Sara Parent-Ramos: Being An Emerging Artist "My work originates out of a cyclical process of accumulation and synthesis. I make sense of information first by arranging the objects I create and then assigning them a meaning through organization. I then obscure [...]
Natalia Arbelaez - Art as Language "Creating artwork has been important to me from a young age. I came back to the US at the age of four not speaking English and communication was hard for me. I learned English [...]
Janet Macpherson - Finding her voice as an artist "A friend who was a sculpture major first introduced me to ceramics while we were at university. I was not an art major, but I hung out with the artists at [...]
Wade MacDonald - Becoming an Artist and Advice for the Future "While preparing for high school graduation, I had a brief moment to sit at a kickwheel in the art classroom and attempt to throw a pot. This was my [...]
Andrew Stansbury: An Ode to Missed Connections "We didn’t have long, and you let someone skip in front of you. When it was our time, you choked back tears. “Oh honey, it’s okay,” I said, “we don’t gotta talk,” and [...]
Adam Chau - Essay about influence and idea development "My clay journey started early - my family opperated a bakery when I was growing up and I learned commercial-level baking at a very young age; it was shortly after that [...]
"Wise Swan" teapot by Laura Jean McLaughlin Not being a Pittsburgh native myself, I was unaware of the event called "Unblurred" that happens on Penn Ave. in the Garfield neighborhood on the first Friday night of every month. [...]
