Tammy Marinuzzi, Ceramic Artist

Artist Workshop - Join US

My Husband Pavel and I are giving a work shop in a few weekends in Atlanta. Come join us for the afternoon. Pavel will demo his mold making skills, while I'll show you how to make fun funkie forms.

Collaboration - A-ha moment, we fall in love fast!

Me and UP

Lately, I've been interested in the idea of collaborations. Some of this was sparked at a hands on ceramic workshop that I gave recently. I thought it would be interesting to ask participates to trade work with one another during the processes of making. I was not interested in the idea of the participant giving up ownership of ones work, but rather having the makers respond to what was in front of them and taking it from there. Perhaps, I thought, this would make the individual see something from a new perspective. Unfortunately this wasn't the most well received idea. What I observed is that after only twenty minutes of working on an object folks were attached to their project, and few would trade. So my general observation is that we all fall in love fast with our hand made objects, and that we are all saps! Even though I still think there is value to this idea, and I will try it in future workshop settings, what it made me realize is that I really was searching for that interaction and collaboration with other folks. I needed to step outside my comfort zone and make something fun and fresh.

UP's first drawing -book #1

A few years back, I made a bunch of small hand made books and never used them. The books are pocket size 4 inches by 4 inches, small and intimate. Simple with black cloth cover, all hand bond. Last Christmas, I gave one to my Uncle Paul affectionately called UP. I grew up with drawings from UP in my home, so it was a natural place to start. He and I have had fun reacting to each other's work. He completes a page or two and then we mail them back and forth, responding to the marks, images or colors. This past year I have given an additional ten books out and only one other has come back to me, I'm excited to start on it. If anyone is interested in collaborating please let me know and I'll send you a book.


My Response - Gazing Mermen -book #1

Honey Badger Don't Care - UP on left- me on right

New Work

Video

Here is the video that was shot last winter at "Funkie Fired Arts" in OH. I had a good time giving the workshop, however I thought, I would pee myself before the video was shot. Jennifer was really nice and helped me look into the right camera! Here is what she wrote and shot.

Pottery Video of the Week: How to Make Gestural Sculptural Pottery Using Soft Slabs
Tammy Marinuzzi is a people watcher. She observes body language and facial expressions and uses it as inspiration for her functional, yet also distinctly sculptural, pots. Sometimes cute, sometimes unsettling, these little "guys" expose and celebrate human imperfections.

I met Tammy earlier this year at the Potters Council Surface + Form workshop and had the pleasure of watching her work (and I just happened to catch it on film!). I was so impressed by her relaxed way of working and how she lets these little creatures evolve as they are being formed rather than starting out with a set plan.

There was so much good stuff in her process that I couldn't quite condense it down to one video, so today I will show you part one. Tune in next week for part two! - Jennifer Harnetty, editor.

Check out the video here!

Pottery Video of the Week: How to Make Gestural Sculptural Pottery Using Soft Slabs - Part Two

by Tammy Marinuzzi

Last Friday, I posted a video filmed at a Potters Council conference earlier this year. In the video, Tammy Marinuzzi demonstrated her handbuilding techniques for her figurative functional pottery. I couldn’t quite condense it down to one video, so I had to split it up into two parts.

Today, I am sharing part two. In this segment, Tammy shows us how she makes the lids for her lidded jars, and how she adds life to the work by adding expressive eyes, noses, and mouths. - Jennifer Harnetty, editor.

Pottery Video: Gestural Handbuilt Jars pt II - YouTube

Working together to form a community

Reconfigure at GCCC

Panama City, FL - The Visual & Performing Arts Division of Gulf Coast Community College is proud to present “Reconfigure” starting March 11, 2011. The art exhibit features painting, drawings, photographs and sculpture exploring the human form by Pavel Amromin, Rory Coyne, Jill Foote-Hutton, Katherine Gallagher, Shawn Gallagher, Magda Gluszek, Morgan Kendall, Kim Luther, and Tammy Marinuzzi. Artists Pavel Amromin, Tammy Marinuzzi and Magda Gluszek will also be giving a demonstration/lecture on their individual sculpting techniques in clay on March 11 from 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. The demonstration will be held at GCCC in the Amelia Tapper Center, room 128. It is free and open to the public.

The artists selected for “Reconfigure” demonstrate a broad range of interpretations of the human form in both two and three dimensions. Approaches to this subject matter include a range from realistic, stylized, abstract to anthropomorphized forms. Pavel Amromin, Tammy Marinuzzi and Magda Gluszek are all instructors in the Division of Visual and Performing Arts at Gulf Coast Community College. They each hold Masters of Fine Arts degrees in Ceramics from the University of Florida. Pavel Amromin creates narrative porcelain vignettes examining issues of war and the boy soldier. He uses a combination of press-mold and sculpting methods. Tammy Marinuzzi makes functional forms illustrating her observations of the various people and personalities that she encounters in daily life. She constructs her forms with soft slabs and decorates with a combination of colorful slips and glazes. Magda Gluszek sculpts female figures investigating ideas about identity and appearance through performative poses. She sculpts her forms as a solid mass and hollows them before firing and decorating with ceramic and mixed media surfaces. Amromin, Marinuzzi and Gluszek will demonstrate their individual techniques and talk about what motivates and inspires them to create.

The art exhibit will open the evening of March 11, with a reception from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. “Reconfigure” will be on display in the Amelia Center Main Gallery (Room 112) until April 15, 2011. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

If you have any questions or would like to visit the gallery, please contact Tammy Marinuzzi at tmarinuzzi@gulfcoast.edu or call 769-1551 ext. 2890.

New sites

http://www.maggyrhiltner.com/gallery.htm
Check out this edgy embroidery, cute, and just a bit twisted

http://www.kstudiohome.com/
Tall girl and bunny make me smile! Everyone should have an extra set of arms.

Queens Of Confection

Queens of Confection

Containers for candies, condiments & cookies

Exhibition Dates : Mar 27-Apr 27

Opening & Reception

Friday, April 1st, 5:00 - 7:00 pm

Renee Brown, Tammy Marinuzzi, Susan O'Brien, Kristen Pavelka, Cheyenne Chapman Rudolph, Tara Wilson &

Gwendolyn Yoppolo

In such close proximity, only a trolley ride away from the convention,

it seems only natural that The Singing Stone Gallery participates in

NCECA 2011, 45th ANNUAL CONFERENCE, March 30-

April 2, 2011 in Tampa. The National Council on Education for the

Ceramic Arts, NCECA, is a professional association of individuals and organizations whose interests, talents and careers are focused on the

ceramic arts.

The Title of the month long Show is

Queens of Confection:Containers for Candies, Condiments and

Cookies. This will be an amazing Exhibition highlighting a variety of

approaches to creating serving dishes for side dish items. From hand

built earthenware to thrown and altered porcelain, each artist refers to the precise nature of the food to be served and makes the vessel not only

suitable for the food, but in celebration of it, sometimes even inventing a new function for the sake of a favored food. The participants are all

female. The curating process did not begin with the intention of an all female exhibition; however, the work came together, retaining a uniquely feminine quality of richness and delicacy that suits the foods for which

each piece is destined. The ideas of queen and domesticity are somewhat

at odds, unless one considers the role a woman plays in her own kitchen,

where she is queen. It is this idea of queen- one who can both create and control- that is showcased in the work. This is A Free Family Event.

Images from Surface and Form Workshop

This is my pal Jeremy Randel, who is a awsome person and ceramic artist. Jeremy and I went to Graduate school together at UF. Check out his work at jeremyrandallceramics.com/

Jeremy Randal

Band - Opening night at Funkie

Me cleaning my brush - Not sure I'm doing

Gwendolyn Yoppolo's work check out Gwendolyn web site at http://gwendolynyoppolo.com/

Opening night at Funkie

Gallery Space at Funkie Fired Arts

Met some pretty neat folks,

Meredith Host - Better known as Vomit

http://meredithhost.com/artwork

Vomits Friends Katie and Guy

http://katiesnewwork.blogspot.com/

http://www.guymichaeldavis.blogspot.com/

Our Cups Runneth Over

November 13, 2010 - January 22, 2011

Tammy Marinuzzi
Tuff Guy in Pink (small coffee cup)
Terra cotta
2 x 2 x 1.5 inches
2010

Functional and sculptural ceramic cups by 33 invited artists from across the country: Kurt Anderson, Jeremy Ayers, Marian Baker, Lynn Smiser Bowers, Ed Brownlee, Naomi Cleary, Cynthia Consentino, Frank Criscione, Val Cushing, Kaitlyn Duggan, Rae Dunn, Sanam Emami, Paul Eshelman, Carole Ann Fer, Shanna Fliegel, Ken Goldstrom, Hiroe Hanazono, Tiffany Hilton, Stepanka Horalkova, Rebecca Hutchinson, Brian R. Jones, Kathy King, Maren Kloppmann, Tammy Marinuzzi, Elisabeth Maurland, Brooke Noble, Sean P. O'Connell, Jeremy Randall, Aaron Sober, Keri Straka, Munemitsu Taguchi, John Taylor and Shalene Valenzuela.

http://societyofcrafts.org/exhibitgallery.asp?pg=current