http://alisawilhelm.com/blog Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:36:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here are some photos from the glaze room. The glaze room is a covered area that's outdoors, adjacent to the ceramics studio. Large shelves that store old, crusty containers of glazes line the perimeter of the area, and bins of finely ground minerals are stored underneath the stainless steel glazing ... http://alisawilhelm.com/blog/2008/11/13/glaze-room/ In ceramics, our current assignment is called "Function/non-function." We must build two of the same item, but one must work and the other must be dysfunctional.  You'll have to wait to see the finished project to understand what I'm making, but today I built the bases and part of the handles. There ... http://alisawilhelm.com/blog/2008/11/03/funky-functions/ Every Friday I have a three-hour block of time that I schedule, in ink, in my calendar for personal art time. Even though I am drained of creativity on Fridays, I still feel that it's important to create things that won't be graded or critiqued. I usually do something mindless, ... http://alisawilhelm.com/blog/2008/11/02/happy-message-tree/ Mary, a friend from Wyoming, visited Tucson a couple weekends back. She had never been to Tucson before, so we went to Fourth Ave., naturally. Bookstop, an eclectic used bookstore, recently moved locations to Fourth Ave. I fell in love and I wish that I owned everything in that store. And ... http://alisawilhelm.com/blog/2008/11/01/bookstopped-here/ At age 16, I was slightly intimidated by my community college general biology class. I had never taken a chemistry class before (it was highly recommended), my peers already had a high school diploma, and my professor was an old man who answered a question by asking a question. It didn’t ... http://alisawilhelm.com/blog/2008/10/18/education-excretion/   In my illustration class, we had to illustrate a castle that isn't cliché nor such an obscure reference that no one would understand it to be a castle. See this large. 11x17" (28x43.2cm), ink on paper http://alisawilhelm.com/blog/2008/10/16/castleness/   I was in Three Points, Arizona, over the weekend. There were hoards of flying bugs, a kind of bug that I had never seen before in my life, but they flew and played dead if you scared them. The scorpion that we found did not play dead, but it is ... http://alisawilhelm.com/blog/2008/10/09/nymph/       Grill, the popular place to hang out at 0200. http://alisawilhelm.com/blog/2008/09/24/grill/ The only thing more embarrassing than seeing someone you know in the grocery store while wearing sweatpants and buying 5-gallon vats of ice cream is seeing someone you know in the shrink's office. As soon as I sat down and opened up a newspaper, out of the office came Leno. ... http://alisawilhelm.com/blog/2008/09/19/using-the-word-shrink/ School is back in session. You can tell by these conveniently placed products at a local CVS Pharmacy: Today my roommate and I decided to try a church that meets in a movie theatre on Sunday mornings. We arrived, I parked the car. As soon as I stepped ... http://alisawilhelm.com/blog/2008/09/07/students-are-back/