Linnis Blanton.

Hey everyone.
I just wanted everyone to know that my ceramics professor is having an art show in Galveston next weekend. The opening is Saturday, March 7, 2009 from 6-9.
His work is exquisite; he will be showing about 14 large pieces and there will be wall pieces as well (platters and such).
Check out the flier and get your booties out there. Bring a friend.

(Mythical Petroglyphs, Stonewear, 2008)

Place. Time. Who.

See some more of his work at Blantonspottery.com.


That's all for now.
Pictures of my work in progress, soon.
Best of wishes, Linnis!

Jodi Hebert.

Over the Brain Fart.

It's taken me quite a bit of time this semester to get my head straight and to edit certain parts of my schedule to make things workable. I started out this semester with 4 studio classes (technically 3-- because I'm trying to complete Computers in Art; I took an incomplete after my surgery in the fall), plus Seminar and Art Survey IV. That's absolutely absurd. Just the thought of all of that work was enough to put me into a head spin and I accomplished zilch up until recently.
I've since dropped Drawing IV and Printmaking.
I have my Tuesdays and Thursdays free to work and I coach pitching lessons on the side during the weekend.
I'm feeling a lot better about my course load and have given myself a sense of freedom to finally start working again.

So far in Ceramics I've made 11 hand-warmer tea bowls, 2 regular bowls, a vase, and I've just finished a sculpture. We had critique yesterday, and I'm happy with the direction I'm headed in, which is about the same mixture as I was working with last semester: about equal time handbuilding and building sculptures (mixtures of figurative, conceptual and allegorical work) with the rest of the time devoted to the wheel and often times altering wheel- thrown items.
That's usually how I start a sculpture, I throw a cylinder and alter it and keep adding on until something starts speaking to me. The rest is editing and fine tuning the "image."
Today when I went up to studio:
1. I made a list of what still needs to be glazed from last semester.
2. Made a running "To-Do" list, which I find to be extremely ambitious, including the projected idea to make 7 (including the one I've already made) regular sized sculptures of the same basic size as last semester's work, 7-10 very small sculptures, and 5-7 raku pieces; mainly sculptures.
3. I had a bucket full of hard clay so I spent most of my time re hydrating and kneading that clay back to life. I spread everything out on the table and flooded the table and let it sit, and sandwiched the clay and smacked it to hell and gone and repeated that about 2 times until it was back to workable consistency. It took forever-- and I didn't weigh it so I'm not sure how much there was, but it ended up being about 6 chunks of at least 2 1/2 to 3 lbs of clay. Needless to say, I'm a bit out of shape and I sweated quite a bit.
4. I also made a list of things that need to be made for friends and family and whoever else. There's only three people that I can think of right now; but if you want something specific made, just let me know: (What, how many, general color schemes [you can reference my other work and I can look up the color combinations] and I guess we can talk about price.) I'm a full time student, so these things take a while.

I had everything boxed up from the Fire and Ice Show just sitting in the classroom since the show came down-- but I finally brought everything home tonight which makes me feel much better.
This list making helped me do some "house cleaning" of thoughts and plans, and I also reorganized my locker area in studio. You'd be surprised how that just makes you feel much more excited about getting work done.

Other than Ceramics, Artist Common, a student based group at Lamar University (I'm the Treasurer), recently held a show-- which is still up until this Saturday-- at the Art Studio, Inc. in downtown Beaumont on Franklin. The show was called Recycled Art, the basis of which was the art that was made from the trash we cleaned up there from damage done from previous storms, hurricanes, etc. I need to take pictures and post them here. I think the show was highly successful and there was a huge turn out for one of our shows. My piece was entitled Enuendos and it was a collage on newsprint with newspaper bits, black and white paint, coffee painted, magazine images and india inked words-- SEXUALLY DEPRIVED/ DEPRAVED/ FRUSTRATED
There is a piece off to the left bottom side of the work of (how do I describe it?) some sort of cardboard thing that served as a shelf for the "shoes/ boots" on the shelf, that are basically wadded up newspaper stuffed into a mold and taken out and painted white.
The back story is this sort of recollection I had of middle school where if someone looked down at your shoes and slowly back up at you and said, "Hey, I really like your shoes" it meant they liked you or wanted to get with you. It sort of ties everything back into the text.
Pictures soon.

I also want to start video taping me while working, and posting short little clips on here. We'll see, don't hold your breath.

Other than that, I'm feeling great and starting to work out again and everything's sort of working itself out.

Oh, and I'm going to be an aunt soon! :]

Another oh. Chelsy Broussard, Jessi Hebert, and myself will be having our own art show this summer at the Barking Dog Coffee House in downtown Beaumont on Pearl Ave. The projected date as of right now is June 6th which is a Saturday. We will be graced with the musical stylings, hopefully, of The Amorist, Ashlynn Ivy and Tim Apshire. This is all tentative, and of course I will post the final decisions when we hammer them out. The show will be up for a month and I'm actually going to put prices on things this time. Lesson learned. I can't have all of this stuff in my house. :]
Jessi is my twin, and is a professional photographer. Visit her site @ www.jessihebert.com also, www.jessihebert.blogspot.com. She's cool as hell.
Chelsy is one of my best friends. She works in ceramics as well (see previous post) and is a photography major.
The show will be pretty diverse and plentiful.
Be there.

And keep checking in.
See you soon.
Jodi Hebert.

The Fire and Ice Show.

So, hello.
My name is Jodi Hebert and I reside in Nederland, Texas and go to art school at Lamar University.
I wanted a site specifically for my art work and my points of view on art and movies and books. I have many other sites, and another blog that is specifically about my life, but didn't want everything everywhere.
I'm working on my Bachelor's Degree in Fine Art and although I'm not fully sure which area of studio art I want to pursue for my thesis, Ceramics has made it's way into my heart and soul and it's likely to be the result of all of this.
I'm a 3rd year art student, although it's my fourth year of college.
I went to Ranger Junior College my first year on a Softball scholarship as a pitcher. I played the sport for about 13 years and had been pitching that long as well. But the schooling wasn't going to take me anywhere so I decided to switch over from a business degree to art.
I've been in ceramics for two semesters now and our class recently held an art show at the Ice House Museum in Silsbee, Tx. The opening was Dec. 20th, 2008, just three days after our final critique and then we had to get everything over there and ready.

December 17, 2008.
The last day of Class and Final Critique Day.

These are a few images of my peers and their work this semester.

Me, Jodi Hebert.


Chelsy Broussard.

Byron O'Quinn.

KT Dubuisson.
Linnis Blanton Pointing at Her.
He's our amazing Professor.

Jack (Jay) Comeaux.

Robyn Voight.

Forrest Goodhue.

Dana Dorman.

Travis Coatney.
A Professor at School, Butch Jack.


Amanda Talcott and Tracie Chesnutt.
Ceramics I Students.

Clint Jones was at work that day so, I don't have a picture of him next to his work.

We had fliers made up for the show and
Byron made them and Dana got them
printed and I think they came out great.

December 20, 2008.
The artists at the opening.
(Taken by my sister, JessiHebert.com)


Here's all of my work from this semester.

(Everything as a whole.)



Three Yellow Mugs.


12 Cups and Mugs all in Blue.


The following pieces are largely biographical as well as allegorical.
I put most of my time and effort into these things
and they are extremely tied to life situations.
Many times I will work on a piece and only in retrospect will I
realize the significance. Whatever I am feeling while working
will inevitably and subconsciously
work it's way into the clay.
And this is what happened in the past few months.
(These are also in their chronological order.)

"She Wakes Like a Woman."



"Allegory of My Sister Amidst Hurricane Season"


"The Freedom, The Loss, The Womb."
(This is the internal view: explanation later)

Side View.
The brown serves as the protective, outer area.

Next post I will try and explain the sculptures with some background information.
This semester was a huge transition for me. At first I started the semester with just this work, work, work attitude, but then a lot of life altering situations happened and it ultimately gave me something to talk about in my work. It gave me life experience. And for all of these horrible things that have happened--many of which I still have not had adequate time to deal with-- I am eternally grateful.
Clay has become my tranquility, my therapist, my voice, and a great form of meditation.
It's no wonder one could spend a lifetime playing in dirt.

--Jodi Hebert.