Alleghany
Meadows
Alleghany Meadows is a studio potter in Carbondale, Colorado. He received his BA from Pitzer College, Claremont, CA, and his MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. Alleghany studied with Takashi Nakazato, Karatsu, Japan, received a Watson Foundation Fellowship for field study of potters in Nepal, and was an artist-in-residence at Anderson Ranch Arts Center. He has presented lectures, workshops and been a visiting artist at art centers and universities nationally and internationally, including Penland, Alfred, Kansas City Art Institute, RISD, Chicago Art Institute, Anderson Ranch, Archie Bray Foundation, Haystack and University go Georgia, Cortona, Italy. He exhibits nationally and is the founder of Artstream Nomadic Gallery, co-founder of Harvey/Meadows Gallery, Aspen, Colorado, and co-founder of Studio for Arts and Works (SAW), Carbondale, Colorado and co-founder of FARM, Fruita, CO. He served on the board of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. His work is in numerous public and private collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Long Beach Museum of Art, and the Huntington Museum of Art, WV, where he was honored with the Walter Gropius Master Award.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My search is for emotion, feeling, content and form in objects meant to be experienced and used in the intimate spaces of a home. I wish for my work to effect the experience of time, to inspire creative decisions in actions such as sipping a moment of tea, preparing a soup, or arranging two daffodils in spring. I believe that ordinary domestic rituals can have a profound impact on the human condition. My work is intimately connected to the body through form, scale, food and nourishment. It is activated most when in use, when engaging the senses of touch, sight, sound, taste and smell. I imagine a cup remaining in use and active for centuries; yet, I am acutely aware that the intended context carries risk, is transitory, where the cup can in one breath caress someone’s lips and in the next become shattered in the sink.
S.A.W. STUDIO FOR ARTS AND WORKS 