Marie E.v.B. Gibbons on wed 8 nov 06
Hi all... I would like some suggestions from those who would like to
offer
I am putting together a workshop series to run at my new studio
(www.evbstudio.com)
It is to be called (I think) "Clay Pages" and the premise (not totally
worked through the text on this yet) that we will meet once a week,
listening to a book on tape and working on sculptural clay pieces that
are narrative in nature and inspired by something in the story, a
character, an object a place.....
I am looking for suggestions of books that are well written, inspiring
through the written / spoken word and that will provoke individual
ideas for sculptural pieces.
so... any takers on suggestions? you can email me off list (or on
doesn't matter to me)
thanks
marie gibbons
www.evbstudio.com
www.mariegibbons.com
I am always doing things I can't do, that is how I get to do them.
--Pablo Picasso
CURRENT AND UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
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Marcia Selsor on wed 8 nov 06
Mary, denver is too far away.
Sounds like a great get together.
Marcia Selsor
http://marciaselsor.com
On Nov 8, 2006, at 6:10 PM, Marie E.v.B. Gibbons wrote:
> Hi all... I would like some suggestions from those who would like to
> offer
> I am putting together a workshop series to run at my new studio
> (www.evbstudio.com)
> It is to be called (I think) "Clay Pages" and the premise (not
> totally
> worked through the text on this yet) that we will meet once a week,
> listening to a book on tape and working on sculptural clay pieces that
> are narrative in nature and inspired by something in the story, a
> character, an object a place.....
> I am looking for suggestions of books that are well written, inspiring
> through the written / spoken word and that will provoke individual
> ideas for sculptural pieces.
> so... any takers on suggestions? you can email me off list (or on
> doesn't matter to me)
>
> thanks
> marie gibbons
> www.evbstudio.com
> www.mariegibbons.com
> I am always doing things I can't do, that is how I get to do them.
> --Pablo Picasso
>
> CURRENT AND UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
>
> JANUARY:
> The Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, CO
Marcia Selsor
http://marciaselsor.com
Kathy Forer on thu 9 nov 06
On Nov 8, 2006, at 7:10 PM, Marie E.v.B. Gibbons wrote:
> I am putting together a workshop series to run at my new studio
> (www.evbstudio.com)
> It is to be called (I think) "Clay Pages" and the premise (not
> totally
> worked through the text on this yet) that we will meet once a week,
> listening to a book on tape and working on sculptural clay pieces that
> are narrative in nature and inspired by something in the story, a
> character, an object a place.....
> I am looking for suggestions of books that are well written, inspiring
> through the written / spoken word and that will provoke individual
> ideas for sculptural pieces.
Sounds good!
One of my favorite tales is Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin.
One night, Peter Lake attempts to
rob a fortress-like mansion on the
Upper West Side. Though he thinks
the house is empty, the daughter of
the house is home.
---
A burglar finds himself flung one
century into the future in this 1983
bestseller. It's a big, broad, sweeping
fantastical work of such shimmering
beauty, clarity, and exhilarating use of
language that the "inner eye is stunned,"
Publishers Weekly wrote.
It's a story of bridges and water, snow, ice, sleds, horses, and much
more.
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be available as an audiobook except
through library readings to visually handicapped (see bookshare.org).
But if it's a group, you could take turns reading aloud.
Narrative is just another way to structure naturalism, and there are
infinite approaches to how it's determined, why make it be a
representation or imitation of someone else's story? Let it be an
individual thing.
Everyone has stories to tell even those who like me would as likely
drown in a pickle barrel than be able to tell a proper good story. I
can rarely get the words in their proper order and even then tend
more toward verbal commentary than plot lines but images, action and
subtext seem pretty clear to me. And clay gives latitude to push
their form and reveal what the story is trying to say.
All kinds of stories, dreams, memories, events, movies are rife for
pillaging. No need to judge them as unimaginative, extraneous or
banal, put enough together and they can make a sense, reveal myths.
Or drama. Or morality. Or economics.
Vignettes of your workshoppers lives. How the light hit the fence
when the cat snagged in the rabbit. What it was like to get the
bottle from the milkman. The ridge where you broke your leg and
waited two hours to be rescued. Encourage your Clay Pages to talk
their stories perhaps, sewing circle style, embroidering and
enhancing, but let the tales be all their own.
--
Kathy Forer
http://www.foreverink.com
"In this kind of a world," Peterson said, "absurd if you will,
possibilities nevertheless proliferate and escalate all around us and
there are opportunities for beginning again. I am a minor artist and
my dealer won't even display my work if he can help it but minor is
as minor does and lightning may strike even yet. Don't be reconciled.
Turn off your television sets," Peterson said, "cash in your life
insurance, indulge in a mindless optimism. Visit girls at dusk. Play
the guitar. How can you be alienated without ever having been
connected? Think back and remember how it was." -- Donald Barthelme,
A Shower of Gold, 1964
Sandy Miller on thu 9 nov 06
Hi Marie,
I have turned to some very good children's book to listen too. Here is the list I have hanging on the wall in my studio.
A Wind in the Door or anything by Madeleine L'Engle
The Journal of Eleanor Druse by Eleanor Druse
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Ranger series by John Flanagan
Fly by Night by Frances Harding
The Sands of Time by Michael Hoeye (excellent)
The Bartimas Trilogy by Jonathon Stroud (also excellent)
The Wizrd Series by Diane Duane
The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer (my husband even enjoyed this one!)
Artemis Fowl by E. Colfer
Janet Evanovich series..........the characters are just a hoot!
All the Fannie Flag books have very rich charcters
And for those needing visual candy I am currently drooling over two books by
Rob Kesseler and Wolfgang Stuppy SEEDS & POLLEN WOW!! these books
are incredible!! If you are a ceramic artist and exploring form take a look at these
two books
Happy listening!
Sandy Miller
www.sandymillerpottery.com
"Marie E.v.B. Gibbons" wrote:
Hi all... I would like some suggestions from those who would like to
offer
I am putting together a workshop series to run at my new studio
(www.evbstudio.com)
It is to be called (I think) "Clay Pages" and the premise (not totally
worked through the text on this yet) that we will meet once a week,
listening to a book on tape and working on sculptural clay pieces that
are narrative in nature and inspired by something in the story, a
character, an object a place.....
I am looking for suggestions of books that are well written, inspiring
through the written / spoken word and that will provoke individual
ideas for sculptural pieces.
so... any takers on suggestions? you can email me off list (or on
doesn't matter to me)
thanks
marie gibbons
www.evbstudio.com
www.mariegibbons.com
I am always doing things I can't do, that is how I get to do them.
--Pablo Picasso
CURRENT AND UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
JANUARY:
The Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, CO
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Roly Beevor on fri 10 nov 06
Marie
I suggest Roald Dahl. Perhaps, "The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me" read by
Hugh Laurie.
Not too long, wonderful imagery (and book illustrated by Quentin Blake) and
evokes an anything is possible mood.
Roly Beevor
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