Sunday, November 29, 2009

Peter Voulkos Super Modern Moments



“In 1954, fresh from the eye-opening experimental school Black Mountain College in North Carolina and a residency at the Archie Bray Foundation in his native Montana, Peter Voulkos began teaching at the Los Angeles Country Art Institute. There, he set up a now legendary program in which he and his students, nearly all men, stayed up late, drank a great deal, and made mostly roughly painted, often huge, pots.”




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