Ceramics Club!

Yaaaay ceramics :D! We're starting a ceramics club this semester. The sign up sheet looks promising and we've already had some meetings and a few events.

First club meeting. There's Pres. Jake and secretary Sarah :D

Bri xD

Konami, treasurer Matias, Jen, and Ashley :D

Vice pres., Ji Soo, and Konami again xD

Final Critique Potluck 2013

This past semester, I took the ceramic vessels class taught by Shawn Spangler. For the classes' final critique, Shawn hosted a potluck at his apartment. Everyone brought food to share and eat out of pottery we had made over the semester. We all brought some of our favorite pieces that we wanted to present to the class and watched some video clips about ceramics.

Haha, caught Mariye with her mouth full

Watching youtube videos of Chris Staley

Shawn's cupboard is full of ceramics owo!

Loading the Car Kiln

It's a pile on at the end of the semester as everyone tries to get their pieces glazed for final critiques. Instead of loading and firing a few kilns, Brad rounded some people up to load up and do one huge firing in the car kiln.

A small break after everything is loaded

Lighting the burners!

 Brad checking the cone packs and making sure everything will fit.

Mariye ( xD ) and Kenybara

Cone packs

Kenybara, Jake, Shawn, and Brad

Shawn's Tattoo and camera war!

So much stuff

Done! Jake closes the kiln.

Thanks to everyone that helped; Mariye, Kaitlyn, Leilani, Kenybara, Jake, Brad, Shawn, and myself. You're all the best!

Material Immaterial 2013

Material Immaterial is a show of the works created by professors from UH Manoa who specialize in working with 3D materials. Participants include: Suzanne Wolfe (Ceramics), Brad Taylor (Ceramics), Shawn Spangler (Ceramics), Fred Roster (Sculpture), Mamoru Sato (Sculpture), and Rick Mills (Glass).

Kerri, Brad, and Shawn next to Suzanne's ceramic pillows.

One of the pieces from Brad Taylor

Shawn's vessels

Plexiglass sculptures by Fred

Sculptures by Mamoru Sato

Sculptures by Rick Mills

Shawn took the whole bottle

Intro Students Raku 2013

Lucky lucky, the introductory ceramics students get to try out Raku! John shows them how it's done.

The pieces are removed while still hot then set aside to cool off.

John