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Wyman Rice will demonstrate pottery making at Berea Adair County native will be at Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea, KY Click on headline for full story and photo(s) By Gwen Heffner News from the Kentucky Artisan Center On Saturday, June 2, Wyman Rice, of Lexington, will create hand-built pottery from slabs and coils of clay 10:30am-3:30pmET/9:30am-2:30pmCT, at the Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea, 200 Artisan Way, Berea, KY. Rice grew up on a farm in Adair County near Columbia, and began to draw at a very early age. While art instruction was not offered in his elementary or high school, he continued to teach himself how to draw and paint. It was in college that Rice was first able to take art courses. He attended the University of Louisville, and then the University of Kentucky, where his interest in ceramics was fueled by seeing sculptural contemporary clay work. After two years of studio work in clay at the University of Kentucky, Rice began his 26-year clay career. Rice produces work without a potter's wheel, constructing them one at a time using slabs or coils of clay. The clay is rolled out into sheets, allowed to stiffen, and joined together to create unique and organic forms. Rice also builds with coils of clay, shaping and finishing each form by hand. Looking to nature and the human figure for inspiration, Rice fires all of his work using the Raku firing process. This process requires the pottery to be glazed and fired very quickly, removed immediately from the kiln while red hot, and either plunged into water, or placed into combustible materials, such as sawdust or shredded newspaper. These burning materials transfer carbon onto the surfaces of the pottery and affect the final color of both the glaze and clay as it rapidly cools. The Raku firing process creates finished surfaces that can be quite colorful, with the clay itself becoming a charcoal gray or black. Works by Rice are regularly available at the Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea, 200 Artisan Way, just off Interstate -75 at Berea exit 77. The center's exhibits, shopping and travel information areas are open daily, year-round, 9am-6pmET. with the cafe open 9:30am-3:30pmET. Admission is free. The center currently features works by more than 650 artisans from 100 counties across the Commonwealth. Special exhibits on display include "About Face: Kentucky Artisan Works Inspired by the Human Face," through Aug. 26, and "Commissioned to Create: Works by Artists Who Created the Governor's Awards (1995-2011)," through July 29, an exhibit developed by the Kentucky Arts Council. For information about the centers programming, call 859-985-5448. Tthe center's website is www.kentuckyartisancenter.ky.gov The Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea is an agency in the Kentucky Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. This story was posted on 2012-05-29 12:40:00
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