As a guest lecturer and visiting artist, I am excited to have an opportunity to connect with college students in a class. My work will be featured in the McCrary Gallery in the Murphey Art Building during October.

Convo Lecture: Lora Rust: Ceramic Artist
Thursday, October 3, 11:15AM
Murphey Art Building, room 104
Exhibition: Thursday, October 3, 6-7pm
McCrary Gallery, Murphey Art Building
Lora Rust has an eye for elegance, fluidity and movement. Working in porcelain, her signature technique is a process of pushing the surface of the clay. She carefully textures each piece with her personally designed wooden tools, creating lush patterns with graceful, flowing lines. The designs and patterns found in Gothic Architecture mixed with the fluidity of the Art Nouveau period are strong influences in her work. Inspiration from textiles and fashion design provides movement to the texture on the form. She finishes each piece with beautiful glazes and captivating soda-fired color schemes that uniquely highlight the surface. Free and open to the public.

The rendering of the various quilt pieces has been an amazing, personal and emotional experience for me. My mother gave me a love for pattern, color and fine craft, teaching me to needlepoint and quilt. Inspired by the Cathedral Window quilt pattern that was a favorite of hers, the weaving of porcelain squares with wire brings a reminder that memories can be fragile and elusive but durable representations can be treasured. For more insight into my creative background, my mother’s influence and the “grid” click here.