Students at UNR recently went on a field trip to look at wild clay collections at Boca Lake.
Stella Kraus who is in this Art 397 advanced field studies class reports about this mid October visit coordinated by ceramics expert Rick Parsons, director of the Holman Arts & Media Center, and director of the Summer Arts Workshops with an audio version below.
Students shovel the dried, crumbling clay into five gallon buckets to take back to their classroom studio on the Tahoe campus. Clay has been used to create sculptures and functional pottery for thousands of years…