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Compatible Visions: Farraday Newsome and Jeff Reich

Exhibition dates: May 4-26

First Friday: May 4, 6-9pm Reception with the Artists.

Second Saturday: May 12, noon-6pm, and RiNo Open Studio Tour Sunday May 13, 11am-4pm

Visit Plinth Gallery for more information on Farraday's and Jeff's show. For more information Jeff and Farraday please visit their website, Indigo Street Pottery. "Farraday Newsome has worked with the vessel format for over twenty years. She explores ideas of lushness, sadness, time, and grace with surfaces that are very painterly. She is interested in the relationship between the “painterly space” and the “actual space of the three-dimensional object.” Jeff Reich’s ceramic sculptures integrate abstract expressionist influences with contemporary desert landscapes. The Sonoran desert where he lives with his wife Farraday Newsome profoundly inspires him. Angled, sectioned and recombined forms of teapots, jars, wall tiles, and sculptural vessels are influenced by the growth patterns found in desert plants, rocks and mountains."- Jonthan Kaplan - Plinth Gallery [caption id="attachment_4750" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Farraday Newsome "][/caption] Tell us a little about yourselves! Farraday: I grew up in the redwoods of California. It was very quiet and very beautiful. My father was a dinnerware designer for a big dinnerware company in Los Angeles called Metlox. The company flew him down for design meetings every 6 weeks or so. Many of my adult relatives worked in the arts. Making things and painting was part of my life growing up. When it came to college though, I majored in Biology (UC Santa Cruz, 1977) since I was so interested in nature. After earning my BA I moved to San Francisco and decided to go back to school in the arts. I received my MA in Art, Ceramics Emphasis from San Francisco State University in 1987. I moved to Arizona shortly thereafter. [caption id="attachment_4760" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Jeff Reich"][/caption] Jeff: I was born in Livonia, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. My father was an engineer with an eye to detail, and my mother a homemaker who loved to paint and garden. I grew up with interests in architecture and basketball. Early in my college career at the University of Michigan, I moved to Arizona to transfer to the University of Arizona in Tucson. I first settled on a major in Arts Education. After taking a ceramics course there, I knew that ceramics was my deepest studio art interest. I studied with Maurice Grossman and treasured the knowledge he shared with students. I recieved my BFA in 1984. I started a small studio in Tucson and quickly picked up 11 galleries across the country. Three years later I started working at the Mesa Arts Center in Mesa, Arizona building a ceramics program there that I still direct. In 2005 the Mesa Arts Center moved into a $100 million new facility, for which I helped design the ceramics studio. [caption id="attachment_4748" align="aligncenter" width="200" caption="Farraday Newsome "][/caption]

And how did you meet?

Farraday: Jeff and I met after I moved to Arizona, around 25 years ago. Jeff was a directing the ceramics program at the Mesa Arts Center, which he still directs. We probably met at an opening - hard to remember exactly when. Although friends for many years, we've been married for seven year   [caption id="attachment_4757" align="aligncenter" width="292" caption=" Jeff Reich"][/caption] Jeff: I met Farraday first at the Tempe Arts Festival in 1988. She was showing some amazing maiolica. We became friends and in 2001 she started teaching with me at the Mesa Arts Center. We married in 2004. [caption id="attachment_4745" align="aligncenter" width="199" caption="Farraday Newsome "][/caption]

When and how did you discover the passion for ceramics?

Farraday: My father got his BA at Alfred University in New York, majoring in ceramics. He studied with Daniel Rhodes and met Susan Peterson while he was there. After college and a stint in the army, he became a dinnerware designer for Metlox Potteries in Manhattan Beach, California. When I was little, he would sometimes take us kids to Metlox and we would glaze in his office on stock dinnerware. I loved that! I let that interest go when I went off to college and majored in biology. I didn't really take any art classes during my undergraduate years. It wasn't until years later, when I was working in the sciences in San Francisco, that I took a community college ceramics class. I rediscovered that all-engrossing feeling of joy. I quit my job and went back to school to earn my Master's in Art with a Ceramics Emphasis from San Francisco University (1987). [caption id="attachment_4753" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption=" Jeff Reich"][/caption]

Jeff: I thought I would be going for an architecture degree. I switched to an Art major after learning I wasn't accepted into the program for architecture. Later at the University of Arizona my scupture professor, Dennis Jones, took us to see the ceramics studio where the teacher , Maurice Grossman, threw a pitcher. I was amazed and knew after watching that I had to try the wheel. Afterward Dennis tried to get me back to metal sculpture but it was too late, I'd fallen for clay. I love how simple and complex working with clay can be. After graduating I sold my 1969 Mach I Mustang to buy a kiln and wheel to start my career in clay.

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What are you two showing at Plinth Gallery this month?

Farraday: I'll be showing work that is predominantly vessel-oriented, some with high relief imagery. Some will be colorfully glazed and some glazed in black-and-white. The imagery will be mostly from the natural world, but I have just finished a teapot that has unnatural objects in high relief (a watch and a playing card) along with my usual natural imagery. My imagery generally speaks to the passage of biological time and to chance. [caption id="attachment_4744" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption=" Jeff Reich"][/caption]

Jeff: I'll be showing some of my latest sculptures, teapots, and wall work. My glaze palette is influenced by the Sonoran desert and the unique plants that grow here. I am inteested in portraying the contrasts of desert textures through glazes, drawings into glaze and crawling glazes. My shapes are informed by boulder piles left in place after thousand of years, as well as from the growth patterns of desert trees and plants.

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How did you come up with the title for the show?

Farraday: People often tell us that our work looks so different from each other, but that somehow it looks good together. All I can think to write is that we are huge fans of each others work, asking for and giving lots of feedback in our shared studio while work is in progress. I think this all translates to work that is made in close proximity with mutual interest and tenderness, so somehow it is compatible. [caption id="attachment_4736" align="aligncenter" width="200" caption=" Jeff Reich"][/caption] Do you share the studio or have separate spaces? What is it like to work so closely with your spouse? Jeff: I teach 4 days a week at the least but get into the studio as much as possible on my 3 days off. We love listening to NPR and books on tape together but when I need to watch sports, well, we don't share that interest. The studio could be bigger sometimes but I think every artist wants that. We have 3 electric kilns: his, hers, and one small one we share. I fire high fire reduction in our old West Coast updraft kiln. We feel really fortunate to share our passion for clay with others. [caption id="attachment_4721" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Farraday Newsome "][/caption]

Farraday: Yes, we share a home studio. It is about 750 sq. ft. Of course we wish it was bigger!! Over the ten years we've lived in our home, we seem to have settled into an understanding of whose tables are whose, but it changes if one us needs more space for a certain project.

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What do you love most about your studio?

Farraday: I love that it is at home, and that our beautiful 1 1/2 acre wildscaped desert yard is right out the door. I also love sharing it with a fellow ceramic artist who is my husband and whose work I think is terrific! [caption id="attachment_4717" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption=""Dark Blue Jar with Yellow Birds""][/caption] Jeff: I think Farraday said it all above ( I think her work is amazing too!)! [caption id="attachment_4712" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Jeff Reich"][/caption] How do you maintain a healthy work and life balance? Farraday: That balance is pretty elusive. I seem to have three main interests these days, and never enough time to spend on any one of them. Studio work, gardening, and now trail running. I cook most days too - we eat pretty well (vegan) and cook a lot from our beloved kitchen garden. [caption id="attachment_4711" align="aligncenter" width="200" caption="Farraday Newsome"][/caption] Jeff: Teaching full time and trying to get work out to the galleries can be trying but I have found a way to do it for 25 plus years. I remember Rudy Turk, who was the director of the Arizona State Museum of Art at the time when I was hired at the Mesa Arts Center, telling me how he wrote books, painted and directed the museum. The secret was "lots of late nights and early mornings". I don't do the late nights too much anymore but early mornings work. An ideal day would be a run, then a little gardening, then the studio. That seems like a wonderful day to me (especailly when I get to share it with Farraday). [caption id="attachment_4788" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption=" Jeff Reich"][/caption] What advice can you give aspiring artists struggling to find their own voice and look? Farraday: I think an individual voice develops with making lots of work over lots of time. Just keep at it and pay attention to what you like in your work. Stay in touch with your inner eye - your dreams and imagined forms. Jeff: The best advice I heard when I was starting was to keep making pots/art. Seems simple but the ideas come when we keep working. I also tell my students to look outside of the ceramics world to plants, quilts, landscapes, architecture, etc. Blend what you are most passionate about (for example growing rare desert plants) and find a way to speak about it throught your work. Go to openings and see shows. Read about history of art to see what has come before us. [caption id="attachment_4796" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Farraday Newsome "][/caption]   Farraday, how would you explain your attraction for functional ceramics? Farraday: I really like the combination of the practical and thebeautiful. As I mentioned before, I grew up in a household where designing beautiful dinnerware was an everyday thing. I like that there is a shared, understood language of pottery forms: the bowl, the pitcher, the plate, etc. I also really like the formal qualities of contained space, from the shallow contained space of platters to the voluminous contained space of pitchers, teapots, and vases. [caption id="attachment_4801" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Farraday Newsome "][/caption]   You work with great delicacy when using patterns and symbols, how do you choose your images? Farraday: I have always been interested in objects from the natural world. As child, I think I was simply struck by their beauty. Like many children, I collected seashells, presse and collected wildflowers, etc. My collections were in the hundresds though and quite organized. As an adult, I am drawn to psychological associations with different natural forms. It makes them even more interesting and compelling. For instance, oranges seem to me to be an ultimate round, vibrant shape of fertility. So lively! Shells strike me as a combination of momento mori (a reminder of what is left after death and that life is fleeting), and fertility symbol (historical association) - nice combination. I started interspersing man-made, unnatural imagery with objects from the natural world in a flat painterly way as a drift on my work several years ago: things like eyeglasses, dice, watches, playing cards, etc. Now I am just starting to use those images in high relief. [caption id="attachment_4798" align="aligncenter" width="200" caption=" Jeff Reich"][/caption] Jeff, how does the desert landscape influence your ceramic work? I love the desert and it's unique plants that grow only in our area of Arizona. We are fortunate to have 1& 1/3 acre that I grow many plants on that I draw. I take pictures of the plants at different times of the year to work into my glaze drawings . Most agaves, yuccas, ocotillios and thorny plants amaze me with their tenacity to grow even in the harshest environs. We get 7" of rain per year here on average, so most plants have adapted ways to survive that are unique. [caption id="attachment_4805" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Farraday Newsome "][/caption] Farraday, it looks like you are handbuilding and throwing in most of your pieces. Can you walk us through your creative process when dreaming up new pieces? Farraday: I usually turn my eye inward, relax, and imagine. When I get an inkling of an idea, I visualize it loosely in my mind's eye. I usually draw it so I won't forget the idea- sketchily changing it until it looks like it might work in three dimensions. That first inkling though - that's the magic. The rest is just fine tuning. Whether to coil build, throw, slab, pinch etc. - that's figuring out the meansof making the idea look good. [caption id="attachment_4806" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption=" Jeff Reich"][/caption] Jeff, you divide all your surfaces with such beautiful glaze windows and silhouettes of plants drawings. When did you start using glaze to define and enhance the form? In 2004 I started glazing by superimposing 2-dimensional drawings over the 3-dimensional forms. First I used crawl glazes, then I added drawings by scratching (sgraffito) through white glazes with a dental tool.

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Tell us about yourself.

I am an Associate Professor of Art and Head of the Ceramics area at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff AZ. I have taught here for the past 12 years. Before that I taught for 2 ½ years at McNeeses State University in Lake Charles, LA. I have a Bachelors Degree from Beloit College, Beloit Wisc. And an MFA from Utah State University. When and how did you discover the passion for ceramics? It was in high school at St. Paul Academy in St.Paul, MN. We were required to take art classes starting in 7^th grade and the art department at SPA was excellent. I took Printmaking, painting and ceramics. Very quickly I became enamored with ceramics. I chose a college (Beloit College) that seemed to have a good ceramics program though art was not my intended course of study. When I visited the College they were firing a wood burning kiln which I had never seen before. So, I ended up attending Beloit and over the course of 4 years decided that Ceramics was indeed what I would study and major in. We had a great time in the studio at Beloit and I knew that I wanted to pursue graduate study. I then went to Utah State University to get an MFA. How would you describe yourself and your style? I describe myself as a potter who makes work that is predominantly utilitarian or refers to utility. I am interested all aspects of ceramics, its history, traditions, processes and technologies. The vast majority of my work is fired in wood burning kilns. I enjoy the interaction between the flame/ash and clay surface. I am interested in clay color and surfaces that are largely unglazed except by the firing process. One of the hardest things for artists to do is to stand apart from everyone else. How long did it take you to come up with your own style and signature look? I think this is an ongoing process. I think it started for me in graduate school with the sets of bottles that I was making and still make. What are you showing at Plinth Gallery this month? How did you come up with the title for the show? I am showing new work at Plinth.  Tea Pots and Bottles, and Flower Bricks and Mugs, etc… They are all new ideas that have been made in the last 6 months, much of the show was fired in the past month. The work is almost all woodfired in a wood/soda kiln. It is also predominantly porcelain. You are an avid wood firer, will you explain you fascination for wood firing. I am interested in the wood fire process because of the variety of surfaces that are attainable. I have not found another way to generate surfaces that are similar or comparable. We also happen to have an extensive wood kiln facility where I teach, so I have a great many options and it is a big part of what I teach.   How would you explain your attraction for functional ceramics and does the wood ash play into your functional work? I enjoy the connection between maker and user and the idea that I am making something for a specific use. I generally make things that are intended to be fired in specific areas of the kiln. So, I take into consideration what I make and have an idea of the kind of surface that I want to achieve (crusty, shiney, glassy etc..) How do you maintain a healthy work and life balance? I try not to work at the wheel for more that 3 – 5 hours at a time and to stand up often so that I maintain a decent posture. I also tend to work in spurts, so like maybe 3 – 4 weeks of making,  then a week of firing and then a break. My job and making art keeps me pretty busy, maybe 6 days per week to take care of everything. So, perhaps its not the healthiest work/ life cycle at the moment. It is said that, in order to become renowned, an artist has to be a good self-promoter. Do you consider yourself one, and are there recipes for that? I do not consider myself to be a good self promoter. I started by entering as many national competitions as possible in grad school and in the few years after. From this my work was published a number of times in Ceramics Monthly, Art and Perception and Ceramics Technical. I have also written for magazines, organized conferences/symposia and have been on panel discussions at the annual NCECA Conference. So I’ve just tried to be as active as I can in the field. What do you love most about your studio? That its at school and that I am an active part of our school/studio community. What advice can you give aspiring artists struggling to find their own voice and look? I tell them to look at as much work by as many people as possible. Take workshops, get as many perspectives as possible. Above all, make lots of work and fire it as well as stand back and think about what they are making and why. It mostly perseverance to succeed in ceramics.  

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The show is titled ‘Gestating” and it’s going to be a bit of a mix. I am showing some of my favorite porcelain pieces that I’ve saved back over the past year as well as some brand new terra cotta pots.

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What advice can you give aspiring artists struggling to find their own voice and look?

I've heard this before too -- don't pick up any art magazines or even the internet -- or youtube -- that practice can then begin to put blinders on you....however, i did just that in college starting out --- I think it helped see the range of possibilities, but it did immediately set me in a 'track' -- it is then important to be able to consciously get out of it and make new work...so there is a balance...I occasionally read something, but I try to look at a broad range of work -- not just ceramic based...in retrospect, I think I've always been more interested in looking at non-ceramic objects and imagine the transition from that object into clay and then the possibilities come to mind...

Museums are a very good thing -- but simply put -- just be curious about the world around you and follow your instincts.

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Over the last few months Vasi and I have frequently emailed each other and it has been a great pleasure getting to know him.  A few weeks ago I got the brilliant idea to feature the man behind the scenes of Ceramics Now and I was thrilled that he accepted.  Without further ado, here is Vasi Hîrdo’s interview! 

Vasi also writes a blog, where he writes about ceramics, contemporary art and music. www.vasihirdo.com

[caption id="attachment_4210" align="aligncenter" width="231" caption="The first issue of Ceramics Now with Arthur Gonzalez on the cover. "][/caption]

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I'm also passionate about contemporary art, magazines, design, architecture, cycling, equestrianism and lots more. There are also a number of amazing people who inspire me, like Dragos Bucurenci, Cristian Lupsa, or the staff at ColectivA.

[caption id="attachment_4194" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="From left to right: Vlad Rus, Radu Ariesan, Cora Pojaru, Vasi Hirdo"][/caption]

You have come such a long ways at such a young age, what is your next project and where do you see yourself in ten years?

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[caption id="attachment_4202" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Vasi Hirdo in the summer of 2011. Background: Untitled work"][/caption]

What advice would you give to ceramic artists trying to get published?

 They should email us. We are a young and passionate team and surely they will find a good friend in us.

It is important for an artist to have his works seen by creative people, or by people who are looking for inspiration and motivation. That is why I encourage all the artists to first establish an internet presence, then to seek for publishers.

[caption id="attachment_4203" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="From the reception of Ceramics Now Exhibition."][/caption]

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Editor at Ceramics Now Magazine www.ceramicsnow.org.

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Make what you want to make not what you think you should make. Let it come out, don't think about it too much.  Art is another language, not one of words and ideas.

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What keeps you motivated?


I think being a self-employed anything requires a certain kind of personality, an inner drive. I strive to continue to be a studio potter, so how to do that (and pay the bills) is on-going motivation.

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What are the similarities and differences between Obamaware and the Handmade For Japan fundraiser?

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I’ve noticed that the pots in your postcards have always been in “action”. Was this the start of the pots in action idea.
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The idea of “Pots in Action” Rondimen FOR SALE, started with postcards, moved on to the website where I asked people to send in pictures of my pots in use, then expanded into using Google maps to plot the pictures, and finally has been explored via the new match striker video. Combining a modern medium like video with a timeless phenomenon like fire makes us see ceramics differently. We all know in the ceramics community how amazing pots are, so the charge now is to turn on handmade pottery to the rest of the world.

What advice can you give aspiring artists struggling to find their own voice and look.
Reflection is great, but good work doesn’t come from a lot of thought alone, so work every single day whether you want to or not. And don’t forget to turn off the cell phone, iphone, ipad, tv, computer, etc…and now if I could just listen to my own advice…

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 You have achieved quite a remarkable synthesis of form and surface. How do you decide which form merits which words, Chicago, Illinois. Houston, Texas. -JK

I think of my forms as a canvas to decorate.  But, as I’ve been making work for specific functions I try to think of words for specific forms. 

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The words on my pots are snippets of conversation.  Sometimes with myself, sometimes overheard, sometimes mantras I say to myself, Modafinil from canadian pharmacy, they are all part of my life somehow.  In one of my pieces, I was thinking about my Father.  He was in the early stages of Alzheimer, Modafinil coupon, as time went on I started to see how he was forgetting so much of his life.  I made a piece that said, “This is How Much I Remember.  This is How Much I Forgot.”  Since my Dad was just at the beginning stages of Alzheimer’s I put the line just off center.

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 I go full blast for months then I stop.  Then go back to full blast again.  But definitely I would not be able to what I do without my wonderful husband, Farmacia Modafinil baratos, Modafinil online kaufen, Todd.  He supports me totally and completely.  Right now my schedule is I come home from work, spend time with my family and then I go to my studio around 8:30 PM and work until 1 or 2:00 AM, and then I get up at 6:00 AM for work.  I wouldn’t be able to do what I do without the help of my husband.  I know when I have a deadline this schedule is not the healthiest for me or anyone who comes within my a hundred yards of me.  When I don’t have a deadline looming, I try to go to bed earlier.  But I am a natural night owl.  And when I’m in my studio I’m always wide awake.  Sometimes I am thankful that I have regular job to keep me in the daylight or I might totally start living the graveyard shift. 

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My greatest satisfaction comes from thoroughly filling surfaces with color and finely detailed decoration.  My decorations start with the lettering since it is done while the piece is leather hard and the rest of the decoration is finished during glazing.  Decoration and the act of decorating are essential because it celebrates and enhances form and speaks purely of aesthetics.  I use pottery as a vehicle to explore decoration and other formal questions.  It allows me to investigate form, space and image. 

I know you work with “hormonally challenged” kids, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Las Vegas, Nevada, so to speak. How do you communicate the importance of a visual education when there are so many outside influences that perhaps seem to be more important in their minds. Modafinil 125mg, -JK

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What do you do to re-charge and re-in vigor your own creative energies. -JK Modafinil FOR SALE, I love going to workshops!  When it was just the two of us, I would go to two week long workshops all over.  But now with a family I find it harder to get away for long period of time.  (Should say, I don’t want to go for as long.)  Now I look for shorter workshops. 

The big thing I do now to re-charge my creative energies is write my blog.  I started the artist interviews, instead of running around the country taking workshops.  I still get to interact and learn from other artists.

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Tell us a little about yourself!

I was born in Japan, and have been lucky enough study pottery in Tokoname for a summer.  My Mom is Japanese and has nine brothers and sisters.  I have a bigger family in Japan than I do here in the US!    Two and half years ago my husband and I adopted our son from Ethiopia.  Now I am so lucky to have two amazing kings of my heart.  I have a very international family.  My husband’s sisters are married to Brit and Australian. I teach junior high school students in a very large school, I am one of 5 art teachers. 

How did you become an artist? 

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Both my parents have always worked with their hands; my Dad was a gun smith always maintained a shop in very house we lived in.  My Mom always sewed our clothes, knitted, crocheted, made bread, and she was an avid Tole painter.  Although my parents weren’t what you would call artists, making things was a way of life for us.  I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t making something. 

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It took me a long time to find a “style” and I feel like I am still learning and figuring out what is my artist voice.  But I guess I would describe my style as decorative.  When text first jumped onto my work, I was only making very large vessels.  (I still like to make them; I make a lot work now that masquerades as functional.)  As I made these vessels I thought about aesthetics and the act of decorating. As I moved into making objects that seem to have a function the idea of decorating was still the main focus of my work.  When I was in college I was a mixed media sculptor, Modafinil from mexico, and narrative was very important to me.  One as I was thinking of making some pots, the idea of narrative came to mind.  I have always love texture; the narrative became texture, Australia, uk, us, usa, with a glimpse of my private thoughts.

What keeps you motivated? Modafinil FOR SALE, I’ve always love the quote from Tim Rollins, “It’s not passion, it’s a deadline.” I definitely work well under pressure.  Although I love my time in the studio, I have so many distractions that I can easily be pulled away.  So I make sure I always have something to work towards, to make sure I am in the studio at all hours of the night.  I try to make sure I am in my studio every day, some days I work for hours without even noticing how much time has passed, and sometimes I just go to my studio to look around, clean up, and gather my thoughts. 

Are you a full-time artist. How do you come up with your creations. Can you walk us through your creative process when dreaming up new pieces?

No I am not a full-time studio artist to make my living.  But I do consider myself a full time artist, since I teach, order Modafinil from mexican pharmacy, breathe, dream, Modafinil 200mg, art. 

All my work is slab construction.  Often times my process starts with an idea, but I have to dream up a way to make it.  So I will sketch out my idea, and then make patterns in paper to see how the form works.  Sometimes I think, I have this down, Austin, Texas, Memphis, Tennessee, and I go to make a new shape without all the preplanning, then I usually have a really bad night in my studio. 

What or who inspires you?

Thomas Hart Benton and Gustav Klimt.

How do you maintain a healthy work and life balance?

I definitely don’t have a balance. I am a full time art teacher at a public school, a three year old, and I’m trying to be a professional artist, I am definitely pulled from all directions. 

 I go full blast for months then I stop.  Then go back to full blast again.  But definitely I would not be able to what I do without my wonderful husband, Todd.  He supports me totally and completely. 

You, like most people enjoy the process of making and didn't get into it for the sake of "business". But eventually you found yourself having to make the transition from artist to a businessperson. What have you learned so far and what advice can you give others in the same situation?

I have learned the business of art through trial and error.  And I still don’t really do the” business” part yet.  But I do keep my resume and portfolios updated and have a website, blog and Facebook page.  I’m not fond of doing the business end of being an artist.  I generally take time off from the studio, when I apply for solo shows, juried shows and fellowships; I try to get a bunch of applications and then do them all at once. 

What advice can you give aspiring artists struggling to find their own voice and look?

Go to you studio and work and work and work!  Try 10 or 20 variations to an idea, keep pushing an idea.  Don’t just stop at making one, work in a series.  So often I hear people say, “This summer I’ll make art.”  When I retire, I’m make art.”  When my kids get older I’ll make art.”  If you want to make art, just do it.  I do miss TV, socializing, and shopping.  (and many other activities)  I have whittled down my life to what is important to me, (family, art, work.)  But unfortunately I still don’t have it down or balanced.  And I feel like I miss out on a lot, but I am doing what I love.  Thank you Todd for all that you do for me! You are the love of my life!  We have the most incredible family.

 

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How do you manage being a Father and artist? 

Being a parent, and a teacher, cheap Ambien (Brand) no rx, and a husband, and an artist, can be a challenge!  Luckily I have a wife who is very supportive and doesn’t mind me being shackled to the drawing board.  My son and daughter love to draw and paint, so we have these little jam sessions where we all sit at the kitchen table and work on our art together, which is a fun bonding experience.  But it is a struggle of balance all things in life and still be productive.

What advice can you give aspiring artists struggling to find their own voice and look?

I look at art the way I look at music.  Most bands start out aping their favorite bands and over time they develop into their own band with their own style.  Nick Derington, a comic book artist and animator, once told me to stand on the shoulder of giants.  Meaning, look at the past and all of the great work that has come before; look to them for inspiration and use them as a foundation to build your own style upon.

This is the cover to Kidnapping Kevin Smith. Art by comic book legends Mike and Laura Allred.

If you are interested in ordering a book,  contact Chad at blakely737@bresnan.net. Or order from your local comic shop this June!

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