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...change.” Upon graduation, Tischfield is going to continue to run the Ceramics Program’s studio as a non-resident tutor in Quincy—after he spends the summer at what Tischfield calls “the Harvard of ceramics” in Jingdezhen, China. He has received a fellowship to study in Jingdezhen, a village of 325,000 craftsmen and artists built on the site of a 2000-year-old porcelain-producing factory famous for its tradition of flawless pottery. “Ceramics is something I’m always going...
...lived here until he was fifteen, at which point, in 1978, the government opened up the universities to all applicants and he entered the Jingdezhen Ceramics College having only a homeschooled education. His reason for choosing ceramics over any other artistic medium or any other lifestyle is remarkable in that—as far as he explained—there really wasn’t one. At that age, he had no great love for or experience in the art of working clay...
Four years later, having earned his bachelor’s degree, he became a teacher at the university. He was nineteen at the time; most of his students were older than he was. He remained a member of the faculty at Jingdezhen until 1994 when he transferred to the arts and crafts department of the Beijing Fashion Academy for a year. Since then he has served as a professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing...
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