One Year Ago

Progress seems to happen soooo slowly, and I often feel like I haven't improved much at all.  However, I started thinking about where I was last year, and actually a LOT has happened.

Exactly one year ago, I was days away from getting married!  I hadn't touched clay in months, due to other jobs and the whole wedding planning thing.  I wouldn't do any serious clay work for another couple of months after.

In the last year (after the wedding), I did the following:

-Traveled to Japan and Taiwan for the first time 

-Developed and created over a dozen one and two-part plaster molds for my slipcast designs 

-Experimented with and figured out glazes for the designs 

-Had a sculpture juried into a show for the first time! 

-Got juried into and participated in my first art fair, Artsfest 

-Experimented with pit firing 

-Organized and held a two-week gallery show with Callie, our first since graduating from the Hood Ceramics Graduate Certificate program.  We plan to make this an annual show. 

-Set up my Etsy shop 

-Oh yeah--started this blog!

Wow. The amount of work that went into each one of those things... I guess I'm so impatient to improve that I forget how much I'm learning.  Where will I be in another year?

Right now I am on my way to a cabin in the Shenandoah for an anniversary weekend getaway with Ray :]  He's the one who inspired me to pursue my dreams, and who still inspires me every day.  So I guess a better question is "Where will we be in a year?"  I can't wait to find out!