{"product_id":"the-art-of-vivika-and-otto-heino-hardcover","title":"The Art of Vivika and Otto Heino - hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom an exhibition organized by the Ventura County Museum of History \u0026amp; Art and the Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFeaturing works from the collection of Forrest I. Merrill.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOtto Heino: Celebrating 90 Years\u003c\/em\u003e, Ventura County Museum of History \u0026amp; Art, March 4 - May 22, 2005.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCeramic Masters: The Art of Vivika and Otto Heino and Their Contemporaries\u003c\/em\u003e, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, March 10 - July 3, 2005\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCollector's Foreword\u003c\/em\u003e by Forrest L. Merrill\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Art of Vivika \u0026amp; Otto Heino\u003c\/em\u003e by Kevin V. Wallace\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOtto Heino - An Appreciation\u003c\/em\u003e by Tim Schiffer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Art of Vivika \u0026amp; Otto Heino documents the lives of two leading figures in 20th-century ceramics. As teachers, they exerted a major influence on the work of generations of makers. As artists, their work has been prominently featured in hundreds of exhibitions, honored with innumerable awards, and now forms an essential part of the craft collection in dozens of museums. But, as Eudorah Moore, Founder and Director of the \u003cem\u003eCalifornia Design\u003c\/em\u003e Exhibitions, has pointed out, \"Over and beyond their work, their great distinction was the early visibility they gave to the crafts, revealing the crafts as a way of life.\" As Vivika Heino once explained:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\"True craftspeople do much more than just make things. They live within their work, formulate a philosophy about the field, feel the aliveness of the materials, and are aware of the qualities possible in the medium.\"*\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThinking of the years of their lives fused together with their work in that happy valley of Ojai, California, the simplicity and directness of the pots, the daily involvement in every aspect of their craft - preparing clay, coiling pots, throwing on the turning wheel, creating and experimenting with glazes, firing the kilns and leaving the indelible presence of their hands and fingers - they worked in ancient ways, rooted in the far distant reaches of human history. Still dependent on those four elements essential to every work of ceramic art - Earth, Air, Fire, Water - their work recalls the words of the old Shaker Hymn:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Tis the gift to come down where you ought to be\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnd when we find ourselves in the place just right\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Twill be in the valley of love and delight\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhen true simplicity is found\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eTo bow and bend we shan't be ashamed\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eTo turn, turn will be our delight\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Till by turning, turning we come round right.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd, Otto is still there, turning and turning, as he comes round right, in that wonderful valley of love and delight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJames Goodwin, Director, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Vivika Heino: On Pottery, Ceramics Monthly\u003c\/em\u003e, March 1996, p.40\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVentura County Museum of History \u0026amp; Art, 2005, softcover, 9.25 x 9.25 inches, 87 pages \/ 72 color plates.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Craft Contemporary","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46631159333112,"sku":"25165","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/6082\/3800\/files\/VivikaOttoS_f5466ef3-61dc-4295-8b45-2b83231b3fd9.jpg?v=1776469041","url":"https:\/\/www.craftcontemporaryshop.org\/products\/the-art-of-vivika-and-otto-heino-hardcover","provider":"Craft Contemporary Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}