Molly Otremba
Week Three, Spring 2023
I’ve been in a revolving state of guilt. Guilty of not working fast enough. Guilty of not completing any household tasks. Feeling guilty...
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Molly Otremba
- Jan 23
- 1 min
Week Two, Spring 2023
I finished working on some bowls with worm feet; I want to involve worms into more of my functional stuff. I don't love the bowls but...
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Molly Otremba
- Jan 17
- 1 min
Week One, Spring 2023
DUNT DUNT DUH!!!!! This first week was kinda rough! I’m fine! (no really, I’m fine!!!!!!!!!) Monday- Decent first day of the semester,...
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Molly Otremba
- Dec 5, 2022
- 1 min
Week Fifteen, Fall 2022
This last week we fired and unloaded the Wood, somehow made it out alive after the Raku from hell → I am now convinced and validated by...
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Molly Otremba
- Nov 29, 2022
- 1 min
Week Fourteen, Fall 2022
I glazed for the wood fire, rushed some documentation on the Raku worms, mostly watched but helped out with the woodfire loading & lent a...
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Molly Otremba
- Nov 29, 2022
- 1 min
Week Thirteen, Fall 2022
I’m pretty sure I’m hitting a creative block. I want to continue working on worms and the next variation of what that is, but I can't get...
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Molly Otremba
- Nov 15, 2022
- 2 min
Week Twelve, Fall 2022
The SpaceLab show was a success but I am fighting between a body that is sore and exhausted and a brain that is buzzing with excitement...
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Molly Otremba
- Nov 8, 2022
- 1 min
Week Eleven, Fall 2022
Monday 31st- Fired cone 10 soda, worked on stuff for the install with Mandi, worked on large vessels, glazed and ran a cone 6, trimmed a...
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Molly Otremba
- Nov 1, 2022
- 1 min
Week Ten, Fall 2022
Monday 24th- underglazed some worm pieces and fired a nail tester to see what would happen Tuesday 25th- Speed & glazed for the Soda...
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Molly Otremba
- Oct 24, 2022
- 1 min
Week Nine, Fall 22
Monday 17th- I took an idea proposed to me in crit and tested it out- building worms off a mold/without a base. I’m excited about the...
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Molly Otremba
- Oct 18, 2022
- 1 min
Week Eight, Fall 2022
Okay so let's talk about it. (or more literally, “Molly's going to type about it.”) “It” being in progress crit. I obviously have many...
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Molly Otremba
- Oct 8, 2022
- 1 min
Week Seven, Fall 2022
Ugh, in progress crit on Monday. I don’t think I have enough work. I want to have more of my ideas fleshed out to receive feedback or to...
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Molly Otremba
- Oct 1, 2022
- 1 min
Week Six, Fall 2022
It terrifies me that September is over, we are well into the semester and I feel as if I haven’t caught my breath. I’m in love with my...
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Molly Otremba
- Sep 25, 2022
- 1 min
Week Five, Fall 2022
I, umm, I don't know. I'm very hurt and very stressed. Worried. Tired. Self conscious. And this post will likely be another unedited...
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Molly Otremba
- Sep 19, 2022
- 2 min
Week Four, Fall 2022
Things I've read this week that made an impact: “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47536/one-art...
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Molly Otremba
- Sep 12, 2022
- 1 min
Week Three, Fall 2022
I need to do a bit of catching up in the studio; with the show no longer a looming presence I feel like (compared to others in the space)...
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Molly Otremba
- Sep 7, 2022
- 1 min
Week Two, Fall 2022
Maybe I’m too close to write about the AASI show but there has been little else I’ve worked on this past week so… Install was a mess. As...
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Molly Otremba
- Aug 26, 2022
- 1 min
Week One, Fall 2022
Over the summer I’ve been playing with wormie thoughts, studying how to sculpt dead baby birds, and working towards the AASI show with...
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Molly Otremba
- Apr 26, 2022
- 1 min
Week Fifteen.
It’s the final blog post! Tests on test, upon firing and re firing. I’m scrambling to finish and figure out how I want to glaze my final...
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Molly Otremba
- Apr 18, 2022
- 1 min
Week Fourteen.
The experimental glaze tests that were suggested to me during crit. have been poppin out kilns the past few weeks. I've tried kiln wash...
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