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April Issue 2004
Southern Pottery in Columbia, SC, Features Works by Mike Vatalaro
The Southern Pottery Workcenter and Gallery in Columbia, SC, presents the exhibit, Mike Vatalaro: Explorations into Function, on view from Apr. 15 through May 30, 2004.
The gallery will feature Vatalaro' s clay work with a focus on his wheel thrown, altered and high fired stoneware pottery. Included will be lidded forms, vases, platters, bowls and cups. Vatalaro's interest in geometric form, layered color and surface embellishment is integrated into his functional clay work. The gallery will present over 50 new pieces of work.
Vatalaro's work has been in over 100 exhibitions
around the country and overseas. He has worked as an invited artist
at the International Ceramic Workshop in Tokoname Japan and the
Penland School of Crafts in NC. Twice Vatalaro has received the
South Carolina Artist Fellowship. His work is in the permanent
collection of the Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC, the South Carolina
State Museum and the South Carolina State Art Collection in Columbia,
among others.
Vatalaro received his Masters of Art Degree from Alfred University
in New York and has been head of ceramics at Clemson University
since 1976.
For more info check our SC Commercial Gallery listings, call
803/251-3001, or e-mail to (lenzo@southernpottery.org).
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