Attritional Yeast
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2022-05
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The following is a supporting document for my ceramic art MFA thesis exhibition in the Turner Gallery at Alfred University in April of 2022. The purpose of this document is to articulate the language that my work uses to communicate my ideas, interests, and experiences. I will describe the actions that are necessary to my process and how the challenges that I have when working with materials offer new insight to what the work will become. I touch on how the work is received and explain ideas embedded in the finished work. I then move into a stream of consciousness and a poem, a list of books and artists that have influenced me in the last two years, as well as a technical section entailing details important to my process. I would like to thank the Alfred University School of Art and Design graduating classes of 2021, 2022 and 2023, the entire ceramic art faculty: Jonathan Hopp, Matt Kelleher, Walter McConnell, Linda Sikora, and Adero Willard; and big thanks to Jenni Sorkin, Meghan Smythe, Wayne Higby, John Gill, Keith Simpson, Shawn Murrey and Hannah Thompsett who all helped me with sound advice and generous support along the way.
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Thesis completed in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Fine Arts degree in the School of Art and Design at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY.
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MFA thesis, Ceramic sculpture, Art, Abstract, Molds