Photos and reporting by Robert Kokenyesi, Ceramic Artist, Beachfront Pottery, Godfrey, IL 62035, USA The location Between August 5 and September 3, 2016, the art exhibit titled “Shapes of Influence, Contemporary Ceramics” took place in the M.G. Nelson Family Gallery of the Springfield Art Association. The gallery is built right next to the famous Edwards Read More…
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Ceramic art pieces from the International Pottery Exhibit in Debrecen, Hungary
Photos and text by Robert Kokenyesi, Ceramic Artist, Beachfront Pottery, Godfrey, Illinois, USA. During the early summer of 2016 I traveled to the town of my birth, Debrecen in Hungary. This time I found a pottery exhibit in the large local mall, so I went with my Mom to check it out. The title was the Read More…
Manta rays are more like homebodies than long distance travelers
Giant manta rays were thought to migrate long distances when moving from one population center to another. These migration distances were supposed to span thousands of miles, which is a very impressive distance even for an animal with 24 feet wingspan. Why do research like this? Because manta rays are threatened species, and population numbers make more Read More…
Ceramic art at the 2016 SWIC Student Art Show
Photos and text by Robert Kokenyesi, Ceramic Artist at Beachfront Pottery, Godfrey, IL, USA. Southwestern Illinois College in Belleville, Illinois is home for an active faculty and student artist community. From April 21 to May 12 the students put on an art show with several ceramic art pieces. The art was set up in the Read More…
Repeated ceramic units in Beachfront Pottery ceramic art pieces
Photos and text by Robert Kokenyesi, Ceramic Artist at Beachfront Pottery, Godfrey, IL USA. In a couple of preceding blog posts I showed examples of multitudes of ocean critter appearing out of nowhere, and by the virtue of the mass of these creatures we not only notice them, but form a completely unique impression of Read More…