In Brief:
Rosette Gault, Ph.D., M.F.A. is world known for her seminal discoveries of high performance paperclay ceramic art involving renewable cellulose fiber pulps, clay and water Her contribution includes a US patent, ceramic and visual art (more than 130 exhibitions), writing (4 books and more than 40 articles), music, and teaching (more than 100 workshops and masterclasses in ceramic and paperclay) here and abroad.
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Rosette Gault, Ph.D. and M.F.A. is the world known art and design innovator who, after nearly 20 years of search and struggle to solve technical problems of cracking and slow firing in ceramics, exhibited and published examples of advantages and best use for her paperclay compounds in 1990. She isolated the principles behind the chemistry-thermodynamics by which anyone anywhere in the world could adapt their known ceramic clay glaze combinations to get advantages. Her then radical methods would subsequently change 85% of traditional ceramics practice. Artists worldwide could then build museum quality art never possible to technically build in traditional clay. A field of paperclay ceramic art and design developed. She is an exhibited artist, published author, sustainable materials researcher, master teacher, visionary, and composer.
Her contribution includes more than 130 exhibitions 4 books to help studio artists and designers bring their dreams to reality in a tangible practical way, a (now expired) US Patent 5,726,111, but a new group of pat.s pending, DVD, websites and and more than 40 journal articles. She has inspired generations of artists and teachers at prominent institutions worldwide leading to establishment of a field of paperclay ceramic media and opened the doors to significant advance in art and design, engineering with sustainable materials. Paperclay Art and Practice: The New Ceramics (UPenn/Bloomsbury) appeared in 2014 and was translated to simplified Chinese in 2023. Her newest project Healing Clay will update the latest research.
Her company, New Century Arts, Inc. is based in Seattle with studios on Bainbridge Island, Kingston WA and seasonal Maine.
Born in New York City she grew up in Princeton, NJ and Maine she was inspired by to art and science academics at very high levels from childhood.
Nowadays she divides time between Canada, Maine and the Pacific Northwest. She's been a member of Northwest Designer Craftartists since 1983.
Present
She is in preparation of a book Healing Clay to help bridge the gap between problem solving in art and science as a call for further research in sustainable materials integrated design technologies involving the paperclay remedies for applications beyond the field of art.
In her incubator lab is along side her sculpture studio. Joining the effort of science world wide she sees ways to simplify and lower costs, and firing temperatures for paperclay products, she began testing possible compounds for water filtration using simple non rare earth materials. Some can meet the demand for durable hard, porous low temperature (1180C) fired thermal shock resistant ceramic which in past required high temps and pricey lithium chemistry to accomplish.
A fresh perspective on carbon mitigation followed! This approach can help speed progress on responsible use of materials. With so many mines closing or problems in supply chain this knowlege is critical to allow substitutions also. The more useful and cost balanced products on the market at scale the more balanced the environment. Her approach offers researchers options to provide products and systems that target capture plastic poisons that accumulate daily landfill. The first priority of clearing water and air. She will present visions and research questions at symposium for Sustainable Manufacturing Research at (Materials Science and Technology Conference) MS&T 26 in Pittsburgh, building on work presented MS&T25, and MS&T24.