This episode of Sunday looks at the ClayAzArt symposium held in Rotorua in 1991. The symposium was sponsored by the Art Gallery and Museum of Northern Arizona and featured potters, ceramicists and ceramic artists from the United States of America exhibiting their works and discussing and displaying their techniques including, forming, glazing and firing. The symposium also hosted the Annual General Meeting of the New Zealand Society of Potters and served as an opportunity to review pottery trends in Aotearoa across the 20th Century.
Features interviews with: Don Reitz (American Potter), Jim Leedy (American Potter), Professor Don Bendel (American Potter). Elsa Chadwick (ClayAzArt organiser), Mark Chadwick (ClayAzArt organiser), Paula Rice (Lecturer in Ceramics, University of Arizona), Patti Meads (New Zealand Potter), Chester Nealie (New Zealand Potter), Kevin deKeuster (American Potter), Mereisi Tabualeuu (Fijian Potter).
Features the ceramic works of the following potters: Marilyn Wiseman, Raewyn Aktkinson, Diana Freider, Chester Nealie, Anna-Marie Clauson, Dale Robertson, Michael O’Donald, Elizabeth Liserman,