functional ceramics
1ceramics — The ceramics most people are familiar with is commercial and is therefore functional rather than aesthetic/sculptural. This industry is dominated by Staffordshire companies including Wedgwood. Although these are technologically innovative,… …
2advanced ceramics — ▪ ceramics Introduction substances and processes used in the development and manufacture of ceramic materials that exhibit special properties. As is pointed out in the article ceramic composition and properties, ceramics are… …
3Mexican ceramics — Woman selling pottery items at the Feria de Texcoco, Texcoco, Mexico State Ceramics and pottery in Mexico date back thousands of years before the Pre Columbian period, when ceramic arts and pottery crafts developed with the first advanced… …
4Network of Excellence for Functional Biomaterials (NFB) — The Network of Excellence for Functional Biomaterials (NFB) is a multidisciplinary research center which hosts over sixty biologists, chemists, scientists, engineers, and clinicians based at the National University of Ireland, Galway. NFB… …
5Regis Brodie — (born 1942) is a tenured Professor of Art at the Department of Art and Art History at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY and a potter. Since 1972, he has been serving as the Director of the Summer Six Art Program at Skidmore College. He… …
6Edmund de Waal — is a British ceramic artist (potter).Born in Nottingham, England in 1964, [ collection.britishcouncil.org/html/artist.aspx?id=18077 13k ] he is consideredweasel inline one of the leading British potters of his generation. He has worked as a… …
7Drago Kolar — Professor Drago Kolar (1932 – 2000) was a Head of the Ceramics Department at the Jozef Stefan Institute (Ljubljana, Slovenia) from 1965 until 1997. In this period the Ceramics Department grew to be among the top ceramics research facilities in… …
8Robert C. Turner — Robert Chapman Turner (1913 2005) was an American potter known for his functional pottery, sculptural vessels and inspired teaching. He died July 26, 2005, in Sandy Spring, Maryland.Born in Port Washington, New York, Turner attended Swarthmore… …
9Electroceramics — While ceramics have traditionally been admired for their mechanical and thermal stability, their unique electrical, optical and magnetic properties have become of increasing importance in many key technologies including communications, energy… …
10Mark Hewitt — (1955 ) is an English studio potter living in the small town of Pittsboro, North Carolina outside of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, known for his functional pottery and especially for his large scale wood fired, salt glazed ceramic pots, known as… …
