JIMMY KUEHNLE

Kjell Hahn, longtime friend and colleague, has been working with John Dix, a ceramicist who fires of wood fired noborigama kiln. There is a firing coming up at the end of April and I went to Sasayama to help with the preparations which included chopping up a lot of wood. John recently received [...]

On the way to the kiln in Sasayama, Kjell and I stopped at an exhibition of Nakajima Yoshsio (中島由夫) in Kobe. A ceramicist in Seto named Minoru Terada invited Kjell and I to an exhibition of him and Nakajima at the Maruei Department store in Nagoya. Kjell could not attend but I did [...]

Kjell Hahn and I graduated together from Truman State University in 2001 and about six months later we both came to Japan under different mechanisms, but coincidentally landed in the city of Himeji in western Japan. I taught English in southern Himeji at a conversation school and Kjell taught at a local high school. [...]