August 16 - September 14, 2003 - Matthew Metz and Susan Thayer
Reception: Saturday, August 16, 4 - 6 pm

Susan Thayer - "Land, Sea and Sky"

"Land, Sea and Sky Series"
photographer: Dennis Purdy

Inspired by the romantic view of nature, Land, Sea and Sky reflects the optimism of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, and the awe-inspiring beauty of the still untrammeled wilderness exemplified by the Hudson River school of painting.

- Susan Thayer, 2003

Slide Lecture: "Land, Sea and Sky"
Saturday, August 16, 10 - 11:30 am
IS183 Art School of the Berkshires
Stockbridge, MA  413.298.5252

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Education
1982   Rhode Island School of Design, BFA Ceramics,  Studied under Jacquie Rice, Jan Holcomb, Chris Staley
1991 Pilchuck Glass School, Studied under David Reeke

Public Collections

Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI 
Smithsonian Museum, Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC
Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Art, Racine, WI

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Matthew Metz - "Intentional Surface"

Carved Box, 2002
6 x 6 x 6", porcelain, salt glaze, wood- and oil-fired
photographer: Peter Lee

"My work is influenced from eclectic sources including nineteenth century American furniture, other decorative arts, folk art, and ceramics from Asia, Europe and the Middle East. I enjoy the play between dense intentional surface and the serendipity of atmospheric firing. The imagery is not necessarily narrative; it embraces and celebrates the decorative. The highest value in both my process and what I hope to give the user is pleasure."

- Matt Metz, 2003

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Bowls and Plates	Boxes	Vases	Jars

Education

1983 BFA Ceramics, Ball State University, Muncie, IN
1985 MFA Ceramics, University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro, PA

Collections

Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena, MT