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Diptych: Fall From a Windy Height

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Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Missouri since 1992, Clarke received his M.F.A. degree from the University of Iowa in 1990. He has received the Kennedy Center Fellowship for Teachers for the Arts, the John Eckert Memorial Award for Ceramics, the Artist Resource Grant, the Summer Research Award Fellowship Award and the Research Grant from The University of Iowa Fine Arts Council. His works appear in public and private collections in Japan, Australia and the United States. Themes involving a recording of touch, gesture and energy are repeated in Clarke?s pieces. He believes the viewer can draw a personal interpretation if the artist?s primary concern remains rooted in the recording of the touch. Clarke states that his ?technique amounts to wishing the work well as it moves through the process of forming, articulation of the surface and firing. I find it?s like raising my son; I just put my hands on the work silently encouraging it to be good, be good.

Chez Thiollier, St. Germain Lavel

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Welpott received his Bachelors, Masters, and Masters of Fine Arts degrees from Indiana University. Professor Emeritus at San Francisco State University in California and photographer, Welpott also conducts numerous photographic workshops throughout the world. He has been a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts award and a Marin Arts Council Grant. His works have been exhibited in more than 200 museums and galleries around the globe, including a twenty-five year retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Osaka Cultural Center in Osaka, Japan, and the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona. Artforum, American Photography, and the New York Times Sunday Magazine are among the numerous publications in which his works have appeared. During his early childhood, Welpott lived in Sedalia, Missouri, and attended Mark Twain Elementary School. He has fond memories of his parents attending dances in a pavilion at Liberty Park. He recalls their fondness for jazz during those years and attributes his own love for jazz to his early introduction to it by his parents. After having moved from Sedalia more than 70 years ago, Welpott?s work has returned and become part of the photography collection at the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art.