OTIS: 3 WAVES OF INNOVATION

CO-PRESENTATION BY JO LAURIA

&JOAN TAKAYAMA-OGAWA

WAVE 1:PETER VOULKOS

AT OTIS, 1954 - 1958

Works byPeter Voulkos, 1955-56

The Otis Students Of Peter Voulkos Paul Soldner John Blough Joel Edwards Malcolm McClain John Mason Kenneth Price Janice Roosevelt Stan Bitters Marion Moule Jerry Rothman Billy Al Bengston Henry Takemoto Michael Frimkiss Larry Shep Karen Neubert Sue Dakin Robert Glover Kazuye Suyematsu Carol Radcliffe

Mac McClain, on left, was in Voulkos’ class at Otis at the same time as Paul Soldner

Voulkos taught ceramics at Otis Art Institute from 1954 to December 1958

Voulkos at Glendale Studio 1957

Voulkos in the garden of the Pasadena Art Museum during his one-person exhibition, 1958

Voulkos’ MoMA New Yorksculpture installation

Paul SoldnerPedestal Piece, 1990Raku clay

Paul Soldner was one of Peter Voulkos’ first students at Otis, 1954 – 1956. He later became head of ceramics at Scripps College and Claremont Graduate University, 1956-1991

John Mason with Voulkos photographing work outside Los Angeles Studio, 1958-59

Mason studied with Voulkos at Otis in 1955, and they shared a studio together from 1958-1960

Mason installation, Ferus Gallery patio, 1957

Mason installation, 1959

Blue Wall by John Mason FERUS Gallery, 1959

Mason one-person exhibition, Pasadena Art Museum, 1960

Ken Price studied with Voulkos at Otis from 1957-1958

First Solo Exhibition, FERUS Gallery, 1960

Ken Price, “New American Sculpture” Pasadena Art Museum, 1964

Balls Congo, 2003

Billy Al Bengston studied at Otis with Voulkos from 1955-1956, and at Chouninard in 1961.

Jerry Rothman was a student at Otis under Voulkos (1957-1958) and under Helen Watson (1960-1961). He later became the ceramics professor at Cal State Fullerton, serving in that position from 1970-1997.

Miichael Frimkess studied with Voulkos from 1957-1958

Henry Takemoto studied with Voulkos 1957-1958

After Voulkos, Helen Watson taught ceramics at Otis from 1959-1982

WAVE 2:RALPH BACERRA

AT OTIS, 1983 - 1996

Ralph Bacerra studied ceramics with Vivika Heinoat Chouinard from 1957-1961and then became head of the ceramics department from 1963-1972

BACKGROUND

Ralph Bacerra discussing a pot in the Chouinard ceramics lab with student Lin Werner,c. 1970

Ralph Bacerra, Peter Shire, and Adrian Saxe, c. 2000

Adrian Saxe holding one of his limited edition teapots made at Manufacture Nationale de Sévres, 2006; and-to the right-a sculptural vessel from the same period.

Peter Shire in his studio in the 1980s, and a pair of his iconic stacking sculptures from 2000.

Ralph and student Robert Miller working on gigantic pots at Otis ceramics lab, 1989

Ralph Bacerra with one of his large hand-built hybrid animal sculptures “Untitled”, c. 2000

Sculptural Lidded Vessels, multi-fired with lusters, c. 2002

Joan Takayama-Ogawa Ricky Maldonaldo

Porntip Sangvanich

Keiko Fukazawa

Cindy KolodziejskiKevin Myers

Leslie Rosdol Tetsuji Aono

OTIS NOW

OTIS: INNOVATION WAVE 3Cutting Edge Technology + Traditional Techniques

Joan Takayama-Ogawa, Ceramic Coordinator

Windgate Fellow, 2013Christopher Basil Fong

Designing in Rhino

Ideation Drawings

Wood and Paper ClayChristopher Basil Fong, Windgate Fellow 2013

3-D PrintedHarene Kim, OTIS Windgate Nominee 2014

Stabilizing 3-D Model

Booty Cups: Humorous Response to the Objectification of Women

Rhino Software, 3-D Printed, Plaster Mold, Slip Cast, Under Glaze/Glaze, Airbrushed

Harene Kim, Windgate Nominee, 2014

Cremation UrnsRhino Software, 3-D Printed, Plaster Mold, Slip Casted, Glazed, Luster

Alex Hubbell, 2009, Product DesignValedictorian, MFA, Royal College of

London

Maxine Wong, 2009, Product Design

Executive Tajima Creative

“In Memory of Joe Koons”

Laguna Clay, Joan Takayama-Ogawa

3-D Printed, Plaster Mold, Slip Cast, Cone 04 Glaze

Melanie Abrantes

OTIS, Product Design, 2012

Joseph Chang

OTIS, Product Design 2014

OTIS Product Design 2012

Lydia Hwang Dan Nakamura

Alison TsztooGainey Ceramics, OTIS, Product Design, 2013

THEY LEARN SCULPTURE TOO!Life Size Lion Head

Paper Clay, Glaze, PaintEsmeralda Gonzales, Windgate Nominee, 2014

One Part Paper Clay, Mixed Media, Glaze and PaintEsmeralda Gonzales, Windgate Nominee, 2014

OTIS Fine Arts

Esmeralda GonzalesWindgate Nominee, 2014

OTIS, Fine Arts

OTIS= Material DrivenArtists/Designers

Blair Dalby/ Rhonda PurdonFINE ARTS

They Get JOBS!!!Suzanne Kim, OTIS, Product Design, 2012

OTIS CLAY IS BACK!