Ceramics are fun!

Who knew collecting ceramics could be so fun and exciting! We had a great line-up of speakers last night at the The Pink Line Project's first Artomatic 2008 panel discussion, Fired Up About Ceramics!: Collecting Dirt.

Next panel discussion will take place on Wednesday, May 21 at 7 pm in the 7th floor Education Room of Artomatic 2008, located at 1st and M Streets, NE. Topic: Information Overload: Finding Reliable and Useful Information About Art Collecting.

Thank you to our fabulous ceramic collecting experts:

• David and Clemmer Montague, passionate collectors who have been acquiring ceramics since their honeymoon in Spain and Portugal 36 years ago!
• Mike Holland, obsessed collector and scientist who has been collecting pottery from Seagrove, NC since college.
• Anne Surak, director of Project 4 Gallery, which represents several ceramists who crush the line between craft and fine art.
• Margaret Boozer, a ceramic artist whose work defies traditional definitions of ceramics and who is the founder of Red Dirt Studio.
• Novie Trump, a sculptor who works primarily in ceramics and is the founder of Flux Studios and also the director of the Lee Arts Center.
  

A few random thoughts from the discussion:

• Art collecting can be a means to becoming part of a greater community. The community may not necessarily be an art scene.
  
• Collecting art is a personal endeavor. Each collector has unique reasons and goals for collecting.
  
• Collecting art is a way to curate an art show in your home.
• Contemporary ceramic artists are pushing beyond ceramics as purely functional and/or decorative.