This is a newly completed commission made through Robert Passal Interior and Architectural Design in New York City.  It's a pair of clay sculptures that can be used as stools or as small tables.  Each one is a little over 19 inches high, and about 12 inches in diameter.  The pieces are going to Houston.

The clay is a rugged white body meant for sculpture and architecture.  The glaze is smooth, white, and has only a bit of sheen.
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The above photo gives a sense of how I built these pieces.  It was necessary to build both at once so they would match closely.  The basic construction method is a combination of coil/slab.  It would seem logical to build the entire forms first and then add the basketwork surface texture, but the clay in the lower walls would have been too firm and dry for good attachment by that point.  So, the surface treatment has to be added while the form is being built.  It's a constant balancing act.

This fall I'm having an exhibition at the Winchester Thurston School in Pittsburgh.  The show is kind of a combination of installation and learning lab for art.  To get a whole show into one small truck, the large paintings were made unstretched, with grommets for hanging (unstretched canvases can be rolled for transport, which saves a lot of cargo space).  The gallery at the school is kind of a multipurpose room, so the teacher who runs the gallery put up the colorful traffic cones (borrowed from the PE department) so that all the various people who use the room won't run into the art.  It's all been an interesting experience.  The best part has been working with these extremely engaged students - they have all been a joy.

For specific views of the paintings, view this page:
​http://www.priscillahollingsworth.com/larger-paintings.html

The installation that has been in process since my residency at the Vermont Studio Center was completed by its installation in an exhibition as part of the NCECA national conference.  NCECA stands for National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts; the conference was held in late March in Seattle.  The exhibition, titled "Distillations & Eruptions", was selected as a Concurrent and Independent Exhibition as part of the conference.

To see more photos of the installation, go to the Game Pieces page on this site: http://www.priscillahollingsworth.com/game-pieces.html

To learn more about the Distillations & Eruptions exhibition, try this site:
http://distillations.weebly.com/the-exhibition.html 

The exhibition included installation works by 4 additional artists.This was a monster project, more than a year and a half in the organizing.  Besides all of the gathering of artists' names for consideration, there was the application process through the conference, a real roller coaster ride of waiting for NCECA to find a good venue (they did), and then an application process to propose a panel discussion at the conference that amplified themes from the exhibition (we were fortunate to have that come through, also).