32
MARK PEISER: LOOKING WITHIN
In his long exploration of the medium of glass, the technical
and the creative aspects have been intimately connected.
by Joan Falconer Byrd
36
HARRY GRABENSTEIN, STICK MAN
This master has spent long hours in his Vermont studio since 1987 making bows for violins, cellos, violas and six other string instruments.
by William Corbett
40
TRANSFORMATION
The 2003 Raphael Founder’s Prize exhibition was, like its three biennial predecessors, concerned with the theme of transformation, but this time the focus was on ceramics.
by Graham Shearing
44
QUILTS OF THE FIRST WATER
In little more than a decade, John M. Walsh III has become a patron of the contemporary quilt and the artists who create them.
48
THE QUEEN OF DECOUPAGE: GRAYSON PERRY’S GUERILLA CERAMICS
Garth Clark deconstructs a singular figure in British ceramics in a review excerpted from Shards, a just-published collection of his critical writings.
52
PENLAND’S 75TH
The Penland School of Crafts—a place, a culture, a community—celebrates.
by Jonathan Lerner
6
CRAFT WORLD
The Ceramics Research Center at Arizona State University receives
a major gift.
22
COMMISSIONS
58
PORTFOLIO
Stephan Goetschius, Krista Grecco, Emily Miah Stewart, Sang-Wook Lee
64
REVIEWS
Steven Ford and David Forlano
Gallery Materia, Scottsdale, AZ by Kathleen Vanesian
66
GALLERY
70
REVIEW
Robin Quigley
Mobilia Gallery,
Cambridge, MA
by Patricia Harris and David Lyon
71
CALENDAR
78
CLASSIFIED/ADVERTISING INDEX
79
AMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL NEWS
COVER: MARK PEISER—Contrition [037], 2003,
cast opal glass, acid-finished, hand-polished, 15 3/4 by 13 by 11 inches.
Photo/Tom Mills. See page 32.