A IL E E N O S B O R N W E B B A W A R D S
Top:
Louis Marak
Square R oot o f Tree
(front and back),
2007, earthenware,
21^1X12^2X5^ in.
Bottom:
Louis Marak
Fingered Fish Teapot
(front and back),
2008, earthenware,
16 x 13 Vi x 3^4 in.
Below:
Carol Shaw-Sutton
The IVhite Sound,
2009,
twined waxed linen,
22 x 14 x 9 in.
Fellow
Louis
Marak
Fellow
Carol
Shaw-Sutton
In 2006 ceramist Louis Marak
(b. 1942), retired from a long
and distinguished teaching ca-
reer that began in 1967 at Keuka
College in upstate New York
and continued at Humbodlt
State University in California.
During this time Marak, who
received his
B FA
at the Univer-
sity of Illinois and his
m f a
from
Alfred University, established
himself as an internationally
exhibited artist whose work is
included in the permanent col-
lection of, among other places,
056 american craft dec/jan 10
the Los Angeles County Mu-
seum of Art. He received fel-
lowships from the National
Endowment for the Arts and the
California Arts Council. Marak
is known for playing with per-
spective. He’s interested in
how the juxtaposition of images
changes a piece. “My subject
matter deals primarily with
containers and containment,”
Marak once said. “Things incon-
sistent with common experi-
ence or having contradictory
qualities fascinate me.”
Carol Shaw-Sutton (b. 1948)
earned her
BA
and
m f a
from
California State University,
San Diego, and has taught since
1984 at Cal State Long Beach,
where she has headed the fiber
program since 1990 and in 2002
was named art department out-
standing professor. She gained
national recognition with a 1977
American Craft Council Young
Americans award and since then
has received two National En-
dowment for the Arts individual
fellowships, among many hon-
ors. Shaw-Sutton has exhibited
extensively, including, in the
1980s, the Lausanne Biennial
and an international textile
exhibition in Kyoto, where her
large suspended work,
Our
Rones Are Made o f Stardust,
won
the Fine Arts Award. While
early structural work in painted
twigs was known for symbolic
canoe shapes, recent installa-
tions and wall works of knitted
linen or mixed media include
garment imagery.
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Shaw-Sutton photos Andrew Neuhart.
