Keith Carter - Artist In Residence

Keith's mop bucket

Keith Carter who is an artist in residence. He is currently working at Clay on Steele studio in Algoma and at the Barnsite Gallery in Kewaunee. We are honored to have him in our class. He shows and teaches us many thing outside of the box which we might not have chance to discover them on our own.

After showing us new and cool techniques working with clay, he assigned us the "Rustic Vessels" topic. Taking the idea of a vintage object, we have to recreate that object out of clay and then add on another found object which is not clay into the clay part with a purpose.

I am really excited with this topic because it's really different from what we get to do in class. Normally, we only get to make pots, cups but this time we get to incorporate a non-clay object into our clay piece. I think it's really fun to do.  And since we have to choose a vintage object, I choose to recreate a rotary phone which no so many people using it nowadays. People now have their "smartphones" with them almost 24hours per 7, forgetting the rotary phones or dial phones which played an important role back in the day. The found object I'm going to add on is a wire connecting the base to the hand set. I wrap the wire around a pencil to create its shape like a spring.

I used super glue to connect the parts together.

Keith is an inspiring artist. He gives us new ideas,  helps us in making the objects. He is funny and friendly. Not only he gives us great ideas but also makes some awesome pots, sculptures and vessels. They are all great. I really like them. And I would love to have him in our class again.