Clay In The Bay

The use of clay as a fine art medium has deep roots in Northern California. Once considered a form of craft, it took the ingenuity, creativity, and vision of artists like Robert Arneson and Peter Voulkos to look beyond the medium's utilitarian properties to its expressive qualities. In the decades following, their successors--artists such as Stephen DeStaebler, David Gilhooly, Ron Nagle, and Richard Shaw--continued to stretch the creative boundaries of clay sculpture. Today, the use of the medium… Show more as a respected art form continues to thrive.

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