Articles
Ceramics Monthly
"Misty Gamble's Primping and the Currency of Worth "
Article by Stephanie Lanter
October, 2010
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1280 Magazine
Article by Shira Silverston
July, 2010
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New York Times
"36 Hours in Kansas City, MO "
Article by Charly Wilder
May 16, 2010
http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/travel/16hours.html
Review Magazine
"Switching the Price Tags: Misty Gamble"
Article by Steve Brisendine
March 5, 2010
http://ereview.org/2010/03/05/artkc365-switching-the-price-tags-misty-gamble/
Ceramics: Art and Perception
"Primping the Vacuous Soul: Recent Works by Misty Gamble"
Article by Nancy Servis
No. 78 2009
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Ceramics Monthly
focus | emerging artists
May 2008
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News
I’m spending summer 2011 in Kansas City and the east coast creating new work for fall exhibitions and a spring solo at Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art (www.sherryleedy.com). In mid July, I leave for Newcastle, Maine, where I’m the group leader and fellow for an Artist Invite Artist Summer Residency at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts.
Eight nationally recognized female artists, working conceptually with the body, will come together to work, live, eat, share and grow, individually and collectively. This dynamic group of women identify as ceramicists, painters, glass artists, installation artists and sculptors and make work that ranges from life-size hollow built figures to figurative fragments and internal organs; from slip cast multiples and mixed media installations to classical figurative sculpture and kiln formed glass. Spaces are still available for other residents to attend. Contact Watershed for info (www.watershedceramics.org). The AIA Watershed residents are Jessie Fisher, Shalene Valenzuela (www.shalene.com), Leandra Urrutia (leandraurrutia.blogspot.com), Akiko Jackson (www.akikojackson.com), Crystal Kamoroff (http://ad.sjsu.edu/ceramics/alumni.htm), Trish Kyner (www.grendelsmother.org) and Armelle Le Roux (http://atelierleroux.com). Congratulations to Akiko, Shalene and Armelle for receiving the prestigious Kiln God Award.
Following Watershed, I’m traveling to Cummington, Massachusetts for an Artist-in-Residency at Project Art (http://projectart01026.wordpress.com) and collaboration with Molly Hatch (www.mollyhatch.com) in the Berkshires.
“Craft in America” spotlights Kansas City Art Institute Ceramics Department
October 7, 2009
www.craftinamerica.org
The Kansas City Art Institute Ceramics Department will star October 7th in a prime-time broadcast of the Peabody-Award winning PBS series, “Craft in America.” The two-hour show will air nationally on Wednesday, October 7, 2009 from 8–10 pm. The second hour of the program includes a 10-minute segment about the strength of the KCAI ceramics program and features interviews with Chair and Professor Cary Esser, Professor George Timock, and several KCAI students and alumni.
The show spotlights Cary Esser and demonstrates how she goes beyond teaching skills and techniques, preparing her students for a career in ceramics by mentoring them as they evolve from students to trained professionals. It is a credit to Cary’s influence on her students that so many of them attempt and succeed at having a career in the ceramic field.
Personally, it has been a wonderful opportunity to work with the KCAI students and teach along side Cary Esser, George Timock, Tom Binger, and Paul Donnelly. I’ll be teaching at the Kansas City Art Institute through May of 2010 as Cary’s sabbatical replacement. Look for the portion of the show where you can see some of the “Big Heads” that my students created in the Fall 2008 semester.
University of Florida Workshop and Lecture
Friday, May 29 & 30, 2009 at 9:00am
Fine Arts Building C
Inner Road, Gainesville, Florida
http://hotclay.blogspot.com
Charlie@ufl.edu 352-359-2015
H.O.T. Clay welcomes visiting artist Misty Gamble. Misty will demonstrate her clay working techniques in Fine Arts Building C (FAC), room B2 on Friday and Saturday mornings. She will present a slide lecture on her work Friday at 1pm and a lecture on promotion, marketing and professional practices Saturday morning at 11am. Both lectures will be held in FAC room 102. All events are free and open to the public.
Critical Ceramics
February 2009
Last year at this time, I was knee deep in snow and midway through a long winter in Maine. Then, I spent the summer in Oakland, followed by a very busy fall in Kansas City. Here it is winter again, but this time, I’m surrounded by palm trees, beaches and warm days in West Palm Beach. I ride my beach cruiser (circa 1981) to and from the studio every day, where I’m producing a new body of work. Recently, I relived my Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts experience while reading a wonderful article written by my old studio mate and friend, Monica Leap. It was really nice recalling that special time when I was an artist-in-residence in Maine. Here is the link.
I’d also like to share with you an article about my students at the Kansas City Art Institute. Here is the link.