Home Studio 		Vicky Hansen received her MFA in 1993 from Kansas State where she studied with Angelo Garzio.  Before graduate school, she was a fulltime wood firing potter at her adobe home and studio in southern Colorado.  She currently teaches ceramics at Colorado State University Pueblo.  In April 1998, she built a second wood burning kiln.  Recently she exhibited and presented "Alternative Avenues to Ash and Flash" at the International Woodfire Conference, University of Iowa.

 

I don't know exactly what a prayer is.

I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down

into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, 

how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, 

which is what I have been doing all day.

Tell me, what else should I have done?

Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?

Tell me, what is it you plan to do

with your one wild and precious life? 

 -  Mary Oliver

 
Woodfire Kiln 


Studio and Kilns

 

Artist Statement:

As a clay artist, my inspiration comes from the landscape and contemporary dance.   I seek to translate my inner response, my sensations, feelings and thoughts to volume, skin and form of my sculptural vessels.  As an ongoing practice, this dialogue between life and art encourages a deep sense of authenticity in my life.  When my spirit and senses align with the clay and the fire, the forms breathe and take on an expressive life of their own. 

The Latin word "spirare," to breathe, is the source of the word spiritual. In this sense, my work is a humble search for the spiritual.