Gene Sievers
Wheel-thrown and altered high-fired porcelain & stoneware pottery, also Wood-fired, and Raku
Sievers likes to create pottery with a twist. He makes traditional forms, but slightly alters the pieces’ shape, texture or color to make them unique. Sievers’ creations, in high-fired stoneware and porcelain, range from utilitarian pieces to larger one-of-a-kind works. “I work in families, not sets. Each cup or bowl will be slightly different,” he said, adding that he particularly likes to alter the handles of his asymmetrical pieces.
Sievers said he was drawn to pottery making because of the intimacy involved in discovering the balance, color and tactile surface of a coffee cup or other piece. “And I’m glad to know it will be used by someone for a long time,” he said.
Because art wasn't seen as a viable career in Kansas in the 1970s, Sievers said he enrolled at K-State as an electrical engineering student but quickly changed his major to art education. He later earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in ceramics, studying under ceramics professor and internationally known artist Yoshiro Ikeda.
Education: M.F.A. Ceramics, Kansas State University, 1993; B.S. Art Education, Kansas State University, 1976.
Collections: Emprise Bank , Wichita, KS; Sabitini Gallery, Topeka Public Library, Topeka, KS; Brackers Good Earth Clay, Lawrence, KS; Trinity Ceramic Supply, Ft. Worth, TX; Yoshiro and Ester Ikeda, Portland, OR; Elliot Pujol/Barbara Terrell, Manhattan, KS.
Wheel-thrown and altered high-fired porcelain & stoneware pottery, also Wood-fired, and Raku
Sievers likes to create pottery with a twist. He makes traditional forms, but slightly alters the pieces’ shape, texture or color to make them unique. Sievers’ creations, in high-fired stoneware and porcelain, range from utilitarian pieces to larger one-of-a-kind works. “I work in families, not sets. Each cup or bowl will be slightly different,” he said, adding that he particularly likes to alter the handles of his asymmetrical pieces.
Sievers said he was drawn to pottery making because of the intimacy involved in discovering the balance, color and tactile surface of a coffee cup or other piece. “And I’m glad to know it will be used by someone for a long time,” he said.
Because art wasn't seen as a viable career in Kansas in the 1970s, Sievers said he enrolled at K-State as an electrical engineering student but quickly changed his major to art education. He later earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in ceramics, studying under ceramics professor and internationally known artist Yoshiro Ikeda.
Education: M.F.A. Ceramics, Kansas State University, 1993; B.S. Art Education, Kansas State University, 1976.
Collections: Emprise Bank , Wichita, KS; Sabitini Gallery, Topeka Public Library, Topeka, KS; Brackers Good Earth Clay, Lawrence, KS; Trinity Ceramic Supply, Ft. Worth, TX; Yoshiro and Ester Ikeda, Portland, OR; Elliot Pujol/Barbara Terrell, Manhattan, KS.
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