Just installed in the Sculpture Garden 10.5.11
 

Sue Eisler's wire and rebar sculpture, Untitled, on extended loan from Laumeier Sculpture Park:

 
 

 

 

The image on the left is Eisler's working drawing for the sculpture and the sculpture in place at Laumeier.  On the right, the sculpture in place in our Sculpture Garden. 

Untitled has the light, airy feel of a drawing in space using steel as line with distinct references to gesture and rhythmic structures that seem to carve the space around it.

This scupture represents an important example of work from the artist's intriguing 45-year artistic career.  Eisler's work has continually evolved as she steadily processes new ideas and responds with her own hybrid artwork.  She is represented nationally in private and public collections including The St Louis Art Museum; Steinberg Gallery, Washingtoin University; Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH; Mark Twain Bankshares, St Louis.

Eisler will be joining us early next year as a visiting artist and collaborating with with Mr Jones and the printmakers creating a limited edition lithograph.  She will also be working with the Intensive Studies students on a special project for their class.

 

 

 
  Recently in Intensive and Advanced Sculpture
  The Advanced Sculptors and Intensivites took a field trip to Citygarden in downtown St Louis and to Laumeier Sculpture Park in St Louis county.
 
   
   

Currently in 7th Grade Sculpture

Today the sculptors pit fired their burnished terra cotta pieces and their mined-clay pieces.

The fire masters, Drew, Jordan, Zane and Jacqueline built a beautiful teepee fire which will burn for several hours. They will open their finished pit fire kiln during their next class.

 

 

The One Leg Up Club

  

Lindsay catches a marshmallow!
   

 

Jordan's gourmet s'more

 

Recently in JBS Art:

Sarah Jaeger

1.28.09
Today Sarah Jaeger (nationally recognized potter and aunt to Mr Tasker) demonstrated the wheel-thrown porcelain for which she is so well knowm.

Sarah Jaeger is a ceramist who works in Helena, Montana. She received a BA from Harvard College and a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute. Jaeger creates functional porcelain pottery, often thrown and altered, and glazed using wax resists, creating layers of color.

She has taught at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, and Pomona College. She also served on the Archie Bray Foundation Board of Directors for 10 years. She was the recipient of the 1996 Montana Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship and the 1991 Emerging Talent Award from the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts.

 

Throughout the day, Sarah threw numerous pitchers, handled cups and altered bowl forms sharing with us her philosohies, techniques and insights. Sarah was one of the artists profiled in the PBS documentary Craft in America and has given workshops at schools and art centers nationally. Her work is in public and private collections and, most important, in many kitchens throughout the country.