On Thursday afternoon, I saw Kristen Kieffer, a visiting artist in the ceramics department. She was an amazing artist who makes elegant and detailed works of art using mostly porcelain. She is a potter, so her work is functional, but it has so much detail and care put into every step, so a mug or flower box done by her is a completely unique piece. It was amazing to watch how fluidly she was able to throw on the wheel, and it was inspiring to watch her process and find out where her inspiration comes from.
There are a number of alterations that she demonstrated for us in the studio that she uses on her pieces such as: darting, stamping, and slip trailing. Darting is a term used mostly in a fashion world, but clothing is one of her inspirations. She cuts away and then seams the edges back together to create a new shape in the form just like the process of making a corset. Stamping on her pieces gives them a new texture in beautiful patterns. She showed us both how she makes her own stamps, and how when she does the stamping into a mug it can change the profile of the inside and the outside. Slip trailing is how she gives a raised texture to the piece by squeezing think slip (a mixture of clay and water) onto the surface of the piece. All of her work was beautiful and exceptionally detailed. It was also great to listen to her talk about her work and her sources of inspiration and to see her sketchbook.
The images were taken from
http://kiefferceramics.com/ where you can read more about the artist and even purchase pieces!
On Thursday afternoon, I saw Kristen Kieffer, a visiting artist in the ceramics department. She was an amazing artist who makes elegant and detailed works of art using mostly porcelain. She is a potter, so her work is functional, but it has so much detail and care put into every step, so a mug or flower box done by her is a completely unique piece. It was amazing to watch how fluidly she was able to throw on the wheel, and it was inspiring to watch her process and find out where her inspiration comes from.
There are a number of alterations that she demonstrated for us in the studio that she uses on her pieces such as: darting, stamping, and slip trailing. Darting is a term used mostly in a fashion world, but clothing is one of her inspirations. She cuts away and then seams the edges back together to create a new shape in the form just like the process of making a corset. Stamping on her pieces gives them a new texture in beautiful patterns. She showed us both how she makes her own stamps, and how when she does the stamping into a mug it can change the profile of the inside and the outside. Slip trailing is how she gives a raised texture to the piece by squeezing think slip (a mixture of clay and water) onto the surface of the piece. All of her work was beautiful and exceptionally detailed. It was also great to listen to her talk about her work and her sources of inspiration and to see her sketchbook.
The images were taken from http://kiefferceramics.com/ where you can read more about the artist and even purchase pieces!
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