Mushroom Mug Maker | Haven Tunin | Episode 785

Haven Tunin | Episode 785

Haven Tunin is a ceramic artist located in Franklin, Indiana. Haven currently attends Franklin College where she is a ceramics major. Haven hopes to have a studio of her own once she graduates. In her work Haven focuses on capturing textures seen in nature, and she also has a line of work focusing on female anatomy.

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At what point did you know you were a creative person?

I think in high school I started taking art classes and I really enjoyed it. I mean I wasn’t necessarily good but there was this need inside me to create and I feel like there’s this urge that comes over me and it forces me to go out and do these things that I might not necessarily want to do. The other night I was sitting at home and I was bored and there was this thought in my head. Go to the studio and make a giant sculpture. And it keep replaying over and over until I went and did that. So I think there’s a force inside me that makes me be creative and want to produce work. Not that it’s necessarily me, but some part of me that is forcing myself to do creative stuff.

Do you think creativity is based upon inspiration or do you think it’s based upon perspiration?

Yeah, it’s based on inspiration, I think it’s just like getting started doing whatever creative process you are doing and you don’t even have to have that much motivation to get started but once you get started I think the creative energy flows through you and you are able to create something beautiful.

Do you have any practices that you have to put yourself in the proper mindset of being a good maker?

So actually in the book that I am going to suggest it tells you to do this thing called morning pages. So what you do is you wake up every morning and you write three pages. It doesn’t matter what it is. You are not going to be reading it again so it can be misspelled or no punctuation and I just think writing those out it makes you think of ideas that you didn’t have before and it kind of just gets rid of the fog in your brain. And I think that’s important because if you sit with this fog in your brain and you think, I have to create this and this is what it should look like. You are not going to be able to let yourself create the way you should.

Is it important for you to be around creative people in order for you to be more creative?

Oh especially. That’s why I love being in my community studio because I do get to see what everyone else is creating and it does push me to want to create something better or it gives more ideas. I think if you exclude yourself from the artistic community you are not going to experience all the things that you could.

Do you think higher education is important to develop creativity or do you think it’s just important to have dedicated time to work on your creativity?

I think higher education is definitely super beneficial. Going back to when I was a freshman and I hated college I wanted to dropout because I was like, Oh, I can create art on my own. I would have so much free time to do that. Being in a college where you have the studio space available, I think that’s super important. and is helpful, especially being able to have critiques. I think that’s very beneficial to you work as well.