LYDIA HAURANI
This week's feature recognizes Sophomore student Lydia Haurani and her impressive accomplishments in ceramics. Recently, one of Haurani's ceramic pieces she created here at Kilbourne was entered into a national ceramic convention. In our interview, Haurani tells more of her ceramics experience and describes exactly what this accomplishment has meant to her.
First Haurani speaks on her experience with the conference saying, "My piece was entered into NCECA which is the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts. Basically it's a K-12 ceramics convention through NCECA. My piece was selected out of I think over 800 so there was only actually 100 pieces that were selected to be presented for this conference. It happens every year, this year it was in Sacramento California." Although Haurani did not actually attend the conference, having her piece there was still a huge honor.
Pictured Left: Lydia's winning bowl chosen by NCECA
To describe her piece Haurani elaborated, "It was this bowl I made. I threw it on the wheel, it was a pretty big bowl. I really like sgraffito which is basically painting on underglaze on to leather hard clay and then scraping off the paint to reveal the natural color of of the clay. I did that on a larger scale."
Pictured Right: Another bowl made by Lydia using the sgraffito technique
When asked if she planned to enter her pieces in other competitions, Haurani responded, "I would like to. I think it could be fun and a cool experience and a good opportunity to get my pieces out there and to be seen but I haven't really gotten the chance to do that yet."
In the future Haurani explains, "I'd either like to do something with art or engineering because I'm also in robotics, but I don't really know yet since I'm only a Sophomore."
Pictured Left: A ceramic and wire sculpture made by Lydia also featuring the sgraffito technique
To wrap up, Haurani finishes with some words of advice: "Just keep doing what makes you happy because I really like ceramics and it makes me happy and I was able to make something that was presented in a conference that was going to be seen by people all around the world and I just think that's really cool."
Photo Credits: Lydia Haurani