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Karen Karnes in front of her salt kiln, 1976.
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Karen Karnes

"[Karen] was a towering figure of the postwar studio pottery movement, pioneering salt-glazing in the 1960s and wood-firing in the 1980s. Her work opened undreamed of possibilities of expression for the handmade pot. For the many potters who knew her, she was a mentor whose work embodied the creative power and singular voice to which we all aspire—her life in complete harmony with her creative vision." --Mark Shapiro (blog.nceca.net)

Karen Karnes (1925 - 2016) was a major icon in American craft, she wrote and was the subject of numerous articles in Studio Potter, many of which are now available to the public. 

 

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Karen Karnes photographed by Robert F. George, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1977.
Karen Karnes, A Conversation
My parents immigrated to this country from Russia . . . Their background was not in art and they probably would have discouraged me if they thought I'd "end up" as an artist.
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A Bourry Box Kiln, by Karen Karnes
For twenty-five years I worked in my studio in Stony Point, New York, with an oil downdraft kiln which had forty five feet of packing space. For the last ten years of that time I fired mainly the forty cubic foot, natural gas salt kiln I had built.
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Ram Press - Vol. 15 No.1, December 1986
Choosing Another Path
My first experience with clay was in 1950. I modeled forms from which I made a press mold and produced two or three pieces. I also made models for a group of lamp bases that were reproduced by casting.
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