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BOX-IT: How to cover many basic Intro-class objectives with one assignment
(2024-03-21) Wecker, Sabine
The poster Box it: How to cover many basic Intro-class objectives with one assignment is about teaching an intro to ceramics class in a short period. The ceramic field is very wide, and the amount of theoretical knowledge, hands on skills, technical skills and artistic skills that need to be covered in one semester is intense. The poster shows a way on how to layer and connect objectives from all areas. This includes hands on skills in the fabrication methods on making, theoretical knowledge of clay, surface development and implementation, glaze theory, hands on glaze handling, firing, use of equipment, and lastly an artistic approach to ceramic. I had shown how the box assignment offers an opportunity to connect the many important areas step by step, slowly incorporating hands on skills and theoretical frameworks. The annual conference of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic arts is the biggest conference in North America related to Ceramic. The poster presentation is a way to extend /exchange knowledge from across the field beside the panel discussions, demonstrations, presentations within the conference. Twenty posters were accepted for this year’s conference. They were exhibited beside the emerging artists exhibition, at the entrance of the resource hall for the duration of the conference (March 20 -March 23, 2024). On March 21st, 3pm- 5pm, the poster’s had their official presentation time slot in the program, where all 20 posters were presented by their makers. The two-hour interaction with visitors was very fruitful.
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Da-Sein
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2024-06) Wecker, Sabine; Chambers, Ruth; Whalley, Sean; McManus, Karla; Tagesth, Martin
DA-SEIN, my MFA Thesis Project, explores the vessel as a conceptual container, which helps ideas of the self or lived experience become tangible. At the center of the project is my 'lived experience' as a woman, a single mother, a human being, as connected to phenomenology and feminist research inquiries. The terms ‘lived experience’ and ‘container’ are foundationally drawn from Ursula Le Guin’s essay “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction.” My MFA project includes four distinct works, which are exhibited in conversation with each other. The metaphoric and metamorphic cocoon-like structures in the piece Hüllen [hulls] are the focal point of the exhibition. They not only intend to hold the protective spaces of the transformative possibilities of female lives, such as past events or future dreams, but also ambiguously, they intend to represent roles and responsibilities of holding space. Holding space is a synonym for caring. The sculptural vessels honor the invisible acts of caring, which sometimes compete with transformational potentials and fleeting time. This story of existence is supported by these additional works: ad infinitum; the presence of essence—inversion of space; and [stela]. My key methods include modes of abstraction, materiality, material beauty, blurring boundaries between the man-made and the nature-made, sloppy craft, as well as the use of the kiln as a transformative agent. This feminist, practice-based research project was mainly influenced by the history of ceramics as a cultural inheritance and qualities innate in clay as a material, as well as ideas of containment as discussed in Le Guin’s essay “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction.” Keywords: craft, ceramics, clay, ceramic art, container, feminist research, lived experience, Le Guin, Wildenhain, Rie, feminist research, Existentialism,