Potception

When I scanned my email yesterday at lunchtime, there was an announcement from the amazing potter Ayumi Horie about a fundraising campaign that she and a few other potters had launched to help Christa Assad – another ceramic artist who is a perennial student favorite, and who has inspired several sets of student work.  Assad recently broke … Continue reading →

Te Adoro, Newness

It’s early in a new semester, and my Ceramics I students are beginning to throw on the potter’s wheel. Fumbling hands dry out with friction, bodies rock back and forth with the pressure of two pounds of spinning clay.  In the first couple of days, a student or two manages to center with beginner’s luck, … Continue reading →

Storytime, Redux

This is a revision of an earlier post, in response to a prompt on the Haystack scholarship application: “Why do you want to take the workshop/s you have selected?”  My response space was 1000 characters; this is 1000 words. Some days in studio, I announce to my students that it’s ‘storytime’ – and we tell … Continue reading →