Michael Parrett earned a BA in graphic design and photography from Webster University and his MFA from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville while studying with Paulette Myers. Michael exhibits his jewelry, flatware, hollowware and sculptures locally and nationally and has recently been published in the Lark Book “500 Metal Vessels: Contemporary Explorations of Containment”.
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For all of you students engaged in ceramics...
The Jason Jacques Gallery, located at 29 East 73rd Street in an upper Eastside Manhattan townhouse, holds the world's finest and most comprehensive collection of 1870-1920 European Art Pottery. Specializing in the Art Pottery Renaissance centered in 1890's France, our collection includes Art Nouveau and Japoniste masterworks by stoneware artists Ernest Chaplet, Jean Carries, Edmond Lachenal and Adrien Dalpayrat, in addition to the vast holdings of iridescent lusterware artists Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer, Clément Massier, and Vilmos Zsolnay.
Craft Alliance has consistently defined itself as an environment for artists, collectors, students, and the art-viewing public to begin new conversations. The mixing of ideas, perspectives, and skills allows us as individuals to connect ourselves to a larger context outside of our own subculture; to become a community.
Craft Alliance believes it is vital to create space and opportunity for the varied St. Louis communities to come together. Our programming is built to stimulate the creative potential of our students. They come from all over the city, from different schools, from different neighborhoods; their family lives are all very different. The nature of our programs engages our students, together in the culture of craft.
Our Community Outreach programming (and CAF inparticular) has been illustrative of the fact that a student doesn’t just do something else; he or she becomes something else. As an organization we have witnessed what our students become through their studio work.
Our CAF students have found themselves at the beginning of a new year of programming - at the beginning of new studio engagements and relationships. We've posed a question. How do we build ourselves? What does that look like?
Maybe - just maybe - it looks like... South Park?
