Marek cecula ceramics in the city

Marek Cecula, long a mainstay of the contemporary New York City ceramics scene when he was head of ceramics at Parsons School of Design for 21 years....

Marek Cecula immigrated to the United States in after studing ceramics in Israel and working in Brazil.

Cecuła then lived on a kibbutz in Galilee, near Nazareth, where he built his first ceramics studio.

Marek Cecula, long a mainstay of the contemporary New York City ceramics scene when he was head of ceramics at Parsons School of Design for 21 years.

Cecula established his first studio and gallery, Contemporary Porcelain, in New York City.

He was born in Poland, was a kibbutznik in Israel (which is where he learned ceramics), and then worked in a ceramics factory south of Sao Paulo before he ended.

The Interstitial: The Dishes Are on the Floor (And Up the Wall)
Marek Cecula is taking the tradition of the industrial ceramic decal one step further, one mile further.
by John Perreault

According to some critics, craft has been assimilated by fine art, yet aside from a few reviews in the N.Y.

Times, I haven't noticed that the battle had been won. I have not avoided writing about craft in these pages [ed. note: NY Arts] because I thought the struggle was over, but because it is time for me personally to move on to other issues.

Or more correctly, to find other ways of addressing my major theme.

Are craft artists, particularly ceramicists, nicer people?

Marek Cecula was born in in Kielce, Poland, where he maintains an active studio in addition to his design office in New York City.

The discipleship of the hand tends to reward generosity more than the discipleship of the conceptual. But if the truth be known, craft artists and their collectors can be as wickedly self-centered as paint-on-canvas artists, non-craft sculptors and their collectors.

Curators and dealers are also naturally self-servin