Oral history interview with Michael Cohen, 2001 August 11 Cohen, Michael, b. 1936 An interview of Michael Cohen conducted 2001 August 11, by Gerry Williams, for the Archives of American Art’s Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, at his home in Pelham, Mass. Cohen speaks of his childhood, living…
Mishima inlay is very attractive to me and I want to do more of it. This form of inlay does require a painstaking process using colored slips. First, I had to remove clay from the areas I wanted to inlay, then fill them with slip, let it absorb over time, then add more, etc. Finally,…
It felt like I got a lot done at the studio yesterday. I brought home three things: Navajo Red bowl, bottom left unglazed, inside and rim glazed with Red Chrome. This glaze interacts with the iron in red clay, causing a lovely gray mixed with wine and hints of blue. Reglaze job worked well on…
The first time I experienced heated floors was in the mid-1980s, at the childhood home of my friend Meg. We lived in a city where winters got quite cold and it was sheer heaven to stand in their kitchen in my stocking feet. They had a hydronic radiant floor heating system…hot water was piped under…
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