The 15th Annual, It’s Only Clay (IOC) national exhibit is a juried ceramics competition focusing on, and dedicated to, functional clay vessels. Each submission for IOC is judged in four areas: function, form/aesthetic, craftsmanship, and surface design. This annual event features a lecture and workshop on the campus of BSU, a guest artist, and a juried exhibition of functional ceramics by Watermark […]
The Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance invited Professor Brad Bachmeier to help facilitate a pottery workshop June 17-18 at Twin Buttes, ND, on the Fort Berthold Reservation. The workshop followed archeological research and records of traditional forming and firing techniques. Native ND clay from the reservation was dug and processed. Hand-made vessels were produced, decorated and open-pit fired. Bachmeier joined the Paleo […]
Saturdays June 22 and 29 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Brad Bachmeier will demonstrate pottery making and firing techniques that will include low-fire and atmospheric firing specialties including raku, horse-hair, slip-resist and obvarra firing techniques. Bachmeier will give an artist talk and exhibit a preview selection of his traveling exhibit “Conservation Through Clay.”
Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area lies in Nevada’s Mojave Desert. It’s known for geological features such as towering red sandstone peaks and the Keystone Thrust Fault, as well as Native American petroglyphs. Brad Bachmeier, a ceramic artist, will spend his time researching the unique cultural and geologic history of the conservation area while making work to tell the story of the Park. Bachmeier’s application was […]
Juror Douglas Fitch selected Brad Bachmeier’s wheel-thrown, burnished and saggar-fired ceramic and reed-woven vessel entitled “Sannoo Kota (Basket-rim)” for inclusion in the Art of Clay National Juried Show at the North Carolina Pottery Center. The exhibit runs from March 3 – June 15, 2019 and accompanies the North Carolina Potters Conference. Exhibit Details: http://ncpotterycenter.org/artofclay2019/