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Hope

My former student, Jamaal Eversley, a painter, actor and community arts coordinator, invited me to collaborate with him for an exhibit with several of his artist friends called Real F.R.I.E.N.D.S., at the Beacon Gallery, Boston, this past September and October 2020. I met Jamaal at Babson College, when I ran the ceramic program for students […]

My former student, Jamaal Eversley, a painter, actor and community arts coordinator, invited me to collaborate with him for an exhibit with several of his artist friends called Real F.R.I.E.N.D.S., at the Beacon Gallery, Boston, this past September and October 2020. I met Jamaal at Babson College, when I ran the ceramic program for students from Babson, Wellesley and Olin Colleges. Several of these students were Jamaal’s collaborators in this exhibit at Beacon Gallery with their multi-medias. Eversley sat for his portrait in my studio, before Covid-19 broke out, as I created him in terra cotta clay. He was my art director throughout. He had plans to have his portrait holding canvases of collaged photo paintings of Martin Luther King, Jr. and another canvas photo painting of the Women’s March. Another collaborator friend, Melissa Shaak, another artist in the show, created a documentary of my process from clay to finished sculpture, with dynamic film footage of Martin Luther King and his follows within a moving meaningful documentary, that spoke to our times. Because of Covid-19, and the need to work from a distance, Eversley took the sculpture to his studio, and painted the clothing with acrylic, instead of the underglaze originally planned. https://vimeo.com/454082486 (the documentary of this piece and it's significance)

Suzanne Pemsler-Puppet Divas

For the Clay Studio, Philadelphia, and their exhibit “100 Years 100 Women” 50 artists were invited to create 2 portrait plates each, to commemorate this 100th anniversary of the constitutional amendment giving women voting rights. Choosing 2 noteworthy performing artist friends, I created portrait plates of each: Viola da Gamba and Cello musician, Shirley Hunt; […]

For the Clay Studio, Philadelphia, and their exhibit “100 Years 100 Women” 50 artists were invited to create 2 portrait plates each, to commemorate this 100th anniversary of the constitutional amendment giving women voting rights. Choosing 2 noteworthy performing artist friends, I created portrait plates of each: Viola da Gamba and Cello musician, Shirley Hunt; and Lyric-Soprano Opera Singer/ Puppeteer, Suzanne Pemsler, who created her puppets as well. They were delightful to work with, as I made each my art director to be sure I represented them to the best of my ability. Involving them throughout the process, from a safe distance by phone, with email and photos send back and forth, we were constantly in touch, and smiling.

My Della Rob-Baby

After an inspiring exhibition at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts on Della Robbia’s work, in 2016, I tried to figure out how I might work in this Majolica technique. Having just become a grandmother, as you can see in this image. I painted a brown underglaze into the details. After bisque firing, majolica glaze […]

After enjoying an inspiring exhibition at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts on Della Robbia's work in 2016, I tried to figure out how I might work in this Majolica technique—having just become a grandmother, as seen in this image. I painted a brown underglaze into the details. After bisque firing, majolica glaze colors were applied, and I scratched away at the details to reveal the brown line. I love the majolica process, as you can see what you are doing the whole time instead of covering the underglaze colors with clear glaze.

My Family Odyssey: Voyage on the S.S. Finland to America

The image on the tile, made first then cast in plaster, helps to tell my Family Odyssey story. Notice the back of the boys jacket has the image of the bas-relief. When I create clay sculptures I often start with a tile, a bas-relief, to figure out my idea, my sketch. Then use it to […]

The image on the tile, made first then cast in plaster, helps to tell my Family Odyssey story. Notice the back of the boys jacket has the image of the bas-relief. When I create clay sculptures I often start with a tile, a bas-relief, to figure out my idea, my sketch. Then use it to tell my story, with a detail to enjoy from the back. This piece was asked of me, to commemorate members of my Temple Beth Elohim Synagogue, who, like me, had relatives who immigrated to America. I decided to honor my Dad, as he arrived at Ellis Island as a boy of 3, alone with his Mom, my grandmother, leading the way off the Red Starline SS Finland, a ship coming from Antwerp, Belgium. Sadly I never met my Grandfather, who passed away in the old country, so I created him too, with my Dad symbolically riding on his shoulders, arriving with his wife and son, holding the violin. That violin was played by my Dad, most days before and after work to wake us up, and encouraged me, with my singing Mom, to take up music, as a singer.

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Artaxis Organization Inc. 2005-2025

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