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I recently had the chance to sit down with Jasmine Baetz, Lincoln Visiting Professor in Ceramics at Scripps College. In the fall, Jasmine was awarded Hive faculty course grants for her courses Clay and Fiber and Materials and Extraction. Jasmine\u2019s approach to teaching and artmaking has been inspiring our team here at the Hive, and it\u2019s been a joy to learn from her work and practice.<\/p>\n
Check out my conversation with Jasmine, where we had a chance to explore her early introductions to artmaking, how theoretical texts can inform handmade works, and the importance of critique and inquiry in both her personal work, and her teaching.<\/p>\n
Olivia:<\/strong>\u00a0I was reading about your work and saw that you’ve been working with clay, specifically, since you were a child. How did you get introduced to clay and other forms of artmaking?<\/p>\n Jasmine:<\/strong>\u00a0I grew up in Dundas, Ontario, and I was really lucky as a kid that there was a wonderful art school in my hometown. I took after school children’s classes there and had some really wonderful teachers in ceramics, and lots of other classes where I was encouraged to express myself and trust myself. We were even encouraged to find meaning in process.<\/p>\n I think a lot of the building blocks of what I learned about doing art and teaching art were set when I was really young. That was really useful for me when I was going through school and other academic spaces where trusting myself and following my interests, frameworks, and critiques was not always validated. As I was navigating that, I could hang on to some of my early ways of knowing and doing, which was awesome.<\/p>\n