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    for the love of art | Pop Up Show at the studio

    Join Us for a Valentine’s popup show at the studio Saturday February 10th from 12-6

    For the Love of Art - Pop Up Show at the studio | the dirt | Jenni Ward ceramic sculptureArtists:
    Nora Dougherty with work.shop.- a mobile gallery | metaphoric jewelry. quality stick and stones.

    Kachina Schoos of Field Notes Farm & Studio | artisanal handmade soaps. all natural- all the time.

    Jenni Ward of Earth Art Studio | ceramic sculpture for the home & heart.

    make a valentine, toast marshmallows by the fire, join us!

    Mission Industrial Art Studios
    2523 C Mission St
    westside of Santa Cruz, just off Swift St.

    Free Shipping February!

    Free Shipping February! | the dirt | Jenni Ward ceramic sculpture

    Hey Guess What?!?

    It’s FREE SHIPPING FEBRUARY!!!

    Use offer code lovefreeshipping at check out all month long for free shipping on all artwork in the online shop. This only happens once a year, so pick out something for your sweetie or yourself and the shipping’s on me!

    Start shopping now…

    Offer is only good online, US only from Feb 1 – 28th 2018

    New Video: Work in Progress

    I’ve been working on an installation of my Rock Candy Series for my upcoming solo show at the Grants Pass Museum of Art and thought I’d share a little video of the process. I made 100+ of these rocks, glazed them in a variety of bright colors and they will be installed in a ribbon of them wrapping around a wall in a section of the gallery interspersed with photos of them as they were installed ‘in the field’ at Joshua Tree National Park. I love how they start out as these lumpy potato shapes and end up angular and sharp – they’re just begging to be touched!

    Article Share: Why Ceramic Artists Are So Good at Dealing with Failure

    I wanted to share with you an article by Casey Lesser of Artsy called ‘Why Ceramic Artists Are So Good at Dealing with Failure’, this article rang so true with me and I’m sure with so many other clay artists.

    A long time ago, I wrote a blog post about a studio shelf filled with finished work falling down spontaneously and taking out all the work I’d placed on it along with everything on the table below that it fell on- that happened about 2 weeks before an Open Studio event. I’ve also had instances where I pulled a beautiful piece out of the kiln, placed it carefully on the table and then promptly caught my jacket on the edge of the table, making the piece wobble and fall right off onto the floor. Not to mention all the explosions, cracks, glaze failures and everything else that can go wrong with ceramics.

    Article Share: Why Ceramic Artists Are So Good at Dealing with Failure | the dirt | Jenni Ward ceramic sculpture

    I think it’s important to share the failures as well as the successes in the process of making art. And the potential for everything to go wrong in the process of working with clay makes for a love/hate relationship for sure but I think that’s exactly what keeps me coming back to it.

    Work In Progress: New Series

    This series is so new, it still doesn’t have a name yet but I’m pretty excited to share the process of what’s been happening with these pieces. It all started with this video of stretching out the clay pieces and forming the rings. Once they were bisque fired, I started playing with them all on my studio floor to create intriguing compositions. I finally decided that these guys are going to have to go up on the wall so I busted out the diamond bits for my dremel tool and started drilling. I burned through quite a few bits in the process and pretty much immediately regretted not planning ahead and putting the holes in while they were leather hard but now the holes are in and I’m going to glaze these up and get them in the kiln.

    More to come…Work In Progress: New Series | the dirt | Jenni Ward ceramic sculpture