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Where pattern, form, and texture become one in clay.

All rights reserved by Kenneth Standhardt 2011

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COLLECTIONS

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

University of Oregon, Eugene, OR

Renwick Gallery

Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC

American Embassy

Bangkok, Thailand

Georgia Pacific

Atlanta, GA

MCI

Washington, DC

PUBLICATIONS

Oregon Art Beat (10/15/09)

Oregon Public Broadcasting

(to view anytime, click Oregon Art Beat icon on the GALLERY page)

Clay Times Magazine

cover and feature story, Jan/Feb 2008

After I throw each vessel on the potters wheel and it dries leather-hard, I trim its rough edges and indent the exterior surface with a variety of handmade steel tipped tools. In a single vessel, the number of indentations can vary from 500 to 5,000, each placed by hand and eye. Thus, no two vessels are ever the same. Each vessel is given further character by carving and incising the rim, again in the designs that reflect Pre-Columbian patterns and form. When the vessel is completely dry, it is fired to a stoneware temperature of 2,150 Fahrenheit. All vessels are made of a tough stoneware are glazed (lead free) on the interior and can be used in the oven, dishwasher, and microwave.

I was born in 1961 and grew up on a working Pennsylvania Dutch farm 40 miles northwest of Philadelphia, PA. I spent most of my childhood outside in nature. When not working the farm I spent hours constructing dams at the creek, building forts in the woods, and hunting arrowheads in the fields after heavy Summer thunderstorms. At around the age of thirteen I saw the potter I would eventually apprentice for at a local craft show and convinced my father to help me build a kickwheel. I have worked in clay ever since then and have focused on a type of folkpottery I have developed over the past twenty two plus years. I call it "Church Key Pottery". What I believe makes it a new form of traditional folk art is that I am using a simple tool found in any kitchen of the past hundred years and using it to create beauty in clay form. I have developed dozens of distinct patterns over the past two decades and continue to explore more.

I maintain a home and studio with my husband Mark, our two Corgis, Sweet Pea and Cosmos, Ozzie the cat and Opal, our parakeet.

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2011 SHOW SCHEDULE

APRIL Ceramic Showcase

Portland Convention Center

Friday April 29th 10- 9

Saturday April 30th 10-9

Sunday May 1st 10-5

MAY Open Studio/ Pottery Sale

Mothers Day Weekend

4875 Garnet St Eugene OR

Saturday May 7th 10-4

Sunday May 8th 12-4

JULY Art and the Vineyard

Alton Baker Park, Eugene, OR

Saturday July 2nd 11-8:30

Sunday July 3rd 11-8:30

Monday July 4th 11-8:30

Bellevue Art Museum Show

Bellevue Square , Bellevue, WA

Friday July 29th 9-9

Saturday July 30th 9-9

Sunday July 31st 9-6

AUGUST Art in the High Desert

Bend , Oregon

Friday August 26th 10-6

Saturday August 27th 10-6

Sunday August 28th 10-4

SEPTEMBER Art in the Pearl

Pearl Distrct, Portland,OR

Labor Day Weekend

Saturday September 3rd 10-6

Sunday September 4th 10-6

Monday September 5th 10-5

OCTOBER Clayfest

Lane County Fairgrounds

Eugene, OR

Friday October 7th 5-8

Saturday October 8th 10-6

Sunday October 9th 11-5

NOVEMBER Clayfolk

Medford Armory, Medford, OR

Friday November 18th 4-9

Saturday November 19th 10-7

Sunday November 20th 10-4

DECEMBER Holiday Pottery Sale (Home)

4875 Garnet St Eugene, OR

Friday December 2nd 4-8pm

Saturday December 3rd 10-4

Sunday December 4th 11-4

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Feel free to contact me to schedule a visit to my studio/gallery and see my latest available vessels or discuss a vessel I can create just for you.

Gift certificates are also available.

Ken Standhardt

4875 Garnet Street

Eugene, OR 97405

541 514 4646

standhardtstudio_gmail.com