"Ceramists required a means to convey the presence, the thingness, of the objects they were making. For students, amateur practitioners, and experienced ceramists alike, to distinguish a primordial bowl form from a ‘tea bowl’ opens up a wider field of per-ceived aesthetic and spiritual gravitas. For many American ceramists, tea bowls are things with values for studio pottery and ce-ramic sculpture praxis, manifest most clearly by the naming of objects as tea bowls". - Meghen Jones
Carolee Shneeman demonstrates intimate, feminine exposure in film
Sculpture enters transformational realm, moving towards contemporary minimalism