User:Jennifermunger/sandbox

Heather's Comments
10/2- Can you clarify references below? Are these new sources you've found on butte.edu/library? Have you tried or reached out to Rachel, our librarian, through Inbox? For next week, please update your work log with specific changes your think you might make. :)

10/31- Please bold all language that you added. Make sure you've got a citation for it. Use the "Cite tool above. Then have me or a Wikitech look over it before moving it to main space.

Jennifer's Work Log

 * September 30th- chose article, researched topic, referenced more wikipedia links because the article had a banner which said it needed more wikilcnks (see references below) 7:30-8:00
 * October 15th- added references ( Peter's Projects, relic, fine art, etc.)
 * October 28- have not highlighted what is my original work and what is straight from the original site
 * Nov 3- bolded text added and double checked work and moved to main space

Jennifer's Edits
Jami Porter Lara (born 1969 in Spokane, Washington) is an American artist known for her conceptual ceramic sculptures that appear to be vessels. '''Getting a late start to college, at 40 years olds began school at the University of New Mexico in search of more creativity, rearing a bachelor's degree in fine arts. '''. These vessels are built using millennia-old ceramics techniques indigenous to the Chihuahuan Desert. . Her inspiration for the black burnished vessels appeared on a trip with the Land Arts of the American West program to southeastern Arizona and northern Mexico. While hiking in the high desert, she recognized many discarded articles of immigrants who had crossed the border, including 2-liter plastic bottles, sometimes in burlap slings. Her work reflects on the necessity of water for human life and a concept that Porter Lara calls "reverse archeology."

Ceramicist Porter Lara moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico as a young child in 1980, and later attended the University of New Mexico, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine art in 2013.Porter Lara was also taught pottery by Graciela and Hector Gallegos in Mata Ortiz. Mata Ortiz is small Mexican village in the northern state of Chihuahua. Mata Ortiz potters create vessels using techniques based on those used in the region over 2,000 years ago She harvests raw clay from the earth in central New Mexico, then processes it, by slaking, filtering, and drying it to a workable state. She builds the vessels with clay coils, burnishes the pieces with a polishing stone, then uses the reduction firing process in a backyard pit.

Porter Lara's work was exhibited at the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico, as part of Alcoves 16/17. Peters Projects, a major gallery in Santa Fe, NM, presented a solo exhibition, In Situ, in 2017. She is represented by Peter Projects.

Porter Lara also had a solo exhibition in 2017 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts called Border Crossing.  Twenty-five pieces of Lara Porter's work were featured in the show with much of the work inspired by the plastic bottles and ancient pottery remnants (shards). The show explores questions about what classifies Relic s as well as the human tendency to catalog and classify. Each of the work's titles includes a series of numbers and letters that further identifies where Lara Porter sourced the clay and when she fired each piece.