Michelle Erickson - Erickson employs her mastery of colonial era ceramic techniques to connect the history of pottery making to 21st century issues of globalization, social injustice, and environmental geopolitics. In demonstrating the diversity of techniques used in her practice, Erickson will illustrate design parallels between past and present in surprising and insightful ways.

2. ART ? CRAFT ?
Venus of Dolni Vestonice 27,000 BC
Cave Painting from Chauvet pon d’Arc 30,000 BC

4. V&A residency studio with Curator of Contemporary Ceramic and Glass Alun Graves

5. Mudlarking on the River Thames London, Photo Robert Hunter

6. Archeological Chinese porcelain 1600 ,excavated at Jamestown VA

7. Dutch German French English and Spanish wares like excavated examples Jamestown VA

8. ME@V&A

10. East Meets West

11. Chinese Porcelain 1580-1610

12. Bernard Palissy 1570-90

13. Birth of Cupid Italian, Fontainebleau Mid 16th century

14. Bernard Palissy 1570-90

15. Michelle Erickson Delft Fecundity Dish 2000

16. Liberty On Leave Mint Museum Of Craft and Design

17. Paradise Lost in Traveling Exhibition Inciteful Clay

18. ‘Wanli’ Ewer 1585

19. China 1573-1620 V&A
Archeological Chinese
porcelain
Jamestown
Rediscovery 1590-
1610

20. Kiln Waster Netherlands 1655-70 “Making Room” V&A

21. Flower Pyramid from “Greek A Mark” Factory 1695 Hampton Court

24. Tulip Pagoda Museum of Art and Design NY Photo Gavin Ashworth

25. Damien Hirst ‘For The Love Of God’2007

26. Bernard Leach 1951

27. Staffordshire 1700-1725

28. English Slipware Techniques Ceramics in America 2001 Photo Gavin Ashworth

29. Virginia Collection of The Chipstone Foundation Milwaukee WI

30. “A weroan or great Lorde of Virginia” Theodore De Bry 1590

31. Terra Nova Presented to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth ll 2007

32. British Museum 2012

33. Column Vase Wedgwood 1786-95 “Jasperware”

35. Ruin 2002 Collection of Arthur and Esther Goldberg

37. Garniture New-York Historical society

38. Weapon Of Choice Cincinatti Art Museum

40. Creating a hollow
rim on the wheel
Cross section
of the thrown
hollow handle

42. V&A Residency Studio work from Making a Delft Puzzle Jug

45. Modeled teapot form set up for
casting

48. Still from Making an Agate Teapot V&A Channel Videographer Juriaan Booij

49. Koi Junk Teapot Seattle Art Museum

57. Made In China Carnegie Museum Of Art

58. American Pickle Stand 2014

59. Wedgwood 1780
English earthenware 1820

60. Front and Centerpiece Chipstone Foundation

61. Portrait Jug Toussaint L’Ouverture 1840-50
Medford Massachusetts Creamware Jug 1806-1810 Liverpool England

63. Midnight Modern Conversation Chipstone Collection

64. Staffordshire Figural Group 1755

65. Texas Tea Party 2005 Chipstone Foundation

68. 18th Century Engraving of Fossil

69. Staffordshire Fossil Pattern Enamel Salt Glaze Teapot 1740

70. Fossil Teapot Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 21st Century Gallery

71. North Carolina Moravian Bottle 1802 Green-aid Squirrel 2010 Chipstone Foundation

75. Moravian Flask 1805-10

77. Courtesy of Nike’s 2012 Olympic
Track & Field Innovation.

80. Lydia John Dwight 1674 V&A
Saggars from John Dwight’s Fulham Pottery V&A

81. Experiments with indigenous clays from East London

83. Superfly dragon 2014

84. Fly Knit Dragon 2014

86. North Devon Charger 1670 Excavated at Jamestown VA

87. North Devon Harvest Jug Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

88. Throwing Vanitas using indigenous Fremington Clay at Bideford Art Center North Devon UK

92. Unloading wood fired earthenware kiln Bideford North Devon UK, Photo Robert Hunter

94. Potter’s Field Flow NCECA Invitational Milwaukee At Museum

95. Rake’s Progress: The Orgy 2014 Photo Robert Hunter