Watch this video about Arlene Shechet who is a contemporary artist working with clay. Use the handout to help you create an Art 21 sketchbook assignment. You will create a 1 page VISUAL JOURNAL profile in response to the work of your selected artist.
Here is some more info about Arlene Shechet from the art 21 website:
art21.org/watch/art-in-the-twenty-first-century/s7/arlene-shechet-in-secrets-segment/
Arlene Shechet is curious about the obscured origins of industrial objects, folding clues about production processes into her handcrafted ceramic sculptures. With their hollow interiors often hidden from view, Shechet’s sturdy clay vessels disguise their true nature through dazzling surface effects and the illusion of solidity.
For her exhibition Meissen Recast at the RISD Museum in Providence, Shechet juxtaposes her reproductions of original Meissen factory molds made during a residency at the Meissen Manufactory in Germany next to the original Meissen porcelain dating back to the 18th century, revealing the usually hidden industrial roots of those objects.
art21.org/watch/art-in-the-twenty-first-century/s7/arlene-shechet-in-secrets-segment/
Arlene Shechet is curious about the obscured origins of industrial objects, folding clues about production processes into her handcrafted ceramic sculptures. With their hollow interiors often hidden from view, Shechet’s sturdy clay vessels disguise their true nature through dazzling surface effects and the illusion of solidity.
For her exhibition Meissen Recast at the RISD Museum in Providence, Shechet juxtaposes her reproductions of original Meissen factory molds made during a residency at the Meissen Manufactory in Germany next to the original Meissen porcelain dating back to the 18th century, revealing the usually hidden industrial roots of those objects.