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Congratulations !

Congratulations, I guess! Any photos of your sculptures?

Congrats! I lost a lot of mana haha

How strictly are you defining gallery/exhibition/publication?

Would a school publication count?
Would an in classroom exhibition count?
Does the gallery/location of the exhibition need to be a preexisting business?

@RobertCousineau Right now the most likely way this resolves yes is if my work is exhibited at a group show I was accepted to at the world's largest ceramic sculpture conference. I'll open the kiln in half an hour and see if my sculptures survived the firing.

Both versions are loaded into the kiln. So far there's no cracking or warping, but the firing will be the real test of how good the construction is.

@Alice how does it look post-kiln?

@RobertCousineau Both are in good shape! I'm planning to refire both to a higher temperature and can post pictures afterward, but in the meantime one did go to a sculpture group show.

The second version is now 70 percent built. I should be able to finish building both over the weekend. The two versions are made with clay bodies I haven't worked with before, and given how little experience I have with these materials and techniques, I'm not super confident they'll survive the firing on Tuesday.

@Alice post pictures pre kiln!

After a late night in the studio, I'm 90 percent done constructing the first sculpture! If I have time before the firing deadline next Tuesday, I'd like to build a second version and make some edits.

My scholarship was increased to a full ride. I still haven't built a sculpture.

I cut some slabs and built some tools that should make this process go more efficiently though.

I have an image of sculpting from the book The Gargoyle but i've never met anyone else who's read it. The woman who sculpted got lost in it for days at an end. she said that sculpting was like uncovering what was already in there, she was just removing the unnecessary parts to reveal the beauty inside.

I have four studio days to build this sculpture. I haven't started.

@Alice is it plausible to do it? Do you know what you'd want to do?

@Alice by "this" did you mean to post something?

@RichardSuston I meant my submission for the sculpture conference. I wish I had a picture to post, haha.

@ShakedKoplewitz It'll be a miracle if I can pull it off. I have concept sketches, I have color test tiles, I have a small-scale slab-built prototype, but I have nothing as far as the actual sculpture goes. It took four studio days to prepare the paper clay, but it should be workable the next time I go in so I can actually start construction.

I applied for a scholarship to a sculpture conference that I have no business attending. If I somehow get it, I'll be able to submit work to a group show.

@Alice congrats! Do you know what work you'd want to submit?

@ShakedKoplewitz I've only submitted concept sketches so far. So I have an idea of what I'd like to build but will have to learn a lot of brand new skills (working with paper clay, slab building at scale, carving, testing mason stains, adding burnouts, smoking, low firing) to make this feasible.

I got the scholarship! Which means I'm now on a deadline to desperately Google how to sculpt.

Can you post links to your work?

@DanSparkman No work exists yet because I'm a complete beginner, but I'll post occasional progress updates here!