[They laugh.]. And, let's see, North Carolina, when I did no, Greenville, Tennessee. The red-patinated heart-shaped sculpture next to it is Mermaids Heart, 2002. "[3], In 20092010, Oka Doner installed SoulCatchers, approximately 400 shamanistic sculptures in the kiln room at the Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactury, Munich, Germany. I had really loved my childhood, but I always knew I was leaving. I chose a fossil marble for that. [20], Oka Doner moved to Detroit and exhibited at the Gertrude Kasle Gallery in 1971. This is that time of year and most of them are probably washed away by now, but I found two unexpectedly in Miami. And so all of a sudden the Hayden Planetarium looked small and old and 19th century. We didn't take the children often. MS. SHEA: And it's a wonderful space. MS. OKA DONER: "Hope is a thing with feathers that perches in the soul. It was a beautifully edited, very unusual modernist home built 1951 in the new way, meaning there was everything built in, sliding doors, closed off. WebMichele Oka Doner (born 1945, Miami Beach, Florida) is an American artist and author. MS. OKA DONER: I used the local. The one that I saw coming down was Walt Whitman. And Midwest was a you know, you read about Simon in the desert, or people going to the desert for 12 years and 18 years. MS. SHEA: And that has a long ceramic history. Over the . The interdependency is wonderful. And I had the state bear. In Mexico they have the San Cayetano Church, where theres so much ornate gold and that luster enhances the spirituality of the building and perhaps adds comfort for those who gather there.. MS. OKA DONER: It used to be. MODERN Magazine takes a fresh and intelligent approach as it examines buildings and interiors, furniture and objects, craft and artdelving into the creative process and offering sage advice for both the seasoned and novice collector or connoisseur. MS. OKA DONER: Yes. If you remove all the things that are on the rolls, what you'd see is the plywood under the second floor. And if I know I'm going between time zones, I watch the caffeine, I watch the wine. I have some wonderful unpublished books that are cyanotypes of algae. MS. SHEA: No. MS. OKA DONER: And suffering from having the, some kind of weight on me that I couldn't possibly remove. You know, Maija Grotel and then I know that you were creating ceramic pieces, but there was the whole, you know, the decoration of pottery that women were doing. And he brought Bruce Slovin down here, who was a patron, and we came up with the idea of biblical species as a theme. MS. SHEA: [Laughs.] And at the time of the airport we bought an apartment in Miami Beach[1990], and the apartment had no soffits. ], MS. SHEA: And did you by any chance sketch at all with your grandfather? MS. SHEA: And did you give a talk along with the exhibition and . And that's how I patterned my home. At the table, Oka Doner works on a drawing. MS. SHEA: Are there any you have a lot of volumes in there, but is there any one in particular that stand out, or different ones stand out when you're working on different projects? Did you call them? So that's the big difference. MS. OKA DONER: Each one has a set of it has a geography which dictates in a way the color; you know, what tone. New York , NY 10010, Washington, D.C. Headquarters and Research Center. They liked the idea of integrating bronze. So I understood I thought about Detroit quite a bit, and I saw , MS. SHEA: Of that kind of cycle of emergence, preeminence and then . 
It could be a very fine chair. And then I even have the mission statement in the Miami Beach book about using the local materials. This was Sunday morning. You don't start with that one. And you could apply for a fellowship, which I did. But I taught a section that was for artists who needed to fill an art history . I believe it was Francis Powers. MS. OKA DONER: Necessity today, yes. Well, one of the first things I did when I moved to Ann Arbor, is I set up a tour, and they gave them in those days, of the Rouge plant. And I'm interested in all kinds of pathways and journeys. I think with Beyer Blinder Belle, the floor. MS. OKA DONER: And I've always made installations. Oka Doner's father, Kenneth Oka, was elected judge and mayor of Miami Beach during her youth (19451964). 2007 Doner, Michele Oka and Mitchell Wolfson, Jr.. 2005 Doner, Michele Oka and Mitchell Wolfson Jr. 2004 Stump, Ulrike Meyer, Andrew Knoll, Michele Oka Doner, Arlene Raven, Dona Warner. MS. OKA DONER: or bees when they make honey they go to many meadows and bring the pollen. I like being part of a collective culture and which is one reason why I love public art. Her Tattooed Porcelain Dolls were adopted by students protesting the U.S.'s use of napalm, causing disfiguration. From left: Hominin, Burnt, 2015, and White Star II, 2014. She began pushing the limits of the medium, combining wet clay with shards from someone elses fired and broken pot. Wholesalersbootcamp.com | All Rights Reserved.| powered by thecodifiers. And I'm working for Nymphenburg, and that's in Munich, but they'd like me to stay two weeks. MS. OKA DONER: Yes. 
It's very specific. MS. SHEA: So you were kind of off and running in that gallery world. And if you want it, I'll sell it to you at a very good price. I believe it was 1971 because I was pregnant with my second son. Reformatted in 2010 as 4 digital wav files. And then the piece across from us: I had been quoted in one of the early articles on Bugatti because I liked the way he mixed materials and I liked the motifs. MS. OKA DONER: So you need that, and sending images. So you were following your sisters behind in school, it sounds like. New York was slick. It was hell. Tell me about maybe if there was a moment was your family very oriented toward the visual arts? So I'm in touch with my books and records and words and poems. So it sounds like you're definitely a morning person. And it was an odd time. It's very important because . His other books include: Seminar Selling for the Financial Industry, published by McGraw-Hill and How to Market to High-Net-Worth Households. [Master of Fine Arts], they assume you're going to teach. MS. OKA DONER: Yes. I worked with a man named Al Mullen who was a real New York abstract expressionist painter and had great attitude. And another fabulous project bringing back my interest in sciences, Rutgers Life Science Building [New Jersey.] Putting them down and looking at them. She had an interest in Lafcadio Hearn and some very strange stories and books on Japan, which was unusual. 2008. MS. OKA DONER: Probably not. MS. OKA DONER: And I'm working with Michigan trees. You're still able to find a foundry that can do the kinds of projects? Well, I got involved after the shamanistic bee with speaking to the friend who sent it to me, and then we talked about trees, ancient trees. We evolved in communication with others. MS. SHEA: So you went and you talked. [41] The images were also the subject of the book and e-book, Into the Mysterium, a Regan Arts book, also published at this time. MS. OKA DONER: I was in Milan to show some work in silver to another company, and I met somebody I knew for dinner. Oka Doner, of course, is an artist, not a scientist. He walked over and whistled outside our bedroom window. It wasn't a Florida bird. MS. OKA DONER: And they were friends with Leo and Libby. You leave before dawn and get back, it's dark. East-facing windows in the dining room provide fantastic light all day and the occasional glimpse of the moon in the evening, according to Oka Doner. Then I was printing in St. Louis [at the Wildwood Press MOD]. Or I don't know, yes, how you want to call that exactly. MS. SHEA: Ah. And then I have a wonderful image in that one of the American eagle holding the tablets, one-half in each of its talons, which came from a book called The Torah Treasury. MS. OKA DONER: No, no. And those were the smaller you'd call them human figures? I like all religions and I don't really practice any of them. Well, we'll pick up tomorrow, then. MS. SHEA: [Laughs.] So it's interesting for me to hear what you're saying about that kind of separation that seems to be or is it specialization, I don't know if you want to call it that, seems to be a kind of continuing and, you know, I guess looking all of the way back maybe to, you know, like Leonardo da Vinci, who went, you know, all the way across the board. So you taught both, you said, the art history and in art classes? I always built things on the beach, she says. MS. OKA DONER: But that was the kind of answers. [Laughs.]. Her Palm Books, produced in varying dimensions on abaca paper, are little meditations on design in nature, each page showing a different configuration of the palm leaf, crisscrossed or fanning open like a starreminding us of the connections between the terrestrial and the celestial. So you have to keep turning up the volume to feel today. Two-dimensional design and . MS. OKA DONER: Very agreeable. That's the hardest one. I brought several books I bought in Sun Valley where I have an exhibition at the present of my Miami Beach Library as an installation. And he went to Mills College [Oakland, CA] after he left Ann Arbor, and he then ended up growing pot. Its an angry response to their not being cared for. MS. OKA DONER: So I liked the '30s, and I was wishing in the '60s that I had had that opportunity. After the carnage of the Vietnam War, Oka Doners 1979 proposal for the tree-lined graveyard was simple a fallen leaf. And I think that awareness is critical to integrate your mind and your body is you can't not do that. It's in one of the Lewis Mumford books I have, [Architecture as a Home for Man: Essays for Architectural Record, New York: Architectural Record Books, 1975; p.33 MOD]. So these are not meant to startle, shock, horrify or , MS. SHEA: Some of the things many people, I think, sometimes associate with contemporary art, the shocking, the horrifying, the , MS. OKA DONER: Well, we have a cult of violence now that is . I respond. MS. OKA DONER: And he's the one I'm working with now. MS. SHEA: in a much smaller form. And it's not the one he had in the house, it's the one from the studio. So the Japanese city was Fujisawa? MS. OKA DONER: Along the bluffs. MS. SHEA: And that just reminds me of how you kind of talked about how you started, which was making things that you wanted to be beautiful and useful, like your fireplace tools. . So the world came. Patrick Lannan came and bought. Webmichele oka doner husbandmichele oka doner husbandmichele oka doner husband Was there . Because the car would be so heavy. And I wondered if you went back and reread books. MS. OKA DONER: It's nice. IGY oriented her toward self-curated collections: shells and stones found on the beach and organized in rows like little friends, or her white stoneware raku Seeds and Pods spread evenly within an invisible square. And the floor is the canvas. And in Laredo, Texas, for the federal courthouse, they had an amazing amount of beautiful stones that I knew came out of Texas, lots of different marbles. 
Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service. 2017 Doner, Michele Oka, Judith Thurman, Joseph Giovannini, Cynthia Nadelman, Gregory Volk. MS. OKA DONER: But it's amazing how it yes, how it drags you down. I don't see it anywhere but Florida, and I don't have a name for it. It's an unfinished space. MS. OKA DONER: Yes, and this is what's now in Sun Valley at the library and [p.187] . Unfortunately, much of this potential is never realized because the inside sales team has not been properly trained and coached. It was too cultural and too historical. MS. SHEA: So there's a lot of land or territory. It's in its second printing. MS. OKA DONER: Well, also I sort of didn't want to play. But I was my own fabricator and I did terrazzo. MS. SHEA: So you collected shells. MS. SHEA: And it sounds like that would be expressed in your home. So I sang it. You just had one book come out that you wrote with . I did a beautiful silver sink for a client in Chicago. . Let's say that was 1920. That you should have gone a little higher, maybe? Did you take classes in that at all? MS. SHEA: I don't know why that reminded me of Madonna's comment about movies and how, you know, her work would get certain ratings because of sex, and then she was saying, well, you know, then on the other hand there's all this violence that isn't looked so negatively upon. And I likened Detroit to the grain of sand that really enabled me to make a pearl, because without irritation you don't do anything, and Miami had no irritation. "[26] This was the genesis for many installations including the River of Quintessence at the U.S. Then we would take out big chunks of sargassum seaweed and shake them over the pond. 
MS. SHEA: That's probably very true. MS. OKA DONER: No. MS. OKA DONER: Early I check the e-mail, but it takes me no more than 10, 15 minutes, and then I do some quick things at the desk, and then by the time they come in at ten o'clock, I've gotten a lot done. And the walls in those buildings are cement and you can't run a wire. It was the first of many installations that shed pedestals and traditional ways of displaying sculpture. MS. SHEA: Did you spend much time at Cranbrook? MS. SHEA: Science of design. MS. OKA DONER: And so I was working and busy. MS. OKA DONER: Well, we went to Arcona, Ontario, over the Blue Water Bridge. MS. OKA DONER: Yes, yes. It was open in the plans so the living room and dining area were seamless; one poured floor with Cuban tile, which is really a very fine cement. It was a southern name. They should have kept it and built a big glass box over it. [13] Other work can be found in the collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art[14][15] including the large, cast bronze figures by Oka Doner, Angry Neptune, Salacia and Strider, located outside the museum. And so I didn't have a very classical education. One is positive, one is negative, meaning one is empty inside. And I wanted to work indoors in terrazzo because I found the cement also very forbidding. MS. SHEA: So, that's very interesting to kind of I think people don't often think of the mid-30s as a time to make changes. The high shine of the terrazzo floor, long associated with Miamis art deco, presents a gleaming visual allusion to the water surrounding the city. MS. OKA DONER: That was unusual, to go from the proper New York moment to something that had texture and soul, I'll say. And of course, it lasted only about 15 years before they tore down the Hayden Planetarium. MS. OKA DONER: struggle to have a hungry belly but a mouth that, a jaw that doesn't have the musculature. MS. SHEA: [Laughs.] MS. OKA DONER: I think different times I'm interested in different things. All of the work that functions arose from my initial need. And I thought that was a very interesting way to begin. Went to Sarnia [Ontario] from Port Huron [Michigan]. Did you do that in grade school? And they haven't had a new building in a long time. I sleep well. Miccos cave-like form enhances its acoustics, and it serves as a dramatic setting for outdoor concerts. You know, they made wonderful paper. It's all one piece. The breadth of her artistic production encompasses sculpture, design objects, furniture, jewelry, public art and video installations. MS. OKA DONER: You can't be in it for the long haul. They're not drying. So we have that, and then we even found the name of the WPA photographer. MS. SHEA: And even at that point, for your collecting of those kinds of things, when did you feel that you really started doing that? So you have to make a choice. MS. OKA DONER: Yes, one who didn't last very long, Fred Bauer. MS. SHEA: So tell me, what school did you go to for elementary? She began work on A Walk on the Beach in 1991 and didnt finish until 2010, because each time the airport expanded the concourse, officials asked her to keep going. And that's how it began. MS. SHEA: Yes. MS. OKA DONER: So that's how the reference library functions. MS. OKA DONER: Maybe that's my scribe ancestry. MS. OKA DONER: you know, I have these three Science Benches [1989-1990] in Ann Arbor that they asked me to do, and they're right in front of his Natural Science Building. We haven't gotten organized. So it was a very new thing to have a free-standing school of architecture, and then the school of art was embedded in that. Additionally, Michele Oka Doner created a large-scale art installation, Mangrove Retreat, in 2015 for Art Basel Miami Beach using Sunbrella fabric.[42]. You've done some things that have involved a lot of, I guess one would say, the trades. Did you have any other ceramic teachers? That glass was so rare that only noblemen would have it. 2003 Ramljak, Susanne, Arthur Danto, Morris Lapidus, Mitchell Wolfson Jr. Is it beeswax, or is it a different kind of wax? MS. SHEA: Well, the fish seem to enjoy it. So that's sitting out. So this red is the one that really gets hard. So it's a secret at this point. That's interesting. MS. OKA DONER: We had four-wheel drive over rivers, and it was dangerous. We called them paper trees. We dug down so we could make a pond. And it's nice. MS. SHEA: It kind of struck me in your resume because also it's not really known maybe as an art school. MS. SHEA: And I was going to say in Michigan were they going to, for example, Cranbrook or . Jenna Gribbon, Silver Tongue, 2019, Museum of Example Art (Example), and 33 more. This is talking about 35 years ago. That's in the bowls and the vase. MS. OKA DONER: Well, yes. Were they cast iron? So I have a feeling that the ability to coordinate the mind and the eye and the hand ran quite deep. MS. OKA DONER: Yes, there's a lot. Then we looked through some books shes made by handshe calls the small ones poetry books, and I would agree, though Id say they are concrete poetry or perhaps collage poetry since they contain found and salvaged objects and works on paper. MS. SHEA: If you were talking to someone that thought that they wanted to be an artist, what kind of advice would you give them? And are . MS. SHEA: Okay. And they said, are you kidding? And I happened to find a photograph of my school in the national publication. MS. OKA DONER: Well, I've gone back to the figure. MS. OKA DONER: I'm in pretty good physical shape. How did you go about finding people who could help you create your work? The 1985 marble table is surrounded by bentwood and cane chairs and, on its right side, a 1749 French country bench with a horsehair seat that is a Doner family heirloom. The only time I ever missed a plane, I was up in a honey locust tree cutting more thorns then I should have been, and I just lost track of time. MS. OKA DONER: Going back to them and bringing them back in a way that I had some distance from myself. MS. OKA DONER: [Affirmative.] [Laughs.]. MS. SHEA: We're looking at a chair on one side and then like a two-person bench? MS. OKA DONER: Very nice. She grew up in Miami, as a member of a privileged family, but she is one of those people who would have been what they Tell me about what we're looking at. And then on the piano we have a piece that you talked about during your talk in Grand Rapids, which is again it seemed like it was a situation where you looked for was it a candelabra or something that you were searching for? And they lived there . MS. SHEA: You know, you kind of talked a little bit about the problem of still getting things manufactured and made in the United States. MS. OKA DONER: Good. You know, I wouldn't use turquoise, let's say, in Ocean Branch, and I wouldn't use this deep, dark aggregate in Miami. There's pinks, the Rosa Mexicana. MS. SHEA: And then the dried branches that are within, is that the same plant? And no, it was a very unusual thing to do. 
Okay. And they sent my mother down to Miami Beach and she had a job teaching Latin at a private school called the Lear School. Almost anything you need to make, I've made. And so I said, sure. And speaking of tropical, I think sometimes about Zora Neale Hurston, who was also a daughter of Florida. MS. OKA DONER: It gives it a depth, and it's not so harsh. MS. OKA DONER: Yes. Or how did that relationship develop? Did you have other travels? So I didn't mind. She rises from her chair and returns with a small fossil stone inscribed with the forms of tiny ancient invertebrates, a gift from an old friend. MS. SHEA: And was it mostly your mother that was taking you to the museums, or both of your parents? I've done work with Bill Sofield. MS. OKA DONER: Well, I've had wonderful artist friends who are gone because they drank a lot. It would be interesting, and it's so much a bookend to what's out here and what I've done and in the studio. MS. OKA DONER: No, I'm really not a collector. Okay. Participants will receive a roadmap for success with a comprehensive, strategic, and tactical approach to inside wholesaling. It was life itself., Other cultures have influenced her as well. MS. OKA DONER: I have a salon. MS. OKA DONER: Not real long ago, and I went through it twice. MS. OKA DONER: I think one of the best skills to have is to have mastered your body, if you have cravings, if you have ups and downs. It's nice. MS. SHEA: Where do you get the wax from? MS. SHEA: I wonder what you did for Sacramento. MS. SHEA: And that's a pure white wax, or whiter? So the years I lived in Michigan, people had seen "Objects: USA." Time and place have had their say." Here, Oka Doner is using hot wax to create one of her Burning Bush lighting pieces. 
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It could be a very fine chair. And then I even have the mission statement in the Miami Beach book about using the local materials. This was Sunday morning. You don't start with that one. And you could apply for a fellowship, which I did. But I taught a section that was for artists who needed to fill an art history . I believe it was Francis Powers. MS. OKA DONER: Necessity today, yes. Well, one of the first things I did when I moved to Ann Arbor, is I set up a tour, and they gave them in those days, of the Rouge plant. And I'm interested in all kinds of pathways and journeys. I think with Beyer Blinder Belle, the floor. MS. OKA DONER: And I've always made installations. Oka Doner's father, Kenneth Oka, was elected judge and mayor of Miami Beach during her youth (19451964). 2007 Doner, Michele Oka and Mitchell Wolfson, Jr.. 2005 Doner, Michele Oka and Mitchell Wolfson Jr. 2004 Stump, Ulrike Meyer, Andrew Knoll, Michele Oka Doner, Arlene Raven, Dona Warner. MS. OKA DONER: or bees when they make honey they go to many meadows and bring the pollen. I like being part of a collective culture and which is one reason why I love public art. Her Tattooed Porcelain Dolls were adopted by students protesting the U.S.'s use of napalm, causing disfiguration. From left: Hominin, Burnt, 2015, and White Star II, 2014. She began pushing the limits of the medium, combining wet clay with shards from someone elses fired and broken pot. Wholesalersbootcamp.com | All Rights Reserved.| powered by thecodifiers. And I'm working for Nymphenburg, and that's in Munich, but they'd like me to stay two weeks. MS. OKA DONER: Yes. It's very specific. MS. SHEA: So you were kind of off and running in that gallery world. And if you want it, I'll sell it to you at a very good price. I believe it was 1971 because I was pregnant with my second son. Reformatted in 2010 as 4 digital wav files. And then the piece across from us: I had been quoted in one of the early articles on Bugatti because I liked the way he mixed materials and I liked the motifs. MS. OKA DONER: So you need that, and sending images. So you were following your sisters behind in school, it sounds like. New York was slick. It was hell. Tell me about maybe if there was a moment was your family very oriented toward the visual arts? So I'm in touch with my books and records and words and poems. So it sounds like you're definitely a morning person. And it was an odd time. It's very important because . His other books include: Seminar Selling for the Financial Industry, published by McGraw-Hill and How to Market to High-Net-Worth Households. [Master of Fine Arts], they assume you're going to teach. MS. OKA DONER: Yes. I worked with a man named Al Mullen who was a real New York abstract expressionist painter and had great attitude. And another fabulous project bringing back my interest in sciences, Rutgers Life Science Building [New Jersey.] Putting them down and looking at them. She had an interest in Lafcadio Hearn and some very strange stories and books on Japan, which was unusual. 2008. MS. OKA DONER: Probably not. MS. OKA DONER: And I'm working with Michigan trees. You're still able to find a foundry that can do the kinds of projects? Well, I got involved after the shamanistic bee with speaking to the friend who sent it to me, and then we talked about trees, ancient trees. We evolved in communication with others. MS. SHEA: So you went and you talked. [41] The images were also the subject of the book and e-book, Into the Mysterium, a Regan Arts book, also published at this time. MS. OKA DONER: I was in Milan to show some work in silver to another company, and I met somebody I knew for dinner. Oka Doner, of course, is an artist, not a scientist. He walked over and whistled outside our bedroom window. It wasn't a Florida bird. MS. OKA DONER: And they were friends with Leo and Libby. You leave before dawn and get back, it's dark. East-facing windows in the dining room provide fantastic light all day and the occasional glimpse of the moon in the evening, according to Oka Doner. Then I was printing in St. Louis [at the Wildwood Press MOD]. Or I don't know, yes, how you want to call that exactly. MS. SHEA: Ah. And then I have a wonderful image in that one of the American eagle holding the tablets, one-half in each of its talons, which came from a book called The Torah Treasury. MS. OKA DONER: No, no. And those were the smaller you'd call them human figures? I like all religions and I don't really practice any of them. Well, we'll pick up tomorrow, then. MS. SHEA: [Laughs.] So it's interesting for me to hear what you're saying about that kind of separation that seems to be or is it specialization, I don't know if you want to call it that, seems to be a kind of continuing and, you know, I guess looking all of the way back maybe to, you know, like Leonardo da Vinci, who went, you know, all the way across the board. So you taught both, you said, the art history and in art classes? I always built things on the beach, she says. MS. OKA DONER: But that was the kind of answers. [Laughs.]. Her Palm Books, produced in varying dimensions on abaca paper, are little meditations on design in nature, each page showing a different configuration of the palm leaf, crisscrossed or fanning open like a starreminding us of the connections between the terrestrial and the celestial. So you have to keep turning up the volume to feel today. Two-dimensional design and . MS. OKA DONER: Very agreeable. That's the hardest one. I brought several books I bought in Sun Valley where I have an exhibition at the present of my Miami Beach Library as an installation. And he went to Mills College [Oakland, CA] after he left Ann Arbor, and he then ended up growing pot. Its an angry response to their not being cared for. MS. OKA DONER: So I liked the '30s, and I was wishing in the '60s that I had had that opportunity. After the carnage of the Vietnam War, Oka Doners 1979 proposal for the tree-lined graveyard was simple a fallen leaf. And I think that awareness is critical to integrate your mind and your body is you can't not do that. It's in one of the Lewis Mumford books I have, [Architecture as a Home for Man: Essays for Architectural Record, New York: Architectural Record Books, 1975; p.33 MOD]. So these are not meant to startle, shock, horrify or , MS. SHEA: Some of the things many people, I think, sometimes associate with contemporary art, the shocking, the horrifying, the , MS. OKA DONER: Well, we have a cult of violence now that is . I respond. MS. OKA DONER: And he's the one I'm working with now. MS. SHEA: in a much smaller form. And it's not the one he had in the house, it's the one from the studio. So the Japanese city was Fujisawa? MS. OKA DONER: Along the bluffs. MS. SHEA: And that just reminds me of how you kind of talked about how you started, which was making things that you wanted to be beautiful and useful, like your fireplace tools. . So the world came. Patrick Lannan came and bought. Webmichele oka doner husbandmichele oka doner husbandmichele oka doner husband Was there . Because the car would be so heavy. And I wondered if you went back and reread books. MS. OKA DONER: It's nice. IGY oriented her toward self-curated collections: shells and stones found on the beach and organized in rows like little friends, or her white stoneware raku Seeds and Pods spread evenly within an invisible square. And the floor is the canvas. And in Laredo, Texas, for the federal courthouse, they had an amazing amount of beautiful stones that I knew came out of Texas, lots of different marbles. Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service. 2017 Doner, Michele Oka, Judith Thurman, Joseph Giovannini, Cynthia Nadelman, Gregory Volk. MS. OKA DONER: But it's amazing how it yes, how it drags you down. I don't see it anywhere but Florida, and I don't have a name for it. It's an unfinished space. MS. OKA DONER: Yes, and this is what's now in Sun Valley at the library and [p.187] . Unfortunately, much of this potential is never realized because the inside sales team has not been properly trained and coached. It was too cultural and too historical. MS. SHEA: So there's a lot of land or territory. It's in its second printing. MS. OKA DONER: Well, also I sort of didn't want to play. But I was my own fabricator and I did terrazzo. MS. SHEA: So you collected shells. MS. SHEA: And it sounds like that would be expressed in your home. So I sang it. You just had one book come out that you wrote with . I did a beautiful silver sink for a client in Chicago. . Let's say that was 1920. That you should have gone a little higher, maybe? Did you take classes in that at all? MS. SHEA: I don't know why that reminded me of Madonna's comment about movies and how, you know, her work would get certain ratings because of sex, and then she was saying, well, you know, then on the other hand there's all this violence that isn't looked so negatively upon. And I likened Detroit to the grain of sand that really enabled me to make a pearl, because without irritation you don't do anything, and Miami had no irritation. "[26] This was the genesis for many installations including the River of Quintessence at the U.S. Then we would take out big chunks of sargassum seaweed and shake them over the pond. MS. SHEA: That's probably very true. MS. OKA DONER: No. MS. OKA DONER: Early I check the e-mail, but it takes me no more than 10, 15 minutes, and then I do some quick things at the desk, and then by the time they come in at ten o'clock, I've gotten a lot done. And the walls in those buildings are cement and you can't run a wire. It was the first of many installations that shed pedestals and traditional ways of displaying sculpture. MS. SHEA: Did you spend much time at Cranbrook? MS. SHEA: Science of design. MS. OKA DONER: And so I was working and busy. MS. OKA DONER: Well, we went to Arcona, Ontario, over the Blue Water Bridge. MS. OKA DONER: Yes, yes. It was open in the plans so the living room and dining area were seamless; one poured floor with Cuban tile, which is really a very fine cement. It was a southern name. They should have kept it and built a big glass box over it. [13] Other work can be found in the collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art[14][15] including the large, cast bronze figures by Oka Doner, Angry Neptune, Salacia and Strider, located outside the museum. And so I didn't have a very classical education. One is positive, one is negative, meaning one is empty inside. And I wanted to work indoors in terrazzo because I found the cement also very forbidding. MS. SHEA: So, that's very interesting to kind of I think people don't often think of the mid-30s as a time to make changes. The high shine of the terrazzo floor, long associated with Miamis art deco, presents a gleaming visual allusion to the water surrounding the city. MS. OKA DONER: That was unusual, to go from the proper New York moment to something that had texture and soul, I'll say. And of course, it lasted only about 15 years before they tore down the Hayden Planetarium. MS. OKA DONER: struggle to have a hungry belly but a mouth that, a jaw that doesn't have the musculature. MS. SHEA: [Laughs.] MS. OKA DONER: I think different times I'm interested in different things. All of the work that functions arose from my initial need. And I thought that was a very interesting way to begin. Went to Sarnia [Ontario] from Port Huron [Michigan]. Did you do that in grade school? And they haven't had a new building in a long time. I sleep well. Miccos cave-like form enhances its acoustics, and it serves as a dramatic setting for outdoor concerts. You know, they made wonderful paper. It's all one piece. The breadth of her artistic production encompasses sculpture, design objects, furniture, jewelry, public art and video installations. MS. OKA DONER: You can't be in it for the long haul. They're not drying. So we have that, and then we even found the name of the WPA photographer. MS. SHEA: And even at that point, for your collecting of those kinds of things, when did you feel that you really started doing that? So you have to make a choice. MS. OKA DONER: Yes, one who didn't last very long, Fred Bauer. MS. SHEA: So tell me, what school did you go to for elementary? She began work on A Walk on the Beach in 1991 and didnt finish until 2010, because each time the airport expanded the concourse, officials asked her to keep going. And that's how it began. MS. SHEA: Yes. MS. OKA DONER: So that's how the reference library functions. MS. OKA DONER: Maybe that's my scribe ancestry. MS. OKA DONER: you know, I have these three Science Benches [1989-1990] in Ann Arbor that they asked me to do, and they're right in front of his Natural Science Building. We haven't gotten organized. So it was a very new thing to have a free-standing school of architecture, and then the school of art was embedded in that. Additionally, Michele Oka Doner created a large-scale art installation, Mangrove Retreat, in 2015 for Art Basel Miami Beach using Sunbrella fabric.[42]. You've done some things that have involved a lot of, I guess one would say, the trades. Did you have any other ceramic teachers? That glass was so rare that only noblemen would have it. 2003 Ramljak, Susanne, Arthur Danto, Morris Lapidus, Mitchell Wolfson Jr. Is it beeswax, or is it a different kind of wax? MS. SHEA: Well, the fish seem to enjoy it. So that's sitting out. So this red is the one that really gets hard. So it's a secret at this point. That's interesting. MS. OKA DONER: We had four-wheel drive over rivers, and it was dangerous. We called them paper trees. We dug down so we could make a pond. And it's nice. MS. SHEA: It kind of struck me in your resume because also it's not really known maybe as an art school. MS. SHEA: And I was going to say in Michigan were they going to, for example, Cranbrook or . Jenna Gribbon, Silver Tongue, 2019, Museum of Example Art (Example), and 33 more. This is talking about 35 years ago. That's in the bowls and the vase. MS. OKA DONER: Well, yes. Were they cast iron? So I have a feeling that the ability to coordinate the mind and the eye and the hand ran quite deep. MS. OKA DONER: Yes, there's a lot. Then we looked through some books shes made by handshe calls the small ones poetry books, and I would agree, though Id say they are concrete poetry or perhaps collage poetry since they contain found and salvaged objects and works on paper. MS. SHEA: If you were talking to someone that thought that they wanted to be an artist, what kind of advice would you give them? And are . MS. SHEA: Okay. And they said, are you kidding? And I happened to find a photograph of my school in the national publication. MS. OKA DONER: Well, I've gone back to the figure. MS. OKA DONER: I'm in pretty good physical shape. How did you go about finding people who could help you create your work? The 1985 marble table is surrounded by bentwood and cane chairs and, on its right side, a 1749 French country bench with a horsehair seat that is a Doner family heirloom. The only time I ever missed a plane, I was up in a honey locust tree cutting more thorns then I should have been, and I just lost track of time. MS. OKA DONER: Going back to them and bringing them back in a way that I had some distance from myself. MS. OKA DONER: [Affirmative.] [Laughs.]. MS. SHEA: We're looking at a chair on one side and then like a two-person bench? MS. OKA DONER: Very nice. She grew up in Miami, as a member of a privileged family, but she is one of those people who would have been what they Tell me about what we're looking at. And then on the piano we have a piece that you talked about during your talk in Grand Rapids, which is again it seemed like it was a situation where you looked for was it a candelabra or something that you were searching for? And they lived there . MS. SHEA: You know, you kind of talked a little bit about the problem of still getting things manufactured and made in the United States. MS. OKA DONER: Good. You know, I wouldn't use turquoise, let's say, in Ocean Branch, and I wouldn't use this deep, dark aggregate in Miami. There's pinks, the Rosa Mexicana. MS. SHEA: And then the dried branches that are within, is that the same plant? And no, it was a very unusual thing to do. Okay. And they sent my mother down to Miami Beach and she had a job teaching Latin at a private school called the Lear School. Almost anything you need to make, I've made. And so I said, sure. And speaking of tropical, I think sometimes about Zora Neale Hurston, who was also a daughter of Florida. MS. OKA DONER: It gives it a depth, and it's not so harsh. MS. OKA DONER: Yes. Or how did that relationship develop? Did you have other travels? So I didn't mind. She rises from her chair and returns with a small fossil stone inscribed with the forms of tiny ancient invertebrates, a gift from an old friend. MS. SHEA: And was it mostly your mother that was taking you to the museums, or both of your parents? I've done work with Bill Sofield. MS. OKA DONER: Well, I've had wonderful artist friends who are gone because they drank a lot. It would be interesting, and it's so much a bookend to what's out here and what I've done and in the studio. MS. OKA DONER: No, I'm really not a collector. Okay. Participants will receive a roadmap for success with a comprehensive, strategic, and tactical approach to inside wholesaling. It was life itself., Other cultures have influenced her as well. MS. OKA DONER: I have a salon. MS. OKA DONER: Not real long ago, and I went through it twice. MS. 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