Basket - Delores Fortuna

This basket was wheel thrown and altered using porcelain. It was coated with green, black, and orange glazes and later detailed with line decoration. The basket was fired in a cone 10 reduction process.

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Delores Fortuna, has been an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Ceramics at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago since 1998. She holds a BFA and MFA from the University of Chicago. She divides her time between Chicago and a home studio in rural Galena, IL. Her work uses basic wheel thrown shapes as a starting points and uses glazes of her own formulation to create functional pieces. Fortuna is part of a group of area ceramicists called Twenty Dirty Hands. She has been working in ceramics for 30 years and has won invitations to exhibit on a national scale. Some recent exhibitions include the Dubuque Museum of Art; Lill Street Gallery, Chicago; AKAR Gallery, Iowa City; Kunsthuis Ingrith Desmet, Amsterdam; and Galerie Wijland, Belgium. She has participated in porcelain symposiums in Finland in 1999 and in Italy in 2000 and 2002.