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Item FORM, SURFACE AND NARRATIVE: EXPERIMENTS IN SURFACE TREATMENT ON NARRATIVE HAND SIZE SCULPTURES(2021-11-19) King, Carolyn; Martinsen, Chaz; Muller, Kristin; Bradford, Rebecca; Hood College Department of Art and Archaeology; Ceramic Arts (MFA)After creating life-sized sculpture work(s) with a major focus on form and anatomy for my Certificate Exhibit in 2015, I began work on my MFA. I continued working with life size figurative sculptures, refining my sculpting skills and experimenting with a number of new finishes. The increased detail of the forms combined with the new surface treatments resulted in more interesting work and more intentional storytelling. The results were encouraging but the process was slow. To speed up the process, I scaled down my sculptures to a hand-held size. These smaller forms allowed me to leverage my background in both puppetry and theater - expanding my storytelling by simplifying the form to be less life-like but more expressive. This gave fuel to further experimentation. To finish these forms, I needed a more flexible and reliable palate of color, texture and sheen that could be used to develop a multi layered surface and a painterly aesthetic. This led to the rigorous process of experimentation with Terra Sigillata, mason stains, oxides and various finishing washes and slips. The resulting finishes became my surface treatment toolkit and can be seen in my finished work. This thesis is a presentation and explanation my process with examples of individual finished sculptures.Item Love Letter Part I: Connecting with Nature(2024-05-17) Catalina Maria Chiquillo; Natalia Kormeluk; Hood College Art and Archeology; Ceramics ArtsPeople are influenced by the connections they make with their environment. Indigenous teachings encourage relationships with all living things based on responsibility, respect, reciprocity, kinship, love, peace, compassion, gratitude, and harmony. Contemporary psychologists have established that spending time in nature substantially alters a person’s life and well-being. This project identifies the importance of interdependency between humans and the natural world and uses ceramic vessels to inspire viewers to connect with nature. Through adjustments made in the type of clay, the glaze, and the firing cycles, the forms and carvings on my vessels remind viewers of the ongoing dialogue with our environment. Findings are discussed by developing cone six and cone ten temperatures within the same firing. Through clay and the wood firing process, the vessels highlight the beauty of nature with its complex forms and bring attention to fundamental indigenous precepts, contemporary psychological research, and the importance of connecting with Mother Earth.