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Michael Kline is known for work that is typically functional or derived from functional forms. The surfaces are often covered with black curvilinear botanical motifs on a thick white slip surface that becomes gray in a soda firing. There is also a body of work in which the surface is decorated by impressing a pattern in the leather hard clay and then inlaying porcelain into the impressions.

Kline has worked as a studio potter since 1993. In the early 1990s he built and fired his work in Mark Shapiro?s wood kiln at Stonepool Pottery. After the residency at Penland he designed and built a kiln in North Carolina that could accommodate both dinnerware and larger stoneware work. The kiln is fired 6 times a year using waste wood from area saw mills as fuel.

His pieces are inspired in part by the natural world around his studio and the pots of the Catawba Valley and Seagrove areas of North Carolina. At times his pots have the traditional Southeasternglass runs and alkaline ash glaze.

Apprenticeships & Residencies

1979

Resident Arts and Industry Program, Kohler Company, Sheboygan, Wisconsin

Primary Work Experience

1962

1963

Instructor, People's Art Center, St. Louis, Missouri

1963

1967

Associate Professor of Art, Wisconsin State University, Whitewater, Wisconsin

1968

1997

Professor of Art, Hayward State College (now California State University), Hayward, California

Other

Public Collections

Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts

Arizona State Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona

Bakken Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Carborundum Museum of American Ceramics, Niagara Falls, New York

Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California

Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware

Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California

Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, Utah

John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, California

Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina

Musee d' Ethnographie Neuchatel, Neuchatel, Switzerland

Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), New York, New York

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawai’i

Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California

Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin

San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California

Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Museum, Washington, DC

San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California

Weisman Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Bibliography

Clark, Garth. American Ceramics: 1874 to the Present, Revised Edition. New York, NY: Abbeville Press Publishers, 1987.

Clark, Garth, and Margie Hughto. A Century of Ceramics in the United States, 1876-1976. New York, NY: Dutton, 1979.

Clark, Garth, editor. Ceramic Art: Comment and Review. New York, NY: Dutton, 1978.

Clark, Garth. The Eccentric Teapot. New York, NY: Abbeville Press Publishers, 1989.

Daniels, Diane, Clayton Bailey’s World of Wonders (exhibition catalog). Sacramento California: Crocker Art Museum, 2012.

DePaoli, G. Joan and Dr. Gladstone. Clayton Bailey: Happenings in the Circus of Life (Metal and Ceramic Sculpture). Davis, CA: John Natsoulas Press, 2000.

Donhauser, Paul. The History of American Ceramics: The Studio Potter. Dubuque, IA: Kendall-Hunt Publishing Company, 1978.

Ferrin, Leslie. Teapots Transformed: Exploration of an Object. Madison, WI: Guild Publishing, 2001.

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