Byline: Adam Ponce and Emily Hernandez
We followed students in Santa Ana College’s ceramics program to uncover what has been going on in their studio since classes resumed last semester.
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Students of varying levels were actively working on projects such as hand sculpting, wheel throwing, and slipcasting.
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“The Butterfly Project is a much larger project where I’m gonna have a mound of basically dead butterflies, coming out of the Rio Grande, which is the river that you cross, which I crossed as well,” said Gonzalez.
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The ceramics studio is a safe place for all those enrolled in the program. It fosters a community for creating wonderful art that speaks volumes. It’s no easy feat to create these pieces, they require hours of molding, shaping, and attention.
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“We are so vulnerable with what we’re putting out. I think we are all trying to communicate something,” said Anderson.
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From the pottery wheel or sculpted by hand, each piece goes into the kiln, and sits on the finished wares shelf before finding a home. Whether that be waiting to be sold in the ceramics sale, or awaiting critique for midterms and finals.
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