If I said to think of a ceramic piece of work, what kind of piece would come to your mind? A mug? A vase? Maybe a specific sculpture you saw in a museum? When someone asks me to think about ceramic art, the pieces I imagine tend to have certain things in common. Traditional looking…
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There is a time in every art student’s pursuit of skill and knowledge that they come upon the age-old division of art and craft. These words have been tools used to separate and explain different pieces throughout history. Some put more value in one category vs the other, some considering the two equally important. Some…
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“The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.” –Clive Bell For Clive Bell, the determination of a good art piece was not in its technical skill, or in its ability to invoke emotions by connotation, but instead by the emotions…
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“A drinking straw very obviously has a use. A million drinking straws is something else entirely.”- Tara Donovan Tara Donovan’s work has a way of drawing people in immediately. She is well known for her ability to take everyday items, often overlooked, and turn them into something abstract and foreign. She has used materials such…
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“One doesn’t arrive — in words or in art — by necessarily knowing where one is going. In every work of art, something appears that does not previously exist, and so, by default, you work from what you know to what you don’t know. — You have to be open to all possibilities and to…
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This semester’s visiting artist Curator Karina Kelley erupted such a war of emotions in me. There was a lot of great information she shared with us. A lot of it was very helpful and eye-opening as an artist. At the same time, there was also a lot of biased ideas and opinions that she presented…
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