Please contact the Archie Bray Foundation by email, by telephone 406-443-3502 or via their website for more information.

Pictured from left to right in the photo above left:
Janet Mansfield, Rudy Autio, Paul Soldner, Don Reitz, John Balistreri, Peter Voulkos and Anthony Gill at Woodstoke 2000.
 
 
Peter Callas Studio 2001

Peter Voulkos was at the Peter Callas Studio for two weekends in July giving slide lectures and demonstrations. He was paired with Paul Soldner and Ryoji Koie on the 7th & 8th and with Kurt Weiser and Don Reitz on the 14th & 15th. Converted from an 18th C. Moravian barn, the studio is situated along the Pequest River in Belvidere in the northwestern corner of New Jersey near the Delaware Water Gap.

Please contact the Peter Callas Studio by email, telephone 908-475-8907, fax 908-475-8956 or visit the studio website for more information.

Photo at left:
Peter Voulkos with a nearly finished greenware stack made at a workshop in the Department of Art, Art History and Design of the University of Notre Dame, Indiana held the winter of 2001.
 
 

Woodstoke 2000

Peter Voulkos along with Rudy Autio, Janet Mansfield, Don Reitz and Paul Soldner participated during the summer in Woodstoke 2000 held in Penryn, California. Penryn is located near Auburn between Sacramento and Lake Tahoe. The workshop included slide presentations and demonstrations along with a woodfiring. Dates for the workshop were June 11-17, 2000.

Please contact the Penryn Workshop by email or telephone 916-663-2815 for more information.

Photo at left:
Peter Voulkos, left, and Rudy Autio
 
 

Colorado and New Jersey

Peter Voulkos participated in half a dozen workshops in 1999 as well as returning in 1998 to Colorado and New Jersey for workshops. At Anderson Ranch in Snowmass Village, Colorado, he and Paul Soldner conducted a workshop entitled A Lifetime in Clay in September. Voulkos made his 1999 stacks called “Alhambra” and “Siguirilla” there and at the Peter Callas Workshops in Belvidere, New Jersey in July/August. Callas fired both these stacks in his eighteen foot-long single-chambered woodburning kiln called an anagama. More information about his kiln and a picture of the anagama firebox is in the archives. Also at the Callas Workshops this past summer, Australian ceramicist Janet Mansfield was among the artists who conducted demonstrations.

Photo at left:
Voulkos steps back to to study an unfinished stack begun during the course of a demonstration at a workshop in 1998 at Peter Callas' Belvidere studio. Photo courtesy of Peter Callas.
 
 

The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska sponsored three days of workshops, barbeques and musical performances over the 1999 Memorial Day weekend. Along with a workshop by Voulkos, Terry Allen and his Panhandle Mystery Band performed in concert and Jo Harvey Allen staged “Homerun,” one of her one-woman theatre productions. Slide presentations, videos and lectures were also offered by John Balistreri, Eddy Domingus, Douglas Kent Hall, David Kuraoka, Anton Reijnders, Conrad Snider and Netty Van Den Heuvel.

After the festivities, Voulkos remained in Omaha to work in the Jun Kaneko Studio where he finished the stack he began at the Bemis workshop and built two more large stacks. Two of these were subsequently trucked to Bowling Green, Ohio where they were fired by John Balistreri in his anagama.

Photo at left:
John Balistreri, assisting Voulkos with the construction of his work, places the “neck” on top of a stack while Voulkos checks out the position. This stack, now called “Amaya,” was on view in Voulkos' show at the Frank Lloyd Gallery in Santa Monica last December, 1999.
 
 

Organized by Professor of Ceramics, Bede Clarke, the art department of the University of Missouri at Columbia hosted a Voulkos workshop and symposium featuring Rudy Autio and Jun Kaneko along with Voulkos in April 1999. Additional sponsers for this event were the First National Bank at Columbia, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art and MUCK (the Missouri University Clay Klub).

In the photo at left, Voulkos gets some “hands on” help as he contemplates his forty-two-inch tall stack made in Columbia and called “Schoenberg.”

The Penryn Workshop in California presented “Peter, Paul and Kathy,” demonstrations by Kathy Koop, Paul Soldner and Voulkos in June, 1999.
 
 

In March, Voulkos and Jun Kaneko were invited by Assistant Professor John Balistreri to conduct a workshop at his school, Bowling Green State University in Ohio. As well as making his signature plates, Voulkos built a stack called “Bowling Green”. These were fired in an anagama that Balistreri built in 1996. This kiln is seventeen feet-long and almost six feet high, is fired about six or seven times a year and takes about five days to fire. Balistreri had previously fired some of Voulkos' works, among them “Yellowstone Saga” in 1990 and “Tsunami” in 1994 in his anagama, built in 1987 in Denver, Colorado. The Denver kiln measures thirty feet in length and almost six feet in height.

Photo at left:
Students watch as Voulkos puts the finishing touches on one of his plates made at a demonstration in Bowling Green.