| Chuck Hindes | ||
| Birth Date: 1942 |
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| Chuck Hindes received a BFA from the University of Illinois in Champaign and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. He has been a visiting artist at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina and the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Detroit. He also has conducted workshops and lectured throughout the country and Canada. Hindes has received a National Endowment for the Arts grants from the Archie Bray foundation as well as the Craftsman’s Fellowship. He has been a professor of ceramics at the University of Iowa starting in 1973. Presently he lives in the state of Washington.
Hindes best describes his own work when he wrote the following: "The Japanese aesthetic, with reference to the tea ceremony and its use of unglazed ware, has been my main inspiration. The issue of gesture, movement or animation has been important to my work for years. The plastic and gestural qualities of clay should be emphasized, not dulled or subdued with an opaque or transparent skin. For my work, the movement of the form is heightened with the orchestration of natural color created by wood firing.
I feel wood firing has enhanced my work by providing a palette of colors and surface textures that strengthen my forms visually, rather than cover them with superficial skin. Wood firing draws the inherent colors in the clay to the surface where they form patterns. The intense interaction of the fire and clay permanently etches the color into the pot. The resulting patterns of color and texture create lasting visual record of the wood firing."
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