by KP | Dec 31, 2013 | Ceramics, Education
One Friday during this past April, a group of my upper-level Ceramics students and I took boxes full of hand-made mugs to a local grocery store, set up tables outside the store, and tried to give away the mugs for a few hours. It wasn’t as easy as you’d...
by KP | Dec 29, 2013 | Ceramics, Education
Seeing all the people there staring in awe at all the hand-made bowls was incredible. Although many had heard about or attended the event, they were all still so amazed at how the community had helped to create all these bowls. It hit me that the event hasn’t stopped....
by KP | Dec 28, 2013 | Ceramics, Education
I often get low around the new year. Â Perhaps, like every media outlet in the world, I spend too much time looking back and not enough time looking forward. Â When I look back on a year, I tend to focus on missed opportunities, mistakes, not-quite-good-enough moments....
by KP | Dec 23, 2013 | Ceramics, Education
The pace has been two or three kiln firings each day this week, the last week before winter break and less than a week before student work goes on display for the twice-yearly art show. One kiln quit reaching bisque temperature mid-week. When I reached inside to...
by KP | Dec 8, 2013 | Ceramics, Education
Yesterday was my idea of a perfect Saturday. I arrived at the studio early, and spent a couple of hours by myself, mixing glazes, recycling clay, loading and unloading kilns, and puttering around the space. Â I finished one audiobook on my headphones, and started...
