Welcome To CD Space*
Some of my recent art production can be viewed by clicking the images to the left and by reading this article in the Reno press. When navigating through the site, you can always get back to the home page by clicking on my name in the upper left corner.
Last year I worked with the independent video production, Special Circumstances. Visit the website or read this interview with Héctor Salgado in the June issue of Mother Jones. The production team, led by Producers Marianne Teleki and Jennifer Taylor and editor Shirley Thompson, have finished the online edit and the film will be shown at 4 festivals in October, 2007. Boston, L.A. , Berkeley and the UN Film fest!
A year later, I landed in Seoul.
Seoul Diaries
My biggest project to date is getting to know Korea. I'm making some progress, thanks to the Royal Asiatic Society and the Seoul International Hiking Club. The SIH Club is a group of Koreans and Ex Pats who get together Saturdays for an afternoon hike followed by a restaurant meal. Pukhansan was my first hike. I took along a small camera and put together this video. The Club organized an overnight fall trip to Kumgangsan in North Korea. Images from a Lunar Holiday trip to Seoraksan with RAS can be seen here.
I spent a lot of time in art school looking at images of Koryu dynasty inlaid celadon pottery, a tradition which is alive and well among contemporary potters. The rural areas still use wood fired anagama kilns. Master potters are reinterpreting the old designs, usually on traditional forms. Young urban potters still draw from the inlaid slip technique, but more loosely.
Art & Teaching
Click here to view my teaching Resume.
Click here to view the Ocean Mural, by students of the Alexander Dawson School, Las Vegas. The process used for this ceramic mural involved sculpting clay in relief and cutting the squares after the sculpting was completed. Kit Camp assisted me in this project sponsored by the Nevada Arts Council. The Banana Bench is another large scale project produced by students in a Public Art Class at the Alexander Dawson School.