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COURTESY OF UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII DEPARTMENT OF ART Martin Halstead of Australia created this stately pot adorned with golden leaves.

Cultural exchange through clay

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Star-Bulletin Staff

Ceramicists from around the globe are producing their art alongside one another -- and promoting intercultural understanding -- at the "East-West Ceramics Collaboration III," sponsored by the University of Hawaii-Manoa's Department of Art.

The event, which runs through Aug. 9, features slide presentations by the visiting artists, a symposium and an open house. All events are free.

A calendar follows:

>> "Ceramics Futures": 2 p.m. today, UH Art Auditorium (room 132). The symposium with ceramics experts Paul Greenhalgh, Jo Lauria and Paul Mathieu questions future developments in ceramics via slide presentations. Discussion follows.

Greenhalgh, president of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, is an international lecturer and former Head of Research at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Lauria is an independent curator and museum consultant who specializes in 20th and 21st century decorative arts.

COURTESY OF UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII DEPARTMENT OF ART Japanese ceramicist Yuriko Matsuda used color and design to give her sculpture a whimsical air.

Mathieu teaches at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, Canada. He is an internationally exhibiting artist and has completed a book to be published next year titled "Sexpots: Eroticism in Ceramics."

>> Visiting Artist Slide Presentation: 7 p.m. Tuesday. Artists are Chou Pang-ling of Taiwan, Georgette Zirbes of the United States and Peteris Martinsons of Latvia.

>> Visiting Artist Slide Presentation: 7 p.m. Thursday. Artists are Martin Halstead of Australia, Cho Chung-hyun of Korea, Lawrence Bush of the United States and Fiona Wong of Hong Kong.

>> Visiting Artist Slide Presentation: 7 p.m. July 30. Artists are Choi Sung-jae of Korea, Martin Mohwald of Germany, Raewyn Atkinson of New Zealand and Suzanne Wolfe of the United States.

>> "East-West Ceramics OpenHouse": Meet the artists and discuss the ceramics works in progress. 9 to 11 a.m. Aug. 3 at the Ceramics Courtyard at the Department of Art.

>> Ceramics workshop: The artists gather daily from early morning until late at night at UH's ceramics studio to collaborate and exchange ideas and techniques as they produce their art. The public is welcomed to observe the artists at work.

>> "East-West Ceramics III": Exhibition of the ceramic pieces produced during the workshop. Sept 1 to 27, UH Art Gallery.

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