Elizabeth (or Libby as friends call her) is in her senior year of a Bachelor's of Arts programs with a focus in ceramic arts. In addition to ceramics, she enjoys printmaking, specifically silk screen printing. Elizabeth's ceramic work reflects the kind of layered surfaces and textures that she includes in her prints. Her Fall 2015 share piece plays between water carvings of polka dots and scraffito line work on a small porcelain cup. Elizabeth has been involved with CSArt for two semesters now but this is her first time as a share artist! Stay tuned for more! |
Parker is in his senior year of Bachelor of Fine Arts program at Clemson University. His concentration is painting, but before he majored in art he studied marine biology for two years. Parker uses nature as a source for abstraction, saying "the two main facets of my art seek to understand how I as an individual relate to the natural world, and how society, or humanity, relates to the natural world. I am interested in different ways of thinking about nature." Along with painting, Parker also enjoys drawing and is excited about his hand-drawn artist booklet for his CSArt share piece which explores landscape and natural forms. He says, "both through observational rendering and using landscape as a jumping off point, I create abstract moments within a drawing." Stay tuned for more!
Our Spring 2015 season of Clemson CSArt was successfully brought to a close! Pictured below are the Spring 2015 share artists Deighton Abrams, Lindsey Elsey, En Iwamura, Allison Rupprecht & Brittany Wilund with their corresponding share piece. We would like to extend a special thanks for our juror, Alan Ethridge, Executive Director of the Metropolitan Arts Council. Thanks are also due to the Creative Inquiry program, the Department of Art, and the Ceramics studio. Get ready for the CSArt Fall 2015 season because shares go on sale Tuesday, September 1, 2015! Be sure to get yours before it's too late - the "purchase a share" link on our website will be live starting the morning of September 1st with 25 shares of limited edition work by Clemson student artists! And just to get you excited for this season's pieces, selected by Stephanie Moore, Executive Director of the Center for Craft, Creativity & Design in Asheville, NC, check out the teaser graphic of the Fall 2015 share artworks... The CSArt Pickup Event was Great Fun!The CSArt team goofing off at the reception Check out the Pick Up Event from Beginning to EndThis season was wonderful and we loved having all the returning and new shareholders be a part of this experience with us! We hope you loved "Atmosphere" as much as we did and we are looking forward to our next season, "Catalyst!" Stay tuned for an update on the upcoming season!
Here is quick clip of the initial throwing stages. Brittany's bowls are thrown and altered on the wheel!Here's a picture of the piece after it has been altered.Brittany alters the lip of the bowl on the piece by splitting it first, very slowly and precisely while the wheel is turning. After the lip is split, she smooths out the double lip and then lifts up the outer one and presses it together at consistent intervals to create the delicate look below. The Bowls have been bisqued and are ready to get glazed!Here is a close up of some of the awesome results that the wood fire produced! Each one is a unique product of the wood kiln atmosphere.Happy shareholder Susan Hilligoss holding her favorite bowl from the wood firingSusan Hilligoss put some work in the 2015 Clemson Anagama Firing and so was able to get a sneak peak at the results at unloading! It was neat to have both share artists and shareholders working side by side.
It Takes an Entire Team to Run Community Supported Art![Back L-R] Valerie Zimany, Lindsey Elsey, Brittany Wilund, Hannah Hunt, Ella Wesly, Johnny Murphy, Matt Pizzuti, [Front L-R] Deighton Abrams, Stephanie Pechthalt, En Iwamura, Libby Davis, Allison Rupprecht Meet the Teams!Marketing//Sales//Communications
Ella, Libby and Matt make up the marketing, sales and communications division for Clemson Community Supported Arts. They have the important task of coming up with new marketing initiatives for CSArt and putting together newsletters, announcements, and email updates about artist happenings. Artist Information Allison has the fun job of keeping up with the share artists! She creates the artist biographies, sets up Q&A meetings, creates the artist contracts and photographs the artist share pieces. Allison is also a Spring 2015 share artist! Web//Social Media Hannah and Brittany take care of the Web/Social Media side of CSArt. Hannah updates the website with new information, posters, and graphics and helps with blog posts. Brittany documents the artists’ process and progress throughout the semester and updates Instagram and Facebook posts with fun tid-bits of information and sneak peeks for you to enjoy along with writing the process blog posts about the artists! Brittany is also a Spring 2015 share artist! Event/ Packaging//Graphic Design Johnny and Stephanie are in charge of Event, Packaging, and Design! They help plan the pickup event, package the shares in share crates, organize music and create some fun graphics for the website and posters. These specialized teams help organize goals and tasks, increase efficiency, and utilize particular skill sets within our program. While these teams may work independently on projects, there is a lot of overlap and collaboration. It takes a team's unified effort to roll out each season! We hope you like this season and we can't wait to roll out the next one! En is Known Around the Studio as "Mr. Pinch"En create's his share pieces, and all of his other work, through coil building and pinching. This pinching ranges from something smaller like the sharepieces to floor to sculptures that stretch all the way to the ceiling! En's work is pinched, bisqued, and awaiting Underglaze Painting!Some Examples of En's Larger PiecesHere's En carefully painting those detailed pieces!Painting his forms very intricately is a very signature part of En's work. En uses different colored underglazes to compliment the three dimensional forms and add another layer of meaning to his work. A Glimpse at the Final Result! |
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