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| How it Began
Around 1989 three people converged in my life to set the ball into motion.
To renew my teaching certificate,
I took a modern art history class
at the Greenville Museum of Art.
During my instruction in modern art,
my professor was praising the work of Jackson Pollock.
Knowing that Pollock was rumored not to be able to draw
(I believe that drawing is a discipline
and anyone calling themselves an artist must be able to draw),
I protested and expressed my views about Pollock.
My teacher asked if I could reproduce a Jackson Pollock.
"Pshaw, I could DANCE a Jackson Pollock!" I replied.
To which my instructor said
"Hmmmm, You should be working 3 dimensionally ."
My husband had, and still has, a family friend in Florida
who was making pottery for the craft fair market.
He would compliment her work, over and over again.
Now, Ladies please, how often do we need to hear
your husband praising another woman
before we hear ourselves saying out loud...
"She's not that good. I took pottery in College.
I could do that."
Finally my babysitter, who cared for my children
while I was taking classes in Greenville, said
"I have a potters wheel in my garage."
After picking my chin up off the floor from my amazement,
I asked if she'd sell it to me. The rest, as they say, is history!
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Kate's Quips:
I once heard that some people are "naturals" at pottery.
Not so for me. I worked hard and enjoyed the work.
After being excepted into Pottery Too, a gallery in Anderson, SC,
it was impressed upon me that I now needed some pieces that were
"show worthy".
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Awards and Honors
- 2007 Merit Award, Belton Center for the Arts, Belton, SC
- 2007 South Carolina Palmetto Hands, Purchase Award, North Charleston, SC
- 2007 South Carolina Palmetto Hands, Traveling Show, North Charleston, SC
- 2006 South Carolina Traditional Arts Network Award, Belton Center for the Arts.
- 2005 South Carolina Palmetto Hands, Traveling show, North Charleston, SC
- 2005 Best in Show, Upstate Visual Arts, Holiday Show
- 2004 Upstate Visual Arts of Greenville, SC
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