Of course you can't see the whole thing but, take my word for it, it only gets more spectacular off camera. It took me the whole course (10 weeks) to make this thing, and that was just the clay construction. Firing it and glazing it took another 2 weeks. And then figuring out how to get it home took another month. It it 29" tall (just too tall to slip neatly into my car) and weighs about 60 pounds, which is about 50 pounds more than I can carry in my hands with my arms stretched straight out in front of me. It takes a village to raise a child; similarly it took a small gaggle of art students and instructors to get this out of the classroom, into a vehicle (made possible by Amy, my mosaics teacher) and into my office at work. [Of course, during the whole debacle there were gawking by standers, asking such questions as, "Is that a fountain?" or, my favorite, "What's that for?"] I am extremely pleased with how this worked out but Addie, the best ceramics teacher ever, accepted a bigger and better job at a rival art school in Detroit just a few weeks ago. Sniff. For more excitement, go to the FIA site, delve through the catalog to the bottom of page 6 and that is a picture of my jelly fish mosaic next to the glass mosaics course description.
Thursday, August 5, 2010
I'm Famous! (in a really small way)
This is the cover of the latest Flint Institute of Arts catalog (if you are interested in taking a class, check out the whole delicious set of offerings at their web site). And, bold as brass, that is MY sea anenome on the cover!!
Of course you can't see the whole thing but, take my word for it, it only gets more spectacular off camera. It took me the whole course (10 weeks) to make this thing, and that was just the clay construction. Firing it and glazing it took another 2 weeks. And then figuring out how to get it home took another month. It it 29" tall (just too tall to slip neatly into my car) and weighs about 60 pounds, which is about 50 pounds more than I can carry in my hands with my arms stretched straight out in front of me. It takes a village to raise a child; similarly it took a small gaggle of art students and instructors to get this out of the classroom, into a vehicle (made possible by Amy, my mosaics teacher) and into my office at work. [Of course, during the whole debacle there were gawking by standers, asking such questions as, "Is that a fountain?" or, my favorite, "What's that for?"] I am extremely pleased with how this worked out but Addie, the best ceramics teacher ever, accepted a bigger and better job at a rival art school in Detroit just a few weeks ago. Sniff. For more excitement, go to the FIA site, delve through the catalog to the bottom of page 6 and that is a picture of my jelly fish mosaic next to the glass mosaics course description.
Of course you can't see the whole thing but, take my word for it, it only gets more spectacular off camera. It took me the whole course (10 weeks) to make this thing, and that was just the clay construction. Firing it and glazing it took another 2 weeks. And then figuring out how to get it home took another month. It it 29" tall (just too tall to slip neatly into my car) and weighs about 60 pounds, which is about 50 pounds more than I can carry in my hands with my arms stretched straight out in front of me. It takes a village to raise a child; similarly it took a small gaggle of art students and instructors to get this out of the classroom, into a vehicle (made possible by Amy, my mosaics teacher) and into my office at work. [Of course, during the whole debacle there were gawking by standers, asking such questions as, "Is that a fountain?" or, my favorite, "What's that for?"] I am extremely pleased with how this worked out but Addie, the best ceramics teacher ever, accepted a bigger and better job at a rival art school in Detroit just a few weeks ago. Sniff. For more excitement, go to the FIA site, delve through the catalog to the bottom of page 6 and that is a picture of my jelly fish mosaic next to the glass mosaics course description.
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It looks FANTASTIC!!!
xM
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