Myrrhia Rae Resneck-Sannes on sat 9 may 98
Hi, I am a nineteen year old student at UCSC.
I learned to throw when I was in highschool and liked it so much that I
got my parents to buy me a wheel. I hated my teacher though and soon
dropped out of the program. I never stopped throwing though and was able
to get a tweleve cubic foot gas kiln for a couple hundred bucks a few
years later. I also got a job at a local pottery shop wedging clay,
testing glazes, grunt work, etc. That all happened in the last four
years. Last summer I attended the ceramics seminar at Alfred
University in New York. It was an amazing experience. Last
fall I quit the job from at the shop from pressures of starting my
university education at UC Santa Cruz. I was worried that between work
and school I would barely have time to do my own work, and even without the job
barely have time.
UCSC doesn't offer the type of Art education that I am interested in, and
I am going back to the seminar this summer, which I'm very excited
about.
My question and dilemma is this:
Should I transfer away from my home town to a different school that
offers a strong ceramics education? I am interested in glaze chemistry
especially.
I would like to be a professional potter (I think), do I need an
education in ceramics to achieve this?
I feel like I might need some business skills to be an enterprising
potter, where do I get these small business skills without haveing to
study BUSINESS? (sounds boring)
Is practicing in my home studio and studying in the summer enough while I
study perhaps Literature (my other passion is writing) here at UCSC?
All you professional potters out there, please lend your advice or your
stories of how you got to where you are.
Also, I'm interested in Potters for Peace as well and want to know how to
get in touch with them.
Thank-you
Myrrhia
kinoko@junction.net on sun 10 may 98
At 10:49 5/9/98 EDT, you wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Hi, I am a nineteen year old student at UCSC.
>I learned to throw when I was in highschool and liked it so much that I
>got my parents to buy me a wheel. I hated my teacher though and soon
>dropped out of the program. I never stopped throwing though and was able
>to get a tweleve cubic foot gas kiln for a couple hundred bucks a few
>years later. I also got a job at a local pottery shop wedging clay,
>testing glazes, grunt work, etc. That all happened in the last four
>years. Last summer I attended the ceramics seminar at Alfred
>University in New York. It was an amazing experience. Last
>fall I quit the job from at the shop from pressures of starting my
>university education at UC Santa Cruz. I was worried that between work
>and school I would barely have time to do my own work, and even without
the job
>barely have time.
>UCSC doesn't offer the type of Art education that I am interested in, and
>I am going back to the seminar this summer, which I'm very excited
>about.
>My question and dilemma is this:
>Should I transfer away from my home town to a different school that
>offers a strong ceramics education? I am interested in glaze chemistry
>especially.
>I would like to be a professional potter (I think), do I need an
>education in ceramics to achieve this?
>I feel like I might need some business skills to be an enterprising
>potter, where do I get these small business skills without haveing to
>study BUSINESS? (sounds boring)
>Is practicing in my home studio and studying in the summer enough while I
>study perhaps Literature (my other passion is writing) here at UCSC?
>All you professional potters out there, please lend your advice or your
>stories of how you got to where you are.
>
>Also, I'm interested in Potters for Peace as well and want to know how to
>get in touch with them.
>Thank-you
>Myrrhia, Learnall you are able..anywhere and everywhere. Just becareful
you do not exchange love and passion for a steady income and boredom. Isao
and I have been together as potters/artists for nearly 30 years,
inJapan,US,,East Coast, As well as Canada on both coasts. and a short stint
in Nigeria and Mexico. Although we have never made any appreciable
financial success and have been on welfare a couple of times, we feel our
lives have been well-spent.One of our sons is at university in Japan and
our youngest son has returned to Nova Scotia where he was born,where he
follows a life-style not unlike our own.Gardening,potting,blacksmithing and
an odd job here and there,to keep beans on his table. We c an think of no
more fulfilling life. Isao & Don
>
Mo and Les Beardsley on mon 11 may 98
kinoko@junction.net wrote:
>
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> At 10:49 5/9/98 EDT, you wrote:
> >----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> >Hi, I am a nineteen year old student at UCSC.
> >I learned to throw when I was in highschool and liked it so much that I
> >got my parents to buy me a wheel. I hated my teacher though and soon
> >dropped out of the program. I never stopped throwing though and was able
> >to get a tweleve cubic foot gas kiln for a couple hundred bucks a few
> >years later. I also got a job at a local pottery shop wedging clay,
> >testing glazes, grunt work, etc. That all happened in the last four
> >years. Last summer I attended the ceramics seminar at Alfred
> >University in New York. It was an amazing experience. Last
> >fall I quit the job from at the shop from pressures of starting my
> >university education at UC Santa Cruz. I was worried that between work
> >and school I would barely have time to do my own work, and even without
> the job
> >barely have time.
> >UCSC doesn't offer the type of Art education that I am interested in, and
> >I am going back to the seminar this summer, which I'm very excited
> >about.
> >My question and dilemma is this:
> >Should I transfer away from my home town to a different school that
> >offers a strong ceramics education? I am interested in glaze chemistry
> >especially.
> >I would like to be a professional potter (I think), do I need an
> >education in ceramics to achieve this?
> >I feel like I might need some business skills to be an enterprising
> >potter, where do I get these small business skills without haveing to
> >study BUSINESS? (sounds boring)
> >Is practicing in my home studio and studying in the summer enough while I
> >study perhaps Literature (my other passion is writing) here at UCSC?
> >All you professional potters out there, please lend your advice or your
> >stories of how you got to where you are.
> >
> >Also, I'm interested in Potters for Peace as well and want to know how to
> >get in touch with them.
> >Thank-you
> >Myrrhia, Learnall you are able..anywhere and everywhere. Just becareful
> you do not exchange love and passion for a steady income and boredom. Isao
> and I have been together as potters/artists for nearly 30 years,
> inJapan,US,,East Coast, As well as Canada on both coasts. and a short stint
> in Nigeria and Mexico. Although we have never made any appreciable
> financial success and have been on welfare a couple of times, we feel our
> lives have been well-spent.One of our sons is at university in Japan and
> our youngest son has returned to Nova Scotia where he was born,where he
> follows a life-style not unlike our own.Gardening,potting,blacksmithing and
> an odd job here and there,to keep beans on his table. We c an think of no
> more fulfilling life. Isao & Don
>
> >
Hi Isao and Don
Your message came at a great time in our family lives. May it also help
someone else.
Financial success has been given too much emphasis in this world and
maybe it is time
at age 63 for me to readdress this issue in my logical mind so it
matches in my
heart for people.
Regards
Maureen
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