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Ingrid Bathe

EDUCATION

—BFA Museum School of Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts

2003 MFA Ceramics, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio

PRIMARY WORK EXPERIENCE

—Assistant Director, Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, Maine

2007— Studio Potter

BIOGRAPHY

Ingrid Bathe is primarily known for the use of the pinch method of hand building to make functional thin walled porcelain vessels. Impressions of her finger pads form the surface texture. In Bathe’s early work this surface treatment served as her mark. Some of her most common forms include mugs, cups, small bowls and utilitarian table white wares including raised cake stands. Bathe began working almost exclusively in porcelain around 2006.

Bibliography

Bathe, Ingrid. “Subscriber Extra: An Elevated Tradition.”  Pottery Making Illustrated (March/April 2017).

Cleary, Naomi, and Alisha Ebling, eds. 100 Artists, 1000 Cups. Philadelphia PA: The Clay Studio, 2016.

“Studio Visit: Ingrid Bathe.” Ceramics Monthly 58, no. 5 (May 2010).

 

Website: www.ingridbathe.com

 

 

Center for CraftSouthern Highland Craft Guild

 

Typical Marks

"IB" stamped into wet clay

Cup and Saucer
Date: ca 2005
Materials: Porcelain
Method: Pinched
Surface Technique: Glaze
Photo: Loren Maron
Photo: Loren Maron
Stacked Cake Plates
Date: 2014
Materials: Porcelain
Method: Hand-Built
Surface Technique: Glaze
40th Annual Pottery Show & Sale, The Art School at Old Church Pottery Invitational, 2014, Demerest, New Jersey
Photo: TMP
40th Annual Pottery Show & Sale, The Art School at Old Church Pottery Invitational, 2014, Demerest, New Jersey

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Tags

Maine, pinch method, hand building, porcelain

 

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