Established by Fée Halsted and Bonnie Ntshalintshali in 1985, Ardmore Ceramic Art is world renowned as South Africa's most successful ceramics studio. Ardmore's artists produce handmade, colorful, highly detailed figurative and functional pieces drawing on Zulu traditions and folklore, everyday events at the studio, and important issues in contemporary South African society including AIDs, alcohol abuse, and promiscuity. Fée describes her early life, family, education, evolution as a ceramic artist and ceramic educator, the beginnings of Ardmore, and its development into the world-class ceramic studio that it is today. En route, she pays tribute to Ardmore's 50-plus artists who have worked together to form the legend. Illustrated throughout with some 300 full-color photographs. Oversize: 9.75x11.25". Fernwood Press is and imprint of Random House Struik. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)