Mingeisota

05/08/2022

The Mondales and a MacKenzie Covered Jar

Made by Stillwater potter Warren MacKenzie, the urn once held the ashes of Mondale's wife, Joan

04/20/2020

Warren & Nancy MacKenzie, Lee Love & Jean Shannon and Taeiko Tanaka and Dallas Perry attended the opening at Western Village in 1998. It is when I (Lee Love) met my future teacher, Shimaoka Tatsuzo

06/02/2019

Where the "Mingeisota" show was held in Japan in 1998. Warren Mackenzie sent 100 pots and Twelve of us (In Japan, they called us "The 12 Disciples"), each sent 10 pots. Jean and I (Lee) went to the opening with Warren and Nancy and Taeko Tanaka and her husband Dallas. We received "Imperial Treatment" from Western Village and the nearby Town.

View on Google Maps Western Village or Western Mura (ウェスタン村) was an American west themed amusement park which opened in the early 1970...

03/24/2019

The Mingei Movement and Contemporary Ceramics in America

01/17/2016

I was first brought to a serious interest in Pottery, when I realized that the founder of the Zen school I study, brought the first Tenmoku bowl to Japan from Song China. This reinforced my interest in Mingei and the work of Hamada Shoji, Bernard Leach and Yanagi Soetsu, as brought to my attention b…

01/12/2013

Some definitions of "Mingeisota" by Linda Christianson and Jeff Oestrich.

01/11/2013

Warren MacKenzie's favorite Hagi Tea Bowl.

01/11/2013

Warren MacKenzie's favorite pot.

12/23/2012

Can you tell who made this in Minnesota? It is at the Wiesman Museum at the UofMn