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Bennett Bean
"Processes used
in the making of my vessels are serial and cumulative, with each step leaving
evidence. The final product is the accumulation of all the results combining
to create an integrated whole."
"Pair on Base", 2002
Pit-fired, Painted, Gilded White Earthenware
Preview
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Education
Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa 1959-1962
State University of Iowa, Iowa City, B.A.1963
University of Washington, 1964
Claremont Graduate School, CA M.F.A.1966
Public Collections
American Craft Museum, NY
Arizona State University, Tempe, AR
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Cincinnati Art Museum, OH
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Detroit Institute of Arts, MI
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
JB Speed Art Museum, Louisville KY
Longhouse Foundation Collection, East Hampton, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Newark Museum of Art, NJ
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada
Toledo Museum of Art, OH
White House, Washington, DC
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC
St. Louis Museum of Art, MO
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Mark Hewitt
"Large Vase", 2002
Woodfired Stoneware
Detail
"Outsiders are
necessary to the preservation of excellence in artistic traditions. They
pull others into their tortured, exhilarating acts of adjustment,
rearranging the lineaments of the little world, questioning the status
quo, finding new directions, making the tradition healthier, fresher,
better.
Outsider no more, Mark
Hewitt belongs to North Carolina. His pots would not be as they are
without North Carolina. The North Carolina tradition could not be as it is
today without Mark Hewitt.
Robust and beautiful, Mark
Hewitt's pots disturb distinctions, disrupt dichotomies. Inside and
outside, folk and fine, native and alien, art and craft, the utilitarian
and the aesthetic - Mark's pots mix and merge categories in centered
courage. They stand in the midst of life, where academic antinomies fade
away, and work is good and true and human."
- Henry Glassie, Professor of
Folklore
University of Indiana
Excerpted from "Mark Hewitt : OUTSIDE,"
at the inauguration of the Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington NC
Education
B.A. Geography, University of Bristol, England, 1976
Apprenticed with Michael Cardew at Wenford Bridge Pottery,
Bodmin,
England, 1976-1979
Apprenticed with Todd Piker at Cornwall Bridge Pottery
Cornwall
Bridge, CT, 1979-1982
Independent study of traditional potteries in West Africa,
Korea and
Japan, 1978,1979,1982
Public Collections
Ackland Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Arkansas
Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, V A
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC
National Arboretum, Washington, DC
Smithsonian Museum, Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
St. John's Museum, Wilmington, NC
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