COMMUNITY STORIES: EMILY DAW
It’s a small city where everyone works very hard, values a job well done, and frequently leaves town to travel to Dallas or Austin for recreation.
While I love going places as well, I’ve found that I use a lot of my time away from work to take classes, meet people, and explore.
I think the freedom I have had to be able to mess up has pushed me to use this time in discovery.
This has been a development over a period of time and several life changes . It has pushed me to develop conceptually.
That was probably the hardest thing. Ceramics are not easy. By the time you have products, get good photos, and find ways to display them, you are exhausted. Then the customers can be the most challenging critics.
As a creator it has very naturally fed into my products. I think the trick there is to find out what you are doing with what you are making. As an art major, I think the trick is to find out what you are doing with what you are making.
This has pushed me to further define my path in the future, and what I want my work to look like. For example, what I sell on campus would be very different from what I’d make for galleries.
I have found that locally, most people buy your products because of you. People who want to see you succeed and are your biggest cheerleaders.
For real though, I think making a point to have designated drawing sessions has been a grounding point for me. Now, if I can combine coffee, being outdoors, time with my black lab, AND drawing, well, that is just a good day!
for reaching my goals by doing things like logging my inventory and taking dimensions consistently– to get a better feel for what storing and shipping my products looks like.
Student-Made has also helped to inform my body of work, in that I want my work to be an experience for my audience. While my body of work comes first, I have found that working through different concepts has been intellectually stimulating.
teaching at the collegiate level– to be able to use what I know to help other artists grow.
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