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This
section of my web site is intended to keep people informed
of my life at Rocky Hill and the great work the students
are doing here.
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My
Reflections on Teaching
I
enjoy teaching because it gives me the opportunity
to share my love of ceramics with my students, and get them
as excited about clay as I am. For many of them it is
their first experience with clay. I am fascinated at the
imaginations of my students, and nothing makes me happier
then to see a student get totally infatuated and excited
about working with clay. Working with clay has a therapeutic
quality to it. It is tactile, you are touching, feeling,
and molding it into something. It has a way of turning
off your mind and turning on your heart, that is why
time seems to stand still when you are working with it. With
all the machine made things in the world today people
are looking for the characteristics of handcrafts because
by their very nature they provide a direct link to the human
heart. My energy is contagious in the classroom and the
students seem to feed off that and get inspired to take
risks. My students are always looking me, seeing how
I do things. How I throw, trim, glaze, or roll out a slab.
For the students to be excited about their work, I have
to be excited about my work, their work, what I’m
teaching, and about the medium of clay in general.
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