Throwing at Paint Creek Center for the Arts
Laurie Longtin
Laurie Longtin is a Detroit-based ceramic artist and educator. She teaches at Paint Creek Center for the Arts and Sugar Hill Clay.
She received a BFA in Ceramics from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2014 and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2019. Most recently she was a mold maker for Motawi Tileworks. She has taught at the Harvard Ceramics Program, MassArt, Brookline Arts Center, and Mudflat Studio. She was an artist in residence at Elsewhere Studios in Colorado in 2014.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Inspired by ritual, divination, and ceramics as the intersection of science and magic, my interest lies in transforming experience into object through clay. My work removes boundaries between object, viewer, and the otherworldly. Forms become ahistorical, objects exude life, and tools take on ethereal purpose. My repetitive motion of coiling and slip casting reconstructs abstract ideas on our perception of reality into physical form.
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