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Projects and Artwork of MaPo Kinnord-Payton
2009 Workshop May 24 - June 5
PENLAND SCHOOL OF CRAFTS
National Center for Craft Education
North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains
Positively Negative
This workshop will focus on paper-clay handbuilding techniques that promote playful ventures into negative space. The class will include exercises in designing and engineering large organic forms that visually incorporate open spaces. Completed bisque-fired works will become canvasses for layers of unfired painting and drawing. All levels, but some clay experience will be helpful.
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email mkinnord@xula.edu
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MaPo and Ayampoka in Zaare Ghana May 2004
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MaPo Kinnord-Payton grew up in Cleveland Ohio. She received her BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. From 1984 to 1992 she taught ceramics and produced functional ceramics in Massachusetts and Berkeley California. She received a MFA from Ohio State University in 1994. Moving to Louisiana in 1995 she is now an associate professor of art at Xavier University of Louisiana. Maintaining a studio in New Orleans she continues her research of traditional and contemporary art of Ghana. Her research includes video documentation of pottery and ceramic architecture construction of Northern Ghana.
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Artist Statement
I work with clay because I love the physical interaction with the material. My current work embodies the technical challenges and creative dynamic of improvisation.
Teaching Philosophy
Within every experience there are principles at work and lessons to be learned. Recognizing the relevance of all the skills we acquire and their connection to our hopes for a better life and a better world is the purpose of an education.
My life's work is to incorporate my artistic concerns with education and economic development through international cultural exchanges. The Ghana Art Program seeks to provide learning opportunities though workshops in the traditional and contemporary art of Ghana, West Africa.
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Carol Anaabah 2004
Ghana Arts Project
Supported in part by Xavier University
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2004 Ghana Arts Project
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