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Teaching Between Worlds

“It becomes more and more difficult in the given academic structures to figure out how to make these kinds of spaces of inquiry. But I’m still having a blast, and my students are still stabbing me through the heart and the eyes every day.”

Type:
Interviews
Credit:
Participants:
Angela Dufresne (RISD), Gordon Hall (Vassar), Arnold J. Kemp (SAIC), Aki Sasamoto (Yale), Nato Thompson (ALT ART SCHOOL), Rodrigo Valenzuela (UCLA), and Michael Jones McKean, moderator, (VCU)

Magdalena Suarez Frimkess—The Finest Disregard

Even her utilitarian tableware—tortilla plates and coffee mugs—appear sculptural, not functional. Whereas many ceramicists, including her husband, take great pains to rid their work of evidence of their physicality, eradicating touch, pressure, emotion, and kinetic energy, Magdalena’s sculptures quiver with her presence. Fingerprints, pinch marks, patchwork, the spontaneity and surety of her brushstrokes altogether engender a perceptible alive-ness.

Type:
Reviews
Source:
Fall 2024
Location:
Los Angeles, CA
Credit:
Text / Tara Anna Dalbow