A slide show, scheduled for 7 p.m. Aug. 3 in Warren Theatre, addressed changes in Dankwean, a village in northeast Thailand that has been transformed in recent years from a traditional agrarian village with a pottery tradition to a ceramics manufacturing area that serves a worldwide crafts market.
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Suwanee Natewong, formerly a resident artist with the Archie Bray Foundation and Arizona State University, has installed murals in Thailand's royal palaces as well as in business and government buildings throughout southeast Asia. Their work, as well as that of other Dankwean artists, is in demand by retailers and distributors around the world, including Pier One Imports. This will be the only chance to see traditional Thai ceramists at work. It's a rare event for the local art community. Katz visited Dankwean in 1988-89 as a senior Fulbright researcher studying traditional Thai ceramics.