• Art for the Heart: Pick-up Schedule

    Thanks to all who participated in our Art for the Heart fundraiser for community heart health.  We raised $1200 for the Mercy Foundation to use for the Cardiac Rehab Department.  The funds will help people with heart disease, who do not have a funding source to pay for their rehabilitation. The exhibit was up at…

  • Project: Art for the Heart

    Phase 3:  “Glazing” is painting… Technically, you’re painting a coating of silica-based fluid (glaze), which, when fired in the kiln, will fuse to the surface of the clay heart… now you know why we just refer to it as glazing. When you spend as many hours as we do surrounded by art, making art, promoting…

  • Project: Art for the Heart

    PHASE 2:  COLLABORATE! Putting the pieces together is difficult when your partnership doesn’t yet have partners.  We knew we wanted to work with Mercy Medical Center, but we didn’t have any contacts there.  Our good friends Monika Modest and Melissa Kelly-Ortega came to our rescue, providing awesome contacts.  Now we’re collaborating! We wanted to work…

  • Project: Art for the Heart

    PHASE 1: Preparing Clay Hearts Pounding, rolling, slabbing.  Cutting, smoothing, drying.  In late November 2012, the artists of the Enrichment Center began preparing clay hearts for a project to promote health and wellness in the New Year. Sadly, most of us have lost someone we care about to a heart-related illness.  The New Year is…

  • Sgraffito Tiles

    Sgraffito is a clay decoration technique involving a combination of painting with colored slip and scratching the surface of the clay.  The EC Artists’ sgraffito work began with tiles, as part of a unit in slabbing clay.  The result was a large collection of sgraffito tiles which the artists agreed would be good as coasters…