Marc HUdson

Career Statement
Fascination with clay stretches back in time more than 20,000 years to early man’s exploration of his environment.
A lump of clay in the hands of a child could be kneaded into a plastic material, which can take on just about any shape imagination can conceive. And when fire is added to the mix, near rock hardness and durability is imparted. Vessels became a way of carrying/offering/trading foods, ideas, and artistry across cultures through time.
My own fascination with clay began as a child in the garden and then in the museums of the American South West
displaying Ancient Puebloan artifacts and chards. Here was a chard of a pot someone hundreds or thousands of
years ago, fashioned into a vessel from wet paste clay, consigned it to fire, and transformed it, through the heat of
local metamorphism into a durable pot. I, too, use clay to represent my interpretations of ideas and feelings, be it
vessel, sculptural, or amorphous in nature. The malleable clay, the changing shape, the glaze materials, and the heat
of fire all conspire in my imagination to express a snapshot into my creative process.

“I hope my creations stir you enough that you will want to look at them often and contemplate their shapes,
textures, and colors. Perhaps you will connect a memory with them, offer them as a gift or keep them for yourself,
but think of them as a cornerstone for an emotion, a recollection or an event and let them move you!”

Education
Presenter at NM Potters & Clay Artists: Gallimaufry 2014 Workshop, Ghost Ranch, NM
Steven Hill Workshop, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2013
Self-taught 3D photography with light box, 2000 to Present
Extrudaganza, Extruder Workshop, American Potters Council, Ft Worth, Texas, Feb. 2007
Special Topic, Glazes, Northlake Community College, Irving, Texas, 1993
Intermediate Ceramics, University of Alaska, 1971
Special Topic, “Raku”, University of Alaska, 1971
Life Long Student, School of Hard Knocks with Advanced Studies, Multiple Campuses, 1970 to Present