Jillian Echlin
Ceramics Historian and Educator
Tags: Academic, Artist, Curator, Lecturer, Photographer, Teacher, Writer
Areas of specialist interest:
Iranian contemporary ceramics
Social history of ceramics
Ceramics education & methodologies
Craft culture & communities
Profile:
I have a thorough grounding in both practical skills and processes as well as theoretical approaches. After graduating with a BFA in Studio Art, I was drawn to the creative energy of teaching and completed a MAT in Art Education. I returned to post-graduate education with an MFA in Medieval studies and Medievalisms and completed a PhD in contemporary ceramics at the University of York. I have contributed to numerous group exhibitions, publications and public presentations, with particular experience with non-profit organizations and diverse audiences.
Skills:
Archival and interview-based research
Extensive teaching experience in a wide variety of contexts, including curriculum development & implementation
Writing, editing, photography, and publication preparation
Living history and craft skills demonstrations
International exhibition curation and event organization
Tags: Academic, Artist, Curator, Lecturer, Photographer, Teacher, Writer
Areas of specialist interest:
Iranian contemporary ceramics
Social history of ceramics
Ceramics education & methodologies
Craft culture & communities
Profile:
I have a thorough grounding in both practical skills and processes as well as theoretical approaches. After graduating with a BFA in Studio Art, I was drawn to the creative energy of teaching and completed a MAT in Art Education. I returned to post-graduate education with an MFA in Medieval studies and Medievalisms and completed a PhD in contemporary ceramics at the University of York. I have contributed to numerous group exhibitions, publications and public presentations, with particular experience with non-profit organizations and diverse audiences.
Skills:
Archival and interview-based research
Extensive teaching experience in a wide variety of contexts, including curriculum development & implementation
Writing, editing, photography, and publication preparation
Living history and craft skills demonstrations
International exhibition curation and event organization
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a radical shift in the way that artists like Marcos Grigorian, Massoud Arabshahi and Parviz Tanavoli
approached ceramics, working at the intersection of international modernism and Iranian cultural
traditions to develop a new expressive language for clay. British potters also borrowed from this
rich heritage, leading to an exchange of people and ideas from within the studio pottery movement.
Some, like Philip Leach, lived in or travelled or travelled to Iran, while others were introduced via an
exhibition organised by the British Council as part of one of the largest cultural festivals ever staged
overseas. Conversely, Mohammad Mehdi Anoushfar, Monir and Mehdi Ghanbeigi and Abbas Qabchy,
today among Iran’s most respected potters and professors, all spent time in England. Their stories have
been largely under-appreciated to date and remain under-documented, but interviews with the artists
along with previously unpublished archival records and photographs provide an interesting look at the
mechanics of cross-cultural influences in ceramic design, thinking, and making in the twentieth century.
Teaching Documents by Jillian Echlin
Talks by Jillian Echlin
Watch here:
https://www.craftconsciousedu.com/nature
Watch here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OSHeHbkARA&t=2644s
a radical shift in the way that artists like Marcos Grigorian, Massoud Arabshahi and Parviz Tanavoli
approached ceramics, working at the intersection of international modernism and Iranian cultural
traditions to develop a new expressive language for clay. British potters also borrowed from this
rich heritage, leading to an exchange of people and ideas from within the studio pottery movement.
Some, like Philip Leach, lived in or travelled or travelled to Iran, while others were introduced via an
exhibition organised by the British Council as part of one of the largest cultural festivals ever staged
overseas. Conversely, Mohammad Mehdi Anoushfar, Monir and Mehdi Ghanbeigi and Abbas Qabchy,
today among Iran’s most respected potters and professors, all spent time in England. Their stories have
been largely under-appreciated to date and remain under-documented, but interviews with the artists
along with previously unpublished archival records and photographs provide an interesting look at the
mechanics of cross-cultural influences in ceramic design, thinking, and making in the twentieth century.
Watch here:
https://www.craftconsciousedu.com/nature
Watch here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OSHeHbkARA&t=2644s