{"id":792,"date":"2013-09-24T20:41:25","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T20:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mullalys128.com\/wp-sept-15\/?page_id=792"},"modified":"2013-09-24T20:41:25","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T20:41:25","slug":"furney-joyce","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/mullalys128.com\/wp-sept-15\/index.php\/ceramic-artist\/furney-joyce\/","title":{"rendered":"Furney, Joyce"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" id=\"attachment_793\" style=\"width: 490px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mullalys128.com\/wp-sept-15\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/starrynight2_5inch_40..jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-793 \" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mullalys128.com\/wp-sept-15\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/starrynight2_5inch_40..jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Starry Night<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">One intent of the <em>Raku<\/em> work of\u00a0<strong>Joyce Furney\u00a0<\/strong>is to capture the flow of the universe. For her, balance and harmony are the essence of that flow and a place where tension and repose find oneness. Within her work, Furney strives to harmonize the divergent elements of self and materials to converge at that mystical point where all is at rest, yet all is in motion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When she picks up each completed form, it informs her whether she was at peace with herself and the materials during its creation. To the degree that she has allowed the universe to flow through her to the finished object, Furney&#8217;s work rests in balance and moves in harmony. Not every piece captures this flow, but many do and they are a great joy to her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Furney creates to experience that joy and her goal is to share it with others. Please enjoy her art in the spirit of love in which it was created.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">With a variety of awards from 1984 at Elizabeth Folk Fest, 1988 at Canterburt Fest, to 1993 where she was invited to the White House to create an ornament for the President&#8217;s Christmas tree, Furney gained her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1975 from Kansas State University for Sculpture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mullalys128.com\/wp-sept-15\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/7828FurneyEllipDripVase.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-794 aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mullalys128.com\/wp-sept-15\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/7828FurneyEllipDripVase.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"340\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The art of\u00a0<em>Raku<\/em> is a firing method that involves forms of either slip cast, wheel-thrown or hand built, using a white Raku clay body formulated to withstand great thermal shock. Metallic stains and colors clays (engobes) are often brushed on the greenware forms for decoration. When trimmed and dried, the vessels are bisque fired, then glazed with either crackle white glaze or a variety of metallic luster glazes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The art of\u00a0<em>Raku<\/em> is attributed to Zen Buddhist Monks of 16th Century Japan and was favored for the tea bowls of the great tea masters. In that culture and time, <i>Raku\u00a0<\/i>was much more than a method of making and firing pottery, it was a philosophy. The Japanese symbol for\u00a0<em>Raku\u00a0<\/em>can be translated as <em>&#8220;enjoyment of freedom.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>However, as is often the case with other cultures&#8217; philosophies, we in the West have distilled\u00a0<em>Raku\u00a0<\/em>to a technical process.\u00a0<em>Raku\u00a0<\/em>is now generally accepted to mean a method of rapid firing and cooling of ceramic ware, and names the finished product.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starry Night One intent of the Raku work of\u00a0Joyce Furney\u00a0is to capture the flow of the universe. For her, balance and harmony are the essence of that flow and a place where tension and repose find oneness. Within her work, Furney strives to harmonize the divergent elements of self and materials to converge at that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-792","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mullalys128.com\/wp-sept-15\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mullalys128.com\/wp-sept-15\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mullalys128.com\/wp-sept-15\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mullalys128.com\/wp-sept-15\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mullalys128.com\/wp-sept-15\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mullalys128.com\/wp-sept-15\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/792\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mullalys128.com\/wp-sept-15\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mullalys128.com\/wp-sept-15\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}