Morbid Tendencies at TAP (Tacoma Art Place)—Tacoma, Washington

AUGUST 2011

I’ve been helping out at TAP (at 1116 South 11th Street, in Tacoma) since this Spring, originally helping them use their kiln, and now they want me to suggest some events for November, which will be Art At Work Month. Have lots of ideas but haven’t decided which to actually recommend. I can run demos, hold classes, have Artist Working Studio time, have a party, a fundraiser, anything at all, the sky is the limit! VERY exciting! I really want to do a raku firing, which is WAY showy and crowd-pleasing. I am thinking a class event where we make bistro chairs out of champers cages (what do we do with ALL this CHAMPERS?), a mud class for kids where we fling balls of clay off the wheel and go for distance, oh, got a ton of notions. And a Frankenbunny Workshop!

Email me if you have suggestions I haven’t mentioned there, or if any of them really grab ya.

 
I’ve also been firing some clay pieces of my own in TAP’s kiln. Here’s a quick gallery, starting with a dragon (before and after):

Then there’s this trio which are still in the works—a stingray, a hatchling, and a, uh, feline thing of some sort:

And a hippocampus study I’ve been working on, which I’ll be glazing sometime in August. It’s shown here in stages of its development:

Plus some of my stuff is on show (the critters on the table, specifically):