south texas college’s art department, together with the stc library art gallery program, is presenting “a south texas ceramic showdown: up and down and all around.” featuring the fourth annual ceramics exhibition and conference, the event includes a full display of ceramic works by art students and professors from 11 regional universities and community colleges. the exhibit will be on view from july 8 to september 4, 2010. as part of the event, a free, two-day workshop with claybud max butler of butler pottery and carl block of flatland pottery begins friday, july 16 and ends saturday, july 17 at stc’s pecan campus art building ceramics lab. both ceramicists are graduates of the university of north texas, currently teach at texas isd schools, own clay studios, and are active musicians. more info here.
my friend satsiri turned me on to a blog by knitter/comedian franklin habit. in a recent post, franklin described a project he's working on using a late victorian porcelain shoulder head doll. i immediately fell in love with ethel. she has the same penchant i do for gold overglaze luster. she also possesses a dark sense of humor as illustrated in the tableaus above, "impressions of famous women." i'm repeating what franklin said in the original post, "don't blame me. ethel's politics are her own business."
