Tag archives: ceramics

FT snatched up this ceramic fish plate at Destined for Grace in Goleta because she thought it was a Pablo Picasso creation. She was almost right. Picasso did a series of fish related ceramics, riffing off an ancient Greek tradition from Southern Italy and Attica: the ancient Greeks had terracotta red and black serving plates […]

The SB Museum of Natural History’s Science Pub returns on December 8 at Dargan’s Irish Pub SB. Presenting is National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) Research Associate Cat Fong, Ph.D., on the new Wildfire Resilience Index (WRI) which is said to be “a groundbreaking tool that turns complex data into insight about how […]

Apologies: the photo is not so good, but FK, an older resident of Montecito, sent me a Kodak photo of her Temple Lion in the U.S. Post, asking me if her Chinese ceramic was in fact late Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) as told by relatives, and, what is a temple lion, and why a lion? I […]

Montecito artist Joan Rosenberg-Dent was an early participant on the Santa Barbara Studio Artist Tour, but quit after a couple of years due to being the solitary sculpturist on the self-guided driving tour of local studios.  It wasn’t that standing out from her peers was a problem, as the porcelain artist has blazed a few […]

Clay Studio Founder and Executive Director Patrick Hall credits working with clay for a dramatic shift in his life from an ADHD-addled kid who couldn’t focus, to one who runs a studio that serves as an artistic home and more to many members of our community.  “I couldn’t concentrate to even read a paragraph or […]