Artist InspiredSemester 1 - Final Ceramic Sculpture

Find a ceramic artist that you find interesting and whose work you would like to study and make your own version in a similar style.

Create a piece that reflects the artists style and form, but is your own creation.

Similar but different!Adrian Arleo

Eric Van Eimeren

NOT Copying! Influenced.

• Remember you are not copying the artist, you are creating something inspired by the artist’s style.

I was influenced by Ron Mueck, but didn’t copy his work...I made it my own. Human sculpture with more texture than his.My sculpture

Ron Mueck

Here’s an example two artist’s with similar but

different sculptures.

Cheryl Ann Thomas accessceramics.org

Merete Rasmussen: http://www.ceramicsnow.org

* Remember you are not copying the artist, you are creating something influenced by the artist’s style.

http://www.ceramicsnow.org/tagged/Featured-artistsKimberly CookBeth Cavener Stichter

www.followtheblackrabbit.com/

Example of student work

& Artist inspired by

• Bobby Romero ’15

• Chris Stiles, Ceramic Artist

Artist Student

How to start?• 1. Find a ceramic artist. -The artist can be from ancient to present time. - Use the websites listed on the project description sheet.

• II. Locate an artist that you find interesting and whose work you would like to study and make your own version in a similar style.

Elizabeth Shriver: Spherical Swirl Lantern, 2010Found her on http://www.ceramicsnow.org/

Functional?• A piece you can use: cups, plates, bowls, vases

Frank MartinJenni Brant

• Doesn’t have to be used for a purpose: abstract forms, models of familiar or unfamiliar objects/things

Sculptural

Cindy Billingsley: http://www.ceramicsnow.org

“The pose or look of an endangered animal or the presence of a figure in clay is what the artist is saying about a time, about a moment in nature or life, to reflect humanity to itself, to hold a mirror up to nature.“

- Cindy Billingsley

For inspiration: Look in books or online

(websites listed on project handout!)• I. Research ceramic artist• A. Answer the questions below in the table provided on the handout.• I. Who is the artist? Name, age, where is he/she from?• II. What type of work does he/she do? why? Who or what are his/ her Influences?• III. What type of techniques does he/she use when constructing a piece? Coil, slab, drape mold, pinch, or...?

Paula Bellacera, http://www.ceramicsnow.org

Once research is done...• Sketch in the

boxes provided on the sheet.

- Two examples of the artists work.

- Print 2 images by the artist and staple to your handout.

- Two sketches of your ideas.

Brian Kakas' http://www.ceramicsnow.org

Carol Gouthro http://www.ceramicsnow.org

So many possibilities!Choose an

artist that interests you and that will

challenge you!

Ceramic Impressions by Judy DiBiase / BDA Dental Museum, London, UK

Works in porcelain inspired by the collections of the BDA Dental Museum and its visitors.

Debra Fleury

While growing up near the ocean, I spent many hours peering at tiny creatures and looking for clues to their secret lives. This began a lifelong passion for the the minute details, the battered fragments, and the myriad patterns of organic life.

9 classes to construct it.

Timeline of Project:• Challenge yourself, but be realistic of short amount of time.

• Constructed Sculpture is due: Monday, Dec. 7th in order for it to have enough time to be fired.

• Painted and ready to be fired by Tuesday, Dec. 15th

• Completed glazed, fired and ready for grading by day of final exam.

* At the minimum, the piece will need to be constructed. Some may or may not have time to fire/paint/glaze.