Funk and Nut Art with Clayton Bailey

Stephanie Rozene and curator Garth Johnson pick up the story of Funk Art and look at the life and work of artist Clayton Bailey who would go on to form the breakaway movement called Nut Art. Taking ceramics into a new realm of world making, eccentricity and humour, Bailey would inhabit an alter egos, stage pranks with the press and take the museum world on an unexpected journey. 00:00 Introduction: Clayton Bailey and the Nut Artists 00:52 Peter Volkos and the Abstract Expressionist Revolution 02:32 Harvey Littleton, Clayton Bailey, and the Wisconsin Connection 04:12 The First Funk Object: Caterpillar with Flying Buttresses 10:01 The Night Pots: Sex, Function, and Subversion 08:38 Make It Ugly: Building a Ceramics Program in Whitewater 13:24 Connecting with Robert Arneson and Moving to California 17:23 The Vermilion Festival and Experimental Education 23:59 Port Costa and the Birth of Nut Art 25:47 World Building and Imagination: The Nut Art Aesthetic 28:10 Dr. Gladstone and the Science of Kaolism 31:54 The Bigfoot Discovery and Media Pranks 32:38 The Wonders of the World Museum 35:36 Performance Art and Compression Testing 37:52 Partner in Mischief: A Personal Relationship 44:06 Legacy: The Greatest Conceptual Ceramic Artist