The purpose of this blog is to help me organize and preserve thoughts, memories, and concepts usable for art. The problem, as always when I have atempted this in the past, is how far back do I go? I have gone back to the beginning in my “The Making of an Artist” presentation, as the orign story for my art career, but this blog is an effort to capture material that can be used to stimulate images for pottery, sculpture, drawings, paintings, etc. I suppose I am in that part of

I didn't imagine I would ever be a teacher until after graduate school, and, faced with an uncertain income as a full-time potter, with a wife and infant son to support, up came an opportunity to teach art in a middle school program to kids in an "alternative program". This was an attempt to bring the kids' reading and math skills up to grade level before they reached high school. Each and everyone of the 100 or so kids had either failed at least one year of school, or were l

Lately I've been feeling sad because I haven't been able to make time to be in my studio making the work I want to make, which is a sculpture of Cooper, my grandson, now 18 months old. My idea is to make a clay sculpture of Cooper with tiny figures representing his mother and dad reaching up to him. The idea is to show how Cooper is the biggest part of their existence. I started this sculpture 2 or 3 times since November but never was able to get back to it to develop it beyo