Published in Ceramics Monthly, September 2013
"Curated by Rachel Gotlieb, Go East highlights a recent and current trend that shifts the migratory path of ceramic artists, up until the last two decades, from Japan and Korea to China—specifically to centers of industry such as Jingdezhen and Fuping. Gotlieb plumbs the source of this growing allure while at the same time challenges the community and the Museum’s public at large to consider foreign modes of making as equally valid to North American norms. With over 250,000 skilled artisans in Jingdezhen alone, production is driven through narrowly focused divisions of labor where notions of the individual maker and handcraftedness are antithetical to Western wholistic studio-based models of making... "
