Editor’s note: This letter is in response to “An Eastern Spin,” an article about local Japanese porcelain potter Jim Srubek and the free instructional sessions he offers, published in the Aug. 30 issue of the Daily Lobo.
Editor,
The extensive article by Antonio Sanchez in the Aug. 30 Daily Lobo about Jim Srubek’s Arita porcelain studio did not mention that there is a thriving Arita porcelain program at UNM, run by assistant professor Kathryne Cyman in the Art Building as part of the ceramics area of the Department of Art and Art History. There are examples of Arita porcelain items in cabinets outside the Arita lab on the first floor and outside the art and art history office on the second floor.
Cyman has studied the method at UNM and in Arita, Japan. She has taught the 400-year-old Arita process in the Art Education Program since professor Srubek retired in 2001 and in art and art history since fall 2010. See more on her page of the web site art.unm.edu.
Marjorie Crow
UNM staff member
