Alleghany Meadows

Carbondale, Colorado
Biography
Alleghany Meadows is a studio potter in Carbondale, Colorado. He received his BA from Pitzer College, Claremont, CA, and his MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. Alleghany studied with Takashi Nakazato, Karatsu, Japan, received a Watson Foundation Fellowship for field study of potters in Nepal, and was an artist-in-residence at Anderson Ranch Arts Center. He has presented lectures, workshops and been a visiting artist at art centers and universities nationally and internationally, including Penland, Alfred, Southern Methodist University, Anderson Ranch, Archie Bray Foundation, Arrowmont, Haystack and Good Hope, Jamaica. He exhibits nationally and is the founder of Artstream Nomadic Gallery, co-founder of Harvey/Meadows Gallery, Aspen, Colorado, and co-founder of Studio for Arts and Works (SAW), Carbondale, Colorado. He serves on the board of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. His work was recently acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Huntington Museum of Art, WV, where he was honored with the Walter Gropius Master Award.
Statement
My search is to effect and enhance rituals in the home, a place where we put our feet up, break bread with friends, sip coffee while watching softly muted forms give way to shadows and contrasts, make wishes before blowing out birthday candles, contemplate and live our dreams. I wish for my work to inspire creative decisions in its use; to evoke a sense of the materials used, the touch of my hands and my thoughts; and, for the user to have access to the moments of my creative actions.
The work in this exhibition represents my latest investigations into form and process: earthenware, with its rich chocolaty material and lively history as the clay of the peasants; slips, with their aristocratic leanings, briskly applied and then salt-fired.
www.art-stream.com
Biography
Alleghany Meadows is a studio potter in Carbondale, Colorado. He received his BA from Pitzer College, Claremont, CA, and his MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. Alleghany studied with Takashi Nakazato, Karatsu, Japan, received a Watson Foundation Fellowship for field study of potters in Nepal, and was an artist-in-residence at Anderson Ranch Arts Center. He has presented lectures, workshops and been a visiting artist at art centers and universities nationally and internationally, including Penland, Alfred, Southern Methodist University, Anderson Ranch, Archie Bray Foundation, Arrowmont, Haystack and Good Hope, Jamaica. He exhibits nationally and is the founder of Artstream Nomadic Gallery, co-founder of Harvey/Meadows Gallery, Aspen, Colorado, and co-founder of Studio for Arts and Works (SAW), Carbondale, Colorado. He serves on the board of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. His work was recently acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Huntington Museum of Art, WV, where he was honored with the Walter Gropius Master Award.
Statement
My search is to effect and enhance rituals in the home, a place where we put our feet up, break bread with friends, sip coffee while watching softly muted forms give way to shadows and contrasts, make wishes before blowing out birthday candles, contemplate and live our dreams. I wish for my work to inspire creative decisions in its use; to evoke a sense of the materials used, the touch of my hands and my thoughts; and, for the user to have access to the moments of my creative actions.
The work in this exhibition represents my latest investigations into form and process: earthenware, with its rich chocolaty material and lively history as the clay of the peasants; slips, with their aristocratic leanings, briskly applied and then salt-fired.
www.art-stream.com