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๐ Watch Part 4 of Paula Tutmanโs ceramics series: Installation culmination
Read full article: ๐ Watch Part 4 of Paula Tutmanโs ceramics series: Installation culminationI take you inside my cottage as I finally install my hand-crafted ceramic fireplace surround -- and make some mistakes along the way.
Grosse Pointe art teacher inspired by Paula Tutmanโs ceramics series shows students how to make tiles
Read full article: Grosse Pointe art teacher inspired by Paula Tutmanโs ceramics series shows students how to make tilesThe COVID pandemic has pushed many of us to find new ways to relieve stress. Local 4โฒs Paula Tutman shared her journey with art and how that helped her stay mentally fit and emotionally healthy. She used clay.
๐ Watch progress update on Paula Tutmanโs ceramics series: Figuring out next steps for installation
Read full article: ๐ Watch progress update on Paula Tutmanโs ceramics series: Figuring out next steps for installationAs I packed up the ceramic tiles I made for my cottage fireplace surround, I had a serious A-HA moment. I have no idea what Iโm doing!
๐ Watch Part 3 of Paula Tutmanโs ceramics series: Into the fire, out with finished tiles
Read full article: ๐ Watch Part 3 of Paula Tutmanโs ceramics series: Into the fire, out with finished tilesI take you inside my kiln for the firings of the ceramic tiles and navigate a few ooops! How will it turn out? Iโll take you with me as I see my finished tiles for the first time and prepare myself for the big installation.
๐ Watch Part 2 of Paula Tutmanโs ceramics series: Creating the tiles โ The process
Read full article: ๐ Watch Part 2 of Paula Tutmanโs ceramics series: Creating the tiles โ The processOnce my ceramic tiles have been built they need to be finessed. It is deliciously time-consuming as I figure out ways to bring my art to life with techniques Iโm teaching myself.
How Paula Tutman used art to stay mentally fit, emotionally healthy
Read full article: How Paula Tutman used art to stay mentally fit, emotionally healthyAre you stressed? Get clayed. Thatโs how I chose to deal with the isolation and strain of covering a pandemic for TV news. I call it my COVID Clay-cation stress management program. What I discovered as a whim was a sense of deep peace and even joy every time I touched clay.
Paula Tutman: How learning ceramics helped me creatively cope with COVID
Read full article: Paula Tutman: How learning ceramics helped me creatively cope with COVIDAs a broadcast journalist for nearly 40 years (yes, I started when I was 6 months old), eight of those years as a police reporter whose daily diet was heavily dosed with crime and mayhem, I have learned to roll with the punches. My skin is pretty darned thick. But Covid-19 turned out to be my most formidable foe.
๐ Watch Part 1 of Paula Tutmanโs ceramics series: Finding inspiration -- A love story
Read full article: ๐ Watch Part 1 of Paula Tutmanโs ceramics series: Finding inspiration -- A love storyAs a broadcast journalist for nearly 40 years (yes, I started when I was 6 months old), eight of those years as a police reporter whose daily diet was heavily dosed with crime and mayhem, I have learned to roll with the punches. My skin is pretty darned thick. But Covid-19 turned out to be my most formidable foe.