Joy Brown

Biography to Display:

Born, Japan

EDUCATION

1951-1968Raised and schooled, Japan

1972BA Fine Arts, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida

APPRENTICESHIPS AND RESIDENCIES

1975-1978Ceramics apprenticeships in Japan

1978Researched kilns and potteries in Japan and Korea

BIOGRAPHY

Joy Brown is known for joyful, rounded, figurative, sculptural forms (some of which are monumental), tiles, and vessels. Brown works with Georgia clay that is typically used for making red bricks. She coils, pinches, and paddles her pieces, which are wood-fired in a 30-foot long anagama kiln. She lived in Japan for the first 17 years of her life where she observed the local ceramics and later returned to work in a traditional Japanese ceramic studio. Her work shows the influences of the Japanese approach to clay she learned from her time in Japan.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Public Collections to Display:

Canadian Academy, Kobe, Japan

Hartford Hospital, Hartford, Connecticut

Jing’An International Sculpture Park, Shanghai, China

University of North Carolina, Ashville, North Carolina

Yodogawa Christian Hospital, Osaka, Japan

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bibliography to Display:

O’Shaughnessy, Tracy. “Portfolio of the Month.” Connecticut, March 2009.

“Passport Picks: Words and Forms at Wisdom House.” Passport, Spring 2008.

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