id:edanmdm-siris_arc_255518 url:edanmdm:siris_arc_255518 hash:4b0aed9f41997c19ec3704221682740a1ed05c4e type:edanmdm title:Oral history interview with Karen Karnes, 2005 August 9-10 status:0 content: freetext: date: label:Date content:2005 label:Date content:2005-2005 label:Date content:2005 August 9-10 name: label:interviewee content:Karnes, Karen 1925-2016 label:Interviewer content:Shapiro, Mark 1955- label:Creator content:Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America label:Subject content:Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America notes: label:Notes content:Originally recorded on 3 sound discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 6 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 35 min. label:Notes content:Funding for this interview was provided by the Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America. label:Notes content:Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service. label:Notes content:Karen Karnes (1925- ) is a potter from Morgan, Vermont. Mark Shapiro is a potter from Worthington, Massachusetts. label:Notes content:This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators. label:Summary content:An interview of Karen Karnes conducted 2005 Augest 9-10, by Mark Shapiro, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, at the artist's home and studio, in Morgan, Vermont. label:Summary content:Karnes discusses her childhood in Brooklyn and the Bronx as the daughter of Russian and Polish immigrants working in the garment industry; living in a cooperative housing project built especially for garment workers and their families; attending the High School of Music and Art, New York City; going on to Brooklyn College, and fortuitously landing in the class of Serge Chermayoff, who taught primarily in the Bauhaus style; meeting her first husband, David Weinrib, with whom she eventually moved to Pennsylvania; David bringing home a slab of clay for her to work with, her first experience with the material; traveling to Italy and working in a ceramics factory there; attending a summer session at Black Mountain College in North Carolina and taking a class with Josef Albers; moving to Stony Point, in Rockland County, New York, to start Gatehill Community; her first gallery relationship, with Bonniers, New York City; the birth of her son Abel in 1956; the first time she used a salt kiln, while at the Penland School of Arts and Crafts, Penland, North Carolina, in 1967, and its effect on the character of her work; her relationship with the Hadler-Rodriguez Galleries, New York City; the pottery show in Demarest, New Jersey; her teaching philosophy and methods, including the "Continuum"; meeting her life partner, Ann Stannard, in 1970; Ann's home in Wales, and living there before settling in Vermont; the fire that destroyed their home and studio in 1998; the issues of privacy and isolation in an artist's life; her expectations about her career, especially as a Jewish woman; and her feelings on the work of contemporary potters. label:Summary content:Karnes also recalls John Cage, Soetsu Yanagi, Bernard Leach, Shoji Hamada, Charles Olsen, Marguerite Wildenhain, Paul and Vera B. Williams, Mary Caroline Richards, Goren Holmquist, Paul J. Smith, Mikhail Zakin, Jack Lenor Larsen, Isamu Noguchi, D. 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