The Mud-Pie Dilemma A Master Potter's Struggle to Make Art and Ends Meet 1978 John Nance ~Account of Thomas Coleman Oregon Pottery/Ceramics

Title: The Mud-Pie Dilemma: A Master Potter's Struggle to Make Art and Ends Meet

Author: John Nance

Description: Boards in brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Fine/fine. Clean and unmarked. Dust jacket in an archival mylar sleeve. vi + 116 pages, plus 32 pages of b/w photographs showing Thomas Coleman working in his studio, and 16 glossy pages featuring color photographs of his pottery pieces.

An intimate and insightful account of the creative processes and work of Pacific Northwest master-potter Thomas Coleman, documenting a four-month period in the summer of 1977. This volume documents his preparations for a month-long show in October at Seattle's Northwest Craft Center, where he expected to exhibit about 100 pieces.

A book about the dilemma of the professional craftsman who seeks to weave a life of creative commitment with economic survival, here revealed largely through Coleman's own words. The author also explores Coleman's skillful techniques and documents his work from the time he readies the clay for the wheel until he glazes his pots and adds the final brushed designs, and into the experience of the exhibition itself.

Tom Coleman (b. 1945) earned his BFA in 1968 at the Museum of Art School in Portland, Oregon. He taught ceramics at the Pacific Northwest College of Art and at Portland State University until 1973. At the time this book was written he was working out of Canby, Oregon. In 1987, he relocated to Nevada, taught at UNLV for a few years, and continued practicing his art as a studio potter in Las Vegas and Henderson.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine

Publisher: Timber Press
Place: Forest Grove, Oregon
Year: 1978

ISBN: 0917304187

Keywords: pottery, potters, biography, ceramics, Portland, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, Thomas Coleman, Tom Coleman, Nevada,