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HOURS:
Mon - Fri
11 am -
5 pm
Sat 10 am - 5
pm
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EastBank Gallery Member
Julie Punt |
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Julie compares working with clay to a musician and
his instrument. "It takes a lot of years before
that instrument becomes a part of themselves and it really flows,"
she says. "I sort of feel like I am in that
flowing part right now, but it took a long time to get there."
When Julie uses a sharp knife to cut open an
onion, she might take a moment to trace the whirls
and whorls with her finger. It's designs in nature
like that - and those found in agates and saltwater fish - that inspire
her pottery, she says. |
When Julie
Punt was a student at Washington High School,
she loved to sew. She
would run lengths of fabric through her fingers,
reveling in their richness. Now, she uses
her hands to shape slabs of clay into vessels and
other sculptures.
"Working with the slabs of clay reminds me of working with fabric," says
Punt, whose husband, Jerry, a professor at
Augustana College, also is a potter.
As she works the clay with her
hands, shaping it or creating designs in the surface, she
develops a naturalness between flesh and malleable earth.
"You can notice the change, the growth - it just starts to become really
natural the more you work with it," she says. |
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