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Erin Shafkind | Episode 1218
Erin Shafkind is an artist, writer, and educator living in Seattle, WA. Erin studied art and earned a BA and teaching certificate at California State University, Humboldt and received an MFA from Lesley University’s College of Art and Design in Boston. Erin has been teaching art in Seattle Public Schools since 1998. These days Erin hand-builds and throws on the pottery wheel using stoneware and porcelain and occasionally works with earthenware clay bodies. Erin writes about art and artists for national magazines and local galleries.
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I’m curious about the impact of NCECA and I wonder how do you think NCECA will impact your teaching?
How will NCECA impact my teaching? And I want to say too, that the letters the National Council for the Education on Ceramic Arts might we say in those letters, right? Just in case there’s a listener who doesn’t know what NCECA does. I took a bunch of photographs to share with students, but I’m going to try to make a very short slide show. I will try my best to share with students, the incredible community that’s out there, the field that is out there, and that there are so many different ways to be a part of it.
How about your studio practice? Do you think anything will actually change in your in your home studio?
Yeah, I I believe I’ll have a little bit more organization because of some of the tools I bought there.
How about relationships? How do you think NCECA enriches relationships?
Oh, and this is a really important one. I’m friends with Laura Souyoultzis from the Washington clay Arts Association and I was talking with several people who do board work, people who’ve been on the board of Watershed, people who’ve been on the board of NCECA… I’m interested in the potential of participating on a board, because we all have something to contribute.
So you look at this is a great way to discover opportunities?
Absolutely, I met someone who’s going from the board of Studio Potter to the board of NCECA. I don’t know if I can say the name, so I won’t.
So with that in mind, how do you think that your horizons have been broadened?
By being open to possibility, always trying to be open to possibility.
Do you think the world is a better place because of the work of NCECA?
1,000,000% yes! Not only is the world a better place, every time someone touches clay and I know there’s all kinds of digital, technological ways that we’re experiencing the material, but we still have to touch this medium, Right? We then get a little bit more connected to the earth. So we’re better, and the earth is better.
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The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
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I believe a teacher panel would be a great idea (count me in). As a 30 year art teacher, I know that we’ve helped many students and art is in make cases the one reason they come to school. High school teachers have a huge impact AND middle and elementary art teachers.