[Berkeley, California] : [TRAX Gallery], [2003].
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Notes:
- DVD.
- Title on disc: Trax Gallery presents Warren McKenzie.
- Produced and edited by Blair Gershkow photography by Lex Fletcher.
- This 18 minute DVD is an informative interview of Warren MacKenzie, his history, influences and perspectives on the ‘hand-made pot.’ Filmed at the Trax Gallery, Berkeley, CA. –Distributor’s Web site.
- Warren MacKenzie creates traditional pottery for everyday use, a style known in Japan as Mingei. He is part of a vital community of potters centered in the St. Croix Valley of Minnesota, whose style is fondly referred to as Mingei-sota. The Mingei philosophy was brought to England by Bernard Leach in the 1920s, and potters from all over the world, including MacKenzie, have apprenticed at the Leach Pottery and carried its honest, inexpensive, and functional aesthetic back home. MacKenzie’s career spans 60 years. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota and works out of his studio in Stillwater, Minnesota. [One of his former students, Sandy Simon, owns TRAX Gallery in Berkeley, California. This DVD records MacKenzie's workshop there in April 2003.] –Publisher’s Web site.
Subjects:
- Pottery craft — Japan — Technique.
- Workshops (Adult education) — California — Berkeley.
- Pottery, Japanese — Technique.
- Folk art — Japan.
- Artists as teachers — Minnesota.
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