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Artist Spotlight: Adrienne Eliades

7/12/2017

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In January Adrienne Eliades visited us here in Savannah, and did a workshop on surface decoration at Savannah’s Clay Spot. After the workshop we got a chance to sit down and ask her some questions.
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SAVCC: What got you interested in clay?
 
Adrienne:  I’ve always done clay, since I was a little kid.  My mom was an artist. She always made it really easy for me to draw or paint or take classes.  I worked with Sculpey clay and did projects in elementary school and high school, you know the embarrassing stuff.  Once I went to college I ended up in North Carolina and as you know NC has a great history with clay.  Honestly I went to school there because I wanted to be near the beach.  It didn’t have anything to do with knowing what I wanted to be when I grew up. UNCW only has a BA, but the professor there Aaron Wilcox is really great and really engaging.  He went to Cranbrook and has all that theory in his teaching.  I decided to do clay for my major there.  I did an honors thesis about the local clay and the history of NC potters.  I fell in love with the lifestyle of it.  After school, it felt really natural to find myself working in the studios of different artists.  I worked for a tile muralist Gayle Tustin, and Justine Ferreira who had a gallery in downtown Wilmington.  I was seeing all of these different ways of making a living as an artist that I didn’t learn in school, and thought “I can do this”.  The love of making things that can be useful in people’s lives kept drawing me back.  I always had another job, like working for artists, or working in restaurants.  Something part time that allowed me to be in the studio at night.
 


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  • Home
  • About
  • Membership
  • EXHIBITIONS
    • Sip: A Ceramic Cup Show 2022 >
      • Opening Reception
    • SIP: A Ceramic Cup Show 2021 >
      • SIP 2021 Reception
    • Sip: A Ceramic Cup Show 2020 >
      • Receptions
    • SIP 2017 >
      • SIP 2017 Opening Night
      • Sip 2017 Closing night
    • SIP: A Ceramic Cup Show 2016 >
      • OPENING NIGHT
      • CLOSING RECEPTION
    • Savannah Clay 2019
    • SAVANNAH CLAY 2015
  • Artists
    • Eliot Joanna Angell
    • Lesley Anton
    • Lisa Bradley
    • Jessica Broad
    • Eric Clark
    • Mitzi Davis
    • Gayle Fichtinger
    • John Jensen
    • Heather Knight
    • Jillian Luse
    • Colette Oliver
    • Yves Paquette
    • David Peterson
    • Stephanie Sanders
    • Rebecca Sipper
    • Trang Vu
    • Nancy Waterhouse
    • Harriet Zabusky-Zand
  • RESOURCES
    • SHIPPING CUPS FOR SIP
    • Interviews
    • Articles
    • Calendar
    • News
    • Learn
    • ARTIST ESSENTIALS