Claire Clark

Stoneware and Glazes

Claire Clark © Bea Wind
Stoneware
$1,000

Most of her work originated from observations of the model, using clay to build shapes structurally with feelings of the model and glazes with oxides for emphasis.

The Substance of an Artist's Media

Initially she taught in Junior High through High School students. She was permanently placed at Prospect Heights High School. She learned how to reach the children with painting and design; helped them to build their vocabulary and not to be afraid to express their ideas in pen or pencil. She taught ceramics too.

The children needed to hold on to something. This in turn gave them something to work with. While teaching art in High School she did ceramics at Hunter College, sculptures in the summer at ASL, and later started acting to help keep everything together. She was in many plays and really loved acting, but found it best not to do both.

Claire Clark - Figurative Sculpture.