The Tidal Impact of Japanese Women Clay Artists and Charting a Course for the Future

ZOOM Gallery Talk
ETERNAL CURRENTS: The Tidal Impact of Japanese Women Clay Artists
and Charting a Course for the Future
Recorded December 8, 2022
The massive surge in innovation and international stature of Japan’s contemporary ceramic arts can be traced to the rapid incorporation of women into the field in just the past few decades. Once they were finally allowed to get their hands in clay, women artists have provided a burst of creative energy that has pushed the medium into unexpected directions.
To discuss the sea change in Japan’s venerated centuries-old, male-dominated ceramic tradition, gallery artist Hayashi Kaku will be joined by Professor Todate Kazuko, a highly respected scholar of Japanese ceramics, collector and museum patron Mina Levin, and curator Russell Kelty, who recently organized a Japanese sculptural ceramics exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia and authored the accompanying handsome publication. Each panelist will examine, from their unique perspective, the unstoppable tide of creative talent from Japanese women clay artists, and at the same time reflect upon the accompanying challenges for them in charting a course through unknown waters.
Panelists:
HAYASHI KAKU, artist
RUSSELL KELTY, Curator, Asian Art at Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), Adelaide, Australia
TODATE KAZUKO, Professor at Tama Art University, Tokyo and respected scholar of ceramics
MINA LEVIN, Japanese clay art collector and museum patron based in North Carolina
Moderated by JOAN MIRVISS
0:00 Welcome and introductory remarks - JOAN
10:05 Challenges to women clay artists entering the field and building careers - TODATE KAZUKO
20:18 Becoming a leader in the field as a professor and artist - HAYASHI KAKU
32:48 Shaping an exhibition of Japanese sculptural ceramics and the impact of women - RUSSELL
43:07 The place of Japanese women clay artists in a private collection - MINA
53:00 Understanding and using color on ceramic artwork - HAYASHI
1:00:50 Meeting artists and making personal connections to the art - MINA
1:04:55 Criticisms of 'women's art' and of Japanese women clay artists - TODATE
1:11:09 Reception of Japanese sculptural ceramics to new audiences - RUSSELL
1:14:28 Q&A: Next steps for a curator and for museums - RUSSELL; learning more about the artist's meaningful art volunteer work with children - HAYASHI
1:23:55 Concluding remarks and upcoming schedule at Joan B Mirviss LTD - JOAN
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