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Format: Originally recorded on 2 sound discs. MS. SHEA: [Affirmative.] 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. SHEA: So, for their schooling did they go to private schools? This one has the serene face of a child Buddha and sits flat without a pedestal, legs spread apart like a baby doll. The red-patinated heart-shaped sculpture next to it is Mermaids Heart, 2002. MS. OKA DONER: And suffering from having the, some kind of weight on me that I couldn't possibly remove. MS. SHEA: And then my memory was there was the warming pan or heating element for the wax. I look at books again, that is true. MS. SHEA: And then that particular thing because I was just reading about the telegraph, and you know they thought the telegraph would be forever, and it's not. His brother, twin brother Ed, was a painter. MS. OKA DONER: My Aunt Dorothy, my difficult Aunt Dorothy [Heller] was still in the Village. Much to my disappointment, they had to put stanchions and ropes to mark off the area where the pieces were on the floor. MS. OKA DONER: This piece is from the Hamptons. [Laughs.]. 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: It's a stool, and this is what we'll do tomorrow. So I received a phone call from Barry Friedman, the dealer, and he said, I have a Bugatti chair and I'm tired of keeping it in storage in a temperature-controlled room. I smoked. MS. OKA DONER: And I'm working with Michigan trees. People do graffiti where things are dirty and neglected. I was wondering if there were still relatives. MS. SHEA: And were the benches actually I see a join-line. 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. I started very strongly with the figure. It's Cakile edentula, something like that, is the Latin, because we went to the nature preserve to find out what they were. MS. OKA DONER: It's nice. [Laughs.]. I don't know if that's going to matter down the line, because it might be impossible to people who are sitting in front of a visual screen every day. MS. SHEA: How about lipstick and cigarettes and all those other things? MS. SHEA: And so have you traveled over there too? MS. OKA DONER: She met him at a musical. Her public she prefers Lewis Mumfords term civic artworks had something of a domino effect.One featuring cast-bronze sculptures embedded in the floor of the Evanston, Illinois, public library, for instance, begat another, for the Sacramento Central Library. And I'm interested in all kinds of pathways and journeys. MS. SHEA: Because that's, I mean, the firms that you're talking about, such a tradition, a very long tradition, and then Steuben for the United States has a very long tradition. That's very provincial, so everybody's drawing from a larger well, a deeper well, and that's probably very good since you can just get on a plane and be someplace. Suite 2200 Sales segmentation was extremely valuable., Practical, relevant and state-of-the-art training., Invaluable techniques for qualifying and working effectively with the inside team!, Powerful group sharing and a goldmine of strategies to improve sales results., Introduction to Value-First Selling Program, How to Establish Profitable Sales Relationships, Scripting: The Path to Duplicable Success, Highly engaging, fast-paced sessions generated timely solutions., Numerous tactical ideas were discussed that we leveraged into our business., Learning from my peers was one of many highlights., Fantastic formatGreat cutting-edge ideas I can use!. MS. SHEA: And it is a very circular file. [Laughs.] If that's not postmodern, what is? Then we would take out big chunks of sargassum seaweed and shake them over the pond. And then we moved to Franklin and I had a rather large studio. It's on the corner of Filbert and Juniper, so I used the filbert nut and the juniper sprig of berries and leaves. 
MS. SHEA: I was going say, yeah. But yes, absorbing things and then coming to where you could really work on them. MS. OKA DONER: There are parts of this floor that are original, and they are finished. I mean, think about that. And my tree. MS. OKA DONER: I liked that, too. I seek to pull out of the vernacular, the time and place, something that becomes again reduced to an essential element, compressed, so to speak. I believe it was Francis Powers. MS. OKA DONER: I think that's how most things happen. MS. SHEA: on a much grander scale. It was a small community and it was our teachers were many of them Europeans who had come out of DP [Displaced Persons] camps, you know, and we were lucky. We had a lot of southern people. And I made these burning bushes [1991-present], and those have become iconic also. And then this iconography is different. MS. SHEA: I think you mentioned that last time as well, the need to be rested, to be . And my older sister was here. MS. SHEA: And wonderful to look at. MS. OKA DONER: People aren't aware of how seasonal the ocean is. They can't it's tertiary. Amulets, masks, artifacts, arrowheads, odds and ends from the artists foundry are lined up like grave offerings in front of the ceramic figures, an extension of the play between anthropology and artistry, collecting and making. MS. SHEA: It must have been quite an adventure to put the table in the middle of the ring. MS. SHEA: And did, like, friends or relatives you had relatives in New York. It's very hard to sustain a working day and the kind of intensity that it takes to create physically and mentally. And the couple were lifetime friends. MS. OKA DONER: They liked it. And it was a very strange and kind of ridiculous paper. MS. SHEA: And that you needed to have something just in case. And also one of my teachers had studied with Maija Grotel at Cranbrook, John Stephenson, and then he had a Fulbright to Japan, so he was on a wavelength I liked. The following organizations have participated in Wholesaler Institute events: This program will be conducted virtually via Zoom meetings, Getting call backs and through gatekeepers, Handling objections and closing on next step, Copyright 2021. Sounds like a lovely way to fly, as opposed to the way air travel seems to be of late. So there's a distillation that goes on. And so each one is unique. MS. OKA DONER: But what was terrific was Miami Beach had a lot of WPA murals, and Ann Arbor had a few, and Detroit had a lot. And we move thus. I found the ancient tablets, the French scales of justice, the Greek idea of meeting under a tree, and the garland that was used for the bull that got slaughtered when they got together for justice. 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. It really devoured the bronzes. And I used the state tree, which was a tulip poplar, and the state flower, wild iris. And I have another piece that's in a museum in Genoa, the Wolfsoniana. It was quite spectacular, quite wonderful. We werent meant to as humans. And what I was interested in were how things were symbols. MS. OKA DONER: So I think that there's something very magical. MS. SHEA: Ah. Encircling it is her artists book Into the Mysterium, which accompanied an exhibition of the same name. Toward the center of the room, a Burning Bush candelabra rests on the lid of a grand piano like a bundle of branches or tumbleweed. And if you want it, I'll sell it to you at a very good price. MS. OKA DONER: Yes. Her corrections and emendations appear below in brackets with initials. But I grew up with his paintings all through the house. If you have a yellow wax, it stays sticky and that's very good for sort of gluing broken red wax pieces together. And not until my own sons were beginning to learn to write and needed some help, my older son in particular, and I taught him how to write, that I realized that I knew how to write. MS. SHEA: It reminds me of your comment about using both the porcelain . MS. OKA DONER: So it's not the idea of originality is not very important anymore. After 12 years in Detroit, however, Oka Doner felt shed outgrown Michigan. The first one's Tennessee, tulip and poplar. MS. SHEA: Tell me, how do you feel about all the travel? We talked about the way different materials carry light, how a necklace brings light to a womans face, for instance. And that's what I found in Ann Arbor. 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? MS. OKA DONER: And so I had a mother who was very accomplished and an older sister who was very accomplished, and I was shy. Its simple and free to submit. And we were in our mid-30s, my husband and myself, and we felt this was the time. I wasn't ready to take on what New York was. Steuben then came. MS. OKA DONER: No, I'm really not a collector. Oka Doner added a wood trellis around the structure to encourage the growth of native vanilla vines, night-blooming cactus and local snake cactus. And he visited us many mornings while I grew up. Every time you have guests, you could bring out your signature beakers, you know. ], MS. SHEA: Which, of course is, I guess many people would say, was Albert Kahn's , MS. OKA DONER: It's a masterpiece. And then that was as large as my kiln would hold. Joel Chen Loft, Los Angeles, December 2009. MS. SHEA: We'll stop, and hopefully save. He was just terrific. MS. SHEA: And it can be both, I guess, beneficial and negative sometimes; things, you know, that might be washed away that are of value or things that are washed up that are of interest and value. MS. OKA DONER: To be respectful so that it can allow me to get up every day and get all the things done and not have to think about my body. Did you take sciences? And it sounds like you kind of plan the things that you need to be thinking about the most in the morning. MS. SHEA: And a lot of your work, it seems to me that you've said, goes back to your childhood in Miami, but also I'm hearing you say that there is a lot of the Midwest. The chair for me was always a philosophic essay., In ancient times, when most people sat on the ground, Oka Doner continues, the chairs elevation served as a metaphor. That was "City of Trees" [1994]. I didn't realize. And if you think about fairy tales, folk tales, you know, the idea of weaving straw into gold, you know, basically that's what I do. We sat together on a Citra bench, a giant slab of tropical almond wood that positioned us at precisely the right distance from the books and from one another. And you would have to build a soffit or run put a plug and have a sort of, what do you call it? MS. OKA DONER: Well, no, they go from one of them is two feet by two feet by two feet. Did they try to teach you how to teach art? This was right after Celestial Plaza and before I won Sacramento. I was going to say, it sounds. Right. And I'm still working on it. I have to sit on something. We pick up; you can hear it. So we were watching this poignant . MS. SHEA: Did you spend much time at Cranbrook? It's very specific. I think it should be required reading. Again, it was in the basement of one of these wonderful old Ann Arbor houses. MS. OKA DONER: Yes. MS. OKA DONER: I guess, but I just never have. I believe that the ancients, when they said you're on my wavelength, there was a wavelength. MS. OKA DONER: Yes. Do art students have their own studios? MS. SHEA: Run through those many long hallways. It's not necessary, and it's probably dangerous. MS. OKA DONER: So if you were a nobleman with glass and you had your best friends for dinner, they passed it with a scribe and they signed this beaker, so they had the reference for all the people who had signed. They'd teach me and I'd make it myself, or with them. He was looking for something for "Objects: USA" [1970.] That's not too far away. It's in its second printing. MS. SHEA: But in a sense maybe you had already kind of had that, it sounds like to me. I wondered if when you how many candles are on? You just had one book come out that you wrote with . I found the birch trees. That's what Ann Arbor held for me. And this was after you had finished had you finished your graduate school at that point in time? MS. OKA DONER: So it's not originality for its own sake, but I certainly think that developing your own voice was a good idea. Then Newark. I was going to ask, do you remember your first show? WebArtist: Michele Oka Doner (American, born Miami Beach, Florida, 1945) Date: ca. MS. SHEA: Of that. And everybody else did graphic design and they handed in something and he had mosaics made. MS. OKA DONER: Yes, we had fabulous Eucalyptus trees, and on quiet afternoons we'd sit there and just peel. And it was in an old fruit basket, because they didn't have reams of paper and they didn't have art supply places and paper was expensive, so my grandfather painted all kinds of surfaces, and aside from the interior of the fruit basket, which I have here in the loft and it's really a treasure. It was very abandoned. So we have that, and then we even found the name of the WPA photographer. MS. OKA DONER: Oh, I did that for the Center for Jewish History ["Biblical Species," 1999, New York]. And did you see some things that interested you out in the gallery realm? [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. MS. OKA DONER: Well, just reading and being alert, paying attention. 
MS. SHEA: And it's a wonderful space. Do you have a favorite or do you love them all? MS. OKA DONER: And so he's now remembered. MS. OKA DONER: I lived in a dorm my freshman year. And then I realized, of course, this had come out in a real book at one point. So this red is the one that really gets hard. MS. SHEA: We're looking at the table base is round and presumably quite heavy. 
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