In our first week here, I took advantage of free admission to UArts students at the PMA. There was still a ceramics exhibition up from NCECA and I very much enjoyed Walter McConnell's unfired piece at the PMA. Check out the time elapsed video of the piece being built in the museum. I am excited for him to visit the school later this summer.
Other objects I became fascinated with at the PMA were Pate-sur-pate pieces in which porcelain slip was painted on in thin layers over a colored clay body to give a transparent and varied surface decoration to the pottery. I tried a very dumbed-down test of this and am excited to see the results after firing and figure out if the technique could be useful in some way in my own work.
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