I throw pots on the wheel, two thousand over four months, collect and prepare eight cords of wood and require the help of an eight-person crew to fire the Tye River kiln over seven days.  The pace is slow – glacial by most standards.  There is no speeding up possible.  This work demands a thoughtful engagement once common in the work force, now not tolerated. 

I want my tea bowls to speak of this rhythm, the large four-foot jars to encourage contemplation; to offer a balance to the stress of market technologies.  This is perhaps my real work at the edge of the twenty-first century.  

JENNIFER DE ANGELO BAXTER is a resident of Leesburg, Virginia. She graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, concentration in oil painting in 2006. She completed her Masters of Science in Education in 2010 and has been a Special Educator in Loudoun County, Virginia, for the past four years. 

Jennifer's current work reflects two themes. The first theme involves the ideas of aging and mortality. Her "draining" flowers communicate to the viewer that we begin aging from the moment of our birth. The second theme incorporates dreams and experiences from Jennifer's childhood.

RAS. ARTIST BIO 214/ Rodger Schultz / Born: 1970 Washington DC/ Education: B.A. Graphic Design Program UMBC, University of Maryland Baltimore County 1988-92 / Apprenticeship: Sculpture, Ed Breathitt, John Soderberg, 1994-5 / Rodger Schultz is one of the few visionaries available today who can perpetually expand and contract his work while and maintaining an ever-strengthening elasticity. A Fine Art Painter turned Sculptor turned Sign Maker turned Graphic Designer turned Corporate Illustrator turned Interface Designer turned Self, RAS. is probably the most diversely fluent creative mind we've met. He's knocked for not being predictable, and the heads like predictable...but his rabid fans and collectors submit that his freshness is what sets him apart. We agree. We like not being able to figure him out. And it wouldn't be proper to define RAS. as just a painter, or artist even. He is a True Creative, and his work is wholly intended and of the highest order.

Born in 1956 Jeff was raised in the country out side of Detroit where his stepfather taught him woodworking. He further learned precision craftsman skills in the industrial shops of the motor city. As a self taught airbrush artist Jeff worked his way threw art college in Baltimore  painting his visions on the curved metal of show cars and motorcycles. While in college he was recognized for his craftsmanship and was awarded a scholarship to become a craft major.

Metal, wood and clay were a familiar way for him to express his sculptural ideas. Jeff put a good collection of sculptural furniture together and showed extensively. “When I would do sculptural furniture  I would build a model out of clay first. I started to enjoy the freedom of working in clay and took on commissions sculpting architectural ornament.
 
These skills would serve him well as he worked for eleven years beside Frederick Hart one of today’s premier figure sculptors until Harts passing in 1999. Hart was best known for the "Three soldiers" at the Vietnam memorial and the seven figure "Creation" sculpture on the National Cathedral. Mr. Hart once wrote of Jeff's sculpture: "Whose quality of work rivals any in history" They often talked about the decline of classical figure sculpture, the deterioration of beauty in art, and the unseen craftsmanship. These conversations influenced the development of Jeff's architectural brick figure series. As Harts assistant Jeff helped to complete many over life size figurative monuments and Mr. Harts reverse Lucite pieces. After Harts passing, Jeff continued to realize Mr. Hart’s work until 2007, working for the Hart estate.

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