UWP Clay Club to host ceramics sales and visiting artist
PLATTEVILLE-Artwork made by University of Wisconsin-Platteville students will be sold at the UWP Clay Club's Ceramic Art Sale on Tuesday, March 10 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The sale will be held in the Pioneer Student Center across from the Information Desk.
Functional artwork such as plates, bowls, cups and pots will be sold along with sculpture pieces. The prices for the artwork will range from $1 to $100. Twenty to 35 percent of the proceeds from each piece will go to the Clay Club to purchase tools and equipment for the art program, fund trips to workshops and gallery tours and shows, and also bring in visiting artists. The remaining money will go to the artist.
The ceramic sale is an opportunity for students to not only sell their artwork and raise money, but to learn how to present and price their work. The sale gives students first-hand experience in verbally selling what they make and learning what work sells best.
This year, the Clay Club will also be hosting a two-day lecture and workshop with Ryan Peters, a young raku ceramic artist who currently owns his own art gallery in Waukesha. On Friday, April 17, he will be giving demonstrations and talking about owning a gallery. On Saturday, April 18, he will be giving raku firing demonstrations. Both workshops will be daylong events held in the Art Building on the UWP campus. These events are free and open to the public.
"We thought it would be inspiring to the art students to see someone already succeeding in the professional art world," said Carly Heiber, president of the Clay Club.
Another Clay Club Ceramic Art Sale will be held later this year. It will begin on Tuesday, April 28 and last until Thursday, April 30. Each day the club will be selling pieces from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The same type of pieces will be sold and pieces will be priced under $100.
"The sales have really grown since the club was started and we have had to lengthen the time the sales go and how many days we have the sale," said Heiber. "We have a tendency to bring so much work to the sale we run out of table space."
Clay Club's purpose is to promote ceramics as an art form, develop connections with other artists in the community, gain experience in ceramics, learn professionalism as artists and expand the ceramics program on campus. Members work to bring interest to the art program as a whole, share their work with the community through the Ceramic Art Sale and establish a connection between students and the community.
For more information about the Ceramic Art Sale or Peters, contact Heiber at (414) 617-1033 or heibere@uwplatt.edu.
Contact: Carly Heiber, Clay Club president, (414) 617-1033, heibere@uwplatt.edu. Written by: Morgan Spitzer, UWP Public Relations, (608) 342-1194, spitzerm@uwplatt.edu
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