It was mid-march when the entire educational world was turned upside down, and PSU was not excluded. As the danger of Covid19 became more real, my classes and plans, like all of my fellow peers were ground to a halt. We did not know that our Wednesday class together before the beginning of spring break,…
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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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Last project we focused on throwing decent cylinders on the wheel. Working for height, even walls, even lips, and flat bottoms. For this project, not only were we still striving for these things, but we also began to learn how to add galleries to our forms, and create lids for them. A gallery is a…
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For this assignment, we were required to take the 16 cylinders we made for project one and create six handled objects and one stacked object. The purpose was also to explore different textures, and techniques. I started we my original 16 cylinders and picked out some of the less polished ones. I used these for…
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Learning to wheel throw has always been something I was determined to do. Growing up, it seemed that everyone told me it was something for naturally born artists. That some just sat down at the wheel and after the first couple of attempts they had it. I was not one of those people, so the…
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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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