Mary's posterous http://maryelkins.posterous.com Most recent posts at Mary's posterous posterous.com Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:32:46 -0700 Ceramics Monthly http://maryelkins.posterous.com/ceramics-monthly http://maryelkins.posterous.com/ceramics-monthly http://ceramicartsdaily.org/ceramic-art-and-artists/mfa-factor-virginia-commonwealth-university/

VCU was featured in September's issue of Ceramics Monthly! Here's the link.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/314471/100_1062.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37lqb5LxeX73 Mary Elkins Mary Mary Elkins Sun, 03 Oct 2010 07:03:09 -0700 Cookies http://maryelkins.posterous.com/cookies http://maryelkins.posterous.com/cookies Here's some recent work. These Cookies are nice and smooth and feel good in the palm of your hand.

These Cookies are made not for the mouth or stomach but for the hand. They don’t resemble standard cookies because they serve a different purpose. From my hands to the viewer’s, they represent the care involved in making and sharing cookies. Typically this moment is a fleeting one; the cookie is given and then consumed. In this case, the exchange is given more time because said cookie lives on.


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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/314471/100_1062.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37lqb5LxeX73 Mary Elkins Mary Mary Elkins Tue, 04 May 2010 12:52:54 -0700 Come join me on Ceramic Sculpture: On the Brighter Side of Things on crafthaus http://maryelkins.posterous.com/come-join-me-on-ceramic-sculpture-on-the-brig http://maryelkins.posterous.com/come-join-me-on-ceramic-sculpture-on-the-brig This is an online Ceramics show I'm in. (with My Family)
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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/314471/100_1062.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37lqb5LxeX73 Mary Elkins Mary Mary Elkins Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:55:31 -0700 Whichcraft http://maryelkins.posterous.com/whichcraft http://maryelkins.posterous.com/whichcraft
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This is Our Candidacy Show, the opening is May 7th. If you're in Richmond, come check it out.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/314471/100_1062.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37lqb5LxeX73 Mary Elkins Mary Mary Elkins Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:13:41 -0700 Crafting Place http://maryelkins.posterous.com/crafting-place http://maryelkins.posterous.com/crafting-place “Crafting Place: Interpretations of Natural and Constructed Environments from the Kitchen to the Forest.” Sugar gallery announces an exhibition to be held May 6th through June 5th in Bentonville, Arkansas. Juror: Kenneth Trapp former Curator-in Charge of the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Two of my pieces were accepted in this show! (My clay Living Room and Kitchen)

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/314471/100_1062.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37lqb5LxeX73 Mary Elkins Mary Mary Elkins Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:12:31 -0700 Quilt Images http://maryelkins.posterous.com/quilt-images http://maryelkins.posterous.com/quilt-images The first two images are actually of the back of this quilt, but the white on white stitches are hard to read, so I'm showing the front in the last few images.


Growing up, when I visited my grandmother, we would bake chocolate chip cookies in her kitchen. Late in life she started losing her memories due to Alzheimer’s.  As her namesake it was particularly poignant when she forgot exactly how to bake our cookies. Eventually Grandma forgot everything and everyone. As the younger Mary I fear one day forgetting these memories of her. These stitches of white on white depict the kitchen she eventually forgot.

Stitches map the space, and the act of stitching is an act of remembering.




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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/314471/100_1062.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37lqb5LxeX73 Mary Elkins Mary Mary Elkins Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:43:03 -0700 Postcard Project- Landscapes/Places/Stories http://maryelkins.posterous.com/postcard-project-landscapesplacesstories http://maryelkins.posterous.com/postcard-project-landscapesplacesstories Some work from Christmas Break and January 2010

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/314471/100_1062.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37lqb5LxeX73 Mary Elkins Mary Mary Elkins Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:23:12 -0800 New Waves Video http://maryelkins.posterous.com/new-waves-video http://maryelkins.posterous.com/new-waves-video

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/314471/100_1062.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37lqb5LxeX73 Mary Elkins Mary Mary Elkins Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:17:00 -0800 More New Waves Press http://maryelkins.posterous.com/more-new-waves-press http://maryelkins.posterous.com/more-new-waves-press

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/314471/100_1062.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37lqb5LxeX73 Mary Elkins Mary Mary Elkins Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:36:12 -0800 Movie Ticket Seating http://maryelkins.posterous.com/movie-ticket-seating http://maryelkins.posterous.com/movie-ticket-seating Chair made with movie tickets stitched together, in process shots and one of the current status (I consider it an ongoing project at this point)

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/314471/100_1062.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37lqb5LxeX73 Mary Elkins Mary Mary Elkins Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:30:55 -0800 Embroidered Handkerchiefs http://maryelkins.posterous.com/embroidered-handkerchiefs http://maryelkins.posterous.com/embroidered-handkerchiefs These were a Christmas gift for my Dad.
"You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose"
and "Herbert the Fucked"  (his name is Herbert Hamilton Price III, and when he's upset or being histrionic he says the alternative)
Two sayings he has used since my childhood.

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http://www.cacv.org/exhibitions/NewWaves.asp

Here's a better link to that New Waves Show that opens in February !

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/314471/100_1062.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37lqb5LxeX73 Mary Elkins Mary Mary Elkins Wed, 30 Dec 2009 08:58:32 -0800 Christmas Time http://maryelkins.posterous.com/christmas-time-70 http://maryelkins.posterous.com/christmas-time-70 A brilliant use of Pabst Cans, I must say- who knew they could be so festive? Snow man measuring decoration... I thought that was a nice idea as well. The last one is of our stockings, hung with care (I made them a a couple weeks ago). Happy New Year, Everyone!

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/314471/100_1062.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37lqb5LxeX73 Mary Elkins Mary Mary Elkins Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:54:02 -0800 Goats http://maryelkins.posterous.com/goats http://maryelkins.posterous.com/goats We returned to Arkansas over Thanksgiving. Daniel's parents have goats (mostly as lawn mowers. Seriously. They eat everything, plus they're cute.). I'm always intrigued by their rectantular pupils.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/314471/100_1062.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37lqb5LxeX73 Mary Elkins Mary Mary Elkins Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:49:48 -0800 SNOW!!! http://maryelkins.posterous.com/snow-1865 http://maryelkins.posterous.com/snow-1865 Last night we got about a foot of snow. (!) It was exciting.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/314471/100_1062.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37lqb5LxeX73 Mary Elkins Mary Mary Elkins Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:05:18 -0800 My Surroundings http://maryelkins.posterous.com/my-surroundings http://maryelkins.posterous.com/my-surroundings I thought there would be a few more of these photos. I like to document my space, and I especially love it when I look down and my clutter somehow transforms into something else. Both of these just look cozy to me. I'm getting nostalgic about this because I'm in the middle of a project right now. (A Christmas Project)


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