Art 5360 : Independant Research as Artistic Practice: Sept 7,2014

Monday, September 1, 2014

Sept 7,2014

What an intense list of readings and proposed projects. Good work everyone.

As many of may know I spent my summer after first session in Junction having eye surgery and then knee surgery, so lots of down time to think, thus this class. As I mentioned in my response to Germain's post, it was his book list, Martha's list and proposed works and Carleen's suggested trips that inspired me to re-think how a class works. I am tired of being the only one who knows how bright and creative and experimental and curious each and everyone of you are. This way we all share the outcomes of our artistic passion/purpose.

I never teach a class without being a part of the class so for me this semester I have set up a long over due project. I am going through all the slides of my artwork since graduate school (1977). I am putting them into general groupings like artists books, prints, alters, bead and sequins, or installations. Next I will go through each of these groups to cull out the duplicates. The final group will then be transposed to digital format. From there I will use blub or some other site to crate little books on my art. Each book with have stories, histories or context. I am excited and slightly overwhelmed and maybe a little nervous.

So, lets all begin. When you post give us a full report. Pretend for a bit that we do not know each other and you have to explain this to an audience of strangers.

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UnknownSeptember 2, 2014 at 10:44 AM
Future I think that’s a great idea for a semester project. I cannot wait to see your work, its always a visual treat!

I know this probably belongs in last week’s post but I am going to put it here in case some in the class don’t make it back to last week’s thread.

While I am still working on my reading list I have put together a list of events I want to make it to. After seeing all the great things Carleen was going to go to I thought man, why does she get to have all the fun?

Expressions of Artic Traditions: Contemporary Inuit Art is on display at the Museum of Texas Tech from August November. This is just down the street from me so that’s a bonus. I took a vacation with my mom when I was 14 to Seattle, The San Juan Islands, Victoria Island, and Vancouver. It was the only time I travelled with my mom and one of my fondest memories of my youth. To this day I love the Pacific Northwest and I have been back 3 times. On my first visit my Mom and I went to a few Art Galleries and one had contemporary Inuit wood Sculptures that really blew me away. I am particularly looking forward to this. I am also going to try and get with museum staff and talk about the exhibit process and planning of such events.

Eastern Illumination- Japanese Masterworks & American Art Inspired by Japanese Traditions will be on display at the San Angelo Museum of Art from September 18th – November 30. The San Angelo Museum of art has a Ceramic heavy collection, and the building houses the San Angelo University’s Ceramic studio. I am hoping this exhibit will focus on Japanese Ceramics, but will not be heartbroken if that isn’t the case. I have had a few conversations with the Museum’s Collection manager, Laura Huckabee, and I hope to meet with her have talk about how the Museum coordinates their exhibits with the education programs on offer.
Rick if your workshop in San Angelo falls on these date let me know and we can start to plan the trip.

The Dallas Museum of Art is hosting an event on September 20th called Collection & Living with Drawings
https://www.dma.org/programs/event/collecting-and-living-drawing
I might try to go to this if my wife will let me. I think it might be a good insight to a Museum event focused on Adult Education, something I have zero experience with.

The Houston Museum of Art has a program called Looking Together on the 2nd Monday of the month that is specifically for visitors with Alzheimer’s and early onset Dementia. This might be hard to fit in with my teaching schedule, but I might try to find cheap flights. I think the DMA has something similar but it’s the 3rd Thursday of the month and would require taking two days off from work.
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PamelaSeptember 2, 2014 at 5:59 PM
Future,

I was unaware that you were having those surgeries this summer. I hope you are healing well. I am very excited for your organizing and chronicling your artworks into book form. I know how daunting organizing can be - at least for me - it is one of the hardest things to do. It is my greatest struggle and I am hoping that I can do some of that as well through this class. I have plans to go through some of my "piles of stuff" and sort, organize, cut up, create in and with, and throw away. These concepts are from some of what I have been reading about Louise Bourgeous and have given me some new ideas to consider. This is going to be one exciting class!
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Emily KozoraSeptember 2, 2014 at 7:02 PM
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Future Akins-TillettSeptember 2, 2014 at 8:00 PM
Emily I suggest you go to Amazon and get a used copy of Ed's book 'From Our Voices:: Artists Speak Out on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues" for under $10
And check with your local PFLAG group...Parents, Friends of Lesbian and Gays
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UnknownSeptember 3, 2014 at 6:59 PM
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UnknownSeptember 3, 2014 at 7:03 PM
I can't wait to start my readings. I received most of my books today and am super excited to dive in.... I was not planning on visiting anywhere or anything like that until this week, a friend from church contacted me about a special service on Sept 14. This will be the 4th anniversary of The Exchange in Round Rock and they are planning something very special and I was asked to be apart of it. The worship team will be singing a new song that Sunday called "Whole Again, Come Alive" by Lincoln Brewster. They asked me if I threw on the wheel and I replied not in a long time. They are renting a wheel and buying all the supplies and while they sing this song all about transforming and becoming whole again, I will be center stage with the only light on as I form vases from I clay. I was so excited to be offered such an amazing opportunity and then I listened to the song and broke down on how powerful this song is and how powerful it will be to be on stage doing what I love as they sing! Very humbling and exciting! I can't wait to be able to share this experience and see how God moves and heals through this!
I realized this week that I have not forgiven myself for allowing myself to be in such bad relationships and to have gone through so much without putting myself first. I will be starting out my readings with the books on forgiveness.. I know that I can not truly move forward until I have forgiven and let go. I am looking forward to reading and throwing on the wheel and creating. I had another dream last night about artwork and when they come to me in my sleep I can't get them done fast enough..
In case your interested I have a blog with all of my artwork along with the story behind them.. Andreasartisticpalatte.blogspot.com feel free to leave any comments or feedback.
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lynnrushtonSeptember 3, 2014 at 8:42 PM
I have finished re-reading The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction written in 1936 by Walter Benjamin (link below)
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm

I will write a longer synopsis but here is the gist.

Just as Mary Shelley seems to have the foreknowledge of what might be issues of genetic research and cloning, Benjamin foresees the loss of interest by the masses in "the aura"of an original when there is a readily supplied reproduction. Certainly, there are many parallels to our life in the digital age.

We balance engagement (with a piece of art or even the guards at a museum) with accessibility. We want everyone to have access to research and art work because were are egalitarian, fair and just but there is something very special about something the real thing.
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UnknownSeptember 4, 2014 at 8:01 AM
Lynn I just printed up that article. I am waiting on my books to come in the mail and was looking for something to hold me over!
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Germain QuintanillaSeptember 4, 2014 at 8:02 PM
I'm a little lost. Do you want us to read a book and give a summary of it to the class?
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Martha UnderrinerSeptember 5, 2014 at 6:25 AM
I grew up in a very traditional Southern culture family. It was very proper. Family, tradition, and manners were held to the highest importance. As I have moved away from family and back home in the last few years, I have realized how many of my family’s traditions are engrained in me. My family used to travel to Pennsylvania every summer and visit a tiny town to see my grandmother. We visited the same drive in ice cream stand, the same Italian restaurant, the same parks, the same pizza places, and then some. I took my niece last summer and I was shocked at how much I wanted her to have the same experiences and memories I did growing up. I have these memories that are so obscure to everyone else, but to me they mean the world. When my husband and I were first married, we had a discussion about how to make beef stew. Do we use a beef broth base or tomato base? We decided on beef broth base because that’s the way my family made it my whole life. It has never changed. We used the same family recipes week after week, always talking about the person who passed it down.

So, now my new series will be based on these types of experiences. I want to bring some sort of permanence to these memories. However, I do want to add my current perspective of the memories into my work and reveal what I didn’t see as a child. It will be a mixture of reflection on the past, the traditions that still influence me today, and how these play out in my life today. Also, I’m just excited to play with some new materials and see where my ideas take me!

Here are some ideas I’ve started or have planned out:
- Clay doll like sculpture. The doll will be an adult, everyday woman, in a frilly dress and stiff pose. This is based off a Scarlett O’Hara doll my grandmother gave me as a little girl, but with my own loose self-portrait touch. She will sit next to a cast glass dollhouse that is a replica of the one my parents made me as a little girl. It is incorporating my family history, tradition, and some important memories.
- My grandmother on my dad’s side is an amazing woman. Her husband died when my dad was 9, and had 2 younger kids. She raised all 3 children by herself, never asking for money from anyone. She put all 3 through college and never remarried. I will be making a clay sculpture of an older woman leaning over a cast glass fence, reaching to feed 3 rabbits (glass and clay) that represent her children. I chose rabbits because every year I can remember, we have always chased bunnies in her yard. They are an integral part of visiting her home and thought they would be the best representation.

I’m hoping to make between 4 and 6 sculptures this semester, hoping that all goes well and nothing explodes!
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lynnrushtonSeptember 5, 2014 at 5:46 PM
Walter Benjamin (1936)
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Source: UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television; Translated: by Harry Zohn; Published: by Schocken/Random House, ed. by Hannah Arendt; Transcribed: by Andy Blunden 1998; proofed and corrected Feb. 2005.

Benjamin sees the world dividing in 1936. He sees that people who are interested in authenticity and those, “the masses” who are interest in that which can be perceived quickly.
“Since the eye perceives more swiftly than the hand can draw, the process of pictorial reproduction was accelerated so enormously that it could keep pace with speech. A film operator shooting a scene in the studio captures the images at the speed of an actor’s speech. Just as lithography virtually implied the illustrated newspaper, so did photography foreshadow the sound film. The technical reproduction of sound was tackled at the end of the last century. These convergent endeavors made predictable a situation which Paul Valery pointed up in this sentence:
‘Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and disappear at a simple movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign.’

He believes this decline began with the printing press and continued through photography (which validated itself through portraiture) reaching the nadir in motion pictures. (the article in the archives of UCLA film).

“Around 1900 technical reproduction had reached a standard that not only permitted it to reproduce all transmitted works of art and thus to cause the most profound change in their impact upon the public; it also had captured a place of its own among the artistic processes. For the study of this standard nothing is more revealing than the nature of the repercussions that these two different manifestations – the reproduction of works of art and the art of the film – have had on art in its traditional form.”

Benjamin is very interested in original art which first began as a cult artifact. As it became more easily created and then reproduced—it began to look at exhibition value—what we would call Market.

“Works of art are received and valued on different planes. Two polar types stand out; with one, the accent is on the cult value; with the other, on the exhibition value of the work.”

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lynnrushtonSeptember 5, 2014 at 5:46 PM
Benjamin claims original art has an aura of authenticity.

“Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be. This unique existence of the work of art determined the history to which it was subject throughout the time of its existence. This includes the changes which it may have suffered in physical condition over the years as well as the various changes in its ownership.”

“The presence of the original is the prerequisite to the concept of authenticity. Chemical analyses of the patina of a bronze can help to establish this, as does the proof that a given manuscript of the Middle Ages stems from an archive of the fifteenth century. The whole sphere of authenticity is outside technical – and, of course, not only technical – reproducibility.”

The uniqueness of a work of art is inseparable from its being imbedded in the fabric of tradition. This tradition itself is thoroughly alive and extremely changeable. An ancient statue of Venus, for example, stood in a different traditional context with the Greeks, who made it an object of veneration, than with the clerics of the Middle Ages, who viewed it as an ominous idol. Both of them, however, were equally confronted with its uniqueness, that is, its aura. Originally the contextual integration of art in tradition found its expression in the cult. We know that the earliest art works originated in the service of a ritual – first the magical, then the religious kind. It is significant that the existence of the work of art with reference to its aura is never entirely separated from its ritual function. In other words, the unique value of the “authentic” work of art has its basis in ritual, the location of its original use value. This ritualistic basis, however remote, is still recognizable as secularized ritual even in the most profane forms of the cult of beauty. The secular cult of beauty, developed during the Renaissance and prevailing for three centuries, clearly showed that ritualistic basis in its decline and the first deep crisis which befell it. With the advent of the first truly revolutionary means of reproduction, photography, simultaneously with the rise of socialism, art sensed the approaching crisis which has become evident a century later. At the time, art reacted with the doctrine of l’art pour l’art, that is, with a theology of art. This gave rise to what might be called a negative theology in the form of the idea of “pure” art, which not only denied any social function of art but also any categorizing by subject matter. (In poetry, Mallarme was the first to take this position.)

Benjamin asserts that reproductions, especially film, has desensitized the general audience to authenticity and created a world where the audience believes itself to be an expert –and thereby becoming its own critic.

What it would accept in film (reproduction) it would reject in art. (Avant garde film vs Avant garde art)

Think about our world now—ratings on line (everyone is a critic or blogs everyone is a writer)

“It is inherent in the technique of the film as well as that of sports that everybody who witnesses its accomplishments is somewhat of an expert”

“For centuries a small number of writers were confronted by many thousands of readers. This changed toward the end of the last century. With the increasing extension of the press, which kept placing new political, religious, scientific, professional, and local organs before the readers, an increasing number of readers became writers – at first, occasional ones. It began with the daily press opening to its readers space for “letters to the editor.”

This may just be the surface of the first half of the article but it is a lot to consider.
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Carleen MichenerSeptember 7, 2014 at 1:07 PM
I just got back from the Dallas Museum of Art where I had the privilege of seeing the Dye-Decorated Cloths from North and West Africa. Though the exhibit was small it was a beautiful exhibition of handmade cloths made with a variety of natural dye techniques primarily focusing on the process of indigo dying. The tapestries displayed showed how different folding techniques would change the design completely, or how doing a starch resist painting would again create a world of difference. The exhibit even had a hands on portion which was my favorite. I loved getting to feel how the folds and the starch painting would change the textures of the fabrics. The exhibit even featured a short video which showed the very lengthy process of taking the indigo seeds from seed to dye which can take up to a week to develop rich dark dyes but once the dye is ready it's only good for two days. The women who are the masters in their field can even tell if a dye is ready by it's taste! I thought that it was so fascinating. I went to the bookstore of the museum to try and find more, but It left me without resources, so I will try amazon.
I'm so happy I got to see this little exhibit while it was still available. If anyone wants to read more or visit it before it goes away, you can read more here:
http://www.dallasmuseumofart.org/art/exhibitions/saturated-dye-decorated-cloths-north-and-west-africa
And it's free!
While I was at the museum I randomly stumbled upon another amazing exhibit of wool rugs made by an art collective called Slavs and Tatars. These rugs were large and so impressive with their simplicity of design. They reminded me of old comic strips in other languages. The exhibit was about "language as a source of political, metaphysical and even sexual emancipation" for the people of Caucasus, Central Asia and Eastern Europe. This exhibition was a great thing to stumble upon during my trip and I'm glad I got to spend some time exploring the wool rugs en-route to my destination of the natural dyed textiles.
If you would like to read more about this exhibition you can read about it here:
http://www.dallasmuseumofart.org/art/exhibitions/concentrations-57-slavs-and-tatars

I also started a small weaving that I can work on during the week at home.
I hope everyone has a great week exploring their different ventures.
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UnknownSeptember 7, 2014 at 1:32 PM
Future, I am so looking forward to seeing your artwork this semester.
My artwork for this semester as you know, is going to center around special needs communities. The book I am reading called “Creating with Reverence” by author Claire Campbell Park presents the reader with certain compelling questions to ask oneself as an artist intertwined with community. These questions range from: “How do I serve my community through my artwork?” and “Does the artist have to be an individual or can the artist be a community?” to "How can you think of ways a community might be the artist?" Keeping these questions in mind, I have been in the process of making more connections with various communities around town in order to share my art experience. For example, this past week I have made contact with the Addiction and Recovery Center at Texas Tech and will discuss with one of the instructors the possibilities of creating art as a community. Honestly, I feel this book has influenced me greatly to follow through with my passion of creating interesting community art works that speak of the importance of inclusivity and belonging. I am very humbled to use my artistic gifts as an instrument of hope and understanding for those with little or no voice through art. For me, it truly is the gift that keeps on giving!
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Germain QuintanillaSeptember 7, 2014 at 4:48 PM
Well class I started to read my first book, Flip The Script. I am very excited and wrapped up in this book. The introduction explains that the author is catergozing the primitive graffiti tag as indegenius art. The author Christian Acker provides a map of where certain styles were developed and how each has traveled across the nation and why. Each chapter has a full detail explanation of the development of letter styles from that region. The first chapter has to do with the region I am most interested in, the Los Angeles Southwest hand styles. This chapter is very important to me because my first exposure to art was the gang tags in the Los Angeles bus system when my mother and I would travel to downtown Los Angeles. The author explains that tags have been documented in Los Angeles as far back as the 1940's. Neighborhood Hispanic gangs would use Ole English lettering on neighborhood walls to claim areas within their region. This practice of claiming areas resulted in writers perfecting how well their letters were presented. They focused on how consistent and balanced their letters were. They worried about left and right justification, keeping the same thickness, and tilt or lack of. What I found most interesting about the Los Angeles chapter is that all the artists explained that graffiti might be the last of the great calligraphy movements. With advancing technology the majority of the world no longer puts pen to paper when writing. As a society we have lost our appreciation for penmanship and have moved on to our iPhones but these few vandals or taggers still practice their craft and develop letter styles that would amazes the finest of calligraphers.

Recently my artwork has evolved to use heavy ink markers to create line work and letter work. I believe this stems back to my childhood when I admired all the hand styles in the bus systems in the 90s. I am learning a lot from Flip The Script to help better and develop my own lettering. There are a handful of artists that have combined their hand styles to their contemporary artwork. Artist such as Defer, Slick, and Retna are currently putting on shows in contemporary museums across the global, Retna is even creating work for Dr. pepper and Armani Exchange. I'm slowly developing an idea of where my work can go and how I can get to that goal because of my readings.

Here are few pages of what my Flip The Script is about. Each artist explains how they began and how their work has evolved through the years. Each artist has an example of their alphabets and how they create them.

http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn90/GermainQuin/8702647e4ff45c6cfe80cebdba589644_zps98e34bbd.jpg

http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn90/GermainQuin/fe6416d82aa485cc4c98b85db16891fc_zps56601ad5.jpg

http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn90/GermainQuin/b9a9e0829107d7d65f356811c2b69cd8_zps6a0f1356.jpg
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PamelaSeptember 7, 2014 at 7:56 PM
Good evening all! This was a very busy and long week for me. It was the fourth week of school classes, and along with teaching I had three staff meetings and an evening back to school with parents.
My first book arrived on Thursday and I am waiting anxiously for my others to arrive. This first book, Paper Making Decorating Designing by Beata Thackeray has some great photos and good information about the art of paper making as well as some beautiful examples of different finished works made of paper. I chose this book as I was interested in learning about how to make my own paper. The process is described, and I would like to attempt to make some paper samples. I am looking into finding a class that I might take as it may be easier to work with an instructor who had experience as well as having the set up for this process. I am still searching.
This week I spent a good deal of time online researching Louise Bourgeous. I am still waiting for one of her books to arrive. There is a good deal of online information to cull through. I was also researching a former instructor of mine from Parsons, Pat Steir, who is both a painter and printmaker. I have been corresponding with her and am trying to arrange to meet up with her in New York, but our schedules may not coincide as she will be traveling this Fall.
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PamelaSeptember 7, 2014 at 7:57 PM
There are some interesting coincidences about my choice of these two women to research. They both show at the same gallery in New York. There is an upcoming show of Louise Bourgeous which I am planning to attend. It runs from October through January, so I am looking into flights as well as waiting to hear back from Ms. Steir to see is she will be in town when I come in to meet with her. I am also going to write the gallery to see if I can get a private viewing of some of Ms. Steir’s work even though it is not on display at this time.
There is a second gallery that shows Ms. Steirs’s prints and I will be contacting them to see if I can view some of her prints when I am in town.
Another strange coincidence; I pulled out one of my old sketch journals from the years I was at Parsons. For one of my art history classes I wrote about several artists showing at the 1973 Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Art at the Whitney Museum. As I was reading some of my thoughts, I came upon a short note I had written regarding a piece of art by Louise Bourgeous, and the entry right below that one was one about Pat Steir…. very odd indeed! It is interesting that I only stumbled on Louise Bourgeous name quite by accident when I started this project, and only chose to research her because of some of the online information regarding her prints and fabricated books as well as her personality. I have absolutely no recollection of her artwork.
I attended a print show this week in Dallas at RO2 Art Downtown. The Amazing Hancock Bros were showing and it was fun to see some of their work here after spending time with both of them this summer at Junction. I enjoy seeing a body of work by one artist when I go to galleries as I get a greater sense of an artist when there are multiple pieces to view, but the assortment of styles for this show was very beneficial for me. I am so new to print and it was exciting to see so many different ways to create using woodcut, etching and silkscreen as well as some mixed media approaches.
There was an edition of three images by Justin Ginsburg titled “Cleansed” printed with a loofah bodywash. They were placed behind plexiglas and a little difficult to see, but the paper had very subtle surface textural changes created by the loofah.
I was drawn to the work of Teresa Gomez-Martorell. Her piece, entitled “ficelle” was an etching of a birdlike image with hands, caught up in embroidery thread.
A third artist that was doing some interesting work was Adam Rowlett. He had two pieces, both black and white, with areas cut out with an xacto knife creating a lacey paper feel. These pieces were monoprints with lithograph.
I have been researching workshops in the Dallas/Houston area as well as some in New Jersey. I am going to try and attend one of them. Houston has a Print Museum that holds tours and I will be going to visit them some time this semester.
In my research I have also found a wonderful printmaker named Kevin Bradley who moved to Santa Monica a few years ago where he has set up a letterpress studio. His website is churchoftype.com and his work is fabulous.
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UnknownSeptember 7, 2014 at 9:06 PM
This past week has been a whirlwind for me as I've finished my 2nd week of classes. I've had assignments to address, complete a NASCO art supply order for the School of Art, and prepare for my art exhibit entitled Eloquent Meld.
I am truly amazed how much work (and preparation) is required to set up an art exhibit. I was able to begin my setup at Urban Tech here in Lubbock on Thursday, September 4th, about 1pm. I had already prepared my framed artwork, but I quickly learned that I needed to build 4 pedestals to present my ceramic, buon fresco and fused glass works. Fortunately, I received help from the architecture wood shop from Geo, Miguel and Mark (shop assistants). In 2 days, I had built and painted 4 pedestals that were 2' x 2' x 3' tall. I had a good turnout for my opening in lieu of the inclement weather and the many events scheduled for this busy September First Friday Art Trail.

For this week, my reading was from the book entitled Hand Building by Shay Amber. I was consumed by techniques and processes. From the text, I learned about how important it will be for me to use a banding wheel when I comprise my art / architectural /musical morphed sculptures. A banding wheel will help me to achieve the results I am after when shaping my clay. After I had comprised my 1st sculpture in February 2014, I placed my sculpture on the flat side when I applied the Terra Sigilata and Ferric Chloride for the final steps of aluminum foil saggar. My work table was wrapped in plastic, and I achieved different results in the clay than I expected. Clay work can be serendipitous, and I was lucky with the final result. I am careful to follow procedures carefully, and am meticulous about scoring clay and using slip with the right consistency to adhere forms properly.
I learned that if I cut drywall to store my clay on, I must be sure that the clay isn't contaminated with plaster or plaster dust lest the clay could explode when fired. I learned about why I'll need rubber tipped tools and when or if I should make plaster molds to shorten production time of repetitious forms.
I learned about making pinch pots, making a wafer vase, forming coils to comprise cups and bowls and reviewing the "pinched gallery" and the "coiled gallery".

Reference:
Hand Building | Ceramic Studio by Shay Amber 1st. Ed. 2012
pp. 1-45
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UnknownSeptember 8, 2014 at 6:33 PM
Hey y'all! Not sure if you got to read it, but I wrote my intro on the greetings page at the bottom. I was late to the party and added it there. Please take a glance and let me know what ya think.

I am just starting my first book "Making Connections" and locating the cheapest plexiglass in Lubbock.
Part of my experience this semester is going to be through conversations with people and recording that as research. I will form questions through the new knowledge that I read and will keep you posted.

I do believe that all of your ideas sound amazing, but I do not want you to focus on the I in that sentence, it is not about living up to my standards or anyone else's this semester. It is about you, me, and the journey we are ALLOWED to have through this class.
Every ounce of energy that is flowing from your words and art fits each one of you perfectly.

I am so proud of you Future and so excited for this collection you are forming. For those of you who don't know, I am a paid in full member of the Future Akins-Tillett fan club and I have stalked her so much that she did not have a choice but to love me.
She has seen me as the roughest, most unpolished diamond, then transformed me into a rare gem.
Viewing her art is similar to any other, but because all of you know her and have had a conversation with her, her art speaks just like her heart. I had the privilege of going to a social at her house about 3 years ago, in which she gave me a lino-cut print and holy moly, the image has a soul that flows around the house. It is amazing that she can transfer her undeniable force into a work of art.

I have no doubt that her collection will create the same excitement. I also have no doubt that all of your collections will create this as well, she has taught us well guys.
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PamelaSeptember 8, 2014 at 8:24 PM
Bailey, I saw it and posted under your introduction! Looking forward to seeing the work your do with plexiglas and print!
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