Jean A Mann's porcelains are in the permanent collections of 12 museums internationally:
Metropolitan Museum of Art (Twentieth Century Dept.), New York, NY - 1 porcelain
Smithsonian Institute (History & Technology), Washington, DC - 2 porcelains
Yale University Art Museum (American Decorative Arts & Asian Dpt.'s), New Haven, CT - 10 porcelains
Museum of Art & Archeology, University of Missouri @ Columbia - 1 porcelain
Museum Haartz Ceramics Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel - 1 porcelain
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Non-Violent Social Change, Atlanta, GA - 1 porcelain
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY - 1 porcelain
Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT - 1 porcelain
Schenectady Museum, Schenectady, NY - 1 porcelain
Hammond Museum, North Salem, NY - 1 porcelain
New Fairfield Historical Society, New Fairfield, CT - 1 porcelain
Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT - 1 porcelain
Who's Who in American Art, 2009 to present
Artist Statement:
Working with clay and stone began for me with sculpture, later with a potter's kick wheel and finally with porcelain. I've worked with it since 1970 and cannot find anything it will not permit. I've worked with other types of clay for 50 years. Early carving in steatite and alabaster prepared me for carving porcelains.
My first carved and painted porcelain wall sculptures were carved in 2007. Two Dragon Boats were carved in 1979 from solid chunks of dry porcelain. Later, two wheel thrown boxes and covers of interlocking movable links were carved. They now sit in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, 20c. Department Collection and in the Yale University Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut. The second Dragon Boat resides at the Cyrenius Booth Library in Newtown, CT.
With joy I teach in my studio, The Kick Wheel. Teaching, for me, is a way to share what has been given to me. I love to see students make their own sense of aesthetics visible.
Working with clay and stone began for me with sculpture, later with a potter's kick wheel and finally with porcelain. I've worked with it since 1970 and cannot find anything it will not permit. I've worked with other types of clay for 50 years. Early carving in steatite and alabaster prepared me for carving porcelains.
My first carved and painted porcelain wall sculptures were carved in 2007. Two Dragon Boats were carved in 1979 from solid chunks of dry porcelain. Later, two wheel thrown boxes and covers of interlocking movable links were carved. They now sit in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, 20c. Department Collection and in the Yale University Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut. The second Dragon Boat resides at the Cyrenius Booth Library in Newtown, CT.
With joy I teach in my studio, The Kick Wheel. Teaching, for me, is a way to share what has been given to me. I love to see students make their own sense of aesthetics visible.