The interviews collected here are the completion of an assignment given to students in the introductory course, Ceramics 100: Innovation and Experimentation, CCA, Nancy Selvin, instructor. Vol 1 Scan: Introduction, table of contents, and Tom White interview. Vol 2 Scans: Introduction, table of contents, and Mildred Howard interview. Curtis Arima interview.
Some of the earliest evidence of written text can be found on clay tablets from Sumer and Meso-America. The CCA Ceramics department continues this ceramic based fascination of text through writing, cataloging, interventions and interpretation of books, text, language and media. This fascination is most easily summed up in our newest form of visual language, the ideogram (aka the emoji).