As I talked with John Beckelman about the arrangements for a hands-on demonstration to be given by artists from the Ceramics Center during the upcoming gallery tour, we laughed at the shared memory of an audience member in a gallery talk that John gave many years ago. This woman had the bravery to verbalize her [...]
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Winter weather
January 21, 2011, 8:13 am
I’ m going to be brief. It’s important to remember that complaining about weather – however hot, cold, icy, rainy or snowy – is pointless. In direct defiance of repetitious weather advisories forecasting ungodly cold, I have installed new work by Marcia Wegman and John Beckelman; displayed new pots by Sarah German; surrounded myself with [...]
John Beckelman
October 14, 2008, 12:40 pm
Kindnesses, John Beckelman Hard experience with years of “Intro to Art” students has taught me that few terms can relegate a person to the ranks of overly intellectualized academia more quickly than “contemporary, non-objective abstraction”. The genre begs a hasty, concise explanation. Resonance, John Beckelman John Beckelman’s mixed-media paintings that just opened in our new [...]