Maples, Cecily 2000-12-12
This interview features Cecily Maples as she discusses her love for clay and how she got into making pottery, In this interview Maples begins by explaining her early life traveling and living around the world due to her dad’s job and how that affected her as a person and how it impacted her art. She then moves on to discuss her time at Texas Tech University and taking a clay class. Maples then moves on to recall moving to California and going to school there and refining her art. She ends the interview by describing the pottery classes she offers.
General Interview Information
Interviewee Name: Cecily Maples
Additional Parties Recorded:
Date: December 12, 2000
Location: Lubbock, Texas
Interviewer: Leslie Dutton
Length: 01:41:55
Abstract
Introduction and background information; How living in different countries led her art; Experiencing political strife while living in other countries; Going to Texas Tech for college and learning of her love for clay; Her experience studying for an art masters in California; Sculptural work; the difference between a craftsman and an artist; Challenging her audience with her art; Her pottery classes and her students
Access Information
Original Recording Format: mini-disc and audio cassette
Recording Format Notes: access copy available in reading room
Transcript: available on dspace <https://hdl.handle.net/10605/364081>
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