Studio Potter 2015 Volume 43 Number 2 Summer/Fall 2015 | Page 5

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Bits & Pieces

IN THIS ISSUE

THROWING BACK,
FIRING FORWARD
T

he Studio Potter is delighted
to present you with this
unique issue of the journal,
Volume 43, Number 2. The
design, by Zoe Pappenheimer,
is based on our first few issues
of the mid-seventies, complete
with horizontal layout, duotone
printing, and silk-screened
cover. It nods to our roots and
serves as an interim issue while
we embark on a process of rebranding aimed at better serving
our readership. Please help us
understand more about what
you’d like to see as a part of SP’s
future by filling out and sending
in the short questionnaire in the
back of this issue.
Starting off this issue on
“surface” is an interview with
Donald Clark about The Marks
Project. In his conversation
with our editor, he lovingly
remembers Candice Groot, a
passionate supporter of ceramics
and its artists, who died earlier
this year. Candice founded the
Virginia A. Groot Foundation in
1988 so that artists working in

three-dimensional media could
devote themselves more fully to
the development of their work.
As always, we bring you
inside the lives of working
potters with several personal
narratives. Léopold Foulem
offers an in-depth analysis of
the ceramic works of Picasso,
Amanda Barr addresses surface
imagery as a catalyst for taboo
conversations, and Eric Rehman
writes poetically about anagama
firing. We also have included a
comprehensive discussion of
Michael Cardew in a special
section that includes four
authors’ essays and portrait
sketches by Matthew Causey.
We are pleased to publish an
essay from Camila FriedmanGerlicz, a post-baccalaureate
student at Colorado State
University, about the
Artstream nomadic gallery,
which was featured in a
sixteen-page article in Volume
33, Number 1, December
2004. For more reading on
“surface,” check out the list of

recommendations from our
authors.
For both veteran SP members
and those new to the journal, we
have some exciting news: we’ve
just completed a full digitization
of our back issues. Starting this
summer, we are releasing each
issue digitally, beginning with
Volume 1, Number 1, Fall, 1972.
Members now receive a digital
version of the current issue
and access to the back issues
completely free as a membership benefit through our digital
distribution host, joomag.com.
In addition, digital subscriptions for libraries are now
available through Ebsco’s digital
distibution service, Flipster.
In other digital news: You may
have noticed that studiopotter.
org is currently hosted on
tumblr.com. We are in the
process of a major website
overhaul and thank you for
your patience as we work to
bring you a new and improved
online experience in 2016.

As an independent nonprofit
organization, SP is launching a
capital campaign to raise funds
that will ensure our future service
to the field. Our top priorities are
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and accessible to readers, and to
create tenable staff positions that
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and quality publishing.
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ABOVE: Armand Szainer, The Studio Potter

Cover, Winter 1974/75, Volume 2, Number 2.