Rick Newby
Essays, Articles, Reviews, & Public Presentations
“Jerry Bennett and Bean Finneran: Pushing the Limits,” in Provocative Clay (Sheboygan, WI: John Michael Kohler Arts Center, forthcoming March 2013)
“Wrested from the Earth: The Life and Art of Stephen De Staebler,” Matter + Spirit: Stephen De Staebler (San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco/University of California Press, 2012).
Panel moderator, “Craft, Innovation, and Contemporary Art: Three Perspectives,” with John Buck, Deborah Butterfield, & Jun Kaneko, From the Center to the Edge: 60 Years of Innovation conference, Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena, 2011.
“The Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts: Origin and Impact,” Persistence in Clay: Contemporary Ceramics in Montana (Missoula, MT: Missoula Art Museum, 2011)
Talk, “A Beautiful Spirit: Origins of the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts,” Annual Conference, National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, Tampa, FL, April 2011.
Talk, “Fire in its belly: The rich and dirty story of clay in Montana” (with Josh DeWeese and Steven Young Lee, former and current Resident Directors of the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts), President’s Fine Arts Series, Montana State University–Bozeman, March 3, 2010.
“The Architecture of Space: Robert Harrison’s Accomplishment,” Robert Harrison: The Architecture of Space (Helena: Drumlummon Institute & Holter Museum of Art, 2009).
“Wrested from the Earth The Recombinant Poetics of Stephen De Staebler,” Stephen De Staebler (Chicago:Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, 2008).
“”Teapots Against the Darkness: The Achievement of Richard Notkin,” Richard Notkin (Davis, CA: John Natsoulas Press, 2008)
“How Many Worlds? The Ceramic Art of Stephen Braun,” Stephen Braun: Cause & Effect (Davis, CA: John Natsoulas Press, 2007)
“Rebecca Hutchinson: The Gesture of Place,” American Craft (New York, NY), April–May 2007
“The Bird People of Adrian Arleo,” American Craft (New York, NY), Dec.–Jan. 2006–2007
“Rudy Autio: Coming Home to the Figure,” in Rudy Autio: The Infinite Figure (Helena, MT: Holter Museum of Art, 2006); reprinted, in slightly different form, in Drumlummon Views, Vol. II, No. 1 (2008)
Preface, The Yixing Effect: Echoes of the Chinese Scholar, by Marvin Sweet (Beijing, China: Foreign LanguagesPress, 2006)
Panel Moderator, “Clay & Globalization: Impacts on Tradition, Cultural Identity, & the Individual Artist,” with Baba Wagué Diakité, Janet Mansfield, Joe Molinaro, & Marvin Sweet, Archie Bray Foundation International Symposium, Helena, MT, 2006
Panel moderator, “Deep Sources of Inspiration,” with Tip Toland, Richard Notkin, and Adrian Arleo, Annual Conference, National Council for Education in the Ceramic Arts (NCECA), Portland, OR, 2006
“Geometrical Codes/Material Bodies: Twenty-first Century Clay and the Hyperreal,” in The New Utilitarian: Examining Our Place on the Motherboard of Ceramics (Portland, OR: NCECA, 2006)
Review, Frances Senska exhibition, “Frances Senksa: A Life in Art,” Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT, American Craft (New York, NY), April–May 2005
Review, Stephen De Staebler exhibition, “Selected Works,” Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT, American Craft (New York, NY), October–November 2004
“Gritty and Un-Housebroken: Origins, Reception, and Dispersion of Funk Ceramics” in Humor, Irony, and Wit: Ceramic Funk from the Sixties and Beyond (Tempe, AZ: Arizona State University Art Museum, Ceramics Research Center, 2004)
“Spotlight: Kurt Markus,” Black & White Magazine (Santa Barbara, CA), February 2004
“Things of the Spirit: Jason Walker’s Interrogation of Technology” in Ceramic Excellence: Fellowships at the Archie Bray Foundation, 2002–2003 (Helena, MT: Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, March 2003); reprinted, in slightly different form, in Ceramics: Art and Perception (Sydney, Australia), March 2004
“Conjuring Belly Laughs: The Ceramic Art of Sandra Trujillo” in Ceramic Excellence: Fellowships at the Archie Bray Foundation, 2002–2003 (Helena, MT: Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, March 2003); reprinted, in slightly different form, in Ceramics: Art and Perception (Sydney, Australia), December 2003
“Chris Staley’s Rituals of Perception,” Ceramics: Art and Perception (Sydney, Australia), December 2002
“The Art of Jitterbugging: Richard Swanson’s Dancing Teapots,” Ceramics: Art and Perception (Sydney, Australia), March 2002; reprinted, in slightly different form, in Queen City News (Helena, MT), May 29, 2002
“Out of the Box: The Graphic Work of Akio Takamori,” American Ceramics (New York, NY), Spring 2002
“‘A Beautiful Spirit’: Origins of the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts” (written with Chere Jiusto); excerpts in American Craft (New York, NY), April/May 2001, and Montana The Magazine of Western History (Helena, MT), Spring 2001
“Celebrating Fifty Years: Helena’s Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts,” Montana Magazine (Helena, MT), December 2000/January 2001
“Bobby Silverman: Recontextualizing the Vessel,” Ceramics: Art and Perception (Sydney, Australia), September 2000
“A Folk Spirit: The ‘Punch’ong’ Pots of George McCauley,” Ceramics: Art and Perception (Sydney, Australia), September 2000
“Robert Harrison: Spirited Variations,” Ceramic Review (London, UK), Summer 2000
Review, Richard Notkin exhibition, “Passages,” Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT, Sculpture (Washington, DC), March 2000
“Tom Rippon’s Postmodern Marionettes,” American Craft (New York, NY), February/March 2000
“Artists Who Teach: Frances Senska, Gennie DeWeese, and Jim Poor,” parts one and two, State of the Arts (Helena, MT), November/December 1999 and January/February/March 2000; presented as a talk to Montana Art Gallery Directors Association annual conference, September 1999
Review, Richard Swanson exhibition, “Material Forces,” Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID, Sculpture (Washington, DC), November 1999
“Grizzly Bears and Art Openings: Montana’s DeWeese Family,” Montana Magazine (Helena, MT), November/December 1999
“Beth Lo: Taking Stock of Familial Relationships,” American Craft (New York, NY), June/July 1999
Review, Sergei Isupov exhibition, Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, American Ceramics (New York, NY), summer 1999
“The Montana Collection: Keeping the Best at Home,” Montana Magazine (Helena, MT), November–December 1998
“Balance & Bounty: A Montana Collaboration,” [high ground] (Moscow, ID: Fox Mountain Publishing), 1997
“Rooms Within Rooms: The Installations of Robert Harrison, 1981–1992,” in Robert Harrison: Architecture without Walls (Underdale, Australia: University of South Australia Art Museum , September1992); reprinted in slightly different form in Ceramics: Art and Perception (Sydney, Australia), Winter 1992–93
“‘To Stave Off Death’: Akio Takamori’s Life Studies,” Ceramics: Art and Perception (Sydney, Australia), Summer 1992
“Robert Harrison: Shrines for Potters,” American Ceramics (New York, NY), Autumn 1991; reprinted in slightly different form in Kinesis 4, Spring 1992
“Peace and Riot in a Gesture: Chou, Pang-ling’s ‘Teapot Mutants,'” Hsiung Shih magazine (Taipei, Taiwan), Summer 1989