Robbie Heidinger

I love these cups..they are so very beautiful to look at! All the elements seem so well balanced..the lines, the textures, the colors that were added, all fit together so wonderfully!! I would love to be able to serve guests drinks in these, what show off items they would be! I bet they are expensive!I would love the first cup of coffee of the day to be in one of these! I would just ponder what the person is like who made them..must be a thoughtful person, for who else would put so much into a cup?

John Balistreri

What an amazing artist John Balistreri is! I am hoping to find out that he is having a show close enough for me to get to, so that I can see these beautiful pieces up close. This style of art, according to his website is called "Neocubic". I have never seen this kind of work before, but I really like it! Beautiful to look at, and I'm sure even better to touch because of the textural and dimensional nature of the pieces (I wonder if touching is allowed?) So far, these are my favorite piece of art, that I have seen, as a result of doing the weekly write-ups :)

Rebecca Warren

Ummmm. okay, I guess this one, in my opinion,falls into the category of one of those you were talking about in class today, where we look on with tilted heads and wonder to ourselves how this piece/artist ever got to be in a show. Now, I realize that it says that she studied fine art, was nominated for an award, and other such wonderful things, and perhaps this particular piece is out of the norm for what she generally does, but this piece could have been made by a two year old. I realize how fun it is to throw clay on top of clay until it finally starts to look like something (in this case a bird on a tree (perhaps?))then you paint it and call it a sculpture.; and maybe that's all she was going for, and for the fun of it,took a picture of it and sent it out over the web for all the world to see. I don't think I would do that, but everyone is different. This piece probably appeals to someone, just not me.

Jessica Knapp

Wow! I am absolutely enamored with her work; so graceful, so light, and colorfully beautiful. I am unsure about how she attached the flowers, as I am pretty sure that the stems are nort made of ceramic material...Is there a way to fire metal with the clay so as to bend it after firing, or do we have to just make holes to run the wire through and attach it another way? I have thought at times that I would like to incorporate wire, or metal in with the ceramics; and, now that I have seen Jessica Knapp's work I can hope that it is possible,I will investigate further,or you can let me know at some point :)