Nell Hazinski

EDUCATION

—BA Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

APPRENTICESHIPS & RESIDENCIES

1986-1989Resident Artist, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

PRIMARY WORK EXPERIENCE

1976-1984Studio Potter, Denver, Colorado

1984-1986Ceramics Instructor, University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, New YorkState

1992-1996Teacher, Ceramics and 3-Dimensional Art, Seisen International School, Tokyo, Japan

1997—Potter, Milkhouse Studio, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania

—Ceramics Faculty, Chester Springs Studio, Historic Yellow Springs, Chester Springs, Pennsylvania

BIOGRAPHY

Nell Hazinski is known for wheel-thrown porcelain and stoneware functional pottery. Signature forms include sauerkraut bowls, ikebana vessels and a variety of functional wares including dinner services, serving pieces, and kitchen wares.

Surface techniques feature floral and line motifs in earth-tone, blue-and-white underglaze, and nerikomi (a Japanese technique in which “Slabs of different clays or clays colored with stains or oxides, are stacked, folded, pressed into logs, sliced, and arranged to form a vessel.”1 Or in Hazinski's practice inlaid into a vessel surface. Hazinski uses shino, high gloss clear, and celadon glazes. Works are most often high fired in either a wood or a gas kiln.