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Art on the Mall: Fund-raiser thrown together for ceramic program |
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Deanna Woolf |
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Jul 27, 2006 |
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At 7 p.m. on a recent weekday, more then 20 students saddled up to the pottery wheels in the ceramics studio.
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| Julie Webster, a senior majoring in art, works on a bowl on a pottery wheel in the Glass Crafts Building. |
"Let's just focus on making a series," said Karen Roderick-Lingeman, lecturer in art. "They won't be 'yours' or 'mine.' We'll just make them."
Putting aside their own artistic visions for the next hour and a half, the students produced more than 150 cups and soup and salad bowls — pieces that will be sold at Art on the Mall Sunday, July 30, to raise funds for their Visiting Artist Program.
In the past, ceramic artists such as Robert Pipenburg, Jack Earl and Tom Turner spent a full day giving slide lectures, demonstrating their work, and talking about technique with students.
"This term we didn't have the bucks to bring someone in," Roderick-Lingeman said. In order to raise funds, she sought a booth at Art on the Mall for students to sell their work.
The mass throwing session resulted in Lingeman and her student assistant finishing the pieces by glazing and firing them.
Roderick-Lingeman said ceramics students will be working the booth during Art on the Mall — "so they see the experience of getting there at 6 a.m. to set up and sell their work" — and will demonstrate throwing for attendees. The funds from sales of the pieces, all priced below $40, will go toward the Visiting Artist Program.
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