The Tidal Impact of Japanese Women Clay Artists and Charting a Course for the Future

ZOOM Gallery Talk ETERNAL CURRENTS: The Tidal Impact of Japanese Women Clay Artists and Charting a Course for the Future Recorded December 8, 2022 The massive surge in innovation and international stature of Japan’s contemporary ceramic arts can be traced to the rapid incorporation of women into the field in just the past few decades. Once they were finally allowed to get their hands in clay, women artists have provided a burst of creative energy that has pushed the medium into unexpected directions. To discuss the sea change in Japan’s venerated centuries-old, male-dominated ceramic tradition, gallery artist Hayashi Kaku will be joined by Professor Todate Kazuko, a highly respected scholar of Japanese ceramics, collector and museum patron Mina Levin, and curator Russell Kelty, who recently organized a Japanese sculptural ceramics exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia and authored the accompanying handsome publication. Each panelist will examine, from their unique perspecti