences and surrounding environment. Found objects, reproduced in slip-cast porcelain juxtaposed with metal, glass and plastic question her own and the viewers’ perceptions.

5 Nora Naranjo-Morse, October 24, 2007 Nora Naranjo-Morse, an artist from the Santa Clara Pueblo, explores contemporary issues in a wide variety of media: clay, bronze, video and poetry. Morse embraces traditional practices of working with clay imbued by her concerns with community, the environment and what it means to be a Native American woman in today’s society. She freely challenges perceptions and expectations, expressing issues of gender and aging in a humorous, yet potent manner.

3 Patti Warashina, What’s That Falling from the Sky, 1980, 16 x 25 1/2 x 25 1/2”. ASU Art Museum Collection. Gift of Joyce and Jay Cooper 4 Julie York,View, 2006, porcelain, glass, plastic, 5 x 10 x 3 1/2”. Courtesy of the artist 5 Artist Nora Naranjo-Morse discusses her work which challenges perceptions and expectations with her lecture on Oct. 24, 2007.

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Betty Woodman, January 26, 2008 One of the most influential American ceramists of the 20th century, Woodman integrates color and form into complex sculpture based on the historical traditions of pottery making; most notably Asian and Italian majolica. Woodman was honored in 2006 as the first living woman artist to have a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and is represented in museum collections worldwide.

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Ceram*A*Rama: Soul on Fire February 21 – 24, 2008 Come to the beautiful Sonoran desert of Arizona for one of the most exciting ceramic events of the year!

Not to be missed, this festive four-day celebration is your opportunity to see the best clay work by renowned national and international artists.

Ceram*A*Rama events support the acclaimed exhibition and educational programs of the CRC. Ceram*A*Rama offers you and your friends the unique chance to: - Be part of action-packed live and silent auctions - Preview The Human Impulse: Figuration from the Diane & Sandy Besser Collection - Tour collectors’ homes, artists’ studios and attend private receptions - Enjoy gourmet dinners, live music and dancing - Attend the opening lecture honoring Rudy Autio - Participate in figurative ceramic art lectures and panel discussions Watch for your invitation in November 2007!

7th Annual Ceramic Open Studio Tour

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February 23 – 24, 2008 The CRC’s Artists’ Advisory Committee is planning the 7th Annual Self-Guided Ceramic Studio Tour.

Well-known ceramic artists in the Phoenix area welcome clay enthusiasts into their studios where the artists exhibit, demonstrate and sell their work.

This year, for the first time, artists from across the state participate. The tour is free and open to the public. A percentage of tour sales benefit the CRC’s LInCS educational programs.

Come meet the artists, learn to work with clay and experience working clay studios. Save the dates and be part of the excitement!

The Figurative Impulse: The Diane and Sandy Besser Collection January 26 – April 26, 2008 Reception: Friday, February 22, 8:30 – 10 p.m.

Passionate collectors since 1964, Diane and Sandy Besser have amassed a major collection of ceramics that initially started with vessel forms and teapots. Sandy’s interest has become more focused on figurative ceramic sculpture, an area he felt was overlooked and under appreciated. The Bessers have supported both established and emerging artists — the works offering varying perspectives on the human condition, ranging from political commentary and psychological drama to humorous observations of daily life.

After Diane’s death, Sandy visited the ASU Art Museum Ceramics Research Center. He found that his aspirations for the collection were matched by the Center’s initiatives in increased public accessibility.

Since 2003, Besser has donated more than 150 works, providing significant depth in the area of figurative ceramic art.

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_ This exhibition is supported by the members of CLA and by the Ceramics Enrichment Fund.

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1 Betty Woodman, Pillow Pitcher, porcelain and glazes, 17 x 26 x 16”. ASU Art Museum Collection. Gift of Anne and Sam Davis 2 Christina West’s Tangle is just one of the many ceramic objects available for auction during the 2008 Ceram*A*Rama: Soul on Fire gala benefiting the CRC. 3 Richard T. Notkin, Universal Hostage Crisis, 1981, glazed stoneware, earthenware, lusters, brass wire 23 x 17 1/2 x 13 1/2 ”. Collection of ASU Art Museum. Stéphane Janssen and R. Michael Johns Collection 4 Noi Volkov, Got a Girl Teapot, 2002, glazed earthenware and lusters, 24 x 15 x 5”. Collection of the ASU Art Museum. Diane and Sandy Besser Collection. Photo: Craig Smith

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Synthetic Reality

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March 15 – August 2, 2008 Opening reception: Friday, March 28, 7 – 9 p.m.

Synthetic Reality is the most ambitious installation of Susan Beiner, faculty member of the ceramics department at ASU Herberger College School of Art. The room-sized project explores the artist’s concerns of genetically altered foods, cloned animals and the hybridization of our material world. Crossing the boundaries of conventional ceramics, Beiner’s focus is making what is organic synthetic. Synthetic Reality uses encrusted walls, floor and ceiling space to surround the viewer in an imagined world of manufactured, hybridized life.

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This exhibition is supported by the Independence Foundation Artists Grant, Philadelphia; a Herberger College _ of the Arts Research and Creativity Grant; and members of CLA. This exhibition catalog will be available for purchase in the ASU Art Museum Store in Spring 2008.

1 Susan Beiner, Synthetic Reality (detail), 2007, glazed porcelain. Photo: Darien Johnson 2 Susan Beiner in her studio, 2007 3 Rudy Turk, first director of the ASU Art Museum, passed away in August 2007. He spent 25 years building the extensive collections of the ASU Art Museum, including its ceramics collection. 4 ASU Art Museum

Akio Takamori

David Shaner

Kurt Weiser

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Homage to Rudy Turk (1927 -2007) The arts community was saddened by the news of ASU Art Museum Director Emeritus Rudy Turk’s death in August. He was the first director who oversaw the construction of the current museum building. Much of what it is today has its roots in priorities he put into place during his 25-year tenure.

Rudy spent time in the San Francisco Bay area at a time when ceramics was evolving into new forms and scale. He took his experience there and helped build the core of the ASU Art Museum’s ceramics collection, much of which was in place before Rudy left. It was a sound base upon which the Ceramics Research Center has grown, becoming a resource of national importance.

The museum’s print collection also was expanded during Rudy’s tenure.

He cultivated important collectors locally, engaging donors to seed what has become one of the most prominent print collections in the Southwest.

Rudy also taught art history and ran the gallery at the University of Montana – Missoula, and befriended Rudy Autio, who headed university’s ceramics program.

Peter Held, CRC curator of ceramics, conducted a two-hour interview with Rudy, which is included in the upcoming catalog Innovation and Change: Great Ceramics from the ASU Art Museum Collection, due to be released in summer 2008.

Rudy was a great raconteur and one to tell tales on himself with great vitality. He was an artist, teacher, and, by his own self definition, “an eclectic collector.” He was married for 51 years to Wanda, also an artist and arts community leader, the father of four children and the grandfather of five.

He will be missed, but not forgotten.

Exhibition Catalogs Get your full-color exhibition catalogs in the ASU Art Museum Store.

These limited editions are sure to become collectors’ items! ASU Art Museum Store 480.965.9076 13

Ceramic_ Leaders at ASU (CLA) Membership

Membership

_ Become a member of a growing support group, CLA: Ceramic Leaders of ASU. This group is involved with special events, educational programming and research _ activities. Membership in CLA entitles you to receive special members-only invitations to events, lectures and travel tours. For more information, contact the museum’s membership department at 480.965.2787.

Send to: _ ASU Art Museum – CLA Membership P.O. Box 872911 Tempe, AZ 85287-2911 1

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Benefits

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_ 1 Annual CLA Patrons Dinner held at the CRC, 2006 2 Michael Corney, Uncle Sam Teapot, 2005, glazed porcelain, underglaze, stains 8 x 12 x 4”. Purchased with funds provided by Sara and David Lieberman 3 Potter Barbara Brown (left) visits with Ann Shaner during the opening reception for Following the Rhythms of Life: The Ceramic Art of David Shaner. 4 Wayne Higby, Landscape Bowl, ca.1980, raku-fired stoneware, 11” x 20 1/2”x 16 5/8”. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. George F. Wick 5 Potter and writer Jack Troy visiting with Susan Harnly Peterson during the opening reception for Following the Rhythms of Life: The Ceramic Art of David Shaner. 6 Phoenix graffiti artist and photographer Colby Vincent was commissioned to paint the gallery floor for the Renegade Clay exhibition held during the summer of 2007.

_ CLA Members as of August 20, 2007

_ CLA STUDENT/SENIOR $50 _ • Receive CLA mailings, including exhibition and event announcements _ • Receive invitations to CLA events (Charitable contribution = $50) _ CLA SUPPORTING $100 All of the above, plus: • Recognition of support in the CRC newsletter (Charitable contribution = $100) _ CLA CONTRIBUTING $250 All of the above, plus: • Complimentary ceramic exhibition catalogues (Charitable contribution = $220) _ CLA PATRON $500 All of the above, plus: • Recognition in ceramic exhibition catalogue • Recognition in the Ceramics Research Center as a Patron Supporter • A gift of an original ceramic artwork _ • An invitation to the annual CRC CLA Patron Dinner (Charitable contribution = $410)

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