Newfangled Deluge

As a graduating senior BFA student, I am enrolled in the senior seminar, which is a mostly self-led course where senior students develop a body of work to exhibit in the Else and Witt art galleries in Kadema Hall at Sacramento State. Graduation looms nearer, but before that, we celebrated the Art Ball this last Friday. Art Ball is a traditional celebration and exhibition held each semester by the various art departments across campus. Galleries are open for visitors to see student art, with food and beverages to enjoy. The Senior Art Show held its closing reception from 5-7, allowing friends and family to come view the Seniors’ art before the semesters end. I had the privilege of showing my five artworks in the senior show, and my best friends and my parents were able to come see my work and the festivities. In between the ceramics labs, sat the potluck table full of juice, cookies, and sausages that Professor Scott Parady cooked on his grill. On display were various student pi...

On April 27, I was able to attend the reception for Linda Gelfman’s show— My Life in Clay: Four Decades in the Making— at Alpha Fired Arts. Linda was my ceramics Professor while I attended American River College between 2016 and 2020. Linda, as stated in the title of her show, has been working with clay for years. She is a great instructor, and truly brought me out of my comfort zone in order to become more masterful with clay. I will never forget the skills I learned from her, my favorite being how to get the details right when sculpting fingers and toes! Linda’s work is vast and surreal. In her show, the works begins at the earliest stage of her career—high school ceramics—and on view are two little pigs that she sculpted as a pre-college student. The work slowly evolves into the work of a true artist. Whimsical figures, the essence of nature, and sometimes cats are featured in her pieces. She uses a variety of techniques in her hand-built sculptures, showing off differe...