As the year is coming to an end, gift-giving season is right around the corner.
By stopping at the UT Pot and Print Sale, students can pick up a gift for someone special and donate to a good cause.
This event is sponsored by the UT Potter’s Club and UT Print Club, held Thursday on the first floor of the Art and Architecture Building from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The pots and prints being sold were made by UT faculty, alumni, students and from Mighty Mud, a ceramic supply store.
Mighty Mud also provides art classes and workshops in a variety of fields and studios for artists to use. It sells finished works and have a viewing gallery.
Some of the artwork sold wa made specifically for this event, but some artwork was donated from the artists’ own collections.
Some artists will also be selling their own work.
“This is not the first time the Potter’s Club has done this event, which usually happens every fall and spring semester,” Hannah Short, president of the Potter Club, said.
The event’s goal is to sell enough artwork to send the graduate and undergraduate students interested in pottery to the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Art and the students interested in graphic art to the Southern Graphic Council.
“The funds provide scholarships for the students and allow clubs to bring in visiting artist for lectures and workshops,” Ashton Kudden, president of the Print Club, said.
Besides selling pottery and prints, silkscreen demos will be on the second floor from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., displayed by the printmakers.
Short said it will be a demonstration of the screen-printing process and the silkscreens will also go on sale.
Kudden said all of the artists are getting excited as the day approaches because they are excited to sell their work.
“It’s been a lot of work, but I have a lot of support from the club members,” she said.
Short said the Print and Potter’s clubs wish for the event to have a lot of people show and to see people enjoying their artwork, as well as having their clubs become well known around campus.
Prices for the artwork range up to $45 and can be paid using cash or credit cards.
