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Are you thinking about joining an art class? If you like throwing pots and Frisbies in your
free time, then Nora Brodnicki is the teacher for you.
The Clackamas Print: What classes do you teach?
Nora Brodnicki: I teach the history of western art. 1 teach
Art 204, 205, 206. 1 also teach ceramics, both beginning
and intermediate ceramics.
and make a beautiful ceramic form. So it s really cool to
see what students do inside.With art history, too, some
of my students never look at art and wind up loving art
as a result of the class, so that’s the best part.
TCP: W hat’s your favorite class?
NB: I don’t have a favorite I like. They’re very different
parts of my brain and different parts of my body and I
like both of them.
TCP: Why do you teach?
NB: I teach because I like working with people. I like
working in team situations.
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TCP: How do you view your teaching style?
NB: I have high expectations of my students. I think we
learn best when we work hard. I think that I am kind and
I want my students to be successful, so I try my best to
help students. Some students don’t want help or have
other things going on in their lives, so I feel like I’m a
pretty approachable person and yeah, my goal is to have
my students be successful.
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TCP: W hat’ s the coolest and worst job you’ve ever had?
NB: Well this is the coolest job I’ve ever had. And the
worst job I’ve ever had: I did inventory while I was in
graduate school that was not fun because I was up in the
middle of the night doing inventory counting stuff at like
big box stores.
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TCP: Do you have a piece of artwork that you’re most
proud of?
NB: [For] m y graduate thesis work, I made thrones.
They’re tiled thrones. I called them “ thrones of control”
TCP: W hat’s your favorite part about teaching?
NB: Oh! Seeing how the students develop their ideas, their and I had a lot of fun making those and it was also pretty
work in studio art ceramics. It’ s about where they start in challenging making those. I love the image of Melancholy
or Melancholia. So she winds up on a lot of my pieces.
the beginning phase and then learn how to throw a pot
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TCP: Do you have a favorite artist?
NB: It kind of depends what term I’m teaching in and I
would say there are several artists that drew me towards
researching art history and one of them is Hieronymus
Bosch. I love Sandro Botticelli. I think Marcel Duchamp is
quite wonderful. His great work is his fountain, which is
a urinal turned on its side. I love the Venus of Willendorf.
We don’t know who the artist is, you know, she’ s like a
fornina calf, she’ s just a tiny little portable work of art
from the Paleolithic era.
TCP: What are some of your other hobbies?
NB: I play ultimate Frisbee, th at’ s one of my favorite
things. Right now, I’m coaching my daughter’ s soccer
team. I have two German shepherds so I spend a lot of
time with my kids and my dogs and my husband. The
other thing that I do when I’m not working is I make art
so that’ s a big hobby.
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TCP: Do you have a specific thing you do while creating art?
NB: My music choices really vary on mood, you know. I
listen to an eclectic and a broad variety of music. I’ve been
finding that recently what’s on my music player, down in
the basement where my studio is, I have the Grateful Dead,
Genesis, and this is like old Genesis, but then occasionally
I’ve also had moments where Mos Def winds up playing.
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