Laura Goble: Graduate School and Beyond

Here's the rundown from the last 2 years:

August 2012- Went to Chicago, lived in the ghetto (Pilsen), took train to school (5 miles) 45 minute train ride.

Had one great winter ....

and one freezing winter (I know I can survive -50˚ windchill).

Worked really hard, TAed for woodshop all 4 semesters and made some cool and weird things for the shop. As well as, of course helping students with their projects.

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My first semester I mixed glazes as a tech and learned a lot. I'm glad for that experience, because I can now teach according to what I learned.

Made some really big work:

Unfortunately, I had to remake this sculpture twice. The first time it cracked during the firing. With better, stronger clay it survived, so, then I had to make a huge crate to ship it to a show in the Indianapolis Art Center. I drove down with a U-Haul and 2 hired undergrads and brought the work 5 hours to it's destination. It was too far away to go down again to attend the opening.

Of course, during my time at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, (not to be confused with the Art Institutes) I experimented a lot and spent a ton of time working in my studio.

My studio in the mezzanine at SAIC

I played around with a few things like this performance I like to call Cardiocacophony.

I made some work that was just weird.

Here is a project where I strung string onto a loom over and over again until it was an inch thick, the finished product is on my website, check it out. It's titled Point to Point.

I had a few very small studio assistants who will be going on a road trip with me in the near future.

I spearheaded a show at Roxaboxen, with the other ceramic grads in my semester, for a show called From the Ground Up (this gallery has since closed).

You can see this object being performed at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2tV1aqNyRc&feature=youtu.be

I had work commit suicide, this was during my graduate show.

I even found some time to look like a supermodel. All you who thought I'd be an amazing supermodel, here is the proof!

However, the time came to graduate.

and my work had to travel...

And I did too, with my parents who were kind enough to come pick me up and take me back to LA, but of course I couldn't just let them do that without a little pain :)

But they got me back:

So, next time someone says get on that jackalope, you know what to do.

Anyway, I got back and within a few months I was working at Biola University teaching Digital tools.

Here's what I put in the faculty show. I made a conglomeration of all my past work. It has been gnawing on me to try this for a few years now. Sorry about the bad lighting.

Biola like me so much they hired me to teach ceramics!

This was a project the first day in my ceramics class this semester, kinda interesting! Every student made a production line of 13 pieces for the other students to use in a sculpture.