Kurt WEBB United States of America Acclaimed ceramacist and ceramics instructor Kurt Webb attended Illinois State University. He teaches classes with young adults and high school students.Stoneware ceramic piece made at Churchill Campus in 1988 while Kurt Webb was a visiting artist. kurt webb, ceramics, gippsland campus, jan feder memorial ceramics collection, sculpture, animal

Kurt WEBB United States of America Acclaimed ceramacist and ceramics instructor Kurt Webb attended Illinois State University. He teaches classes with young adults and high school students.Stoneware ceramic piece most probably made at Churchill Campus in 1988 while Kurt Webb was a visiting artist. The exterior features blue and green shaps on tan, with the interior a mid-blue colour with impressed shapes and swirls. kurt webb, ceramics, gippsland campus, jan feder memorial ceramics collection

Kurt WEBB United States of America Lives Chicago Webb draws his driving force in life and artistic vision from consequential discoveries he makes, while deliberately preferring less ordinary paths to his destinations. Inspirational methodologies in art history including the Dance of Death, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Ship of Fools and Woodcut Novels are cornerstones of his artwork. In 1988, during a visit to Australia, while viewing a small porcelain woodfired bowl and teapot by Australian artist Gwyn Hanssen Pigott, Kurt Webb decided to abandon his desire to make functional pottery. He realized that Piggott’s clay work was beyond comparison or emulation and was impossibly inimitable. In 2015, inspired by using impeccably made, functional commercial tea ware, Webb decided to give pottery making a second chance. As a result, Webb’s new functional work acknowledges traditional influences while he pursues individuality through eclectic subject matter, meticulous construction, and decoratively glazed surfaces–all produced within a contemporary context. A tall vessel with a house and figures at the top.kurt webb, jan feder memorial ceramics collection, ceramics, gippsland campus, sculpture