Mark Issenberg
Raven Halfmoon is known for hand-built low-fire iron-rich earthenware sculptures. Characteristic forms are wall busts of war ponies and ?tricksters? (characters, usual animals in Native American legends) as well as large-scale human ...
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Raven Halfmoon is known for hand-built low-fire iron-rich earthenware sculptures. Characteristic forms are wall busts of war ponies and ?tricksters? (characters, usual animals in Native American legends) as well as large-scale human heads and clay flower arrangements. Much of Halfmoon?s work, deals with herNative American Caddo Culturalheritage.
Halfmoon?s painterly approach to the underglaze colored slip surface decoration reflects that of Caddo pottery. Her work provides another Contemporary Native American voice within the larger scope of contemporary ceramics.
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1972
Resident Potter, Rising Fawn Pottery, Rising Fawn, Georgia
- Primary Work Experience
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1999—
Owner, Operator, Lookout Mountain Pottery, Rising Fawn, Georgia
1967Assistant to Charles Counts, Rising Fawn Pottery, Rising Fawn, Georgia
1968-1970Assistant to Duane Hanson, Miami Dade Junior College, Miami, Florida
1973Assistant to Legatha Walston, Rising Fawn, Georgia
1973-1978Pottery Instructor, Ceramic League of Miami, Miami, Florida
1973-1978Pottery Instructor, Grove House Pottery, Coconut Grove, Miami, Florida
1975-1995Owner, Operator Mark Issenberg Pottery, Miami, Florida
1978-1995Fire Fighter, Hialeah, Florida
Other
- Public Collections
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Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, The Mary & Bruno Moser Collection, Mount Vernon, Illinois
Lynn H. Wood Archeological Museum, Southern Adventist University, Video Collection
- Bibliography
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Finkelnburg, Dave. “Mark Issenberg Pottery,” Ceramics Monthly (March 2003), http://lookoutmountainpottery.com/CMIssenberg.pdf
Galletta, Jan. “Fireplace Fuels New Salem Home Design: Potter Mark Issenberg Finds Peace in Mountain Retreat.” Chattanooga Times Free Press, June 4, 2005.
Gilbert, Kathy. “Artist’s Pots and Plants a Natural Match.” Chattanooga Times Free Press, November 30, 2002.
Nichols, Ann. “Functional Stoneware.” Chattanooga Times Free Press, March 3, 2002.
__________. “Pursuing His Passion.” Chattanooga Times Free Press, August 3, 2003.
Perisho, Andrea. “Making a Three-Piece Vase.” Pottery Making Illustrated (March-April 2005).
Tourtillott, Suzanne J.E. 500 Pitchers: Contemporary Expressions of a Classic Form. New York, New York: Lark Books, 2006.
- CV or Resume
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Jeffrey Kuratnick
- Website(s)
Citation: Jeffrey Kuratnick Mark Issenberg, "The Marks Project."
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