NMPCA Studio Tour

Kathryne Cyman

Cricket Appel
Michelle Arterburn
Karin N. Bergh
Elaine Biery
Diane E. Botham
Tony Butler
Maxine Chelini
Kathryne Cyman
Sara Lee D'Alessandro
JoAnne DeKeuster
Kevin DeKeuster
Pamala S. Dean
Jay Dirago
Christine Evans
Karen Fielding
Joe Frey
Philip Green
Sandra Harrington
Theo Helmstadter
Cheryl Hoagland
Marc Hudson
Z Jacobson
Linda R. Kastner
Daisy Kates
Michael Lancaster
Bari Lovewave
Rhonda Main
Lynne McCarthy
Karen K. Milstein
Shel Neymark
Judy Nelson-Moore
Judith Richey
Kari Rives
Elizabeth Rose
Rita Ryan
Greta Ruiz
Abby Salsbury
Joey Serim
Carolyn Robbins Siegel
Kristin C. Thacher
Michael Ray Thornton
Ann Trott
Layne Vickers Smith
Elaine Weaver-Spalek
Melanie Ann Wegner
Ruth Weston
Betsy Williams
Juanita Wolff
Tomás R. Wolff

Albuquerque, New Mexico
Contact me through email: AritaUNM@unm

Artist's Statement:

After I received my BFA in Ceramics and was working in stoneware clay for ten years, I took a course in porcelain pottery at the University of New Mexico. I had been hearing about this class where students could study a traditional method of porcelain that came from Arita, Japan. It used 'tools', there were 'steps', and the potters wheel spun 'clockwise' - it was unlike anything I had ever done before...

Since 1988, I have been studying this way of creating porcelain pottery that is used in Arita. I enjoy the challenges of working with this glass-like clay and the 'Arita Method'.

How porcelain changes in the glaze firing, from the way it moves to its translucence, is like magic; and whenever I open the kiln and there is a piece as I had imagined, I am still in amazement.

I received my MA in 1996, and have been teaching the Arita Method at UNM since 2001 with the support of Manji Inoue of Arita ~ National Living Treasure of Japan.