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Big Creek Pottery, A Social History of a Visual Idea, 1967-1983 (DVD)
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Big Creek Pottery, A Social History of a Visual Idea, 1967-1983
An oral history interview with Bruce and Marcia McDougal
by Karen Thuesen Massaro
Videographers/editors: Peter McGettigan and Ed Schehl/raindancermedia.org
60 minutes
Forty-three years ago, students traversed America to meet their hosts, whose idealism led to the creation of a beautiful school. The Big Creek Pottery School, by many accounts the first workshop oriented residential learning community in the western United States, was opened by Al Johnsen and Bruce and Marcia McDougal in 1968. During fifty workshops, the school offered an enlightened style of education—one focused on making functional, wheel-thrown pottery from start to finish, benefitting its temporary residents with time to clear their minds and a place to immerse themselves in the ceramic process alongside others.
This engaging limited editon DCD documents the story of the Big Creek Pottery School and contains conversations with the McDougals, over 50 photographs taken of the school and the students, and samples of work done by students and instructors. It is a companion to the Museum of Art & History’s Big Creek Pottery, A Social History of a Visual Idea, 1967-1983 exhibition, running from March 26 through July 17, 2011.
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