The Dwight M. Holland Ceramics Collection Exhibition Symposium:
Ceramics in Higher Education and Its Future

East Carolina University School of Art and Design
Jenkins Fine Arts Center
Wellington B. Gray Gallery

Exhibition Date: September 3 through October 1, 2008

Symposium Date: September 18 and 19, 2008

 

Schedule of Events
 

Thursday, September 18^th
2:00pm Registration: Upper-level Foyer
5:00pm Opening Ceremony: Francis A. Speight Auditorium
6:30pm Exhibition Reception: Wellington B. Gray Gallery
 

Friday, September 19^th
Francis A. Speight Auditorium
9:00am Panel Discussion
10:30am Presentation: Cynthia Bringle
11:30am Presentation: Daniel Johnston

Upper-Level Foyer
12:30pm Lunch
 

Francis A. Speight Auditorium
1:30pm Presentation: Lisa Orr
2:30pm Presentation: Beth Kendall
3:30pm Presentation: Josh DeWeese

Ham’s Brew House
6:00pm Dinner/Party

Presenters:

(In alphabetical order)

Joe Bova
Cynthia Bringle
Josh DeWeese
Daniel Johnston
Beth Kendall
Lisa Orr

Programming: Opening Ceremony
 

5:00pm, Thursday, September 18th, 2008 
Francis Speight Auditorium

Opening remarks and Greetings Michael Drought, SoAD Director
Acknowledgements Tom Braswell, Interim Gallery Director
Introduction of Dwight Holland Chuck Chamberlain, Professor Emeritus
Regarding the Gift of Ceramics Dwight Holland
Keynote Speech Joe Bova
Closing Tom Braswell, Interim Gallery Director

The Dwight M. Holland Ceramics Teaching Collection
 

Dwight M. Holland (Guest of Honor) was a primary mover to bring art to the Asheboro area schools many years ago by becoming the first art teacher in their schools. Mr. Holland was also instrumental in establishing the Mooring Art Center in Asheboro which hosts the annual North Carolina Potter's Conference. Retired from a career as Curator of Design and Planner of the North Carolina Zoological Park, Mr. Holland returned to the Zoo as Interim Director for a year. He continues working during retirement by being involved with many national consultations on artificial habitats. His recent project is the artificial rock outcropping in front of Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh.

In 1998, Mr. Holland approached the East Carolina University School of Art and Design for the purpose of donating his extensive collection of pottery and contemporary ceramics. His interest is to provide a “hands-on” experience to others with ceramic works that are ordinarily placed in “untouchable” museum collections. In addition to the ceramics works, accompanying transcript interviews and audiotapes of thirteen Seagrove potters are available for research purposes. Since East Carolina University School of Art and Design has a large studio ceramics program within North Carolina, the Dwight M. Holland Ceramics Teaching Collection is under development and is housed in Jenkins Fine Arts Center at ECU.
 

Joe Bova (Keynote Speaker) earned his MFA from the University of New Mexico and taught at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux,  ouisiana, then at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge from 1971 to 1990. He served as the Director of the Ohio University School of Art from 1990 until 1997. He received the SAF/NEA Fellowship in 1985 and the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art Fellowship in 1980. He is also an emeritus Trustee and Board Member of Penland, a Fellow and Past President of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) and is an elected member of the International Academy of Ceramics, Geneva. Joe Bova was awarded a fellowship from NCECA for a residency at the International Ceramics Studio in Kecskemet, Hungary in the fall of 2004. He currently divides his time between home and studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Athens, Ohio, where he continues to teach each spring at Ohio University.
 

 Cynthia Bringle (Presenter) is a ceramic artist, who lives and works in Penland, North Carolina. She earned a BFA from Memphis Academy of Art and an MFA from Alfred University. She has taught many workshops nationwide and at Penland School of Crafts for many years. She is a fellow of the American Craft Council and a recipient of the North Carolina Award for Fine Art. Her work is in the collection of the Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Burlington Art Centre, and the High Museum of Art.
 

 Josh DeWeese (Presenter) served as Resident Director of the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts in Helena, Montana from 1992-2006. He holds an MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred, and a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute. Josh has exhibited and taught workshops internationally and his work is included in numerous public and private collections and currently teaches ceramics at Montana State University in Bozeman.
 

 Elizabeth Kendall (Presenter) lives and works in Northern Virginia. Her work, both functional and sculptural, has been exhibited at both national and international venues and is in the permanent collection of the Yixing Ceramics Museum, Peoples Republic of China and the International Ceramic Center in Denmark. In 2007 she was selected as an Emerging Artist by the National Council on the Education of Ceramic Arts.
 

 Daniel Johnston (Presenter), native of Seagrove, worked as an apprentice with Mark Hewitt in Pittsboro, NC and studied with master potters in Thailand. Daniel recently built his studio in Seagrove and has already established a successful career as a young and upcoming studio potter.  
 

Lisa Orr (Presenter) has been professional potter and student of ceramics. She completed an MFA at the NYSCC at Alfred University in 1992 and later received grants including a Fulbright and a MAAA/NEA. Her work is in numerous public and private collections including the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco and the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts. Currently she teaches, lectures, and shows nationally.