Olive B. Durant, or “Lolly”, a professional potter and printmaker, is known for navigating through “ripple effects” to produce community connections. Lolly’s Works is firmly rooted in connecting craft and people as an art teacher, university professor, and professional artist. A risk-taker who is a “Jack” of varied craft trades works collaboratively to build creative movement for restoration, advocating an impactful effort for change. The spiritual reality of each new day moves slowly and consistently through the narrow shadows of life as a canoe floating downstream, recognizing opportunities to share creativity in community with Seniors.
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“Shaped Clay & Painterly Print” embraces Appalachian roots of digging, gathering, and harvesting. The need to dig down, go beneath the surface, determine the ‘root cause’ of what’s interesting me and release the emotion to create mixed media pottery, prints on paper, and on fabric.
My theory and practice as a teaching artist go “hand in hand” with the process to create textural impressions of clay marks, inked-stamped images, or hand-sewn thread embellishments. The Foundational Principle, Form, is
used across various disciplines to communicate concept structure. The three teaching concepts are as follows:(1) Form Follows Function,(2) Form Fits Function, and (3) Form Frames Function. It is important to work collaboratively to formulate grant plans with the Roster Teaching Artist to promote Creative Aging TN IV workshops that provide opportunities for Senior Centers to engage in art-making, art-gazing, and sharing in fellowship celebration to form common bonds and build community.
