Education - Vol. 46, No. 2

Summer/Fall 2018

This issue focuses on education in all its forms, including articles on K-12 education, post-baccalaureate studies, long-term internships, mentor-mentee relationships, teaching deaf and blind students, integrating clay work with memory care for senior citizens, artists residencies that focus on teaching, self-teaching through books, studying Iranian ceramics, and more. Members can view the digital issue online and full article texts below by logging in to the site. Join us today!

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Word from the Editor - The Education Issue

By Elenor Wilson

Let's...broaden our definition of education beyond formal settings, and even beyond mentorship, to include all experiences from which one learns, and in turn, creates.

Reclaiming Memory: Expanding the Definition of Successful Learning

By Jill Foote-Hutton

NCC’s teaching artists, supported by the organization’s commitment to responsive, professional development, have developed a deep understanding of the human brain, of aging, and of healing that has helped shape the practice of ART@HAND.

Of Jungles and Snow

By Anthony Richards, By Sa Wanphet

The effect of the colorful weaving wrapped in miniature around the terracotta vase is arresting; it is fine and coarse at the same time. The ethnicity is pure rural Thai heartland.

Three Guys Walk into a Ceramics Studio...

By Kathy King, By Mark Burns, By Stuart Gair, By Seth Rainville

A conversation with Harvard Ceramics Studio Artists-in-Residence Mark Burns, Stuart Gair, and Seth Rainville; organized, moderated, and recorded by Kathy King at the Falmouth Arts Center, Falmouth, Massachusetts.

Putting the Community in College

By Fred Herbst

The studio provides a haven...for those whose personal communities (religious, ethnic, racial, and sexual- and gender-identity-based) are being targeted in our highly partisan culture.

The State of Clay Education

By Stephen Creech

I firmly believe that, as ceramic artists, it is our responsibility to fill this looming knowledge gap and help support the next generation of educators teach clay in the classroom, inspiring the future ceramic artists of America.

Adventures in Rebuilding a High School Clay Program

By Sara Truman

With college clay and art programs being cut across the nation because of low enrollment numbers and even lower funding, the clay community needs to re-evaluate its approach to recruiting students in both K-12 and higher education.

Founded to Showcase the Best: A History of the National K-12 Ceramic Exhibition Foundation

By Bob Feder

None of the founders of k12clay ever dreamed that we would be where we are now, twenty-five years later. Somehow, the magic this dynamic exhibition generates seems to come back to us in generously in unexpected ways.

Teacher Reflections on “k12clay”

By Anne Maurice, By Joy Jones, By Kelly Clark

Three K-12 ceramics teachers reflect on the value of the National K-12 Ceramic Exhibition (k12clay), and the influence it has had on their students and their schools' ceramics programs.

The Most Valuable Clay in the World

By Jack Troy

No matter at what age we are introduced to ceramics, as long as we keep working with it, clay will be introducing itself to us, sometimes gloriously, exceeding our expectations; other times mocking us, as if to say, “Not that way, dummy!”

Finding (And Teaching) the Ceramics of Iran in a Contemporary Context

By Jillian Echlin

Despite, or even because of, an uptick in political tension and uncertainty in recent months, our pots place upon us a responsibility to be conscious of our world view.

Practical Notes for Engaging the Restaurant Industry

By Tim Compton

Ceramic wares and fine dining have gone hand in hand for a long time, but as each hip new restaurant works to find its niche in the culinary community, some are turning to handmade dishware for an advantage.

Developing Voice and Vision: A Studio Internship Model

By Eric Botbyl

Knowing [my interns] has helped me ask measured questions, which I hope has kept them thinking as they work. The exchange is reciprocal...

Working with Deaf and Blind Students

By Elizabeth Cohen

The idea of introducing visually impaired people to working with clay intrigued me because of the physical and psychological benefits it might offer them...their understanding of the world depends on what or whom they touch.

Confessions of an Autodidact: Book Learning

By Suzanne Staubach

Books on ceramic history dominate my shelves. How could they not? With more than ten millennia of pot-making behind us, there is so much to investigate, explore, and write about.

Student Essays

By Lukas Easton, By Will McComb, By Steven Osterlund

Three essays written by recipients of Studio Potter’s merit award for the National Juried Student Exhibition held during the 2018 National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 14-17.

Ask Me Anything: An “Instaview” with Melissa Weiss

By Melissa Weiss

The clay on my land is very obvious; you can pick up a chunk and make a pinch pot. I dug a bucket of it and took it home, then made a couple test pots and fired them.

In Memoriam

Paula Colton Winokur (1935–2018)

By Nancy Selvin

Paula Winokur cared. Not just about what she made but about what other people made, too. She cared about humanity, about the future. Paula was at once kind, thoughtful, and knowledgably outspoken.

In Memoriam

Bunzy Sherman (1923–2017)

By Stuart Kestenbaum

Bunzy took 39 workshops at Haystack—her last one was in 2014, when she was 90. Schools such as Haystack bring together people of varied ages and experiences. Bunzy was an integral part of that mix.

The Workshop Experience for Mentor and Mentee

By Maureen Mills, By Jennifer Markmanrud

This past winter a unique opportunity to share the workshop experience with one of my students presented itself through the North Country Studio Workshops (NCSW).

What To Do When Life Figures *You* Out

By Amanda Barr

Seven years of higher education, and it took just one community class to turn it all upside down. I hadn’t figured out life, life had figured me out.

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