{"id":54283,"date":"2023-06-07T10:54:29","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T14:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/?p=54283"},"modified":"2023-06-29T10:17:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T14:17:28","slug":"raku-art-quilt-installed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/2023\/06\/raku-art-quilt-installed\/","title":{"rendered":"Raku Art \u201cQuilt\u201d Installed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Herb Weaver, class of \u201975 and EMS art teacher from \u201980 to \u201985, collaborated with students and art teacher Malea Gascho on a Raku \u201cquilt\u201d project during the 2022-23 school year.<\/p>\n<p>Raku is a Japanese hand modeled pottery that is fired at a low temperature and rapidly cooled. Students created quilt \u201cpatches\u201d in ceramics class, and took part in firing in the special kiln Weaver brought for the day.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cquilt\u201d was finally assembled and hung in the courtyard over the summer.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Add quote from Malea\u2026 something about collaboration? Run the article by Herb for a quote?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Weaver, who maintains an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.herbweaverworks.com\/\">active studio<\/a> in Singers Glen, Va., after a career of teaching at the college level, has supported the EMS art program in many ways over the decades.<\/p>\n<p>In spring of 2022 he shared about his art and faith in a chapel. See the video <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Lw1rl4Ddf6I?list=PLSUNbSD2n-q7EpwiNFMKfr0triRkZXsv-&amp;t=293\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aqu\u00ed.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since the 1990s he has created a unique ceramic mug for each graduate, which they typically receive as a gift from the advancement department during graduation each spring. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/2020\/04\/herb-weaver-ceramics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See an article <\/a>about the mugs through the years. Find an image of the mug for class of 2023 on the right.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herb Weaver, class of \u201975 and EMS art teacher from \u201980 to \u201985, collaborated with students and art teacher Malea Gascho on a Raku \u201cquilt\u201d project during the 2022-23 school year. Raku is a Japanese hand modeled pottery that is fired at a low temperature and rapidly cooled. Students created quilt \u201cpatches\u201d in ceramics class,\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[46,315,109],"class_list":["post-54283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","tag-alumni","tag-review","tag-the-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54283"}],"curies":[{"name":"gracias","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}