JoAnne Ruggeri
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Collagist, Painter, Potter, Sculptor |
| Location | Brooklyn, New York, United States |
| Introduction | I am a proud native Brooklynite. I studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York (BFA, 1981), and on the graduate level at Bennington College in Vermont. I have worked in materials such as ceramic, wood, fabric, oils, acrylics, and photography. My work has been shown in various venues in New York City; Bennington, Vermont; Radford, Virginia; San Francisco, California; Chicago, Illinois. and internationally in Milan, Italy. In addition to my art practice, I am a long-time practitioner of Vedic meditation and yoga, a solo traveler, an avid iPhone photographer, and keen observer of both my inner and outer worlds. |
| Interests | Visual art, yoga, meditation, Vedic philosophy, travel, oenology (wine), WW2 history, British historical fiction, ecology & conservation, humor |
| Favorite Movies | Everything on my Double Features list and all of the following : American Beauty, Godfather I & II, Sunset Boulevard, Amacord, Withnail & I, Apocalypse Now, Goodfellas, Next Stop Greenwich Village, Reds, Julia, Midnight Cowboy, Out of Africa, Titanic, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, About a Boy, Mulholland Drive, The Royal Tenenbaums, Dead Man, Ed Wood, Judgement at Nuremburg, Moulin Rouge |
| Favorite Music | The Smiths, Sun Kil Moon, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Hank Williams, Mozart, Bach, Billie Holiday, Elbow, Mark Kozelek, Bob Dylan, Tony Bennett, David Sylvian, This Mortal Coil, Felt, George Michael, Golden Palominos, Neil Young, Patti Smith, Kate Bush, Nino Rota, Velvet Underground, Tegan Northwood, all French Pop Music |
| Favorite Books | The History of Love - Nicole Krauss, The Elegance of the Hedgehog-Muriel Barbery, The Tin Drum-Gunther Grass, The Stranger-Albert Camus, The Castle-Franz Kafka, Affliction-Russell Banks, Magister Ludi-Herman Hesse, The Dharma Bums-Jack Kerouac, Tutti i Nostri Ieri-Natalia Ginzburg, A Painter of Our Time-John Berger, No Exit-Sartre, Waterland-Graham Swift, Dracula-Bram Stoker, The Burning Brand-Cesare Pavese, Just Kids-Patti Smith, Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier |
If mud is dirt plus water, what is clay?
Unfired clay is silica, kaolin, alumina, iron, among other aluminium phyllosilicates, plus structural water