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I have studied ceramic art in a few different capacities. Of course, the passion always returns to my very first elementary school art classes ;). After dear Maria and Edith, my talented art teachers, I continued to pick up ceramics every few years as an extracurricular activity. I enrolled in a couple ceramics courses during my limited free time in college, and then I attended a small ceramic school in my early adult years. For all of those years, clay was never more than a curiosity and an interest...
In 2021, I had moved away from NYC for a third time. I was nearing the oracular end of a 10-year recovery process from chronic fatigue, migraines, auto-immune, and Lyme disease. Earning my bachelor's degree in Writing and Rhetoric was on hold through my recovery (with only 4 classes left!), and I was mostly just very tired, under-stimulated, and every day more relieved to be back on my two feet, once more. Mostly in a therapeutic effort, I returned to ceramics again, to a local art school. While I returned intending only to play a little with some good mud again, the familiar long hours in the studio soon turned into a slow and dedicated practice.
Over the past three years, I have learned and refined various technical skills in a non-degree school setting. I have yet to work towards a professional degree or any kind of formal ceramic study certification. The classes at my current school are more relaxed and pedagogically hobby-art oriented, but the pottery studio is fully equipped and extensively designed to provide high level accessibility and diverse opportunities for various techniques and styles in ceramics.
I have experimented with stoneware, porcelain and terracotta clay bodies, with colorful and neutral underglazes, slips, and engobes, and with various glazes provided by my school. I have exercised clay building techniques and methods in sculptural form, functional form, wheel throwing, and hand building. I have experimented with carving designs using both sharp and dull-edged tools, and with stamping, piercing and slicing patterns often made from unique tools and objects that I come across.
In 2022, I began setting up a modest studio in my home basement. Unfortunately, the concept didn't quite materialize, and after struggling in a small, dark space for long enough, in 2023 I closed up and now work directly from school and (discretely) in my livingroom. I am in the process of opening an online shop, and saving for a larger and brighter studio space, a stronger potter's wheel, and a big kiln.
As my health continues to improve, I hope to one day attend a university or formal art school, in order to study ceramic art in greater depth and in a more accessible and structured environment.
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