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Adam Posnak

Adam Posnak grew up in Macon, Georgia. His great-grandfathers were blacksmiths, his grandfather a woodworker, and his mother a studio potter. Posnak holds an MFA from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, and a BA from Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota. Adam teaches ceramics and foundation courses at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Contact him at adam@adamposnak.com.

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St. Barbara plate, 2013. Earthenware, 14 in. Photograph by Lydia Clark.
To Serve the Divine
Within African and African-Pan-American religious-cultural systems, special pots are understood to literally house divinity and are receptacles for detailed and painstaking spiritual offerings. It has been the greatest challenge and most humbling experience of my artistic career to participate in the making of these pots.
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Vodu ritual pot in market, Dzodze, Volta Region, Ghana.
From Arkansas to Ghana, The Clay is Still Red
This article is a collaborative effort, reflecting Dr. Samuel Nortey and Adam Posnak’s shared experience of international exchange.
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Vincent "Sniper" Frimpong
Ghanaian-American Ceramics
It is clear from the record of recent conferences, exhibitions, lectures, and MFA program rosters that young artists from Ghana have formed a heretofore unprecedented cohort and are, quite literally, transforming the field of international ceramics.
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