In this two-day lighting intensive, students will customize templates to build and decorate 8” ceramic sconces: learning slab forming and construction, template modification, precision building, planning light direction through carving patterns, surface design, and basic lamp wiring.
Emily Loughlin is a contemporary artist whose research-based practice uses mapping and abstraction to highlight symbioses between organisms and their geologies. Examining old-growth forests, volcanoes, nuclear sites, and long-term ecological research stations — her works bring geologic time into the scale of the everyday. Combining materials with radically different lifespans – ceramic, glass, metal, textiles, mycelium, and living plants – her sculptures and installations invite natural processes to interact with and reshape them over time. By embracing entropy and collaborating with non-human forces, Loughlin creates evolving artworks that challenge how we perceive ecology, time, and the built environment.
Emily Loughlin is 2024 Artshack Artist In Residence Alumna.
Emily Loughlin is a multi-media artist working primarily in ceramic sculpture. Since receiving her B.A. in Sculpture from Sarah Lawrence College in 2015, her practice has fluctuated between dedicated studio time and intensive ecological research, with a particular focus on biological longevity and resilience. As a long-term Artist in Residence with Friends of Pando – an organism that partners with the National Forest Service to protect the World’s Largest Tree - Emily regularly travels between her home in Brooklyn, NY, and central Utah, where she is researching clonal Aspen colonies.
