My name is Abby Paul. I graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2016 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Ceramics. For the past 3 years, I’ve worked with special needs kids full-time and made pottery during my spare time. However, I’ve recently switched over to making pottery full-time and it’s been nothing short of a dream come true. I also teach art to homeschooled kids a few times a week, which is loads of fun too.
I have been making pottery for about 5 years total. I’ve only started selling my pottery online and at craft shows for about a year now. This will be my first Avant-Garde Art & Craft Show that I will be participating in! I’m excited! Many things inspire me to create, but one of my greatest inspirations would have to be my dad, who passed away 2 years ago. It was shortly after he passed away when I decided to start up my pottery business, Aesthete Ceramics. More specifically, my individual pieces are greatly inspired by nature.
Pottery started out as a hobby for me about 2 years ago, but has recently turned into a full-time gig! I was introduced to ceramics when I was in high school. I took a ceramics class and instantly fell in love. Since tenth grade of high school, I knew I wanted to work with clay as a career. I love to create! It all starts with an idea in my head that is usually sparked from something I see or find outside. I create most of my forms on the pottery wheel, then hand paint all the designs. From there it turns into a physical object that I can actually hold in my hands!
I would love to have a well established home studio where I'm able to create as much as I want, whenever I want. I would also love to offer small group pottery classes to people of all ages, but more specifically special needs kids. An aesthete (noun, pronounced "es-theet") is a person who has or professes to have refined sensitivity toward the beauties of art or nature. Aesthete Ceramics originates from the combination of an aesthete and myself, Abby Elizabeth. I, Abby Elizabeth, combine aspects of art and nature to create both functional an decorative ceramics that are pleasing to look at and pleasing to use.
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Meet Karyn Faranda from Incantations By Karyn...
I am a artist with a fine art degree however I have just recently, I'd say in the past 2 years started my own business doing what I love which is Art, of just about every kind. This came about when I discovered I had 4 chronic illnesses I'm just going to be unable to work the way I had my entire life and I would lose my home and everything and I have. I am a recovering addict with 5 years clean and my art is about Joy, gratitude and Resurrection and I put good energy into all my pieces. I get a lot of my inspiration from watching the simple yet miraculous nature around me metamorphosize through the seasons and transform into something even more beautiful. I feel truly blessed to have the privilege of doing this everyday, it is not a job for me.
The Human Condition, the deep emotional scars that many of us endure, namely myself, and then the pure joy of being Resurrected and given a second chance in life inspires me to inspire others to know that there is something beautiful in every disaster, there is a lesson to be learned in every hardship and there is always a light at the end of the tunnel if you work toward it, even when you feel like giving up. I think my art is a labor of love, in fact I know it is and it is truly to make others feel good about themselves which in the interim brings me great Joy that possibly something I created helped them discover their own Joy.
I am hoping to either have a home-based business like I do currently but with a much bigger client base and hopefully some employees to help me with all the other work that comes with using the Arts as your sole form of income. You cannot create, Market, inventory, get to client homes to create for them, deliver or pick up pieces to be refurbished or repurposed without eventually losing your mind (LOL).
The message that I try to convey is that we all fall and we are all human and we all feel things deeply, some more than others, some of us make very horrible mistakes that leave us riddled in guilt and therefore the only time we should be looking down upon someone is when we're reaching down to pull them back up. I firmly believe that and that there needs to be a sense of community in order for us to survive this computer aged world we currently reside in and to utilize our God given social skills again and mingle with one another face to face and not over a cellular or computer device. This is how you learn about life, about people and about what is good for you and what makes you happy oh, that is my opinion of course.
2017 Strongsville Fall Avant-Garde Art & Craft Show
Saturday & Sunday, November 10, & 11, 2018
Strongsville Ehrnfelt Recreation Center
18100 Royalton Rd.
Strongsville, OH 44136
For more information, contact Becki Silverstein, Event Coordinator at Becki@ag-shows.com
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